Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship

The Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship aims to strengthen the University’s capacities for teaching, research, and policy on the relationship between the United States and Europe.

The program is designed to deepen a relationship which has — for over 70 years— served as an anchor of global order, driven the expansion of the world economy, provided peace and stability and reunited peoples once divided by war.

In doing so, we hope to prepare a new generation of leaders on both sides of the Atlantic.

In Stronger Together: A Strategy to Revitalize Transatlantic Power, a group of experts convened over a year discussed the crisis in the transatlantic relationship proposed a strategy to revive and strengthen it. 

This comprehensive report and eight individual action plans lay out an ambitious agenda for tackling challenges to the transatlantic community, including:

1. Economics and Trade
2. Security and Defense
3. China
4. Russia
5. Energy Policy and Climate Change
6. Democracy
7. Technology
8. Middle East and North Africa

Each action plan includes an in-depth assessment of key challenges and proposes recommendations to U.S., Canadian and European policymakers. Where significant disagreements exist between the U.S. and Europe, the authors outline the debate and propose solutions for how they can be resolved.

Authors include Nicholas Burns, Daniela Schwarzer, Torrey Taussig, Sophia Becker, Josef Braml, Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, Anthony Gardner, Thomas Gomart, Christian Mölling, Robin Niblett, Ambassador Victoria Nuland, Kristi Raik, David E. Sanger, Dr. Amanda Sloat, Constanze Stelzenmüller and Nathalie Tocci. 

Our project convenes academics and practitioners for teaching and training, conferences and workshops for degree students and policy-makers around four core areas: Security Policy; Diplomacy; Economics and Trade; and Strengthening Western Democracies.

Our programming is designed to prepare a next generation of transatlantic leaders for careers in related fields, including in diplomacy, security and development policy, but also in the key policy areas that reinforce the transatlantic relationship, including economic and labor relations, trade, energy, cyber and technology policy as well as cooperative approaches to tackling transnational issues - including climate change, terrorism and the rise of anti-democratic populism.