SCHUMAN LECTURE 

How Europe Could End

 

MON 12 MAY, 20:00

Franz Palm Lecture Hall, Tongersestraat 53

 

Dr. Constanze Stelzenmüller

Director and Fritz Stern Chair, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution

 

Wars, the fraying of alliances and international order, political extremism and fragmentation, natural catastrophes — all this is making the unthinkable suddenly look possible: the undoing of the European project. How could it happen? And what can be done to prevent it?

 

In this lecture, Constanze Stelzenmüller, an expert on German, European and transatlantic foreign and security policy, will share her view on the future of the European project, its security policy and strategy, transatlantic relations, the role of NATO and other geopolitical issues.

 

Constanze Stelzenmüller is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe, and the inaugural holder of the Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and Trans-Atlantic Relations at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. A German native herself, she is an expert on German, European and transatlantic foreign and security policy, as well as international law and human rights. From 2019 to 2020, Stelzenmüller held the Kissinger Chair on Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress, and from 2014 to 2019 she served as the inaugural Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Prior to joining Brookings, she directed the Berlin office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and later served as Senior Transatlantic Fellow with the organisation, heading the Transatlantic Trends Program. Stelzenmüller’s work in the think tank sphere follows a distinguished career in journalism, including the role of Defense and International Security Editor in the political section of Die Zeit from 1994 to 2005. She has contributed to a variety of publications, writes a monthly column for the Financial Times, and is a frequent commentator on American and European news outlets.

 

Schuman Lecture

Every year, Maastricht University and the City of Maastricht jointly organise this lecture in commemoration of Robert Schuman and the Treaties of Rome (1957) and Maastricht (1992). Robert Schuman (1886-1963) was the French Minister of Foreign Affairs and co-founder of the European Union.