The Hague (Clingendael Institute), January 28, 2004 28/01/2004 Organised in partnership with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs Concept Relations between EU and North America are the central strategic axis of international relations in the coming decades. Those two continents represent both the greatest democratic groups in the world and ...
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Sustaining the Transatlantic Bridge
by Brian Murphy 15/12/2003 The transatlantic relationship has experienced a period of turbulence that has generated questions about its durability and relevance. The New Transatlantic Agenda (1995) sought to maintain a healthy partnership when it launched a series of citizen-level dialogues to build bridges across the Atlantic. These dialogues, ...
Read More »World trade after Cancun
by Tim Rogmans 19/11/2003 The failure of the Cancun summit has been thoroughly analysed by many parties. Inevitably this analysis results in finger pointing at the various countries that are presumed guilty for the failure. Although every player has a different culprit to aim at (« the other guys »), ...
Read More »Transatlantic perspectives on Iraq
by Tim Erickson 07/02/2003 This war has become a highly emotional issue for all of us. Judging it in a sensible light has become more difficult than ever. Your discussion forum does provide a way to listen to various opinions and put them in perspective” – writes a participant from ...
Read More »Conference Transatlantic 2020 / Transatlantic Security in the 21st Century: Continuity or New Directions?
Atlanta (Georgia Tech), April 12, 2002 12/04/2002 Organised by the le EU Center of the University System of Georgia in collaboration with Europe 2020 Topic The theme for this year’s event is an exploration of the security dimension in the transatlantic context. Security is defined broadly to include topics ranging ...
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by Adrian Taylor 22/03/2002 “Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion of the foreign world” George Washington, September 19th 1796 [1] “The stunning and unexpectedly rapid success of the military campaign in Afghanistan was a tribute to American capacity, but it has perhaps reinforced some ...
Read More »Is the myth of the all-powerful white man returning? – Worries over a possible discourse hidden beneath the events of the last few months
by Franck Biancheri 06/12/2001 I do not know if I have fully understood the discourse dominant in the West at the moment, but in travelling around Europe and the United States over the last few weeks I have had the feeling that it (and by ’it’ I mean the mix ...
Read More »For a European pro-active and constructive policy after the terrorists attacks on the USA
by Franck Biancheri 20/09/2001 Let’s create an international court against terrorism as we did with ex-Yougoslavia … and let’s prevent unilateral reactions which will fuel tomorrow’s terrorrists. The horrifying events which just took place in New-York and Washington are part of those which put their perpetrators on the bench of ...
Read More »Bigger, but better ?
by Kilian Strauss 15/06/2001 A critical reflection on the planned second wave of NATO Enlargement Prague, September 2002. The first NATO summit ever to be held on the territory of a former Warsaw pact member draws to its conclusion, with the gathered nineteen heads of state set to approve a ...
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