The 35th Annual Camden Conference, Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad, theme focused on what’s happening in Europe today and what we can anticipate. In 2022, Europe’s leaders and citizens were facing pervasive economic, political and social challenges, some exacerbated by the global pandemic. How cohesive was the European Union at this point? Where were populist movements headed, and where were democratic institutions under threat? Speakers also considered what will happen to the European-United States bond as a new generation of leaders pursue their own agendas with Russia, China, and other countries, and asked when can we rely on Europe, and can Europeans rely on us?
2022 CAMDEN CONFERENCE
February 25-27, 2022
Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad
35th Annual Camden Conference
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Conference
Judy Dempsey – Will COVID-19 and Climate, Migration and Corruption Make or Break Europe?
35th Annual Camden Conference
February 25–27, 2022
Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad
JUDY DEMPSEY is a Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe and has been editor-in-chief of its Strategic Europe blog since 2012. Prior to that, she was a columnist for the International New York Times and the International Herald Tribune’s Germany Correspondent in Berlin (2004-2011). From 2001 to 2004, Ms. Dempsey was the Financial Times Diplomatic Correspondent in Brussels covering the NATO and European Union enlargements. She has also been the FT’s Jerusalem bureau chief (1996-2001), Berlin correspondent (1992– 1996) and Eastern European correspondent (1990-1992). During the 1980s, Ms. Dempsey reported from Vienna on Central and Eastern Europe for the Financial Times, the Irish Times, and the Economist and was on the ground during the tumultuous months of 1989 and 1990. She has been awarded several journalism prizes; the most recent was the 2021 Ernest Udina Prize to the European Trajectory, awarded by the European Journalists Association in Catalonia. She is the author of several publications including Das Phänomen Merkel.
Othon Anastasakis – The Illiberal Challenge to European Democracies: Who is Vulnerable?
35th Annual Camden Conference
February 25–27, 2022
Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad
OTHON ANASTASAKIS is the Director of South East European Studies at Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow at St. Antony’s College. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, a Visiting Professor at the Prague School of Economics, and a Region Head of Europe at Oxford Analytica. Dr. Anastasakis is the Principal Investigator of research projects exploring the relationship between Greece and its diaspora in the context of economic crisis and migration diplomacy and Turkey-EU relations. His other research interests include European populism and the extreme right, transition and democratization in Southern and South Eastern Europe, Balkan comparative politics, Turkish foreign policy in the Balkans, Greek- Turkish relations, Russia in South East Europe, and the European Union’s enlargement. In addition to degrees in economics, comparative politics, government and international relations, Dr. Anastasakis holds degrees in French literature and politics and in Spanish literature, history, and the history of art.
Discussion with Judy Dempsey and Othon Anastasakis
35th Annual Camden Conference
February 25–27, 2022
Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad 2022
JUDY DEMPSEY is a Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe and has been editor-in-chief of its Strategic Europe blog since 2012. Prior to that, she was a columnist for the International New York Times and the International Herald Tribune’s Germany Correspondent in Berlin (2004-2011). From 2001 to 2004, Ms. Dempsey was the Financial Times Diplomatic Correspondent in Brussels covering the NATO and European Union enlargements. She has also been the FT’s Jerusalem bureau chief (1996-2001), Berlin correspondent (1992– 1996) and Eastern European correspondent (1990-1992). During the 1980s, Ms. Dempsey reported from Vienna on Central and Eastern Europe for the Financial Times, the Irish Times, and the Economist and was on the ground during the tumultuous months of 1989 and 1990. She has been awarded several journalism prizes; the most recent was the 2021 Ernest Udina Prize to the European Trajectory, awarded by the European Journalists Association in Catalonia. She is the author of several publications including Das Phänomen Merkel.
OTHON ANASTASAKIS is the Director of South East European Studies at Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow at St. Antony’s College. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, a Visiting Professor at the Prague School of Economics, and a Region Head of Europe at Oxford Analytica. Dr. Anastasakis is the Principal Investigator of research projects exploring the relationship between Greece and its diaspora in the context of economic crisis and migration diplomacy and Turkey-EU relations. His other research interests include European populism and the extreme right, transition and democratization in Southern and South Eastern Europe, Balkan comparative politics, Turkish foreign policy in the Balkans, Greek- Turkish relations, Russia in South East Europe, and the European Union’s enlargement. In addition to degrees in economics, comparative politics, government and international relations, Dr. Anastasakis holds degrees in French literature and politics and in Spanish literature, history, and the history of art.
