Lecture "Challenges and Opportunities for the EU under the Second Trump Administration"
Professor Waechter will discuss challenges facing the EU following the election of Donald Trump. He will analyse not only the threats but also the long-term opportunities for European unity. The EU is ending its period of naivety and reliance solely on the US military for its security, and economic security issues are taking on a new dimension after another election of Trump.
The lecture will be in English. The event is a part of the Model Student ID campaign.
Prof. dr hab. Matthias Waechter
Matthias Waechter was born in Bonn in 1965. After his studies of History and Philosophy at the Universities of Bonn, Freiburg, Paris, and Rochester, he obtained his PhD degree at the University of Freiburg in 1994. In the same year, he joined the faculty of the history department of the University of Freiburg, where he received his "Habilitation" in 2004. He was a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute Paris in the years 1997/98 and a Fulbright Fellow at New York University in 1999. He joined the Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales, as a DAAD Visiting Professor in 2000, and since 2005 as its Director.
Matthias Waechter is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Freiburg and teaches international relations at EDHEC Business school. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in 2010. He has served as Director General of CIFE since 2013.He specialises in U.S. history, contemporary France, Franco-German relations and European integration. In his research, he focuses on problems of collective identity, historical consciousness, political myths and transnational intellectuals. For his book Die Erfindung des amerikanischen Westens. Die Geschichte der Frontier-Debatte (1996), he was awarded the Gerhard Ritter Prize. His book Der Mythos des Gaullismus. Heldenkult, Geschichtspolitik und Ideologie (2006) was honoured with the Franco-German Parliamentary Prize and the DaimlerChrysler Services Prize.