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Erik Brattberg
Director, Europe Program, Fellow

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Erik Brattberg is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Erik Brattberg was director of the Europe Program and a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. He is an expert on European politics and security and transatlantic relations. His current research at Carnegie focuses on the U.S. policy toward the EU and NATO, transatlantic cooperation in an age of great power competition, the EU’s approach toward technology, and Europe’s relations with China and Asia.

He joined Carnegie from the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University where he was the director for special projects and a senior fellow and helped launch the Kissinger Fellowship. Brattberg was previously the Ron Asmus Policy Entrepreneur Fellow at the German Marshall Fund, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center, adjunct senior fellow at Center for a New American Security, visiting Fulbright fellow at Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University SAIS, visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre in Brussels, consulting researcher at SIPRI and European Council on Foreign Relations, and a research associate at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. He also has work experience from the Folke Bernadotte Academy and Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations in New York. He has consulted for Oxford Analytica and Spitzberg Partners and is a member of the steering committee of the Transatlantic Democracy Working Group.

His numerous articles and commentary have appeared in the Washington Post, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, the Washington Quarterly, Internationale Politik Quarterly, Politico, the Atlantic, the National Interest, the American Interest, South China Morning Post, and War on the Rocks. He is a frequent expert commentator to major news outlets, including ABC News, Al Jazeera, BBC News, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, Deutsche Welle, France 24, NBC News, and NPR. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and by institutions such as Johns Hopkins University SAIS, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the German Council on Foreign Relations, and the European Policy Centre. He frequently lectures at universities and think tanks and has testified before the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

He holds a master of science in foreign service (MSFS) from Georgetown University and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in political science from Uppsala University.


affiliations
education
MSFS, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, MA, Uppsala University, BA, Uppsala University
languages
English, German, Spanish, Swedish

All work from Erik Brattberg

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China’s Influence in Southeastern, Central, and Eastern Europe: Vulnerabilities and Resilience in Four Countries

China’s presence has brought socioeconomic opportunities to Georgia, Greece, Hungary, and Romania. Yet it has exacerbated governance shortfalls, undermined elements of political and economic stability, and complicated the European Union’s ability to reach consensus on key issues.

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Merkel’s Mixed Legacy on China

Merkel’s approach to China is multifaceted, driven by a geoeconomic outlook and a belief in multilateral engagement. Yet she’s out of step with growing skepticism in the United States and the EU.

· September 30, 2021
In The Media
in the media
G7: What Are Biden’s Goals at Summit?

A discussion of President Biden’s goals and position in advance of the G7 Summit.

· June 11, 2021
commentary
Europe Should Embrace Biden’s Democracy Agenda

Bruised by its interactions with the previous U.S. administration, the EU is leery of fully hitching its wagon to Biden’s geopolitical agenda. But Europe should focus on the bigger picture.

· June 10, 2021
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Transatlantic Relations After Biden’s First 100 Days

The new U.S. administration has brought a welcome change in tone to transatlantic relations. But little progress has yet been made on thorny issues, including trade, technology, climate, and China.

· May 6, 2021
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Great Power Challenges to the Transatlantic Alliance: Reinventing Leadership for a Stable Future
April 16, 2021

Join us for a conversation featuring Vicki Birchfield, Erik Brattberg, Philip Breedlove, and Suzanne DiMaggio in conversation with Suzanne Kelly, with special remarks by Sam Nunn on on the path forward for the transatlantic alliance.

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In the Media
Middle Power Diplomacy in an Age of U.S.-China Tensions

A loose collection of like-minded, mid-sized players who also are traditional U.S. democratic allies have reinforced partnerships with one another and increasingly taken it upon themselves to press forward with multilateral solutions to various regional and global challenges in the absence of leadership from Washington.

· March 23, 2021
Washington Quarterly
In The Media
in the media
Which European Partners for Biden in Reinvigorating the Transatlantic Alliance?

On the strategic challenges facing the transatlantic alliance—Russia’s revanchism, China’s global rise, instability in the Middle East—it is not clear that Biden will have a natural go-to partner that can authoritatively speak for Europe.

· February 3, 2021
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Reinventing Transatlantic Relations on Climate, Democracy, and Technology

To get the transatlantic relationship back and on track and to ensure that it will remain relevant in the future, the United States and the European Union should prioritize putting forward concrete ideas and taking actionable steps on climate and energy, democracy and human rights, and digital technology issues.

· December 23, 2020