# Europe’s Credibility Gap

- Source: Foreign Affairs
- Published: 2026-10-19T08:00:00+00:00
- Category: World
- Original: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/europe/europes-credibility-gap
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/europe-s-credibility-gap-9729d1/

Ngaire Woods, Dean of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, Class Mertens, also at Oxford, have written a piece arguing that Europe, despite its attempts at self-sufficiency, remains dependent on an unpredictable United States. The continent needs to address this vulnerability so that it can convince other countries, many of which find themselves similarly vulnerable to great-power coercion, th

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