Bring European Finance Ministries Kicking and Screaming Into Geopolitics with Henrik Ø. Breitenbauch

Welcome to Rewind & Reconnoiter. Each week, we’ll ask one of our authors to look back at an article they’ve written for War on the Rocks in light of a current news event. Did their argument hold up? Read more below to find out. *** In 2017, Henrik Ø. Breitenbauch wrote “Bring European Finance Ministries Kicking and Screaming Into Geopolitics” for War on the Rocks, in which he argued that “real progress on raising European defense spending will require convincing the finance ministers and their top civil servants of the new realities of European geopolitics and the direct utility of