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Deterrence, Diplomacy, and Risk of Conflict: the Taiwan Challenge for the EU
Which EU Defense Spending to Address the War in Ukraine and Russia?
Olesya Vinhas de Souza
Dr Olesya Vinhas de Souza is a reseaecher at the NATO Defense College-Rome. Se is a defense analysist with expertise in Russia and cybersecurity. She leverages cutting-edge quantitative methods to gain insights into the factors that drive Russia’s foreign policy and identify changes in the operational environment that have strategic and tactical implications for NATO.
She started her trans-Atlantic career at the RAND Corporation where she published on the nexus between technology and security.
After Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, she joined the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) at the Pentagon, where she directly contributed to the development and implementation of policies to strengthen the U.S. defense posture in Eastern Europe and subsequently received an achievement award from the Under Secretary of Defense.
After moving to Brussels, she became a faculty at the Brussels School of Governance-VUB and also served as Acting Dean of Vesalius College.
She holds her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Skalny Center for Polish and Eastern European Studies at the University of Rochester.
She is a winner of prestigious George F. Kennan Fellowship (the Kennan Institute), Fulbright Fellowship (U.S. Department of State), and the Graduate Studies Fellowship (National Science Foundation).
When Will Germany Be Back?
Münchau Wolfgang
Wolfgang Münchau is a journalist and commentator who focuses on the European economy and the European Union. He is director of leading news service Eurointelligence and a columnist for the New Statesman. He is the author of the book Kaput - Why Germany’s political and economic model is failing.
Trump is Back: What Future for the EU-US Relationship?
Petrelli Niccolò
Niccolò Petrelli is Assistant Professor of Strategic Studies, University Roma Tre.
Pira Mariangela
Mariangela Pira works as a journalist at Sky TG24 and anchor a daily business programme. Her experience is in financial and economic journalism, she has also been a foreign policy journalist.