Is the West losing influence to other global powers?

US President Donald Trump‘s “America First” policy is causing concern among European leaders who differ from Washington on key issues including relations with Iran and China. 

The divisions were clear at the annual Munich Security Conference where splits arose between leaders as they discussed whether the West was losing influence to other global powers.

According to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the “West is winning” and the transatlantic alliance is not dead. 

But German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned that the US was putting its interests first at the expense of its allies.

Is US foreign policy undermining traditional alliances?

Presenter: Peter Dobbie

Guests: 

Glenn Diesen – Professor of international relations at the Higher School of Economics and author of The Decay of Western Civilization and the Resurgence of Russia

Theresa Fallon – Director of the Centre for Russia, Europe, Asian Studies and a former member of the Strategic Advisors Group to NATO

Roderic Wye – Associate fellow at the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House and former counsellor and head of research on Asia at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office