Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship

At a time when American diplomacy is riven by partisan politics – and historical knowledge is on the decline in both the public and the government – join the Belfer Center's Applied History Project for our Fall 2020 Applied History Series. The Applied History Series celebrates recent publications of leading members of Harvard’s Applied History Working Group. These distinguished historians and public servants have studied the past to illuminate the most pressing challenges faced today.

In this presentation, Vivien Schmidt will discuss her new book Europe's Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone (Oxford University Press, 2020), in which she argues that the European Union's crisis of legitimacy is a result of its management of the 2010 Eurozone crisis. Schmidt argues that the EU's approach to mitigate the crisis by 'governing by rules and ruling by numbers' not only caused havoc in the economy but fueled political discontent across the region.

The Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship and its Faculty Chair, Nicholas Burns, invite you to join the second Transatlantic Relations conference in collaboration with IE School of Global and Public Affairs with support from the Fundación Rafael del Pino.

Please join the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, in an online conversation at Harvard University about his first 100 days in office and the current political crisis in Kosovo. This event will be moderated by Nicholas Burns, Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair of the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School. It is co-sponsored by the Harvard College Albanian Students Association, the Future of Diplomacy Project, and the Harvard Political Union.

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The United States and Europe have maintained an adversarial relationship with Russia since President Putin illegally annexed Crimea and invaded eastern Ukraine in 2014. The U.S.-Russia relationship was further damaged by Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. How can the U.S. work with European partners to develop a new approach toward Russia that pushes back against Putin’s aggression while making progress on vital interests such as arms control and non-proliferation?

 Please join the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship for a discussion with Michael Carpenter, Managing Director of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. Faculty Chair Nicholas Burns and Research Director Torrey Taussig will moderate the discussion. 

 Dr. Carpenter previously served in the Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense with responsibility for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia, the Balkans, and Conventional Arms Control.  He also served in the White House as a foreign policy advisor to Vice President Joe Biden as well as on the National Security Council as Director for Russia.

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Please join Sergey Lagodinsky, Member of the European Parliament, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, and André Sapir, Senior Fellow at Bruegel and Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, for a discussion about how the European Central Bank, European Council, European Commission, and European Parliament are responding to the existential challenges facing the European Union during the coronavirus pandemic. Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University, will chair the discussion.

This seminar is part of a series of events which explores COVID-19 from a transatlantic perspective. It is co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard.

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As the novel coronavirus spreads around the world, people are responding to the onslaught in similar ways—social distancing, working from home, panic buying at grocery stores. But people in different countries are also weathering this crisis in different ways; for example, they are finding different products to hoard, different ways to pass the time, different people to blame, and even different things to worry about. Project on Europe Fellow Amanda Sloat will discuss the results of her mid-March research into these trends, as well as the numerous policy questions that have arisen in subsequent weeks. Executive Director, Cathryn Cluver Ashbrook will moderate the discussion. 

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Daniela Schwarzer, Director, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), and Thierry de Montbrial, Founder and Executive Chairman, French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), will present and analyze the French and German responses to the COVID-19 crisis, with an eye on the Franco-German relationship and the European Union. Karl Kaiser, Fellow with the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship will chair this discussion.

This seminar is part of a series of events which explores COVID-19 from a transatlantic perspective. It is co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard. 

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Please join the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship for a discussion on the European Union's response to the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across Europe. Sergio Fabbrini, Pierre Keller Visiting Professor, and Alvaro Renedo, Rafael del Pino-Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fellow, will report from their vantage points on the ground in Italy and Spain respectively. Faculty Chair, Nicholas Burns will moderate the discussion. 

This seminar is part of a series of events which explores COVID-19 from a transatlantic perspective. It is co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard. 

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The Treaty of Lisbon established the most developed array of EU foreign policy instruments in the history of European integration, which include a permanent President of the European Council, a revamped High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and a European External Action Service. Ten years after the entry into force of the treaty, an assessment of the effectiveness of such instruments for transatlantic dialogue is timely and necessary. What impact have EU foreign policy instruments had on transatlantic dialogue? How have these instruments been ineffective? What could be done to make them more effective?

The first seminar (March 26th) presented the results of quantitative analysis, based on recent data findings of US-EU political dialogue.

The second seminar (April 16th) will focus on qualitative analysis of the transatlantic relationship, in light of interviews conducted with government officials from the past four US administrations

Project on Europe Fellow Alvaro Renedo will address these issues, in light of his research findings and his experience as former Director of the Department of European Affairs and G20 in the Presidency of the Government of Spain.

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