The Effect of the United States of America on the dynamic of transatlantic relations

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: D.Trumpo prezidentūros įtaka; Transatlantiniai santykiai; Užsienio ir saugumo politikos dilema; Lithuania; The foreign and security policy dilemma; The influence of the Trump presidency; Transatlantic relations.

ENThe chapter aims to analyse the Trump presidency’s implications to transatlantic relations and explore the foreign and security policy dilemmas it creates for Lithuania. The chapter attempts to answer the question of whether the Trump presidency is a turning point in transatlantic relations. I argue that the Trump presidency fits into the main pattern of transatlantic relations’ history and, despite many claims, has not made extraordinary changes in these relations. First, I discuss the dynamics in transatlantic relations before the Trump presidency: I present the main “channels” of transatlantic relations and I explore the key patterns in the transatlantic relations’ political, military and economic domains before the Trump presidency (from WWII until 2017). Second, I analyse the Trump administration’s transatlantic policy. How important is the transatlantic region for the Trump administration? What is the administration’s vision of transatlantic relations? How is this vision transformed into policy? Third, I inspect the Trump administration’s policy implications for the transatlantic region. Is the Trump administration’s policy changing the transatlantic region and the EU as an international relations actor? Is the European position towards the U.S. and transatlantic institutions changing? What new initiatives have been created as a result of the Trump administration’s policy? In the chapter, I also consider implications of the new dynamics in the transatlantic relations to Lithuania. [Extract, p. 48]