Discussion with Judy Dempsey and Othon Anastasakis

35th Annual Camden Conference
February 25–27, 2022
Europe: Challenged at Home and Abroad 2022

JUDY DEMPSEY is a Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe and has been editor-in-chief of its Strategic Europe blog since 2012. Prior to that, she was a columnist for the International New York Times and the International Herald Tribune’s Germany Correspondent in Berlin (2004-2011). From 2001 to 2004, Ms. Dempsey was the Financial Times Diplomatic Correspondent in Brussels covering the NATO and European Union enlargements. She has also been the FT’s Jerusalem bureau chief (1996-2001), Berlin correspondent (1992– 1996) and Eastern European correspondent (1990-1992). During the 1980s, Ms. Dempsey reported from Vienna on Central and Eastern Europe for the Financial Times, the Irish Times, and the Economist and was on the ground during the tumultuous months of 1989 and 1990. She has been awarded several journalism prizes; the most recent was the 2021 Ernest Udina Prize to the European Trajectory, awarded by the European Journalists Association in Catalonia. She is the author of several publications including Das Phänomen Merkel.

OTHON ANASTASAKIS is the Director of South East European Studies at Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow at St. Antony’s College. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, a Visiting Professor at the Prague School of Economics, and a Region Head of Europe at Oxford Analytica. Dr. Anastasakis is the Principal Investigator of research projects exploring the relationship between Greece and its diaspora in the context of economic crisis and migration diplomacy and Turkey-EU relations. His other research interests include European populism and the extreme right, transition and democratization in Southern and South Eastern Europe, Balkan comparative politics, Turkish foreign policy in the Balkans, Greek- Turkish relations, Russia in South East Europe, and the European Union’s enlargement. In addition to degrees in economics, comparative politics, government and international relations, Dr. Anastasakis holds degrees in French literature and politics and in Spanish literature, history, and the history of art.