Europe and America: Managing the 21st Century’s Agenda

von William Nuland
Veröffentlicht am 24. Oktober 2007.
in: DGAPbericht 7/2007, 32 Seiten

On June 14 and 15, 2007 the DGAP in conjunction with its Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies and the Transatlantic Relations Program hosted the International Conference “Europe and America: Managing the 21st Century’s Agenda.” The conference brought together leading European and American thinkers for a two-day discussion on the development of Transatlantic Relations within the context of rapidly changing geopolitical realities. The conference explored the degree of commonality between European and American values in various policy arenas, rather than approaching debates from the conventional standpoint that Euro-American relations necessarily maintain core similarities. Its mission was expressed within the opening remarks of Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider, director of the DGAP research institute. Prof. Dr. Sandschneider opened with the observation that the days in which transatlantic cooperation could be taken for granted are over: a relationship that has experienced recent diplomatic pitfalls, been subject to the rise of unanticipated political forces and exposed to new challenges must be reflected upon. By way of officially welcoming conference participants, he asked rhetorically, “Is there truly a common transatlantic agenda?”

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The conference was generously supported by The Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany with funds from the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.

 

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