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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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Yerevan, Armenia
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“Supporting Armenia’s Democracy and Western Future”

The political and security situation in the Caucasus has changed, and it would be a mistake to not ask ourselves, in a dynamic moment like this, whether there are any new opportunities to build a more promising future in the wake of a tragic past.

· September 10, 2024
Testimony before the Helsinki Commission
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Beyond Open vs. Closed: Emerging Consensus and Key Questions for Foundation AI Model Governance

Ideological conflict between “pro-open” and “anti-open” camps is receding. Carnegie gathered leading experts from a wide range of perspectives to identify common ground and help reset AI governance debates.

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· July 23, 2024
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U.S. Role for a New Regional Order in the South Caucasus
July 24, 2024

The South Caucasus's geography—the borders the region shares with Russia​— has long overshadowed its politics. But with Moscow occupied with its war against Ukraine, countries in the region are developing alternative foreign policy priorities and recalibrating relations with the West. As Armenia moves closer to the United States and Europe, the government in Georgia is lurching towards Moscow – despite opposition from its society. Meanwhile, Armenia and Azerbaijan are in talks for a historic chance for a peace treaty which could serve as the bedrock of a new regional order.  

What is the significance of the South Caucasus for the West? How likely is a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan? What can the U.S. do to encourage regional cooperation and reconciliation? And how should the U.S. support democratic aspirations of Georgian society? 

Join the Carnegie Endowment’s Europe program to discuss the U.S. role for a new order in the South Caucasus with Ambassador Yuri Kim, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs;, Marie Yovanovitch, former Ambassador to Armenia and Ukraine and senior fellow in Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program; and Dan Baer, director of the Europe Program at Carnegie and former U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

In The Media
in the media
Will the NATO Alliance Survive a Second Term of Donald Trump?

Experts opine on whether the NATO alliance can survive a second presidency of Donal Trump.

· July 9, 2024
Foreign Affairs
In The Media
in the media
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
commentary
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