After the end of the post-Cold War era: A new beginning for transatlantic relations?
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a historical juncture in international politics. The hot war on the continent shatters the European security order and widens the rift between the authoritarian and democratic world. What does the arrival of the post-post-Cold War order mean for EU-US relations? Will we see a deepening of transatlantic relations, united by the common goal to hold authoritarianism and revisionism at bay? Or will strategic differences between the US and EU resurface, as the former remains structurally oriented toward great power competition with China, while the latter focuses on regional stability and the energy transition?
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Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali
Nathalie Tocci is Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen and Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. She has been Special Advisor to EU High Representative and Vice President of the Commission Josep Borrell. As Special Advisor to HRVP Federica Mogherini she wrote the European Global Strategy and worked on its implementation. She has been a member of Eni’s Board of Directors since May 2020. Previously she held research positions at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, the Transatlantic Academy, Washington and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence. Her research interests include European foreign policy, conflict resolution, the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Her major publications include: Framing the EU’s Global Strategy, Springer-Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (author); The EU, Promoting Regional Integration, and Conflict Resolution, Springer-Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (co-editor); Turkey and the European Union, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (co-author); Multilateralism in the 21st Century, Routledge, 2013 (co-editor), Turkey’s European Future: Behind the Scenes of America’s Influence on EU-Turkey Relations, New York University Press, 2011 (author); and The EU and Conflict Resolution, Routledge, 2007 (author). She is the 2008 winner of the Anna Lindh award for the study of European Foreign Polic
Professor, Johns Hopkins University
An expert in the history of international relations, Mary Elise Sarotte is the inaugural holder of the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professorship of Historical Studies. She is also a research associate at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies. Sarotte earned her AB in History and Science at Harvard and her PhD in History at Yale University. She is the author or editor of six books, including The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall and 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe, both of which were selected as Financial Times Books of the Year, among other distinctions and awards. Following graduate school, Sarotte served as a White House Fellow, then joined the faculty of the University of Cambridge, where she received tenure before accepting an offer to return to the United States to teach at USC. Sarotte is a former Humboldt Scholar, a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her most recent book is Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate, on what the fight over NATO expansion did to Western relations with Russia.
Postdoctoral Fellow, FIIA
Ville Sinkkonen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), Center on US Politics and Power. His research focuses on US foreign policy, hegemony, normative power and the politics of trust in international relations. Sinkkonen is the author of ”A Comparative Appraisal of Normative Power” (Brill, 2015) and his work has been published in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies and European Review of International Studies, among others. He holds a doctoral degree (LL.D.) from the University of Turku.
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Ledande forskare
Niklas Helwig är en ledande forskare i forskningsprogrammet Europeiska unionen och strategisk konkurrens vid institutet. Han är också docent i internationella relationer vid Tammerfors universitet. Hans forskning fokuserar på EU:s utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik, Tysklands utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik samt EU-USA-relationer. Han leder som bäst projektet “Transforming strategic cultures in contemporary Europe” (STRAX) som är finansierat av Finlands akademi.
Helwig har arbetat vid olika tankesmedjor i Europa och USA, såsom RAND Corporation (Arlington VA), Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (Berlin) och Centre for European Policy Studies (Bryssel). Han var DAAD-stipendiat vid American Institute for Contemporary German Studies i Washington D.C. 2018.
Han har publicerat omfattande i expertgranskade akademiska tidskrifter, inklusive Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) och Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft. Han har varit redaktör för specialnumret av German Politics and European Foreign Affairs Review. Helwig har skrivit politikanalyser för regeringar och ideella organisationer såsom den amerikanska armén och flygvapnet, de finska och tyska regeringarna samt Konrad Adenauer-stiftelsen. Hans journalistiska artiklar har bland annat publicerats i Die Zeit, Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, War on the Rocks och Euractiv.
Helwig skrev sin doktorsavhandling om förvandlingen av EU:s utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik efter Lissabonfördraget vid universiteten i Köln och Edinburgh. Han har en magisterexamen i ekonomi från universitetet i Köln.