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FOREIGN POLICY SEMINAR
EUROPE - A Political-Economic Conflict Seminar
June 27-29, 2006
Five hundred years ago, Europe began to emerge as the dynamic center of world politics. Driven by intellectual ferment, global exploration, scientific and technological advances-not to mention economic and political revolutions-the European states struggled amongst themselves for mastery of the continent and global pre-eminence. The United States can be seen as an extension of European civilization and the 20th Century Cold War as a rivalry between two peripheral but Eurocentric powers.
The collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of Asia, and the stirring of a politicized Islam signal for some the definitive shift of the political center of gravity away from Europe. Yet to a substantial degree, European economic power, social values, and political experimentation continue to dominate much of global politics. Though somewhat frayed, America's ties with Europe remain the central element of U.S. multilateral diplomacy. The evolution of power from the Atlantic to the Urals thus remains crucial for global stability and economic integration.
This workshop is intended to examine the continuing struggles within Europe to define the character of European power and its relationship to the rest of the world.
SUBJECTS & SPEAKERS
Themes and Dynamics of European Power Politics
James Sofka, Dean and Director, Echols Scholar Program; Professor of Politics, University of Virginia
Postwar Europe, 1945-1989: Reconstruction and Transformation
Donald E. Nuechterlein, Professor Emeritus, Federal Executive Institute, Author of Defiant Superpower: The New American Hegemony
"A Certain Idea of France": The Weight of History and a Changing World
Robert S. Wood, Program Moderator. Dean Emeritus, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College
NATO and Challenges of Transatlantic Relations
Gale Mattox, Chairman, Department of Political Science, U.S. Naval Academy; Former Member, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
Germany after the Unification: A New Germany in a New Europe?
Dieter Dettke, U.S. Representative, Washington Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation; Embassy of Germany and the Atlantic Council
Russia and Europe: Uneasy Alignment
Angela Stent, Director, Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown School of Foreign Service; National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia, National Intelligence Council
Turkey and Mediterranean Europe
Ian O. Lesser, Public Policy Scholar, Southeast Europe Project, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars; Senior Political Scientist, RAND
Pope Benedict, Chirac, and Bin Laden: A European Clash of Civilizations?
Robert S. Wood
Britain and the European Union
Martin Sieff, National Security Correspondent and Former Chief Political Correspondent, United Press International
Asia and the European Union
Martin Seiff
France: The New Economic Realities and Challenges
Yves Coleon, President & CEO, Transmark Partners, Bronxville, NY, and Paris, France
Russia, Europe and Islam: An Increasingly Explosive Triangle
Paul Goble, Senior Research Associate, Euro College, University of Tartu, Estonia; Communications Director, Radio Free Europe, Voice of America
Europe As An Imagined Community: Is It Sustainable?
Paul Goble
Europe and American Exceptionalism
Karlyn Bowman, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute;
Editor,Opinion Pulse; Co-editor, The American Enterprise Magazine
A Wobbly Union: Europe's Grand Experiment at Risk
Charles A. Kupchan, Director of European Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Director for European Affairs, National Security Council, Clinton Administration
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