Katrine Westgaard is a programme assistant for the European Power programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, based in the Madrid office.
Before joining ECFR, she was a James C Gaither junior fellow for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Europe programme in Washington DC. She also worked part-time as a research assistant for the international strategic consultancy Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC.
Westgaard holds a BA in international relations and a minor in data science from William & Mary, Virginia in the United States. Her research interests include transatlantic relations, Nordic-Baltic security, and the intersection of gender and foreign policy.
Iceland may be small, but its strategic importance is vast. As Trump questions NATO commitments, European allies must step up before the Arctic becomes the next geopolitical flashpoint
Donald Trump is obsessed with buying Greenland. Europeans should not succumb to his bullying but demonstrate to the future US president that they can and will provide security in the Arctic
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