Europe’s Next Hegemon: The Perils of German Power

Join the SAIS Europe and Eurasia Focus Area for the next installment of the Charles Gati Russia and Eurasia Lecture Series, where Dean Acheson Associate Professor of International Political Economy, Matthias Matthijs will be hosting Liana Fix of Council on Foreign Relations for a discussion of her latest Foreign Affairs article, titled: Europe’s Next Hegemon: The Perils of German Power, where she examines how Germany’s growing military role can strengthen Europe’s defense while also reviving fears of dominance, potentially fueling intra-European balancing and fragmentation unless it is embedded in deeper European cooperation and integration.
Date and Time: March 4th, 2026 from 1:00 - 2:15 PM
Location: JHU Bloomberg Center, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, Room B232
Author Bio: Liana Fix is a senior fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is a historian and political scientist, with expertise in German and European foreign and security policy, European security, transatlantic relations, Russia, Eastern Europe, and European China policy. Dr. Fix is also the author of A New German Power? Germany’s Role in European Russia Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). She is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in the Center for German and European Studies and the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies. Prior to joining CFR, Dr. Fix was program director for international affairs at Körber-Stiftung in Berlin. She was also a resident fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, DC, and a DAAD/AICGS fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. From 2018 to 2019, she was a fellow for global governance futures at the Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues. From 2014 to 2016, Dr. Fix was a doctoral fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and associate fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations. From 2012 to 2013, Dr. Fix worked as a Mercator fellow for international affairs at the German Federal Foreign Office, the EU Delegation in Tbilisi, and the Carnegie Moscow Center. Dr. Fix has contributed essays, policy papers, and articles to journals including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and the Washington Quarterly, among others. She is also a frequent contributor to international and German-language media. Dr. Fix received her MSc in theory and history of international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and her PhD in political science from the Justus Liebig University Giessen. She is a member of the Aspen Rising Leaders, the BMW Responsible Leaders Network, and of Women in International Security.

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