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Dan Baer
Senior Vice President for Policy Research, Director, Europe Program

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Dan Baer is senior vice president for policy research and director of the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was a diplomatic fellow at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies from 2017 to 2019. He served in former governor John Hickenlooper’s cabinet as executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education from 2018 to 2019. Under President Obama, he was U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from 2013 to 2017.  Previously, he was a deputy assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from 2009 to 2013. Before his government service, Baer was an assistant professor at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, a faculty fellow at Harvard’s Safra Center for Ethics, and a project leader at the Boston Consulting Group.

He has appeared on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, BBC, PBS Frontline, Al Jazeera, Sky, and the Colbert Report. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Foreign Affairs, Politico, the Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Westword, the Denver Post, and other publications. He holds a doctorate in international relations from Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a degree in social studies and African American studies from Harvard. He is married to Brian Walsh, an economist at the World Bank.


education
Harvard College, AB in Social Studies and African American Studies, Oxford University, MPhil and DPhil in International Relations
languages
English

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How America Can Win the Coming Battery War

Bipartisan Consensus Is Key—but Depends on U.S. Control of Supply Chains.

· June 7, 2024
Foreign Affairs
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Cross-Atlantic Currents: 2024 Elections and the Future of Transatlantic Security
June 5, 2024

The future of European security is on the ballot in 2024. Both in Europe and the United States, the growing appeal of right-wing candidates and ideologies threatens democratic values and multilateral cooperation.

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The Logistical Challenge of Integrating Sweden and Finland Into NATO

The question of which Joint Force Command the two newest members fall under is dividing experts.

· May 28, 2024
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Sweden and Finland in NATO: the Joint Force Command Debate

NATO has three Joint Force Commands located in the U.S. and Europe. With Sweden and Finland's accession to NATO comes a debate about which Joint Force Command should be responsible for these new allies.

· May 21, 2024
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Rather Than Scrapping a U.S.-Northern Europe Forum, Leaders Should Expand It

Critics claim E-PINE is redundant now that Finland and Sweden have joined NATO. Instead, it's a chance to show U.S. flexible multilateralism in action.

· May 20, 2024
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Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Leaders
May 29, 2024

Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Leaders is a special half-day conference hosted by the 2023-2024 James C. Gaither Junior Fellows. Over the course of three sessions, panelists will discuss issues impacting youth including the evolving global order and role of institutions, climate change, AI, radicalization, and shifts in the information landscape.   

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Transatlantic Public Opinion on the War in Ukraine
March 26, 2024

As the war in Ukraine has passed its second anniversary, two major elections are on the horizon. In June, the European parliamentary elections will be held across the European Union, while Americans will take to the ballot box in November to elect the next president. Both elections have the potential to affect Western support to Ukraine and thus the course of the war.

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Are South Africa-U.S. Relations at a Turning Point? A Conversation With Naledi Pandor
March 19, 2024

Join the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Africa Program for a fireside chat and audience Q&A with Naledi Pandor, the minister of international relations and cooperation of the Republic of South Africa.

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Denying Ukraine the Support It Needs Will Raise the Cost of U.S. Readiness

The impact of delayed funding for Ukraine will extend far beyond the war’s human toll.

· March 15, 2024
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From AI to Drones: Governing Technology in an Age of Geopolitical Competition
March 7, 2024

The United States and China are engaged in a fierce contest to establish technological supremacy and set international norms in key domains, from AI to drones. The European Union has joined this race, too.

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