Transatlantic Security
Within Transatlantic Security
The United States is safer, more prosperous, and more influential in the world when it cooperates and coordinates with its European allies and partners. The mission of the Transatlantic Security Program is to help decision-makers understand, anticipate, and respond to the shared challenges and opportunities that the allies face. In doing so, the Transatlantic Security Program aims to contribute to a stronger and more cohesive transatlantic partnership.
As the conflict in Ukraine persists, the Transatlantic Security Program continues to focus on anticipating the trajectory of the war, identifying recommendations for how the United States and Europe can support Ukraine, and understanding how the nature of the Russian threat is evolving and how the allies can most effectively respond. Our program also examines how Russia’s war in Ukraine is changing political dynamics inside Russia itself and producing ripple effects that are reverberating well beyond Ukraine.
Given these complexities, the United States and Europe are having to manage new and accelerating challenges such as the deepening partnership between Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran; the prospects of opportunistic conflict stemming from the rising risk of conflict in the Indo-Pacific and the implications it would produce for European defense and deterrence; and threats to democracy, including those that stem from within our own societies.
To address these and other issues, the Transatlantic Security Program works closely with our network of current and former U.S. and European government officials, private sector partners, and academic experts to translate cutting edge research into policy solutions. We foster high-level U.S.-European dialogue, including through our flagship Transatlantic Forum on Russia; convene seminars and public forums; and host discussions on TSP’s Brussels Sprouts podcast to shape the context in which policies are made.
Brussels Sprouts
Brussels Sprouts is a podcast featuring small bites on Transatlantic Security, NATO, the EU, Russia, and all things Europe. It's hosted by CNAS Transatlantic Security experts Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend. Subscribe today!
Transatlantic Forum on Russia
The Transatlantic Forum on Russia is a CNAS project that convenes working groups focused on a range of priority issue areas and generates ideas for how the U.S. and Europe can both confront and engage the Kremlin in key domains including arms control and strategic stability, sanctions, anti-corruption, Ukraine and the Eastern neighborhood, the Arctic, climate change, cyber and hybrid threats, and engaging young Russians and Russian civil society. Learn more.
