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On 15 September 2021, the US, Britain, and Australia announced that they had formed a trilateral security pact - AUKUS - aimed at the Indo-Pacific region. The announcement took Europe by surprise, cementing fears that American involvement in European security, not least its commitment to NATO, may be in decline. Announced just weeks after the Biden-administrations surprisingly unilateral retreat from Afghanistan, not just the pact itself, but the fact that it involved a US-Australian nuclear submarine deal otherwise promised to France, left many wondering if a more serious US-Europe rift is ahead. That the pact pushed post-Brexit Britain even further away from Brussels, and more in the direction of ‘Global Britain’, was another immediate concern.
Eight months and a Russian war in Ukraine later, AUKUS remains a gamechanger - but how? What is it, who created it - and why? What will it mean to Europe? And how does it fit into a global political arena, that is quickly turning its back on ‘liberal’ principles and ideas. In this talk, Srdjan Vucetic, a longtime expert on British and American foreign policy, as well as a co-director of the Canadian Defense and Security Network, offers his unique perspective on both the history beneath AUKUS - and its potential future implications.
Speakers
Srdjan Vucetic, Co-director, Canadian Security and Defence Network and Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Research Co-coordinator at the Center for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa.
Vibeke Schou Tjalve, Senior Researcher, DIIS - Danish Institute for International Studies
Stefano Guzzini, Senior Researcher, DIIS - Danish Institute for International Studies
Programme
Introduction, Vibeke Schou Tjalve
AUKUS: Something new, something old, something borrowed?, Srdjan Vucetic
Comments & Questions from a European perspective, Stefano Guzzini and Vibeke Schou Tjalve
Q&A from audience
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