From the archive: The end of Atlanticism: has Trump killed the ideology that won the cold war?

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The Guardian

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2018: The foreign policy establishment has been lamenting its death for half a century. But Atlanticism has long been a convenient myth By Madeleine Schwartz. Read by Kelly Burke. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:34.9	Hi, I'm Madeline Schwartz. I'm editor-in-chief of the dial and the author of The End of Atlanticism, because Trump killed the ideology that won the Cold War, published in the
1:39.7	Guardian Longreeds in 2018. I was initially interested in reporting this story because I moved to Berlin in
1:47.1	2017 shortly after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States the first time,
1:53.0	and everyone in Germany was talking about the end of the transatlantic or the Atlantic relationship.
2:00.2	This was a conversation that was inescapable. It was
2:03.6	in newspapers on television, everywhere I went. But it was also surprising to me coming from the
2:08.7	United States because I had never really heard the term Atlanticism and I wondered what it actually
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