Europa og det nye Washington: Hva venter oss nå? Webmøte med Atlantic Council 6.mars kl 15.

Nordic Press Center og Senter for undersøkende journalistikk (SUJO) ved Universitet i Bergen arrangerer torsdag 6. mars kl.15 en web-briefing med Torrey Taussig, leder for Transatlantic Security Initiative ved tankesmien Atlantic Council , og hennes team i Washington. Tema vil være forholdet til Europa sett i lys av USAs nye holdning til Ukraina og Trumps tale i Kongressen denne uken. Hun har med seg Daniel Fried, tidligere amerikansk ambassadør i Polen, Rachel Rizzo, seniorforsker med fokus på NATO og det transatlantiske forholdet, Tressa Guenov, programdirektør ved Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, og Anna Wieslander, direktør for Nord-Europa ved Atlantic Councils Europasenter.

Møteleder er Berit Enge, daglig leder ved Nordic Press Center.

Påmeldingslenke:

https://uib.zoom.us/j/65894620031?pwd=PgLVKClRQ1kGdl4axCn9aq4jhM42O6.1

Meeting ID: 658 9462 0031

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Mer om Torrey Taussig her:

Dr. Torrey Taussig is a Director and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.  Previously, Taussig was a Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council.  Prior to starting at the NSC, she worked for three years at the Department of Defense as a NATO Policy Advisor and then as the Department’s 2024 NATO Summit Coordinator.  

Before entering government, Taussig was the Research Director for the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.  She was also a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe.

In 2018-19, Taussig was a Robert Bosch Foundation fellow based in Berlin, Germany, where she served as a foreign policy advisor in the German Bundestag and in the Transatlantic Division of the German Foreign Office. 

Her research focuses on transatlantic relations, great power competition, and authoritarian challenges to democratic states and institutions.  Taussig has held pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships at the Brookings Institution.  She has also held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.

Taussig received a master’s and a doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where her doctoral research assessed Russian and Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy.  She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Williams College.  She is a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations and served on the Advisory Committee of the U.S.-Europe Alliance.