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Join Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Greece, and Hoover senior fellow H.R. McMaster as they discuss Greece’s economic resurgence, the country’s expanding role in international security, and the future of US-Greek cooperation.
Reflecting on the economic, security, and governance challenges reshaping Europe and the wider international order, Mitsotakis and McMaster discuss Greece’s efforts to modernize government, address migration and border security, and strengthen European competitiveness. They also examine transatlantic cooperation, Russia’s war against Ukraine and its implications for European security, instability in the Middle East, security challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean, and the evolving US-Greece partnership.
Recorded on June 9, 2026.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Kyriakos Mitsotakis serves as Prime Minister of Greece and leader of the center-right New Democracy party. Prime Minister Mitsotakis earned degrees from Harvard and Stanford and worked in the private sector before entering public service in 2004 as a member of the Greek parliament. Since taking office in 2019, he has overseen Greece’s recovery from the sovereign debt crisis and guided reforms that restored economic growth and investor confidence.
H.R. McMaster is the host of Today's Battlegrounds. He 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. He was the 25th assistant to the president for National Security Affairs. Upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1984, McMaster served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army for thirty-four years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in June 2018.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Each episode features H.R. McMaster, in a one-on-one conversation with a senior foreign government leader to allow Americans and partners abroad to understand how the past produced the present and how we might work together to secure a peaceful and prosperous future. “Listening and learning from those who have deep knowledge of our most crucial challenges is the first step in crafting the policies we need to secure peace and prosperity for future generations.”
