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In this special episode of .think atlantic, IRI’s Thibault Muzergues is joined by IRI's Transatlantic Strategy Division Senior Director Jan Surotchak and three authors of IRI’s latest publication “THREATS: European Perspectives on a changing strategic environment”. This publication gathers a collection of essays from a range of European experts and practitioners of geopolitics, and provides an overview of how diverse - and at the same time how convergent - security perceptions are in the Europe today.

 And to discuss it, we have Theresa from Germany, Radu from
Romania and Anna from Greece.

Theresa Carolina Winter is Policy advisor for security and
defence politics at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom;

Ana Zahariadou is a defense and security affairs specialist and
Deputy International Secretary of the Greek centre-right governing party New Democracy;

Radu Albu Comanescu is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of
European Studies at the Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca;

And last but not least, our own Transatlantic Strategy Division
Senior Director Jan Surotchak, who supported this project all along and who give us the US perspective on Transatlantic security.



What is the most important thing that Allies need to achieve at
the NATO Vilnius Summit? What is the German Zeitenwende and how the German security establishment has reacted to the Russian war in Ukraine? How does Romania perceive its place in the NATO alliance to be, and does its perception of threats differ radically from other actors? How does Greece view the current situation in the Black Sea, and does that affect the way it perceives its role in the Mediterranean? how the US views geopolitical threats and its strategic environment, in Europe and beyond?
Listen for answers to these questions and more in this episode.

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In this special episode of .think atlantic, IRI’s Thibault Muzergues is joined by IRI's Transatlantic Security Initiative Program Director Andrea Keerbs and four participants of its latest edition to talk about “Voices from Central and Eastern Europe” - the TSI 2 publication that was just released this month. This paper gathers essays from participants of our TSI program. And to discuss it, we have Kamila and Adam from Slovakia, Artur from Hungary and Daniel from Poland.

When it comes to Andrea Keerbs, she has been at IRI for more than a decade now and has worked in our offices in Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova before moving in Budapest, so needless to say she has extensive experience in talking democracy and security in Central and Eastern Europe.

What is the Transatlantic Security Initiative program? How the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia changed the program? How did participants from Central and Eastern Europe feel the TSI experience? Is 2022 NATO's strategic concept now fully taking into account CEE region's security needs? Are regional formats of cooperation a plus for CEE region? How to mitigate disinformation vulnerabilities?

Listen for answers to these questions and more in this episode.

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In this special end of the year episode of .think Atlantic, our host Thibault Muzergues is joined by special guest, none other than IRI President Dr. Daniel Twining to review the transatlantic space’s most influential events of the year. Dr. Twining’s expertise regarding political parties, autocracies, and strategies as we enter the New Year will be the center of this episode’s discussion.

Dr. Daniel Twining joined the International Republican Institute as President in 2017, where he leads the Institute’s mission to advance democracy and freedom around the world. He heads IRI’s team of over 800 global experts to link citizens and governments, motivate people to engage in the political process, and guide politicians and government officials to be responsive to citizens.

Previously, Dr. Twining served as counselor to the president and director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund, as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, as the foreign policy advisor to U.S. Senator John McCain, and as a staff member of the U.S. Trade Representative. He has been an associate of the National Intelligence Council, taught at Georgetown University, and served as a military instructor associated with the Naval Postgraduate School. He serves on the Bush Institute’s Human Freedom Advisory Council and the Wilson Center’s Asia Advisory Board. He has been a columnist for Foreign Policy and Nikkei and served as an advisor to six presidential campaigns. From 2004-7, he was the Fulbright/Oxford Scholar at Oxford University.

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In this episode of .think atlantic, IRI’s Thibault Muzergues is joined by Giulia Pompili to talk about how both Russia and China work to increase their influence in European politics. The conversation focuses specifically on Italy.

Giulia is a well-known journalist at Il Foglio, where she covers Eastern Asia. She is also the author of the Katane newsletter, and we had her come last year to talk about her previous book, Sotto lo stesso Cielo. This time, however, she’s here to talk about her new book, which was co-written with Valerio Valentini and covers the topic of the day. It is in Italian and it is called Al cuore dell’Italia, whose full title translates as “To The Heart of Italy: How Russia and China are Trying To Conquer The Country”.

What happened in the spring of 2020 in Italy? Are there similarities in the ways the Chinese Communist Party and Putin’s regime have tried to capture Italian elites? Are there common features or motives that makes an individual pro-Russian or pro-Chinese? How Chinese and Russian institutions have attempted to influence and control the Italian press? What are the challenges ahead for the new Italian government?

Listen for answers to these questions and more in this episode.

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In this episode of .think atlantic, IRI’s Thibault Muzergues is joined by Matthew Continetti to talk about talk about the past, present and future of the American Right.

Matthew is a prominent journalist, analyst, author and intellectual historian of the American Right. Founder of The Washington Free Beacon, he used to act as its Editor-in-Chief while contributing regularly to various journals and outlets including National Review, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Matthew is also a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. 

Matthew is the author of ‘The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism’.

What is the history of the American Right in the past 100 years? How the American Right went from marginality to mainstream after the Second World War? What is Reaganism? How to navigate between Neo-Conservatives and the Paleo-Conservatives? What is the legacy of Donald Trump in American Right? 

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In this episode of .think atlantic, IRI’s Thibault Muzergues is joined by Sean Tonner to talk about the US mid-term elections, which are going to be held on Tuesday, November the 8th.

Sean currently works as Managing Partner at the Fulcrum Group, a strategic communication company based in Denver Colorado. Previously he worked in numerous campaigns, and was among other things deputy chief of staff of Colorado Governor Bill Owens in the late 1990s and Western US Campaign Director for George W. Bush’s campaign in 2000.

How do things look like for each party? Should we expect a Red wave this Tuesday night? What are the main messages on both sides? What races should we be watching? Do Europeans have reasons to be worried, in particular about America’s support to Ukraine?

Listen for answers to these questions and more in this episode.

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