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Phil Gordon: Europe’s ‘ally’ on Kamala Harris’ team [1]

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Date: 2024-08-02 02:00:00+00:00

Gordon does. With his fondness for Europe, the 61-year-old career diplomat is an increasingly rare breed in Washington.

He has written on the nuclear and defense policies of French wartime leader de Gaulle, founded the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institute in Washington and went on to become assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs in the first Obama administration. He also served on the staff of the National Security Council under Bill Clinton.

“Phil Gordon is reassuring for Europeans because he knows them, they know him and he’s interested in European affairs, even if he recognizes that it's no longer the alpha and omega of America’s foreign policy,” said Camille Grand, a former NATO assistant secretary general and French defense ministry official who has crossed paths with Gordon for more than two decades.

For the European Union, the stakes of the U.S. election in November are especially high as war rages in Ukraine. A victory of the Donald Trump/JD Vance ticket would likely lead to a more isolationist policy in Washington — a prospect described as a “disaster” by a senior EU official.

Countries closer to Russia such as Poland have warned that Europeans will have to prepare for “change” in the transatlantic relationship regardless of who’s the next U.S. president.

With his fondness for Europe, the 61-year-old career diplomat is an increasingly rare breed in Washington. | Gil Cohen-Magen/Getty Images

But having Gordon hold a top national security job — perhaps even succeeding Jake Sullivan as national security adviser — leaves some hope that neither Europe nor Ukraine would be disregarded in Harris’ international agenda. In late July, Gordon said on X that "U.S. support for the Ukrainian people is enduring."

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[1] Url: https://www.politico.eu/article/philip-gordon-us-politics-kamala-harris-us-elections-europe-joe-biden-emmanuel-macron/

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