Elisabeth Braw

Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, focusing on geopolitics and the globalized economy as well as grayzone and hybrid threats. She’s also a columnist with Foreign Policy and Politico Europe and the author of the award-winning Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World (Yale University Press). Her latest book, Undersea War, will be published by Basic Books (United States) and John Murray (UK) in October 2026.

At the Atlantic Council, Elisabeth leads the Threats to the Global Maritime Order initiative. She was previously a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). She’s the author of God’s Spies, about the Stasi’s church division (2019) and The Defender’s Dilemma: Identifying and Deterring Gray-Zone Aggression (2022). She is also a member several advisory boards and the UK National Preparedness Commission. Before joining academia, she worked in the private sector following a career as a journalist. She is a regular op-ed contributor to the Financial Times and the Times (of London).