How are NATO and the EU responding to Russian aggression in Ukraine? Dr. Ingo Peters outlines implications for the transatlantic relationship and European geopolitics ..read more

The rhetoric and reality of tectonic shifts in Europe and transatlantic relations since the Russian attack on Ukraine will be analyzed from various angles. Defense relations have been altered within Europe as well as Nato. Energy security moved front and center, altering and accelerating moves towards alternative and renewable energy sources. Despite these enormous pressures, the German traffic light coalition had difficulties adjusting its budget accordingly, while the French nuclear industry struggled to meet expectations. Beyond breathing new life into Nato (which was declared “brain dead ..read more

This podcast features an interview with staff at German think tank The Atlantic Academy. Director David Sirakov and Education Manager Sarah Wagner discuss EU-US military relations. The Atlantic Academy is located in Kaiserslautern, Germany, near Ramstein Air Base and also home to the largest community of Americans outside of the US ..read more

This podcast features an interview with UNC political science PhD candidate Kaitlin Alper. She discusses her research on economic inequality in Europe and the US, and its impact on politics in times of crisis ..read more

This podcast features an interview with Professor Phillip Ayoub (Occidental College). He discusses his research on LGBT rights proliferation in Europe, as well as variation in the US and European contexts ..read more

This podcast features an interview with Professor Urban Strandberg (University of Gothenburg). He discusses his work with youth engagement at the International Youth Think Tank and within the context of transatlantic relations and education ..read more

This podcast features Professors Susan Pennybacker and Cemil Aydin, organizers of the spring 2019 Global Brexit panel and Lost Futures conference at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They share reflections on the conference, its themes, and the academic research produced from it. The events were supported by the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, housed at the UNC-CH Center for European Studies. Our interviewer is Mark Reeves, a PhD candidate in the UNC-CH Department of History ..read more

This podcast features an interview with Professor Jonathan Polk (University of Gothenburg). He discusses his research on political parties in the EU, including the divides between the elite and working class within parties ..read more

This podcast features an interview with Jennifer Fitzgerald (University of Colorado Boulder) and Mark Helbling (University of Bamberg and WZB Berlin Social Science Center). They discuss the meaning of terms like populism and radical, and dive into their research on what is making people vote for populist (and leftist) parties in Europe ..read more

This podcast features an interview with Dr. Milada Vachudova, Associate Professor of Political Science at UNC–Chapel Hill and Jean Monnet Center of Excellence Key Faculty Member. Dr. Vachudova discusses her ongoing research into populist and ethnopopulist movements in the transatlantic context, as well as democratic backsliding in post-communist European countries ..read more