‘Wake-up name for Europeans to step up: There’s been an absence of funding’ in defence | EUROtoday

William Hilderbrandt is happy to welcome Basil Germond, Professor of International Security within the School of Global Affairs and Co-Director of the University analysis institute Security Lancaster. He examines the rising European-led initiative to safe the Strait of Hormuz in a post-war context, inserting it inside broader questions of maritime safety, geopolitical negotiation, and transatlantic relations. From his perspective, this initiative displays a strategic shift: European actors try to form the situations of peace and stability themselves, past a US-led framework.
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