The new administration in Washington has forced both Americans and Europeans to reckon with an emerging new security environment.

How should we understand this new world order? Is it time to panic?

Ambassador Doug Lute (US Ambassador to NATO, 2013-2017) outlines the contours of this new world and explains why we should not panic.

Topics include the following:

-Updates from the Munich Security Conference

-Consequences of the Trump-Zelenskyy White House summit

-A primer on 4 traditional pillars of US Foreign Policy (military alliances, trade agreements, support of international organizations, and commitment to development assistance)

-The evolution from a bi-polar to a uni-polar to a multi-polar world

-The adaptation of NATO and the EU to Putin's malign actions

-The importance of development assistance in past, present, and future wars

-An assessment of Ukraine's resistance on the battlefield

-An encouraging note to the people of Germany

This podcast episode is part of the U.S. Election Speaker Series, which was organized in cooperation with the Aspen Institute Germany and the Association of German-American Centers (AGAC), and kindly supported by the German Federal Foreign Office.