Dr Rosa Balfour is director of Carnegie Europe. Her fields of expertise include European politics, institutions, and foreign and security policy. Her current research focuses on the relationship between domestic politics and Europe’s global role. She is the author of books, research-based articles, and opinion pieces in the international press on issues relating to European politics and international relations. Among other outlets, her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Financial Times, The Guardian, Tagespiele, El Pais, La Stampa.
Balfour is also an advisor to Women in International Security Brussels (WIIS-Brussels), an associate fellow at LSE IDEAS, an alumna of the Europe’s Futures program at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. In 2024 she was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Council of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Since 2021, she is an honorary patron of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES). Prior to joining Carnegie Europe, Balfour was a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was also director of the Europe in the World program at the European Policy Centre in Brussels and has worked as a researcher in Rome and London.
Dr Balfour holds an MA in history from Cambridge University, an MSc in European Studies and PhD in International Relations both from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
A selection of publications
Rosa Balfour and Stefan Lehne (eds.) (2024), Charting the Radical Right’s Influence on EU Foreign Policy, Carnegie Europe, April, https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/04/charting-the-radical-rights-influence-on-eu-foreign-policy?lang=en
Rosa Balfour (2024), Europe’s Contested Democracy and its Impact on the EU’s Democracy Support Policies Toward its Neighbors, SHAPEDEM-EU publication # 3, March, https://shapedem-eu.eu/user/pages/06.publications/SHAPEDEM-EU_Publicati…
Rosa Balfour, Lizza Bomassi and Marta Martinelli (eds). (2022), The Southern Mirror. Reflections on Europe from the Global South, Carnegie Europe, June, https://carnegieeurope.eu/2022/06/29/southern-mirror-reflections-on-europe-from-global-south-pub-87306
Rosa Balfour (2022), Europe must not allow the momentum for expansion to slip, The Financial Times, 12 June, https://www.ft.com/content/d542979e-032f-4917-ae8f-6d147764feac
Rosa Balfour (2021), Against a European Civilization: Narratives about the European Union, Carnegie Europe, 6 April, https://carnegieeurope.eu/2021/04/06/against-european-civilization-narratives-about-european-union-pub-84229
Rosa Balfour (2019), Brexit Beyond Britain, The American Interest, 20 September, https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/09/20/brexit-beyond-britain/
Rosa Balfour (2017), What are think tanks for? Policy research in the age of anti-expertise, http://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/research/updates/think-tanks
Rosa Balfour (2016), Europe’s Trouble Makers. The Populist Challenge to Foreign Policy, Brussels: European Policy Centre, February,
http://www.epc.eu/documents/uploads/pub_6377_europe_s_troublemakers.pdf
Rosa Balfour (2012), Human Rights and Democracy in EU Foreign Policy. The Cases of Ukraine and Egypt, London: Routledge, reprinted as a paperback in 2014.