Dr Amanda Sloat, Professor of Practice in the School of Politics, Economics, and Global Affairs is a graduate from the University of Edinburgh and a former White House advisor. She will be first guest for the European Movement in Scotland (EMiS) webinar series on 8 April.
After almost eighty years of harmony and cooperation between the United States and its European allies, Donald Trump has shifted the Atlantic Alliance from being one of the most stable international arrangements in history to one of unpredictability and uncertainty. Amanda Sloat will discuss how the Alliance might evolve and what that might mean for the UK and Europe.
Amanda Sloat will be interviewed by John Edward, Operations Director, the Scottish Council for Global Affairs and a member of the national committee of the European Movement in Scotland.
David Clarke, Chair of EMiS says:
“Amanda Sloat has enormous depth of knowledge of the Transatlantic Alliance and what it has meant for global peace and stability. Her work inside the White House during the Joe Biden presidency helped shape our world. She is supremely well qualified to talk about which paths Europe’s relationship with America may follow in the remaining Trump years and beyond. EMiS is privileged to have Professor Sloat as a webinar guest.”
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Amanda Sloat is Professor of Practice in the School of Politics, Economics, and Global Affairs at IE University, Madrid. Prior to joining IE, she held several senior positions in the United States government. Most recently, she served in the Biden Administration as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Europe at the National Security Council. She also worked on European policy in the State Department and Congress.
Dr Sloat graduated with a PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh and took her BA in Political Theory at the James Madison College at Michigan State University.
In a recent interview with the Spanish newspaper, El Pais, Professor Sloat said that the Trump administration’s behaviour means that Transatlantic relationships will never be the same as they were in the past. She told the paper:
“The transatlantic relationship will always be important. The EU and the U.S. have the largest trade and investment relationship in the world, and share security interests. I think that will continue. What concerns me is that trust in the relationship has been broken not once, but twice. President Biden made a strong effort to restore it. The fact that this trust has been broken a second time, and in a much more egregious way than in Trump’s first term, is forcing Europe to rethink its entire relationship with the US. And it pains me to say this, but I find it hard to imagine that trust being restored within a generation, even with a Democratic administration or a much more moderate Republican administration coming into office with good faith and a desire to reset that relationship.”
In addition to her service with the US Government, Amanda Sloat’s career has encompassed work at some of the world’s most distinguished centres for political thought and research.
She has been Robert Bosch Senior Fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, US.; Fellow in the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Fellow in the Hard Places Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center; Post-doctoral research fellow in the Institute of Governance at Queen’s University Belfast; Visiting fellow in the Jean Monnet Center at New York University’s School of Law; Visiting fellow at the United Nations Research Institute on Social Development, Switzerland; Visiting fellow at the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic.
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