Strategic Responsibility in the EU, United States, and Beyond

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Josep Borrell serves as the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. He previously served as President of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2007 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation in the Government of Spain from 2018 to 2019. He is an alumnus of Stanford University (M.S. '75) with a degree in applied mathematics (operations research).

Michael McFaul is the director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1995, and currently sits as the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies in the Department of Political Science, and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 2009 to 2012, he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House, and from 2012 to 2014 was appointed as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation.

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