CER podcast: Kori Schake on Donald Trump and what he means for Europe

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🗓️ 9 February 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Kori Schake, CER board member and research fellow at the Hoover Institution, talks to Sophia Besch about how European leaders should approach the Donald Trump presidency, the real checks and balances of the American political system, why she thinks sanctions against Russia will hold and why she is optimistic about Donald Trump at the NATO Summit.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome.
0:08.3	My name is Sophia Bash and you're listening to the CER podcast.
0:11.4	Hello, I'm joined today by Corey Shaki, who is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution,
0:16.9	where she focuses on military history, and she's also a board member of the Center for European Reform
0:22.4	and she's here for a CEO board meeting
0:25.0	which is why I'm thrilled
0:26.5	that she's going to join us for the podcast today.
0:28.7	Welcome, Corey.
0:31.4	We're going to talk about
0:33.0	perhaps that's no surprise, President Donald Trump
0:35.4	and what he means for Europe.
0:39.7	And I want to start, I think,
0:48.4	by the big question, which is how should Europeans approach Trump? Two contradictory ideas are sort of emerging at the moment. On the one hand, we know that Europeans depend on the transatlantic
0:54.0	alliance. They depend on the transatlantic alliance.
0:54.7	They depend on the United States security guarantees and its business as well.
0:59.4	And people say that they should take a pragmatic approach.
1:02.0	They should deal with Trump wherever they can.
1:04.1	Bilaterally, if that's where he prefers, they should offer him partnership
1:07.5	without getting on the liberal high horse and alienating the administration
1:12.3	by preaching about the international order. On the other hand, there's a view that Europeans can only
1:19.3	play a role or have a voice in world politics if they are united in an alliance. And the European
1:25.2	Union can only exist really on the principles that Trump
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