Special Meeting

Germany’s New Partners: Bilateral Security Relations of Europe’s Reluctant Leader

(Marshall Center Poland Alumni Outreach Networking Event)

Graeme P. Herd (UK), PhD, professor of Transnational Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies and founding Director of the School of Government and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Business, Plymouth University. He was a founder of Centre for Seapower and Strategy at the Britannia Royal Naval Academy, Dartmouth.

Matthew Rhodes (US), PhD, professor of National Security Studies at the George C. Marshall Center, former assistant professor of strategy and international security at the U.S. Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama and assistant professor in the department of political science at Central College, Pella, Iowa. He was an Academic Mentor in Jan Hus Foundation at Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. His interests have focused on U.S. foreign and security policy, transatlantic relations, and Central and Southeast European security issues.

Pál Dunay (HU), PhD, Professor of NATO and European Security Issues at the George C. Marshall Center. Previously he served as Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). In 2007, he reopened and directed the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs. In the years 2014 – 2015, he was Director of the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe’s Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

His research interests have focused on various issues of European security with an emphasis on East-central Europe and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the OSCE, the legality of the use of force, and integration and disintegration in the post-Soviet space.

Michał Baranowski, director of GMF’s Warsaw office, where he focuses on transatlantic relations, U.S. foreign policy, and the relations between the United States and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Prior to helping launch the Warsaw office, he served at GMF’s headquarters in Washington, DC, where he developed GMF’s programming in Poland and CEE. Before that posting, Baranowski worked in GMF’s Brussels office, where he focused on EU and U.S. policy toward Ukraine and Georgia, and where he also established the Young Transatlantic Network.

He has published in Gazeta WyborczaRzeczpospolita, the Warsaw Business Journal, the Kyiv Post, and GMF’s Transatlantic Take series. He is a member of the advisory council of the Institute for Western Affairs in Poznań, Poland. He holds a master’s of European public affairs from Maastricht University, and has studied at Mercer University in the United States and the University of Oxford.