The Hoover Institution in DC hosts Ideas Uncorked: The Future of US-European Relations on Thursday, September 4 from 5:00–6:30 pm ET. The event will feature H.R. McMaster, Timothy Garton Ash, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Nathalie Tocci.
FEATURING
H.R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
Upon graduation from the US Military Academy in 1984, McMaster served as a commissioned officer in the US Army for thirty-four years. He retired as a lieutenant general in June 2018 after serving as the twenty-fifth Assistant to the US President for National Security Affairs. From 2014 to 2017, McMaster designed the future army as the director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center and the deputy commanding general, futures, of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC).
He is author of the bestselling books Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World and Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam. In August 2024, McMaster released his most recent book, At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House. His many essays, articles, and book reviews on leadership, history, and the future of warfare have appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, National Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. McMaster is the host of Battlegrounds: Vital Perspectives on Today’s Challenges and is a regular on GoodFellows, both produced by the Hoover Institution. He is a Distinguished University Fellow at Arizona State University.
Timothy Garton Ash, is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow Emeritus at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He is the author of eleven books of contemporary history, which have explored many facets of the history of Europe over the last half-century. They include The Polish Revolution: Solidarity, The File: A Personal History, In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent, Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name, and Free Speech: Ten Principles For a Connected World. He writes a column on international affairs in the Guardian, which is widely syndicated, and is a regular contributor to the Financial Times and the New York Review of Books, among other journals.
From 2001 to 2006, he was Director of the European Studies Centre at Oxford, where he now chairs the Academic Steering Committee of the Dahrendorf Programme. The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, & Prague was reissued in 2019 with a new chapter exploring the 30 years since 1989 in post-communist Europe. His latest book, Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, was recently awarded the Lionel Gelber Prize. Translations into 24 other European languages have either been published or are in preparation. In 2017, he was honoured with the International Charlemagne Prize of the city of Aachen, for services to European unity.
Anne-Marie Slaughter is a global leader, scholar, and public commentator. She is currently CEO of New America, a think and action tank dedicated to renewing the promise of America in a period of rapid demographic, technological, and global change. She previously served as a professor of international, foreign, and comparative law at Harvard Law School; dean of the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; and as the first woman director of policy planning for the United States Department of State.
Nathalie Tocci is Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Professor of Practice at John Hopkins SAiS, and independent non-executive director of the multi-utility company Acea. She has been Special Advisor to EU High Representatives Federica Mogherini and Josep Borrell. In that capacity, she wrote the European Global Strategy and worked on its implementation. She is Europe's Future Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM). She was Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, part-time professor at the School of Transnational Governance (European University Institute) and Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen. Before joining Acea, she was an independent board member first of Edison and then of Eni. She has held research positions at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, the Transatlantic Academy, Washington, the European University Institute, Florence, and has taught at the College of Europe, Bruges. Nathalie is a frequent media commentator, with regular op-eds in La Stampa and The Guardian, as well as being a regular panellist on BBC’s “The Context”. She has published in the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Politico Europe, El Pais, Project Syndicate, and is often interviewed by major international television and newspaper outlets.
