Join the Pacific Council for a timely webinar: Navigating the Atlantic: Europe-U.S. Relations in Trump’s First 100 Days. The global order is rapidly shifting. As the second Trump Administration redefines U.S. foreign policy, European leaders are reassessing long-standing alliances and navigating an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape.

Learn about these developments and more from our featured speakers, Jason C. Moyer, Independent Foreign Policy Professional, and Lena Schorlemer, Director, Agora Strategy. This conversation will be moderated by Dr. David Andrews. Dr. Andrews is the Pacific Council’s Europe Senior Fellow and a Professor of International Relations at Scripps College.

Why it's important:

• President Trump's return to office has renewed conversations and concerns around NATO funding commitments, with pressure on European allies to meet the 2% GDP defense spending target, potentially reshaping the alliance's priorities and operations. 
• Geopolitical shifts driven by the Trump Administration may push EU members to strengthen intra-European cooperation on defense, foreign aid to Ukraine, energy security, and technology. 
• The evolving transatlantic relationships highlight questions about shared democratic values and governance, prompting a deeper examination of how long-time democratic allies can cooperate despite differing approaches to global engagement.

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Guest Speaker

Jason C. Moyer is an independent foreign policy professional with over a dozen years of experience specializing in transatlantic relations, transatlantic security, the European Union, NATO, the Nordics, the Baltics, France, and the OSCE. He most recently served as the Program Associate and Research Director of Transatlantic Security for the Global Europe Program at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Previously, he worked at Johns Hopkins SAIS in the Foreign Policy Institute—the Dean’s research institute—and in the Center for Transatlantic Relations, a think tank within the university. He teaches on the Nordic and Baltic regions for the Foreign Service Institute, the training institution for diplomats in the US government. He is also a Fellow for the Transatlantic Leadership Network and an Associated Researcher for the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. In 2023 he was a participant in the 40th Manfred Wörner Seminar, a transatlantic security seminar organized by the German Bundeswehr.

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Guest Speaker

Lena Schorlemer is a Director at Agora Strategy, a political consultancy that grew out of the Munich Security Conference (MSC). In this role, she advises clients on the impact of geopolitical developments on business operations and helps them navigate complex international and regulatory landscapes.

She recently completed a doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford on the links between far-right parties and far-right groups in Western Europe. Lena was also a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center's Global Europe Program. During her PhD, she completed a doctoral visiting stay at Sciences Po Paris and taught comparative politics at both Oxford University and Sciences Po.

Her research interests include European foreign and security policy, political extremism, democratic backsliding, and the role of non-state actors in shaping political dynamics.

Moderator

David Andrews is Professor of International Relations at Scripps College where he is also the Gabrielle Marie-Louise Jungels-Winkler Chair in Contemporary European Studies and founding director of the European Union Center of California.  

Dr. Andrews’ scholarly research has addressed Atlantic political, security, and economic relations; the European Union and European integration; and international relations, diplomacy, and statecraft. His books include The Atlantic Alliance Under Stress: US-European Relations After Iraq (Cambridge University Press), Orderly Change: International Monetary Relations Since Bretton Woods (Cornell University Press), and International Monetary Power (also with Cornell). He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, the London School of Economics, and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, where he was Senior Research Fellow in Transatlantic Affairs. In 2009, he was named a Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Interdisciplinary Studies by the European Commission.

Dr. Andrews holds a B.A. in American Studies from the University of California, an M.A. in International Relations from Brigham Young University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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