Executive Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations; Executive Director of the American Consortium on EU Studies; Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Research Professor
Expertise Geographic Areas
Eastern Europe | Balkans | Western Europe | France | Germany | Great Britain | Italy | Russia Issues
American economic policy | American foreign policy | arms control and disarmament | domestic influences on foreign policy | elections and foreign policy | European Union and transatlantic relations | globalization | international political economy | international relations | military power and strategy | nation-building and democratization | NATO | nuclear policy and proliferation | strategic and security issues | U.S. Congress and foreign policy | U.S. homeland security | U.S. presidency and foreign policy Background and Education
Leads the international policy work of The Johns Hopkins Center for the Study of High Consequence Event Preparedness and Response; former deputy assistant secretary of State for European Affairs; U.S. special coordinator for Southeast European Stabilization; associate director of the Policy Planning Staff for two secretaries of State; senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; coordinator of two national commissions on U.S. foreign policy; deputy director of the Aspen Institute Berlin; consultant to Microsoft; Ph.D., American foreign policy, SAIS
Foreign Languages
German Publications
Europe 2020: Competitive or Complacent? (2011); The Transatlantic Economy 2011 (2011); Shoulder to Shoulder: Forging a Strategic U.S.-EU Partnership (2010); Alliance Reborn: An Atlantic Compact for the 21st Century (2009); Globalization and Europe: Prospering in the New Whirled Order (2008); The Wider Black Sea Region in the 21st Century: Strategic, Economic and Energy Perspectives (2008); Terrorism and International Relations (2006); Deep Integration: How Transatlantic Markets Are Leading Globalization (2005); Protecting the Homeland (2005); The New Frontiers of Europe: The Enlargement of the European Union, Implications and Consequences, editor (2005); Partners in Prosperity (2004); Transatlantic Homeland Security (2004); Transatlantic Transformations: Equipping the Alliance for the 21st Century (2004); Beyond Bonn: America and the Berlin Republic (1994); chapters and articles in books, journals and newspapers | 
