William Drozdiak

1 month ago | wilsoncenter.org | Aldrin Ballesteros |William Drozdiak |Michael Kugelman

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Robin Quinville, Director of the Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program.  She provides highlights from her trip to the Munich Security Conference, discusses where transatlantic relations may be headed under the Trump administration, and the implications of the 2025 German federal election.

1 month ago | wilsoncenter.org | William Drozdiak |Michael Kugelman |David Ottaway |Victor Andrusiv

For years, European governments have promised to get serious about taking responsibility for their own defense. But only now, less than two months into a second Trump administration, has the realization begun to sink in that America may no longer be ready and willing to come to Europe’s rescue.

May 24, 2024 | wilsoncenter.org | William Drozdiak

The presidents of France and the United States have often struggled with profound disparities in personality and policies behind a veneer of allied amity dating back to 1776 when France backed the American fight for independence from Britain. As they have discovered over the past four years, Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron are no different than their predecessors.     Biden has been a pillar of the American political establishment ever since he first entered the Senate more than fifty years ago.

May 23, 2024 | wilsoncenter.org | William Drozdiak

The European Union’s proudest achievement, in the view of its founding fathers, was to make war between France and Germany unthinkable. For five centuries, every generation on both sides of the Rhine river were either engaged in bloody combat or preparing for conflict. The permanent cessation of this nonstop cycle of bloodshed was seen as a necessary first step toward peaceful reconciliation of the continent.

Oct 25, 2023 | almendron.com | William Drozdiak

As I watch the daily scenes of carnage in newscasts from Israel and Gaza, I vividly recall a conversation with a leading Hamas official more than a quarter-century ago that foreshadowed the pervasive misery we see today. In the summer of 1997, two suicide bombers killed 16 people in a Jerusalem market.