Europe
Europe
About the Program

The Europe Program in Washington explores the political and security developments within Europe, transatlantic relations, and Europe’s global role. Working in coordination with Carnegie Europe in Brussels, the program brings together U.S. and European policymakers and experts on strategic issues facing Europe.

Projects

Baltic Sea Region Security Initiative

The Baltic Sea Region is a key pillar in Europe’s emerging security architecture. The potential for cooperation and innovation is substantial. This project examines the region’s approach to a broad array of security challenges, from maritime security to defense industrial cooperation, critical infrastructure protection, energy security and civil defense.

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Program experts

Dan Baer

Senior Vice President for Policy Research, Director, Europe Program

Sophia Besch

Senior Fellow, Europe Program

Olivier Blarel

Visiting Fellow, Europe Program

Anu Bradford

Nonresident Scholar, Europe Program

Alper Coşkun

Senior Fellow, Europe Program

Noah Gordon

Acting Co-Director, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program, Fellow, Europe Program

Garo Paylan

Garo Paylan

Visiting Scholar, Europe Program

Adam Tooze

Nonresident Scholar, Europe Program, Carnegie Europe

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A Chinese-Flagged Ship Cut Baltic Sea Internet Cables. This Time, Europe Was More Prepared.

Complex security challenges to undersea communications infrastructure are forcing NATO, the EU, and individual European governments to adapt, yet many efforts remain in their infancy.

· December 3, 2024
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Illiberal Eastern Europeans Look To Play Their Trump Card

Donald Trump’s taste for dealmaking will suit some EU members and candidate states more than others.

· November 25, 2024
Financial Times
Photograph of a Norwegian soldier participating in a NATO defense exercise along Norway's border with Russia.
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Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts: Lessons from the Nordic-Baltic Region on Countering Russian Gray Zone Aggression

A coordinated multilateral response will be more effective than a national one.

  • Minna Ålander
· November 14, 2024
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Europe Does Not Have the Luxury to Panic Over Trump’s Election

It must work together to prevent the worst for Ukraine, NATO, and the European project.

· November 7, 2024
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Poor Nations Are Choking on Debt — We Must Grasp the Solutions

Hundreds of millions of people experience an exclusion of a more elementary and devastating kind than any protectionist tariff or tech sanction. They lack the means to join the world economy on anything other than abject terms.

· November 1, 2024
Financial Times
in the media
Great Power Politics

Analyzing Bob Woodward's new book, War, and the end of Bidenism.

· October 28, 2024
London Review of Books
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Ankara’s Surprising Offer to the Imprisoned PKK Leader

But what are the chances of its success, especially amid new terrorism threats?

· October 24, 2024
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Türkiye, the EU, and Transatlantic Relations in a New Global Setting
October 22, 2024

In a series of four new cross-cutting studies, Carnegie scholars and affiliates examine Türkiye’s policy orientations and their impact on the United States, and by extension, the transatlantic partnership.

U Council President Charles Michel (R) arrives with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the EU headquarters in Brussels on March 9, 2020.
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Strategic Autonomy as a Dynamic of Convergence in Türkiye-EU Relations

Türkiye’s foreign policy has been deemed by analysts as a “re-orientation” and rupture with the country’s diplomatic past.

· October 22, 2024
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is greeted by China's President Xi Jinping (R) before the G20 leaders' family photo in Hangzhou on September 4, 2016.
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Transatlantic Policies on China: Is There a Role for Türkiye?

Türkiye is an important transatlantic actor in Sino-Western competition. It can add value to Western efforts aimed at synchronizing policies toward a rising China. And yet, at present, Ankara’s policies on China are not harmonized with those of its partners in the West.

· October 17, 2024