The Minilateral Turn: Germany, the US, and Post-Hegemonic Transatlantic Security Cooperation

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The Minilateral Turn:  Germany, the US and Post-Hegemonic Transatlantic Security Cooperation 

Speaker: Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters, DAAD/AGI Research Fellow

Moderator: Jeff Rathke, President and Director of the Foreign & Security Policy Program, AGI

The Euro-Atlantic region has recently experienced a number of shocks and shifts that have affected the contemporary European security order and the cohesion of its multilateral organizations, most notably NATO and the EU. As these organizations face an essential crisis, states have increasingly sought to form alternative frameworks and initiatives to advance their security interests. The concept of minilateral security cooperation (MSC) has, in this context, received greater scholarly attention.

While minilaterals can complement and support NATO and the EU, they might also lead to greater institutional fragmentation and divergences in the European security order. This raises questions about which states initiate minilateral security frameworks and with what motivations and rationales. This presentation will first discuss the concept and emergence of minilateral security cooperation in the Euro-Atlantic region. It will then focus on how the United States initiates and leads minilateral security cooperation. Finally, it will make some tentative comparisons to Germany’s approach and rationales.

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