During the latest edition of the international conference War and Peace in the 21st Century, organised by CIDOB, the think tank’s senior researcher and former Member of the European Parliament, Domènec Ruiz Devesa, spoke with the director of the Paris office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), Tara Varma, and the director of the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS), Kristi Raik. The two engaged in a discussion on European defence and, in particular, on the role of the US in this context.