Evoluția relațiilor diplomatice în domeniul militar dintre SUA și UE în mandatul lui Donald Trump
The evolution of diplomatic relations in the military field between The US and the EU under Donald Trump

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to analyze the evolution of diplomatic relations between US and EU in the military and defence dimension after the beginning of the president Donald J. Trump term. In the last years the statements of the american president have begun to be increasingly contradictory and different from the EU’s interests. He promoted a number of new giudelines that influenced american foreign policy and he said that the motto of the american foreign and domestic policy will be „America First”. The EU has begun to no longer see the US as an undeniable ally and has begun to promote a series of policies aimed at improving European cooperation in the military sector in order to become more independent and autonomous to the US in the military field. This study is based on the process tracing research metodology and this paper attempts to provide an answer to the research question: how the US-EU diplomatic relations evolved in the military dimension after the 2016 elections? This article focuses on the component of NATO and to the posibility of creating an European Common Army, this hypothesis has been influenced by the controversial statements and the new guidelines of the american foreign policy. So, the cooperation in the military field between US and EU in the last years can be described as a strained cooperation more than a friendly one.

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