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Soldiers with the 82nd Airborne division walk across the tarmac at Green Ramp to deploy to Poland at Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, N.C., on Feb. 14, 2022. Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images
Love Trump or hate him, like him or feel “meh” about him, one thing is undeniable. He is perhaps the only U.S. president—and definitely the only presidential candidate—who forced the Europeans to sit up, take notice, and increase their defense spending.
Anders Corr has a bachelor’s/master’s in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea” (2018).
