“The U.S. Helped Make Europe. Can It Break It?”
Dr. Glyn Morgan
Syracuse University
Glyn Morgan is Director of the Center for European Studies at Syracuse University. He teaches
courses on ethics and international relations (along with an occasional excursion into the
“Political Theory of Shakespeare”). A native of Wales, Morgan’s first degree is from the
University of Essex and his Ph.D. was awarded by the University of California-Berkeley. Prior to
joining the Syracuse faculty, he taught in the Government department of Harvard University.
Ian Buruma reviewed Glyn Morgan’s The Rise and Fall of American Europe in the August 17
edition of The New Yorker, writing “American Europe came from the top,”—largely an “elitist”
group of U.S. postwar statesmen—”and that is why populists in the United States, led by
President Donald Trump, and many right-wing politicians in Europe, can’t stand the E.U.” As
Buruma summarizes Morgan’s argument, Trump’s evident dislike of the European Union and
NATO “amounted to more than disdain; it was a repudiation, from Washington, of American
Europe.”
Glyn Morgan’s earlier volume on the European Union, The Idea of a European Superstate, was
published by Princeton University Press. His new book is to be released by Polity Press in
September.