Stars with Stripes The Essential Partnership between the European Un
For sixty years, the United States has supported European integration on a bipartisan basis—not only because this has served European interests, but because it has promoted American interests as well. As core partners in transatlantic efforts to address r
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ANTHONY A NTHON Y LUZZATTO LUZ ZAT T TO G GARDNER A RDN E R
Stars with Stripes
Anthony Luzzatto Gardner
Stars with Stripes The Essential Partnership between the European Union and the United States
Anthony Luzzatto Gardner London, UK
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To my two Alejandras and Nicolas
Acknowledgements
Several weeks before the US presidential election in November 2016 I started to suspect that Hillary Clinton would lose and that I would therefore not be able to prolong my diplomatic mission as US ambassador to the European Union. Many people, including several very experienced pollsters, were telling me that I was worrying for no reason. Nonetheless, I started making plans about what to do in case the unthinkable did occur. Soon after President Trump’s victory, I called Jörg Monar, the Rector of the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, as well as Joe Weiler, President of the European Institute, and Brigid Laffan, the director of the Schuman Centre at the European Institute in the outskirts of Florence, Italy. These two institutions are among the leading centers of learning related to the European Union. I am thankful that both generously agreed to host me during my brief but productive stays. Although I considered applying to the College of Europe for a oneyear masters degree as I was finishing my studies at Harvard in 1985, I wound up doing a two-year program in international relations at Oxford instead. It was at Oxford tha
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