Three dangers Trump’s covid poses for the world
What Trump gets up to stuck in quarantine could disrupt the US and the world in frightening ways
Experts & Staff
Jeremy Shapiro
Research Director
Areas of expertise
Transatlantic relations; US foreign policy
Languages
English
Biography
On sabbatical until August 2021.
Jeremy Shapiro is the research director of the European Council on Foreign Relations. His areas of focus include US foreign policy and transatlantic relations.
Shapiro was previously a fellow with the Project on International Order and Strategy and the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings, where he edited the Foreign Policy program’s blog Order from Chaos. Prior to Brookings, he was a member of the U.S. State Department’s policy planning staff, where he advised the secretary of state on U.S. policy in North Africa and the Levant. He was also the senior advisor to Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon, providing strategic guidance on a wide variety of U.S.-European foreign policy issues.
Trump’s dirty tricks
Although US President Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine the election are shameless, they are still more subtle than the outright election rigging that one finds…
Protest movement in Belarus: Will Lukashenko survive the current state (of) crisis?
In this week’s episode, Jeremy Shapiro stepped in as host and welcomes senior policy fellows Kadri Liik and Andrew Wilson as well as political scientist…
The Biden effect and the future of US-Europe relations | Part II
After last week’s discussion with Matt Duss and Jeremy Shapiro, Mark Leonard follows up by gathering the European views on a possible Biden win and…
The Biden effect and the future of US-Europe relations | Part I
The United States presidential election is approaching and there is no doubt that its result will have a significant and large-scale impact on global politics
Europe’s digital sovereignty: From rulemaker to superpower in the age of US-China rivalry
The EU cannot continue to rely on its regulatory power but must become a tech superpower in its own right. Referees do not win the game.
Health sovereignty: How to build a resilient European response to pandemics
Europe must improve its early warning systems, supply chain resilience, medical R&D, and cyber security and technology, to act decisively in future emergencies
“We are all in this together” – The coronavirus crisis as a collective emotional experience?
Emotions are an increasingly important part of contemporary politics. Strategies based on fear, nostalgia or hope are used by political leaders all over Europe to…
A contest of extremes: Biden’s and Trump’s opposing positions on Russia
The 2020 election will likely determine whether America seeks a deal with Russia to carve up Europe into spheres of influence or launches a new, ideological cold war against the country
The corona election: How Trump might use the pandemic to win
For Trump, coronavirus could be the right pandemic at the right time – supplying Republicans with the cover to stop voters turning out
Publications
The geopolitics of the European Green Deal
The EU should become a global standard-setter for the energy transition, and prepare to manage the profound geopolitical repercussions of the Green Deal in its relationships with its neighbourhood
Sovereign Europe, dangerous world: Five agendas to protect Europe’s capacity to act
To manage in this new world, the EU and its members need to embark on a broad-based effort to recover their strategic sovereignty
Europe’s digital sovereignty: From rulemaker to superpower in the age of US-China rivalry
The EU cannot continue to rely on its regulatory power but must become a tech superpower in its own right. Referees do not win the game.
Health sovereignty: How to build a resilient European response to pandemics
Europe must improve its early warning systems, supply chain resilience, medical R&D, and cyber security and technology, to act decisively in future emergencies
Strategic sovereignty: How Europe can regain the capacity to act
The EU needs to learn to think like a geopolitical power
Redefining Europe’s economic sovereignty
Europeans can take steps now to enhance their economic power, without advocating increased protectionism or a retreat from globalisation
Opportunities amid disorder: Europe and the world in 2018
2017: It could have been worse Prediction is a gloomy business, even in the best of times. It is neither fun nor interesting to predict…
The transatlantic meaning of Donald Trump: a US-EU Power Audit
The election of Donald Trump has changed everything except European attitudes toward American security
The everyday and the existential: how Clinton and Trump challenge transatlantic relations
Faced with the prospect of a Trump or Clinton presidency, the transatlantic relationship is likely to face difficult challenges whatever the result
Absorb and conquer: An EU approach to Russian and Chinese integration in Eurasia
Europe shouldn’t be afraid of Russian and Chinese efforts to integrate the Eurasian landmass, but should absorb them into its international order
Articles
The long year: Top foreign policy trends for 2021
Mark Leonard and Jeremy Shapiro predict ten bright and bold policy projections for the year to come
What we have lost: Trump, Biden, and the meaning of transatlantic relations
The US-European alliance is the real-world expression of the West – of a sense that both sides of the Atlantic are in it together. This is what we have lost over the last four years.
