S06E09: Daniela Schwarz­er on Europe’s Strate­gic Conun­drums (Part 1)

This episode explores the chal­lenges and stakes in the pur­suit of strate­gic auton­o­my for the Euro­pean Union. How has the war in Ukraine rewrit­ten the rules of transat­lantic rela­tions and geopol­i­tics for the EU? And what does the inter­nal cohe­sion and uni­ty of the EU look like today? Lis­ten to hear fun­da­men­tal ques­tions regard­ing the impli­ca­tions of Europe’s con­tin­ued mil­i­tary reliance on the Unit­ed States and NATO.

Guests fea­tured in this episode: 

Daniela Schwarz­er recent­ly joined the Exec­u­tive Board of the Ber­tels­mann Foun­da­tion in Ger­many and has served as Exec­u­tive Direc­tor for Europe and Eura­sia at the Open Soci­ety Foun­da­tions and Direc­tor and CEO of the Ger­man Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions. Trained as a polit­i­cal sci­en­tist, Schwarz­er is a wide­ly rec­og­nized expert on Euro­pean affairs, as well as transat­lantic and inter­na­tion­al rela­tions. She is a non-exec­u­tive board mem­ber of BNP Paribas, an hon­orary pro­fes­sor of polit­i­cal sci­ence at the Free Uni­ver­si­ty in Berlin, and a senior fel­low at the Har­vard Kennedy School. Schwarz­er’s high­ly acclaimed book in Ger­man is titled “Final Call, How Europe can assert itself between the Unit­ed States and Chi­na” (2021).