Glyn Morgan, associate professor of political science, has written The Rise and Fall of American Europe (Polity Press, 2026).

The book traces how the post-World War II American-led project of European integration—a political order grounded in U.S. military protection and transatlantic trade—came to be, and why it is now unraveling. Morgan argues that the Trump administration’s hostility toward NATO and the European Union, and the broader MAGA movement’s rejection of Europe as a U.S.-backed dependency, have placed the very foundations of that order in doubt. The book weighs alternative futures for Europe, including a National-Sovereigntist Europe, a Global Europe and a European Europe, and examines what Britain’s own trajectory means for the continent.

Morgan is director of the Center for European Studies at the Maxwell School’s Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs. His research interests include political philosophy, European politics, nationalism and the ethics of international relations. He is also the author of The Idea of a European Superstate: Public Justification and European Integration (Princeton University Press, 2005).

From the publisher:

At the dawn of the Cold War, the US administration pushed reluctant Europeans to create a federation of democratic states. In doing so, they gave birth to an American Europe—a new political order protected by the U.S. military and buoyed by transatlantic trade. Europe now faces a stark reality. The Trump Administration dislikes NATO, considers the EU’s trade policies “worse than China[‘s],” and attacks the banning of nationalist parties. Many in the MAGA movement are similarly hostile to Europe, which they see as an overregulated museum, a US dependency, powerless on the world-stage. This book explains why American Europe fell from favor. It weighs the prospects of alternative European political orders, including a National-Sovereigntist Europe, a Global Europe, and a European Europe. It argues that Europe needs to rethink its alliances, and Britain must decide where it belongs.