A new transatlantic relationship?

US senator Jeanne Shaheen examines the implications of new UK leadership, the war in Ukraine, and NATO expansion for the US–UK relationship.

Members event, Panel Recording
4 October 2022 — 6:30PM TO 7:30PM
Chatham House and Online

A new transatlantic relationship?

— US senator Jeanne Shaheen examines the implications of new UK leadership, the war in Ukraine, and NATO expansion for the US–UK relationship.

In recent weeks, the UK has ushered in a new prime minister and a new monarch. The US will hold potentially power-shifting mid-term elections in November after nearly two years of the Biden presidency that promised to bring the US ‘back’ as a global leader in international affairs.

These leadership changes come at a time when Europe is at war, NATO is expanding and US–China competition is re-ordering long-held alliances. Old assumptions about foreign policy are in flux in the midst of huge international challenges.

Democratic senator Shaheen, a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, explores how these changes might influence the US–UK ‘special’ relationship.

  • How will the trajectory of Russia’s war on Ukraine influence the bilateral relationship? What leadership is needed now?

  • What does Russia’s war on Ukraine mean for NATO in responding to other pressing security challenges?

  • What domestic constraints might limit the US’s power to reinsert itself as a global leader?

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