Abraham Newman is a professor of government in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University. He is the author of Protectors of Privacy: Regulating Personal Data in the Global Economy (Cornell, 2008), and of Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security (Princeton, 2019. In Berlin, Newman is conducting fieldwork to study European responses to economic coercion and work with research teams at the Hertie School of Governance and the Freie Universität to understand how the German government has helped devise both German and European responses to economic coercion. He will also travel to Brussels and other European capitals and engage with European policymakers struggling to make sense of this new world of “weaponized interdependence.”