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Senior Fellow for Europe Studies
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Phone: +1-202-518-3402
E-mail: ckupchan@cfr.org
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Washington, DC
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Professor of international affairs at Georgetown University and former director for European affairs at the National Security Council. Currently writing a book on the international order and how to preserve transatlantic peace.
Expertise:NATO; European Union; U.S. national security; nationalism; the Balkans.
Experience:Professor of International Relations, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (current); Director for European Affairs, National Security Council (1993-94); Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University (1986-92).
Selected Publications:The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century (Knopf, 2002); Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (coauthor, United Nations University Press, 2001); Civic Engagement in the Atlantic Community (coeditor, Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers, 1999); Atlantic Security: Contending Visions (editor, Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1998); Nationalism and Nationalities in the New Europe (coeditor, Cornell University Press, 1995); The Vulnerability of Empire (Cornell University Press, 1994); The Persian Gulf and the West: The Dilemma of Security (Unwin Hyman, 1987).
Charles Kupchan on AmericaAbroad.com (blog)
Current Research Projects
Past Research Projects
October 21, 2007
Authors: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies Peter L. Trubowitz |
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Op-Ed
Los Angeles Times
Charles Kupchan and Peter Trubowitz write that “the greatest challenge facing the next president will be bringing the nation’s foreign policy back into balance with its political will,” in the Los Angeles Times.
See more in Congress
September 11, 2007
Authors: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy Max Boot, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies Vali R. Nasr, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy |
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Other Report
Six CFR experts provide their own analysis of the Petraeus and Crocker testimony.
See more in Iraq, Defense Strategy, Wars and Warfare
September 1, 2007
Author: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies |
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Article
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
See more in Iran, Iraq, Wars and Warfare, Religion
August 20, 2007
Author: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies |
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Op-Ed
Huffington Post
See more in United States, Congress, Public Diplomacy
July 29, 2007
Authors: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies Peter L. Trubowitz |
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Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
See more in Iraq, Nation Building, Congress, Presidency
Summer 5767 / 2007, No. 29
Author: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies |
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Op-Ed
Azure
See more in United States, Iran, Conflict Prevention
July/August 2007
Authors: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies Peter L. Trubowitz |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Deep divisions at home about the nature of the United States' engagement with the world threaten to produce failed leadership abroad -- and possibly isolationism. To steady U.S. global leadership and restore consensus to U.S. foreign policy, U.S. commitments overseas must be scaled back to a more politically sustainable level.
See more in Grand Strategy
June 11, 2007
Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Charles A. Kupchan, CFR’s top European expert, says the just-concluded G8 conference in Germany was notable for the clear effort of Presidents Putin and Bush to put aside their sharp differences on European missile defense. Kupchan also noted the compromise worked out by Bush with the European Union states on climate control issues. For that, Kupchan says, Bush deserves some credit for avoiding confrontations, and his seeming willingness to reach accords.
See more in United States, Russian Fed., Missile Defense
June 1, 2007
Speakers: | Charles A. Kupchan, CFR Senior Fellow, Former Director for European Affairs, National Security Council Stephen Sestanovich, CFR Senior Fellow, Former Ambassador At Large and Special Adviser on Russian Issues to the Secretary of State Gene B. Sperling, CFR Senior Fellow, Former National Economic Council Director |
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Presider: | Edward Alden, CFR Bernard Schwartz Fellow |
Transcript
CFR Senior Fellows Charles A. Kupchan, Stephen Sestanovich, and Gene B. Sperling brief the press on the upcoming G8 Summit.
See more in Climate Change, International Organizations
April 23, 2007
Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Charles A. Kupchan, CFR’s top Europe expert, says Nicolas Sarkozy “is in pretty good shape” for the presidential runoff and it remains to be seen if Royal can cut substantially into the centrist vote to emerge victorious.
April 20, 2007
Author: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies |
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Op-Ed
Corriere della Sera
April 18, 2007
Authors: | Philip H. Gordon Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies |
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Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
April 17, 2007
Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Charles A. Kupchan, CFR’s top Europe expert, says the French presidential election kicking off this Sunday is “one of the most open in modern French history. It’s anybody’s to win.”
April 16, 2007
Speaker: | R. Nicholas Burns, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs |
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Transcript
Two weeks ago, UN special envoy Martii Ahtisaari met with the Security Council to discuss his proposal for Kosovar independence. Ahtisaari’s plan is the basis for a resolution considered last week in the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Undersecretary R. Nicholas Burns discusses the prospects for a sovereign Kosovo with Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow and Director of Europe Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
See more in Kosovo
April 15, 2007
Author: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies |
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Op-Ed
Los Angeles Times
March 26, 2007
Author: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies |
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Op-Ed
Corriere della Sera
March 7, 2007
Authors: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies |
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Op-Ed
Los Angeles Times
See more in Intelligence, Wars and Warfare
Vol. 106, No. 698, March 2007
Author: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies |
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Article
Current History
See more in EU, Middle East
February 25, 2007
Author: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies |
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Op-Ed
Corriere della Sera
See more in Western Europe
February 12, 2007
Authors: | Suzanne F. Nossel Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies |
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Article
American Prospect
See more in Iraq, Defense Strategy, Wars and Warfare
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