Finding our Bearings: European Security Challenges in the era of Trump and Brexit

The conventional view of Europe as a “zone of peace”, already shaken by Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, was further challenged by two generally unanticipated events in 2016. The referendum in the United Kingdom on 23 June to withdraw from the European Union – Brexit — was followed on 8 November by the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. Brexit puts Ireland at the epicentre of a severe regional earthquake. The prospect of President Trump is potentially more like a tectonic readjustment on a global scale. Both event

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