The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy will host a discussion with Andrea Kendall-Taylor.  Andrea Kendall-Taylor is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). She previously served as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council and a senior analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. Outside of CNAS, Andrea has been a CNN national security analyst, Distinguished Practitioner at Yale University and adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Her work has been published in numerous political science and policy journals, including the Journal of Peace Research, Democratization, Journal of Democracy, Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Foreign Policy. Andrea received her B.A. in politics from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. 

The discussion will examine the current state of transatlantic affairs at a moment of profound uncertainty in the international system. It will assess the state of the war in Ukraine and US and European backing for Kyiv,  Europe's growing doubts about U.S. commitment and subsequent changes in European defense policy, and the risk that Russia could seek to exploit vulnerabilities that could arise as the United States shifts the burden onto Europe.