MATA academic staff members engage in research and publications relating to transatlantic affairs:

• 2025 July: Michele Chang, ‘Global Europe, Global Euro: Why Europe Needs a Safe Asset’ in What Future for Europe’s Partnership with the United States? European Council Experts’ Debrief XV
• 2025 July: Marie Ketterlin, the EU’s Middle East policy and the transatlantic cooperation limbo’ in What Future for Europe’s Partnership with the United States? European Council Experts’ Debrief XV
• 2025 May: Marie Ketterlin and Ian Lesser, ‘Navigating Inertia: a Transatlantic Perspective on the EU’s response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (2022-2025)’. Paper prepared for the European Union Study Association’s biennial conference, Philadelphia, PA
• 2024 November: Ian Lesser,  Remarks on the outcome of the US Presidential elections.  
• 2023 Benedetta Berti, “NATO 2030: A look at the key priorities for the Vilnius summit”, EPC Roundup, 22 June 

Check out our podcast series, Navigating the Atlantic, a partnership with eu!radio and additional publications and activities of MATA Chair Ian Lesser.

Transatlantic Relations: Challenge and Resilience, edited by Donald Abelson and Stephen Brooks (Routledge, 2022) 

Featuring chapters by former MATA Coordinator Simon Schunz and former MATA Visiting Professor Emiliano Alessandri, this book explains how and why the transatlantic relationship has remained resilient despite persistent differences in the preferences, approaches, and policies of key member states.  

It covers topics ranging from the history of transatlantic relations, North Atlantic Treaty Organization and security issues, trade, human rights, and the cultural sinews of the relationship, to the impacts of COVID-19, climate change, think tanks, the rise of populism, public opinion, and the triangular relationship between the United States (US), Europe, and China. The book also conceptualizes resilience as a quality arising from myriad forms of interdependence. This interdependence helps shed light on the Atlantic partnership’s capacity to withstand serious disagreements, such as those that occurred during the Reagan, George W. Bush, and Trump presidencies.  

With a principal focus on the US and Europe, the contributors to the volume also employ Canadian case studies to provide a unique and useful corrective. This book will interest all intermediate and senior undergraduate as well as graduate courses on relations between the US and Europe, American foreign policy, and European Union foreign policy. A specialist readership that includes academic and think tank researchers, policy practitioners, and opinion leaders will also benefit from this timely volume.