In November 2023, BSoG Senior Associate Researcher Linde Desmaele, published her latest book Europe’s Evolving Role in US Grand Strategy: Indispensable or Insufferable?
In this book, Linde examines the ever-changing and contested relevance of the transatlantic relationship from the perspective of the United States. Linde’s work moves beyond traditional studies which look at the US-Europe dyad in isolation. Rather, she explores how the global power shift away from the West impinges upon the security and prosperity of the Euro-Atlantic space. Her book provides an analytical framework to link Europe’s role in US grand strategy to both broader geopolitical trends and the idiosyncrasies of individual American administrations.
Specifically, Linde explores how successive U.S. administrations have sought to leverage the transatlantic relationship to achieve foreign policy objectives centered on the Middle East and East Asia. In doing so, she considers critical yet relatively understudied issue of whether Europe has become indispensable or insufferable for the United States in a world where the West becomes increasingly enmeshed with events to its east.
Linde's book is partially based on her PhD defended at VUB in 2021, for which she was awarded the 2022 Global Strategy PhD Prize from the EGMONT - Royal Institute for International Relations and the European Security and Defence College (ESDC)
