Dr. Sophia Besch is a senior fellow in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC, and an adjunct lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Her area of expertise is European defense policy. Dr. Besch’s experience also includes serving as a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform in London and Berlin.
Sophia Besch was a DAAD/AGI Research Fellow from September to December 2021. During her fellowship at the AGI, Ms. Besch analyzed the transatlantic dimension of the Defence Fund. She will examine how U.S. government and industry actors perceived the EU’s creation of the Fund and what role the defense relationship with the United States played in member-states’ deliberations. This will eventually allow her to draw policy-relevant conclusions about the Fund’s implications for defense cooperation between the United States and Europe.
The DAAD/AGI Research Fellowship is supported by the DAAD with funds from the Federal Foreign Office.
Assessing the Zeitenwende
Implications for Germany, the United States, and Transatlantic Security The Zeitenwende marks a major turning point in German security policy. Fundamental shifts in Germany’s energy-security strategy, policies on security cooperation, conventional …
DAAD/AGI Research Fellowship
AGI Project
Rebooting the U.S.-EU Defense Relationship
President Biden has come into office determined to reboot the U.S.-EU relationship after four years of tension between Washington and Brussels. The Biden administration acknowledges that the European Union is …
Sophia Besch, DAAD/AGI Research Fellow
AGI is pleased to welcome Sophia Besch as a DAAD/AGI Research Fellow from September to December 2021. Ms. Besch is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Reform’s …
Episode 08: German and European Security at a Crossroads
As the March 29 deadline for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union approaches, no one knows how it will ultimately turn out. But some lessons are apparent despite the …
