Every U.S. president since Harry Truman has thought that Europe is not doing enough to ensure its own defense, and that it is too dependent on the U.S., said Kori Schake, Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, one of the most reputed voices on foreign policy among the Republican camp, who argues that the United States has always been a problematic ally for Europe.

Kori Schake, from the American Enterprise Institute, was at FLAD for the session “The US in the World: Wars, Policy, and Order”, in a conversation that was moderated by Professor Lívia Franco of the Institute of Political Studies of the Catholic University of Portugal, and is part of the Democracy: The Way Ahead cycle.

Watch the full conference here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps3fhabTe5s

Kori Schake was director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, which was part of the U.S. Department of Defense between 1990 and 1996. During the administrations of George W. Bush, she was part of the top structures of the National Security Council and the State Department and one of the main political advisers to the presidential campaign of John McCain and Sarah Palin, whom lost to Barack Obama in 2008.

She is the author of the books “America vs the West: Can the Liberal World Order Be Preserved?” (Penguin Random House Australia, Lowy Institute, 2018); and “Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony” (Harvard University Press, 2017). Kori Schake is a conservative, and at the same time an important voice in criticizing the Republican Party for its lack of a coherent foreign policy that defends the interests of the United States in the world.

The ‘Democracy: The Way Ahead’ cycle is an initiative of FLAD that aims to promote a space for reflection and debate on the current problems facing the Euro-Atlantic community, and, using international experts, seek solutions for the coming decades. As part of this cycle, FLAD received John Ikenberry, Professor at Princeton University, and Constanze Stelzenmüller, director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, journalists Peter Baker (New York Times) and Susan Glasser (New Yorker), and international relations experts Robert Kaplan and Walter Russell Mead.