Is There a Community of Values? Dealing with Democratic Backsliding on Europe’s Eastern Flank

Dr. Robin S Brooks is Special Advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris for Europe, Eurasia, Multilateral Affairs, and Democracy.  

She was previously the Director for Central Europe and the Balkans at the National Security Council.  Her prior assignments as a Foreign Service Officer with the State Department have included Director of the Office for Multilateral Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Deputy Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassies in Serbia and Bulgaria, Chief of Staff to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and positions at the U.S. Embassies in Russia, Turkey, and the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).  Dr. Brooks holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and as the State Department’s Davis Fellow has served as adjunct faculty at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.