Joseph de Weck is a Senior Fellow at Institut Montaigne and the Europe director at Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical risk consultancy. A columnist for the German foreign affairs magazine Internationale Politik Quarterly, he is a regular contributor to publications such as Der Spiegel and The Atlantic. In 2021, he published “Emmanuel Macron: Der revolutionäre Präsident,” a German-language essay on Macron’s first term and portrait for French society. Joseph is also a fellow with the Philedelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute. He holds a BSc from the London School of Economics and a MA from Sciences Po Paris and the University of St Gallen.
The American Revolution and Transatlantic Relations
History reminds that there is risk in forcing your vassals to become militarily self-sufficient. A people enjoying the protection of an offshore great power bristles at being asked to pay …