Three dangers Trump’s covid poses for the world
What Trump gets up to stuck in quarantine could disrupt the US and the world in frightening ways
A contest of extremes: Biden’s and Trump’s opposing positions on Russia
The 2020 election will likely determine whether America seeks a deal with Russia to carve up Europe into spheres of influence or launches a new, ideological cold war against the country
The corona election: How Trump might use the pandemic to win
For Trump, coronavirus could be the right pandemic at the right time – supplying Republicans with the cover to stop voters turning out
Pulling through the coronavirus together: European and international solutions to the pandemic
European governments can only defend their citizens effectively if they cooperate at a European level and reinforce multilateral structures based on openness and information sharing
A view from Washington: The America First pandemic
There will be no transatlantic response to the coronavirus. It will drive us apart rather than bring us together – as pandemics always do.
Land of the lost: My trip to the Munich Security Conference
With such a smorgasbord of offerings, most people eat the familiar food and leave the conference pleasantly full of the same ideas that they entered with
Britain voted for independence, but it has achieved isolation
The irony of recent British neo-poodleism is that the UK needs an EU trade deal much more than it needs a US trade deal
Top ten foreign policy trends in 2020
Top ten trends that will occupy European foreign policymakers in 2020
Specials
Fear and loathing on the road to the US elections
European leaders are underestimating the danger that Trump presents to the transatlantic alliance and assuming too much continuity in the event of a Clinton presidency
Podcasts
How Europeans see Biden’s America
How do Europeans assess the future of transatlantic relations?
Top ten foreign policy trends in 2021
Mark Leonard and Jeremy Shapiro predict ten bright and bold policy projections for the year to come
Anxious allies: European sovereignty after the US election
How much impact does the future US president have on the very concept of European sovereignty? Will the idea and initiatives to build more strategic autonomy in Europe be put back to bed with Joe Biden in the White House?
Europe’s role in America’s election
How will and can Europeans react in the event of a post-election chaos in the US? The election day is fast approaching yet the outcome still…
Conquering the cyber sphere: How the EU can build digital sovereignty
Europe’s digital transformation and sovereignty has become a question of existential importance. But what does it actually mean to be digital sovereign? Host Mark Leonard…
Trump’s dirty tricks
Although US President Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine the election are shameless, they are still more subtle than the outright election rigging that one finds…
Protest movement in Belarus: Will Lukashenko survive the current state (of) crisis?
In this week’s episode, Jeremy Shapiro stepped in as host and welcomes senior policy fellows Kadri Liik and Andrew Wilson as well as political scientist…
The Biden effect and the future of US-Europe relations | Part II
After last week’s discussion with Matt Duss and Jeremy Shapiro, Mark Leonard follows up by gathering the European views on a possible Biden win and…
The Biden effect and the future of US-Europe relations | Part I
The United States presidential election is approaching and there is no doubt that its result will have a significant and large-scale impact on global politics
“We are all in this together” – The coronavirus crisis as a collective emotional experience?
Emotions are an increasingly important part of contemporary politics. Strategies based on fear, nostalgia or hope are used by political leaders all over Europe to…
In the media
Jeremy Shapiro comments on Biden’s attempt to revive the transatlantic alliance.
The Austrian newspaper refers to ECFR’s latest policy brief on the European Green Deal.
Euronews picks up the joint paper by ECFR and Bruegel proposing seven actions that would provide foreign policy support for the European Green Deal.
Jeremy Shapiro says strategic sovereignty is the only way to go for Europe in his op-ed.
Jeremy Shapiro and Aslı Aydıntaşbaş wrote about the deeply dysfunctional but necessary U.S.-Turkish alliance, addressing the “double fantasy” on both sides.