
Strategic Competition > Global Engagement
Revitalizing Transatlantic Cooperation
Reinforcing a Fragile but Essential Alliance
"Geopolitical strategic competition is a team sport."

Mark & Debbie Kennedy spent a fall semester in Delft, Netherlands while Mark attended a joint program between Deflt University of Technology and Erasmus University, as part of his MBA studies as the University of Michigan.
Mark Kennedy regularly visits Europe. Number of and most recent visits: Albania 1x 2004, Austria 5x 2024, Belgium 9x 2024, Bosnia and Herzegovina 1x 2004, Czech Republic 2x 2023, France 15x 2025, Germany 8x 2024, Ireland 4x 2010, Italy 10x 2024, Netherlands 7x 2011, Norway 1x 2017, Poland 1x 2024, Spain 12x 2015, Sweden 1x 2017, Switzerland 10x 2024, Turkey 17x 2017, United Kingdom 28x 2024
πΉ Strategic Context
- This page is part of WISCβs Strategic Competition framework, applying geoeconomic statecraft through the STEAD model β integrating Security, Technology, Economics, Alliances, and Diplomacy β to secure U.S. leadership across critical domains.
Why Revitalizing Transatlantic Cooperation Matters
- Transatlantic cooperation remains foundational to defending democracy and shaping global norms. Yet it faces growing stress from trade friction, divergent regulatory approaches, and shifting geopolitical alignments.
Strategic Priorities for Transatlantic Cooperation
- Coordinate, achieving at least interoperatiblity, on digital standards, AI regulation, and transatlantic data flows.
- Reconcile industrial and climate policies to avoid fragmentation.
- Expand infrastructure finance, innovation partnerships, and defense collaboration.
- Engage the EU and UK as key players in shaping trusted global systems.
Insights & Engagements
ποΈ Engaging Administration or Congress, π° Op-Ed / Article / Quoted ποΈ Podcast βοΈ Policy Brief π₯ Roundtable / Event π€ Speaking π₯ TV/Video π Global
Struggling to Find Common Ground
Seeking Alignment on Digital Standards
Seeking Alignment on Environmental Approach
Exploring Collaboration on International Infrastructure Finance
- π₯ π¬π§ Activating Greater International Infrastructure Finance - Wilson Center Roundtable in London Featuring Adam Wang-Levine, Deputy Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary - May 15, 2024
Dialogue with European Leaders
- π₯ Meeting Winston Churchill's Grandson -Lord Soames of Fletching - Inaugural Speaker at the Wilson Center's Winston Churchill Lecture Series - May 22, 2024
- π₯ Welcoming Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs - MEVLΓT ΓAVUΕOΔLU - to George Washington University (with GW President Knapp) - March 29, 2016
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π· Featured Insights
Speech: Preserving the Ideals of the Enlightenment in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Speech at AI Action Summit in Paris - February 11, 2025
Speech: Leave Colbert in Paris, Embrace Churchill and JFK Instead - Text of Sciences Po PSIA Speech in Paris - October 14, 2024
Bridging the Transatlantic Divide in Norm-Setting Around Digital Economies - Roundtable Conversation in Geneva, Switzerland - September 11, 2024 - Summary Written by Keith Rockwell
Highlights regarding EU and US Climate Policy: Convergences and Differences - Keith Rockwell Report Summarizing Roundtable between WISC and Konrad Adenauer Foundation - June 30, 2024

Meeting Winston Churchill's Grandson -Lord Soames of Fletching - Inaugural Speaker at the Wilson Center's Winston Churchill Lecture Series - May 22, 2024
Dialogue with Deputy Prime Minister of Liechtenstein Sabine Monauni - Wilson Center Roundtable - April 30, 2024