BIO
Jussi M. Hanhimäki is Professor of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. He is the author, among other works, of The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy (New York, 2004) and The Rise and Fall of Détente: American Foreign Policy and the Transformation of the Cold War (Washington, DC, 2013). His latest book is Pax Transatlantica: America and Europe in the Post-Cold War Era (New York, 2021). He is currently working on a dual biography of Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski.
PAX TRANSATLANTICA
The notion that a “West” exists dominates in international relations and political discourse. Yet, especially in recent years, more and more people believe that the “West” is falling apart. The eminent historian of international relations Jussi Hanhimäki refutes this idea, emphasizing the continued strength of transatlantic security co-operation (particularly NATO) and the deeply integrated transatlantic commercial relationship. In Pax Transatlantica, he further argues that even the rise of populism is evidence of close transatlantic political interconnections rather than a recipe for divorce. Not only will the “West”, the book concludes, continues to exist. It is likely to thrive in the future.