Mark Blyth – Between the Devil and the Deep Red Sea: European Economies Confront a Turbulent World
35th Annual Camden Conference
February 25–27, 2022
Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad
MARK BLYTH is Director of Brown University’s William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance and the William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics, with a joint appointment in political science. Dr. Blyth studies how uncertainty and randomness impact complex systems, particularly economic systems, and “why people continue to believe stupid economic ideas despite buckets of evidence to the contrary.” Dr. Blyth’s research spans two main areas: the political power of economic ideas and the political economy of the rich democracies. His books have included Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, The Future of the Euro, and Angrynomics. His forthcoming book is The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation. A native of Scotland, Dr. Blyth serves on a council advising the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, on economic matters.
Conversation with Sergei Medvedev
35th Annual Camden Conference
February 25–27, 2022
Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad
SERGEI MEDVEDEV is a journalist, television and radio host, and political scientist. Now a professor at Moscow Free University, Dr. Medvedev also taught for 16 years at the School of Economics in Moscow and earned multiple teaching awards. He has worked at the Marshall Center for Security Studies in Germany, the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (Ebenhausen), and the Istituto Affari Internazionali (Rome). Dr. Medvedev advocates international control over the Arctic, based on the Antarctic model. He believes Russia has a special responsibility to protect the Arctic and advocates a ban on oil drilling and economic activity and on military actions and movements. Dr. Medvedev’s most recent book is The Return of the Russian Leviathan. He earned a B.A. in International Journalism from Charles University in Prague, a M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in History of International Relations and Foreign Policy at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Medvedev has completed dozens of world marathons, several mountain marathons and ultramarathons in the Alps, the Tour Transalp cycle race (twice), and the Arctic Circle Race ski race in Greenland (twice).
Constanze Steltzenmüller and Douglas Lute – Looking Ahead: A Dialogue
35th Annual Camden Conference
February 25–27, 2022
Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad
CONSTANZE STELZENMÜLLER is the inaugural holder of the Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and Transatlantic Relations in the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings. Dr. Stelzenmüller was a speaker at the 2015 Camden Conference on Russia. An expert on German, European, and Transatlantic foreign and security policy and strategy, she has been a Senior Fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe, held the Kissinger Chair on Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress, and served as the inaugural Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at Brookings. Dr. Stelzenmüller was previously a Senior Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) and former director of GMF’s Berlin office. From 1994 to 2005, she was an editor for the political section of the German weekly DIE ZEIT, where she had also served as defense and international security editor and covered human rights issues and humanitarian crises.
DOUGLAS LUTE is Chair, International and Defense, for the BGR Group; CEO of Cambridge Global Advisors; McDermott Distinguished Chair of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy, West Point; Senior Fellow, Belfer Center, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; and Senior Advisor, Jones Group International. Ambassador Lute was United States Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council, NATO’s standing political body, from 2013 to 2017. A West Point graduate and a career Army officer for 35 years, he retired from active duty as a lieutenant general in 2010. During the Bush and Obama administrations, General Lute served a total of six years in the White House, as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor under President Bush charged with coordinating the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a member of the National Security Council staff in the Obama Administration, his primary focus was on South Asia.
