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Daniel S. Hamilton
Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Professor and formerly Executive Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations
About
Past positions include Richard von Weizsäcker Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, senior diplomatic fellow in the German Foreign Office, executive director, American Consortium on European Union Studies, US deputy assistant secretary of State for European Affairs, US special coordinator for Southeast European stabilization and associate director of the Policy Planning Staff for two secretaries of State, senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and deputy director of the Aspen Institute Berlin; consultant to Microsoft, RAND, National Geographic Society, Business Roundtable and Transatlantic Business Dialogue.
Dr. Hamilton is a member and former chair of the selection committee for the Robert Bosch Foundation fellows program bringing young American professionals to Germany. He has been a member of the academic and advisory boards for a variety of US and European foundations, research institutes and business associations. He testifies regularly before the US Congress and European parliaments, and is a regular commentator for US and international media.
Dr. Hamilton has also taught graduate courses in US foreign policy and US-European relations at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, the University of Innsbruck and the Free University of Berlin.
He has been presented with Germany’s Cross of the Federal Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz); France’s Knighthood of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques; and Sweden’s Knighthood of the Royal Order of the Polar Star. He holds the State Department’s Superior Honor Award.
PhD, American foreign policy, Johns Hopkins SAIS
Dr. Hamilton is a member and former chair of the selection committee for the Robert Bosch Foundation fellows program bringing young American professionals to Germany. He has been a member of the academic and advisory boards for a variety of US and European foundations, research institutes and business associations. He testifies regularly before the US Congress and European parliaments, and is a regular commentator for US and international media.
Dr. Hamilton has also taught graduate courses in US foreign policy and US-European relations at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, the University of Innsbruck and the Free University of Berlin.
He has been presented with Germany’s Cross of the Federal Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz); France’s Knighthood of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques; and Sweden’s Knighthood of the Royal Order of the Polar Star. He holds the State Department’s Superior Honor Award.
PhD, American foreign policy, Johns Hopkins SAIS
Hamilton, D. S., & Tiilikainen, T. (2018). Domestic determinants of foreign policy in the European Union and the United States. Washington: Center for Transatlantic Relations.
Hamilton, D. S., & Tiilikainen, T. (2017). The Transatlantic Digital Economy. Washington: Center for Transatlantic Relations.
Hamilton, D. S., & Meister, S. (2017). The Russia file: Russia and the West in an unordered world. Washington, D.C.: Center for Transatlantic Relations.
Hamilton, D. S. (2016). Forward resilience: Protecting society in an interconnected world. Washington, DC: Center for Transatlantic Relations.
Hamilton, D. S., & Meister, S. (2016). Eastern question: Russia, the west and europes grey zone. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
Hamilton, D. S., & Pelkmans, J. (2015). Rule-makers or rule-takers?: Exploring the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Centre for European Policy Studies.
*Named the top Go-to Think Tank Policy Book of the year in 2015 by the University of Pennsylvania annual rankings.
Brattberg, E., & Hamilton, D. S. (2014). Global flow security: A new security agenda for the transatlantic community in 2030. Washington, DC: Center for Transatlantic Relations.
Hamilton, D. S. (2014). The Geopolitics of Ttip repositioning the transatlantic relationship for a changing world. Washington, D.C: Center for Transatlantic Relations.
Hamilton, D. S., Simonyi, A., & Cagan, D. L. (2014). Advancing U.S.-Nordic-Baltic security cooperation: Adapting partnership to a new security environment. Washington, DC: Center for Transatlantic Relations.
Hamilton, D., & Quinlan, J. P. (2004). The transatlantic economy: Annual survey of jobs, trade and investment between the United States and Europe. Washington, DC: Center for Transatlantic Relations.
In the News
Germans view China and U.S. as equally important allies.
Daniel Hamilton quoted in U.S. News and World Reporter, 5/18
With the pandemic as priority, countries will have to hold off on defence spending
Daniel Hamilton cited in The National, 4/21
One legacy of coronavirus is a return to activist government
Daniel Hamilton quoted in Bloomberg Businessweek, 4/13
Angela Merkel can’t isolate herself from pressure to save Europe.
Daniel Hamilton quoted in Bloomberg, 4/1
Merkley, Van Hollen joined Murphy in meeting with Iranian leader.
Daniel Serwer in Hearst Newspapers, 2/22
What if Trump wins? Europeans fear a more permanent shift against them.
Daniel Hamilton quoted in The New York Times, 2/18
Ukraine’s young corruption fighters struggle against elites — and Donald Trump.
Daniel Hamilton quoted in the Los Angeles Times, 11/14
Thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell, Western order faces new strains.
Daniel Hamilton and Kristina Spohr quoted in Los Angeles Times, 11/6
German president: There can be no democracy without America.
Daniel Hamilton quoted on Voice of America, 11/2
Transatlantic policy impacts of the U.S.-EU trade conflict.
Fellow Daniel Hamilton testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, 6/26
U.S. signs defense cooperation agreement with Hungary.
Daniel Hamilton quoted on Voice of America, 4/8
Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Jacek Czaputowicz in Washington DC for events commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of NATO.
Daniel Hamilton cited in Poland.US, 4/6