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Carnegie Europe

The Battle of Waterloo, Two Hundred Years Later

Tue. January 20th, 2015
Brussels

On June 18, 1815, in a small village outside Brussels, the Battle of Waterloo shaped the course of European history. Fought in less than twelve hours, the battle led to more than just an allied victory over Napoleon’s French army—it marked the end of an era of Bonapartist tyranny in Europe and ushered in almost half a century of continental peace.

In Carnegie Europe’s season opener, Brendan Simms, Cambridge University historian and author of The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo, Jamie Shea, NATO’s deputy assistant secretary-general for emerging security challenges, and Jan Techau, director of Carnegie Europe, discussed this historic turning point in European history, assessed its value for today’s strategy debate, and tried to glimpse into Europe’s future in light of one of the most important dates of remembrance in 2015.

Jamie Shea

Jamie Shea is deputy assistant secretary-general for emerging security challenges at NATO.

Brendan Simms

Brendan Simms is professor in the history of international relations at the University of Cambridge.

Jan Techau

Jan Techau is the director of Carnegie Europe.

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event speakers

Jamie Shea

Jamie Shea is an associate fellow in the International Security Department at Chatham House and a professor of strategy and security at the University of Exeter. He was a NATO official for nearly four decades.

Brendan Simms

Jan Techau

Director , Carnegie Europe

Techau was the director of Carnegie Europe, the European center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Techau works on EU integration and foreign policy, transatlantic affairs, and German foreign and security policy.