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Europe’s Eastern Crisis: The Return of Geopolitics
Tue, June 20th, 2017
Carnegie Europe
Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the ensuing crisis in Ukraine have forced the EU to reevaluate its relations with both Russia and its Eastern neighbors. In his new book, Europe’s Eastern Crisis: The Geopolitics of Asymmetry, Carnegie senior fellow Richard Youngs examines the impact that the Ukraine conflict has had on EU foreign policy—and explains how the EU is developing a distinctive type of geopolitics.
Carnegie Europe was pleased to host a public event with Youngs to debate whether the EU has managed to contain the Eastern crisis—or has set up new conditions for more instability in the future.
Youngs was joined by Katarína Mathernová, deputy director general at the Directorate General for Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations of the European Commission, and Nathalie Tocci, director of the Italian Institute of International Affairs. Tomáš Valášek, director of Carnegie Europe, moderated.
Copies of the book were on sale at the event, and a light reception followed.
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Katarína Mathernová
Katarína Mathernová is the deputy director general in charge of Eastern neighborhood, economic transformation, and relations with international financial institutions at the Directorate General for Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations of the European Commission. Follow her on Twitter @kmathernova.
Nathalie Tocci
Nathalie Tocci is the director of the Italian Institute of International Affairs in Rome and a special adviser to EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini. Follow her on Twitter @NathalieTocci.
Richard Youngs
Richard Youngs is a senior fellow in Carnegie’s Democracy and Rule of Law Program, based at Carnegie Europe. Follow him on Twitter @YoungsRichard.
Tomáš Valášek
Tomáš Valášek is the director of Carnegie Europe. Follow him on Twitter @valasekt.
Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.
Event Speakers
Katarína Mathernová
Mathernová is the appointed EU Ambassador to Ukraine and the outgoing deputy director-general of the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations of the European Commission (2015-23).
Nathalie Tocci
Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali & Professor of Practice, Johns Hopkins SAIS
Tocci is director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, professor of practice at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and professor at the European University Institute. She has been Special Advisor to EU High Representatives Federica Mogherini and Josep Borrell. In that capacity, she wrote the European Global Strategy and worked on its implementation.
Richard Youngs
Senior Fellow, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Richard Youngs is a senior fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, based at Carnegie Europe. He works on EU foreign policy and on issues of international democracy.
Tomáš Valášek
Former Director, Carnegie Europe
Valášek was director of Carnegie Europe and a senior fellow, where his research focused on security and defense, transatlantic relations, and Europe’s Eastern neighborhood.