German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared during a May 2018 speech that Europeans can no longer depend on the United States to protect Europe from conflict. She added that Europe can no longer entrust its security to the United States alone (Young 2018). After the United States abandoned the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, European Council President Donald Tusk declared, With friends like Trump, who needs enemies (Baczynska 2018). Finally, US President Donald Trump stated in an interview, I think the European Union is a foe. . . . In a trade sense, they've taken advantage of us and many of those countries are in NATO and they weren't paying their bills (Glor 2018). These statements reflect the damaged condition of transatlantic relations in recent years. America and Europe are at odds with one another in numerous policy areas, and the transatlantic partnership, one of the pillars of the modern liberal international order, has been in turmoil.

Wolff, Andrew T. Turmoil and Tension in Transatlantic Relations. In Europe Today: A Twenty-First Century Introduction, 6th ed., edited by Erik Jones and Masha Hedberg, 408-433. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023.

Andrew Wolff is a professor of Political Science at Dickinson College.

For more information on the published version, visit Rowman and Littlefield's Website. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538110928/Europe-Today-A-Twenty-First-Century-Introduction-Sixth-Edition

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