AKADEMIE FORUM: ROBIN QUINVILLE & CLAUDIA MAJOR

As Washington increasingly adopts an interest-driven, transactional approach, Europe stands at a strategic turning point.

What will transatlantic cooperation look like when the old premises no longer apply?

Can Europe become an autonomous partner—and what model of “global governance” could replace the framework that is currently disintegrating?

This event brings together leading foreign policy experts from both sides of the Atlantic to discuss these questions and identify possible paths forward for the transatlantic partnership:

Robin Quinville is the former director of the Global Europe Program at the Wilson Center and former Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Mission in Germany; Claudia Major is Senior Vice President for Transatlantic Security at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Robin Quinville is the former director of the Global Europe Program at the Wilson Center. She served as a U.S. diplomat for more than 30 years, primarily in Europe—including at two multilateral organizations (the OSCE and NATO) as well as at diplomatic missions in Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, the United Kingdom, and Germany. She also spent a year in Baghdad. In Washington, she headed the State Department’s Office of Western European Affairs and served for a year as a State Department Fellow at the Wilson Center. Her last post was as Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. She earned a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Smith College. She is a recognized expert on European affairs, alliance policy, and transatlantic cooperation.

Dr. Claudia Major is a German political scientist and recognized security expert. She currently serves as Senior Vice President for Transatlantic Security at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Her research, consulting work, and publications focus on German, European, and transatlantic security and defense policy, NATO, deterrence and the nuclear order, the defense industry, and Franco-German relations. Previously, she was Head of the International Security Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), an independent research institution in Berlin. She has also held positions at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich, the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris, the NATO Division of the German Foreign Office, and Sciences Po Paris. She completed her studies at Freie Universität Berlin and Sciences Po Paris and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham.

In English

With a musical performance by students of the Barenboim-Said Academy