The Brussels Report Podcast Episode 29 – with Dalibor Roháč
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🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Dalibor Rohac, originally from Slovakia, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies European political and economic trends, specifically Central and Eastern Europe, the European Union (EU) and the eurozone, US-EU relations, and the post-Communist transitions and backsliding of countries in the former Soviet bloc.
He is concurrently a research associate at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies in Brussels and a fellow at Anglo-American University in Prague.
Before joining AEI, Dr. Rohac was affiliated with the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, the Max Beloff Centre at the University of Buckingham, the London-based Legatum Institute, and the Center for the New Europe in Brussels.
In this this episode of the Brussels Report podcast, BrusselsReport.eu editor Pieter Cleppe discusses the following topics with him:
- Dalibor Rohac's latest book, entitled “Governing the EU in an Age of Division”.
- The eurozone and the risks resulting from higher interest rates
- The interest in Europe amongst D.C. policy wonks, beyond pure defense issues
- The political situation, rule of law and the economic situation in Slovakia and Central Europe
Dalibor Rohac recently wrote this comment for Brussels Report as well as the following insightful articles for The Spectator and AEI.
Previously, he authored “In Defense of Globalism” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019). His previous book, “Towards an Imperfect Union: A Conservative Case for the EU” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016), was included on Foreign Affairs magazine’s list of best books of 2016. Dr. Rohac has testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and has briefed the US Helsinki Commission. His commentary has been published widely in the popular media, including in the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. His scholarly articles have been featured in policy journals, including Constitutional Political Economy, Journal of Institutional Economics, Kyklos, and Public Choice.
He has a PhD in political economy from King’s College London; an MPhil in economics from St Antony’s College, University of Oxford; an MA in economics from George Mason University; and a BA in economics from Charles University in Prague.
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| 0:00.0 | The Brussels |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome at the new episode. |
| 0:05.0 | The Brussels Report Podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome at the new episode of the Brussels Report podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | My name is Peter Clapper and I'm delighted to have me as my guest. Today, Dalibor |
| 0:25.9 | Rojak, who is from Slovakia originally but has been based in the United States in Washington |
| 0:32.6 | the Sea for a very, very long time. He is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, leading |
| 0:41.6 | free market conservative think tank in DC. But he's also research associate here in Brussels at the |
| 0:48.2 | Martin's Center, linked to the EPP, and also a senior research fellow at the University of Buckingham in the United |
| 0:58.7 | Kingdom, which is the first private university in the UK. So welcome, Dalibur. Great to be with you, |
| 1:05.4 | Peter. Great. So you recently wrote a comment on Brussels report where you presented your new book, |
| 1:16.6 | which is really interesting. It's called Governing the European Union in the Age of Division. |
| 1:24.6 | And you were at thought making an interesting point that whether you're a skeptic or |
| 1:31.9 | more, let's say, EU federalist, at the end of the day, you know, the strength of the EU is, |
| 1:37.6 | is the diversity in the sense that sometimes countries prefer to, you know, cooperate more closely. |
| 1:46.9 | Sometimes they are, let's say, less keen to do that. |
| 1:50.9 | And at the end of the day, that's just fine. |
| 1:53.2 | It actually works relatively well. |
| 1:55.4 | Is that a good summary of your book? |
| 1:58.8 | It is a good summary, I would say. and maybe I should preface all of this by saying that as an Eastern European, |
| 2:07.8 | obviously I've been throughout my adult life a friend and advocate for the European project. European project I mean I have seen the |
| 2:21.4 | enormous amount of economic and social and political progress that joining the |
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