Welcome to the President's Inbox. I'm Jim Lindsay, the Mary and David Boyes Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.

This is the fourth episode in a special presidential transition series on the President's inbox.

From now until inauguration day, I'm sitting down with experts

to unpack who will staff the Donald Trump administration and how it will likely approach

the foreign policy challenges it faces. This week's topic is Europe's reaction to Trump's victory.

With me to discuss how governments across Europe are preparing for a second Trump administration

are Leanna Fix and Matthias Matisse.

Leanna is a fellow for Europe at the Council.

Her research focuses on European security, transatlantic relations in Russia.

She is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Center for German and European Studies

and the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies. Along with Michael Kimmage,

she's the author of the popular Ukraine scenario series

at Foreign Affairs Magazine. She recently wrote a piece for survival magazine titled

NATO in Ukraine, the peril of indecision. Matias is a senior fellow for Europe at the Council

and the Dean Adjison Associate Professor

of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

His research focuses on Europe's political economy, the politics of economic ideas,

in regional integration. He has written on all three topics for

outlets such as current history, foreign affairs, foreign policy, and the Journal of Democracy.

He recently wrote an article for Survival Magazine titled Europe's Leadership Void.

Leanna and Matthias, thank you for joining me on the president's inbox.

And congratulations on being so popular with the editors at Survival Magazine.

...