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Europe Week 2025 Panel: US & EU Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Security
March 18 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Ho do we address transatlantic security issues, especially in light of elections in both the EU and US this past year? Join CES for a panel with scholars Carolyne Davidson, Konrad Jarausch, Holger Moroff, Bob Jenkins, and Deputy Head of the Political Section at the EU’s Delegation Santiago Robles Monsalve for a panel discussion on US & EU Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Security.
CLE Credit | Reception to Follow
Speakers
Carolyne Davidson
Carolyne Davidson is the Associate Dean of Administration and Outreach at NDU’s College of International Security Affairs (CISA) where she teaches in the Joint Special Operations Master of Arts (JSOMA) program at Ft. Liberty. Carolyne is a historian whose research interests lie in the intersections between strategic and security studies, history and policy, particularly in terms of the concept of Grand Strategy, American foreign relations, and the history of the Cold War. Her doctoral work focused on alliances, multilateralism, and interoperability, and she is currently researching a history of NATO’s approach toward resilience.
Bob Jenkins
Robert M. Jenkins is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
His scholarly interests are in the areas of security policy, international organizations, social and political change, ethnic conflict, nationalism, and state building. A long-time specialist in Central and Eastern Europe, his expertise also includes the successor states to the Soviet Union, South Africa, and the European Union. His current research includes projects on the social bases of populism in post-communist Europe and international intervention into the post-conflict Western Balkans.
From 2001 to 2015, Dr. Jenkins was Director of the UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies. From 1999 to 2015, he served as the Director of the MA in Russian and East European Studies at UNC. Prior to joining UNC, he was an independent consultant and researcher as well as a professor at Yale University. His consulting projects included regional studies of higher education reform in East Europe transition countries, evaluations of civic education programs in Central Europe, and development of new academic programs in Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
Konrad Jarausch
Konrad H. Jarausch is Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at UNC-Chapel Hill and has written or edited about forty books in modern German and European history. Starting with Hitler’s seizure of power and the First World War, his research interests have moved to the social history of German students and professions German unification in 1989/90, with historiography under the Communist GDR, the nature of the East German dictatorship, as well as the debate about historians and the Third Reich. More recently, he has been concerned with the problem of interpreting twentieth-century German history in general, the learning processes after 1945, the issue of cultural democratization, and the relationship between Honecker and Breshnew.
Holger Moroff
Holger Moroff is Visiting Professor of Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, and an Adjunct Professor in Political Science at UNC-Chapel Hill and has taught international and comparative politics at the University Jena since 2002. Before that he was a senior research fellow at the Institute for European Politics (IEP) in Berlin. He studied political science and economics at Washington University in St. Louis and the universities of Bochum and Bonn. His research focuses on security theories and European integration as well as on comparative political corruption and the internationalization of anti-corruption regimes. He is the editor of the book “European soft security policies” (2002), and co-editor of “Anti-corruption for Eastern Europe” (2012) and of “The Oxford Handbook of German Politics” (2022) and has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes.
Santiago Robles Monsalve
Santiago Robles Monsalve is a diplomat serving as the Deputy Head of the Political Section at the EU’s Delegation to the United States, where he covers security and defence issues. Prior to that, he was seconded to the U.S. Department of State as Transatlantic Diplomatic Fellow in the office for Economic Policy and Summit Coordination for Western Hemisphere Affairs. He was previously the desk officer for Venezuela at the European External Action Service (EEAS) in Brussels, where he also covered Peru and the migratory aspects of the Venezuela crisis.
Prior to his work at the EEAS, he was a Crisis Response Planner at the European Union’s Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP), where his remit included identifying the scope for EU crisis response interventions in Latin America, the Western Balkans and the Middle East.
Santiago has a diverse professional experience, including in the areas of political risk assessment, conflict analysis and EU security and development policy, and which includes stints at the European Parliament and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation. Santiago holds a degree in Political Science and International Relations from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, which included a year at Sciences Po Paris.
This event is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
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