SSI Live Podcast – Ep 125 – Europe’s Role in a Taiwan Crisis

In this episode of SSI Live, Major Brennan Deveraux interviews Dr. John Deni on his ongoing research concerning Europe’s potential involvement in a war in the Pacific. The conversation explores the challenges of coalition management and the unique contributions the United States could request from its European allies.

John Deni

Hello and welcome to SSI Live. You’ve long known the Strategic Studies Institute, or SSI, at the US Army War College, as the go-to location for issues related to national security and military strategy, with an emphasis on geostrategic analysis. SSI conducts strategic research and analysis to support the US Army War College curricula; assist and inform Army, DoD, and US government leadership; and serve as a bridge to the wider strategic community. Now, we are bringing you access to SSI analyses, scholars, and guests, through this, the SSI Live podcast series. Thanks for joining us.

Brennan Deveraux

Welcome back to SSI Live. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those are the guests and not necessarily those of the Department of the Army, the US Army War College, or any other agency of the US government. I’m Brennan Deveraux, your guest host for the last time. And it’s only fitting that for my final guest, I welcome back the show’s regular host, Dr. John Deni, who just returned from his sabbatical.

Dr. Deni is a research professor of security studies at the US Army War College’s newly established Strategic Research and Assessments Department, formerly the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI). He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a senior fellow at the NATO Defense College, and an adjunct professorial lecturer at American University School of International Service. Previously, John worked for eight years as a political advisor to senior US military commanders in Europe. He is a political scientist who received his doctorate from George Washington University.

For this conversation, will be exploring John’s ongoing work examining Europe’s potential role in a US-China conflict. John, thanks for coming on.

John Deni

Brennan, my pleasure and thanks for hosting.

Deveraux

Well, thanks for letting me host for this last year. It’s actually been a really cool experience, I had the opportunity to talk to a lot of people. And I appreciate the trust you put in me to do that. So, we’ll go ahead and jump right in. So I had the chance to host for a year because you took a sabbatical. Can you tell us a little bit about why you decided to take a sabbatical, and a little bit of what you worked on while you were off?

Deni