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Iren Marinova

DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

Dr. Iren Marinova is a Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. Her research focuses on European Union politics and policies, especially security, defense, and foreign policy (including climate foreign policy), as well as transatlantic relations, security, and geopolitics more broadly. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Colorado State University. Dr. Marinova has previously been a Global Fellow with the Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program in Washington, DC.

At Colorado State University, she was also part of a research team working on a project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and studying the effects and opportunity costs of American foreign policy at the state and county levels in the United States.

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Commentary

Europe’s security and defence hour is here, and the longevity of the European Union depends on it

Following Russia’s military action, the United States will sooner or later turn back to its “Pivot to Asia” due to China’s challenge to its global primacy, leaving the EU to deal with Russia relatively alone. The EU finds itself at a turning point in its history where it needs to take decisive steps towards building a comprehensive security and defence strategy, writes Iren Marinova.

31 March 2022 | Iren Marinova