Virus without borders - has Europe lost control?
Jan 28, 2021The Coronavirus and its variants know no borders. Despite falling numbers in Germany, the virus continues to have a firm grip on Europe. The reason? Vaccine procurement is worse in Europe...
View ArticleTransatlantic Action Plan: Russia
Jan 28, 2021In the foreseeable future, Russia continues to pose serious challenges to the European and international security order, democratic systems of Western countries, and cohesion of major...
View ArticleSpecial Adviser to EU Daniela Schwarzer and Former ROK Foreign Minister...
Feb 1, 2021Special Adviser to EU Daniela Schwarzer and Former ROK Foreign Minister Young-kwan Yoon Join Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center as Senior Fellow and Senior Visiting Scholar
View ArticleDaniela Schwarzer Named Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Project on...
Feb 1, 2021The Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center is pleased to announce that Dr. Daniela Schwarzer has been appointed a non-resident Senior...
View ArticleAmb. Nick Burns: Biden's State Dept. visit 'a powerful signal of his support'...
Feb 4, 2021 Ambassador Nicholas Burns, former top official and ambassador at the State Department, joins Andrea Mitchell today ahead of President Biden's visit to the State Department where he plans to...
View ArticleBurns: U.S.-China Relationship Challenging, but Most Important
Feb 4, 2021Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, talks to Becky Anderson about Joe Biden's foreign policy vision, and what would be a smart next move for the U.S.
View ArticleTransatlantic Action Plan: Economics and Trade
Feb 4, 2021Whereas the Trump administration worked effectively with Europe in some areas, including energy security and law enforcement, the U.S-EU relationship disintegrated in many other areas, above...
View ArticleRecovering Basic Social Trust
Feb 5, 2021Hate speech, racism, and a divided society. Former US President Donald Trump left behind many problems that a new human rights policy has to face. A conversation with the German-American...
View ArticleShe's one of Europe's most powerful women. A vaccine spat could derail her...
Feb 9, 2021It's likely that, a couple of weeks ago, you'd never heard the name Ursula von der Leyen. President of the European Commission, the European Union's executive branch and most powerful...
View ArticleSecond Impeachment Proceedings Against Donald Trump Begin
Feb 9, 2021Donald Trump’s second impeachment proceedings have begun. What is the future of the Republican Party now? Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook with first analysis [interview in German].
View ArticleTransatlantic Action Plan: Middle East and North Africa
Feb 12, 2021It has become impossible to read conflicts in North Africa and the Middle East in isolation, as regional powers like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran, Israel and Turkey weigh in across the region....
View ArticleTransatlantic Action Plan: Security and Defense
Feb 16, 2021Within NATO, and in U.S.–EU and NATO–EU relations, considerable effort will have to go into: rebuilding trust; strengthening democratic governance and shared values; aligning threat...
View ArticleBiden’s Plan to Link Arms With Europe Against Russia and China Isn’t So Simple
Feb 18, 2021The new president’s vow to restore the trans-Atlantic alliance is welcome, but Europeans want a more balanced relationship, with more dialogue and less diktat.
View ArticleTransatlantic Action Plan: Technology
Feb 18, 2021When the Internet began to flourish in the 1990’s, there was an assumption that it would foster the values that the United States and its European allies held dearest: Freedom of...
View ArticleBlinken, Without Leaving Home, Tries to Mend Fences With Allies Abroad
Feb 23, 2021The secretary of state has postponed diplomatic travel during the coronavirus pandemic, which experts say is a challenge at a moment of flux in the world.
View ArticleBoris Johnson's vaccine strategy gets another boost, while Europe confronts...
Feb 25, 2021The UK's vaccination program is a rare pandemic success story for Boris Johnson. It's a different story on the other side of the Channel, where Europe is still struggling to get rollout...
View ArticleBiden makes friends with 'the west': Politics Weekly Extra
Mar 5, 2021This week, guest host Rafael Behr of the Guardian puts some epoch-defining questions to the former US ambassador to Nato Nicholas Burns. How does the president convince the Europeans that...
View ArticleBurns: Putin Doesn’t Deserve to be on the Same Stage as President Joe Biden
Mar 19, 2021"President Biden was right to say what he said: President Putin is an autocrat, and Russia is now an authoritarian dictatorial country." Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Former U.S. Ambassador to...
View ArticleBurns: Finally, the U.S. is Standing Up for Itself
Mar 19, 2021“Finally, the US is standing up for itself after four years of not doing that,” says Nicholas Burns, a former US ambassador, about the dual diplomatic crises with China and Russia facing...
View ArticleA Common Front on China? A View from the United States
Mar 31, 2021Strengthening transatlantic democracies requires even more focus and attention today because of the complex interdependence that exists between our countries and China, not in spite of it....
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