Brian Blankenship

Jan 21, 2025 | defensepriorities.org | Brian Blankenship

Expert updates and analysis to enhance your understanding of vital U.S. national security issues

Jun 16, 2024 | lawfaremedia.org | Brian Blankenship

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With Editor’s Note: The Biden administration seeks to work more closely with U.S. allies, but this admirable ambition faces many challenges in practice. Brian Blankenship of the University of Miami warns that allies have incentives to do too little when it comes to burden sharing. However, he also cautions that more capable and independent allies will be less likely to heed U.S advice, which poses its own set of dilemmas.

Apr 15, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Brian Blankenship

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeNotes1 Mira Rapp-Hooper, Shields of the Republic: The Triumph and Peril of America’s Alliances (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020), chs. 4-7; John R. Deni, Coalition of the UnWilling and UnAble: European Realignment and the Future of American Geopolitics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021). 2 Brian D. Blankenship and Benjamin Denison, “Is America Prepared for Great-Power Competition?,” Survival 61, no.

Nov 15, 2023 | nationalinterest.org | Brian Blankenship

A recent US president once complained that Washington’s allies do not pay their fair share for defense. “Free riders aggravate me,” he stated bitterly. “You have to pay your fair share.”This president was not Donald Trump, who repeatedly made headlines by casting doubt on his willingness to protect US allies unless they made sufficient defense contributions. Rather, it was his predecessor, Barack Obama.