Transatlantic Dialogues: Emma Ashford on European Energy Security & relations with the US following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

In the wake of Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, Europe will have to fundamentally reshape its energy regime to end its dependency on Russian oil and gas. At the same time, the war has underscored the central role of the US in European security.

In this interview, Emma Ashford, a Senior Fellow with the Reimagining US Grand Strategy program at the Stimson Center, discusses the changes in the European energy regime, the transatlantic relationship as well as her latest book Oil, the State, and War: The Foreign Policies of Petrostates, published by Georgetown University Press.

The interview is conducted by HCSS senior strategic analyst Paul van Hooft as part of HCSS’s “Transatlantic Dialogues” initiative, co-organised with the US embassy in The Hague. The first Transatlantic Dialogues event took place on November 3rd with a lecture from Emma Ashford. The Transatlantic Dialogues series looks at how the relationship between Europe and the United States can be adapted to the geopolitical realities on the 21^st century.