The View from Europe

We are now one and a half years into the Trump presidency and diplomats around the world are learning how to adjust. So what does the domestic instability in America look like to Europeans right now? How has diplomacy with the United States changed since January 2017? How are America's allies in Europe interpreting this unique moment of US history?

Prudence Siebert

German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth speaks to Command and General Staff College students and faculty Sept. 16 in the Lewis and Clark Center's Marshall Auditorium. I put these questions and more to veteran German diplomat Klaus Scharioth. He has served in the ministry of foreign affairs since the 1970s. He was the German ambassador to the United States from 2006 to 2011, spanning both the Bush and Obama administrations. He is now a professor of practice at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Ambassador Scharioth is a member of the board of directors of Humanity in Action-Germany. We kick off with a conversation about the w…