Erik Jones is a nonresident scholar at Carnegie Europe, where his work focuses on European and international political economy. He is also the director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute.
Between 2002 and 2023, Jones was a professor of European Studies and International Political Economy at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of The Year the European Crisis Ended (2014) and Weary Policeman: American Power in an Age of Austerity (2012, with Dana H. Allin) among other books. Jones has edited or co-edited more than thirty books and special issues of journals on topics related to European politics and political economy. His commentary has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and other major newspapers and magazines across Europe and North America.
A strong European commitment to embrace the policy agenda set out by Letta and Draghi will not eliminate all or even most of the tensions between the incoming Trump administration and the European Union. But the Letta-Draghi agenda will address issues related to trade and security that Donald Trump and his administration find important.
Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has triggered a seismic shift in European geopolitics, prompting governments to reassess policies from defense to energy.
