The Western Alliance and black elephants

Professor Dr Julian Lindley-French is member of the George C. Marshall Centre-Munich Security Conference high-level US-German Loisach Group. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Statecraft in London, Director of Europa Analytica in the Netherlands, Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at the National Defense University in Washington DC, and a Fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. The views expressed herein are entirely his own.