Mark Leonard – The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict
35th Annual Camden Conference
February 25–27, 2022
Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad
MARK LEONARD is the Director and Co-founder of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a council of 300 European leaders including serving and former presidents, prime ministers, economics and foreign ministers. His expertise and interests include geopolitics and geoeconomics, China, EU politics and institutions. His most recent book, The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict, discusses how geopolitics is reshaping the global economy as all the things that bind us together—supply chains, infrastructure, migration, the internet—are turned into weapons and currencies of power. Mr. Leonard hosts the weekly podcast Mark Leonard’s World in 30 Minutes and writes a syndicated column on global affairs for Project Syndicate. Previously he worked as director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform and as director of the Foreign Policy Centre, a think tank he founded at the age of 24 under the patronage of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Take 4 Quartet
35th Annual Camden Conference
February 25–27, 2022
Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad
Pierre Vimont – A Difficult Path to Becoming a Relevant Actor
35th Annual Camden Conference
February 25–27, 2022
Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad
PIERRE VIMONT is a Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe. His research focuses on the European Neighborhood Policy, Transatlantic relations, and French foreign policy. During his thirty-eight-year diplomatic career with the French foreign service, he served as Ambassador to the United States (2007-2010), Ambassador to the European Union (1999-2002), and chief of staff to three French foreign ministers. He holds the title “Ambassador of France,” a lifetime honor bestowed on only a few French career diplomats. Ambassador Vimont served as the special envoy for the French initiative for a Middle East Peace Conference in 2016-2017. Previously he had been personal envoy of the president of the European Council, leading preparations for the Valletta Conference between European Union and African countries to tackle the causes of illegal migration and combat human smuggling and trafficking. Prior to joining Carnegie Europe, Ambassador Vimont was the first executive secretary-general of the European External Action Service (EEAS).
Daniela Schwarzer – How Can Europe Hold Its Own Between China and the USA?
35th Annual Camden Conference
February 25–27, 2022
Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad
DANIELA SCHWARZER is Executive Director for Europe and Eurasia of the Open Society Foundations. An expert in European affairs and Transatlantic and international relations. Prof. Dr. Schwarzer is an honorary professor of political science at Freie Universität Berlin and a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. Prior to joining Open Society, Prof. Dr. Schwarzer was director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations. Before this, she had served on the executive team of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and worked at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. She has been a special advisor to European leaders such as EU High Representative Josep Borrell and to countries including Poland and France during their EU Council presidencies. Prof. Dr. Schwarzer h
John Herbst – The U.S. Approach to Managing the Kremlin Challenge in Eastern Europe
35th Annual Camden Conference
February 25–27, 2022
Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad
JOHN E. HERBST is Senior Director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. For 31 years, Ambassador Herbst served as a United States foreign service officer, retiring at the rank of career minister. He was US Ambassador to Ukraine (2003-2006), where he worked to ensure the conduct of a fair Ukrainian presidential election and prevent violence during the Orange Revolution. As Ambassador to Uzbekistan (2000-2003), he led efforts to establish an American base to support operations in Afghanistan and to encourage the Uzbek government to improve its human rights record. In his last four years at the State Department, he was the coordinator for reconstruction and stabilization, leading the US government’s civilian capacity in societies in transition from conflict or civil strife. He oversaw the establishment of the Civilian Response Corps of the United States for reconstruction and stabilization operations overseas. He most recently served as director of the center for complex operations at National Defense University.
Discussion with Pierre Vimont, Daniela Schwarzer, and John Herbst
35th Annual Camden Conference
February 25–27, 2022
Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad
2022 Final Panel of all Speakers
35th Annual Camden Conference
February 25–27, 2022
Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad
Othon Anastasakis
Speaker
Mark Blyth
Speaker
David Brancaccio
Moderator
Judy Dempsey
Speaker
John E. Herbst
Speaker
Stavros Lambrinidis
Keynote Speaker
Mark Leonard
Speaker
Douglas E. Lute
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Sergei Medvedev
Speaker
Daniela Schwarzer
Speaker
Constanze Stelzenmüller
Speaker
Pierre Vimont
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Stavros Lambrinidis – Democracy, the Global Economy, and Climate Under Pressure
35th Annual Camden Conference
February 25–27, 2022
Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad
STAVROS LAMBRINIDIS has been Ambassador of the European Union to the United States since March 2019. From 2012 to 2019, he served as the European Union Special Representative for Human Rights. In 2011, he was Foreign Affairs Minister of Greece. Between 2004 and 2011, he was twice elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the Greek Social Democratic Party (PASOK). He served as Vice-President of the European Parliament (2009-2011), Vice-President of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (2004-2009), and Head of the PASOK Delegation (2005-2011). Between 2000 and 2004, he was Director-General of the International Olympic Truce Centre. Previously he had been an attorney in Washington, D.C., specializing in international trade, transactions, and arbitration. He has received numerous recognitions for his work on human rights and privacy, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s “Champion of Freedom Award” in 2020 and the Boston Global Forum’s “World Leader in Artificial Intelligence Award” in 2021. …