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Transatlantic relations are experiencing considerable debate about their possible future(s) in the light of domestic political and economic change, the likelihood of ‘Brexit’, the challenge of ‘Trumpism’ and ‘Putinism’, and continuing turbulence in the broader regional and global arenas. This round table event is designed to explore a range of scenarios for transatlantic relations in key areas of policy, along with their implications both for the EU and the US and for the future of regional and world order.

Over at least the past sixty years, transatlantic relations have experienced many processes of change and there has been a number of ‘transatlantic crises’. In the 1960s, there was the stand-off between Kennedy and de Gaulle about the nature of the ‘transatlantic community’; in the 1970s the conflicts centred on the Vietnam War, the Middle East and international economic crisis; in the 1980s issues of East-West relations and nuclear weapons predominated; and in the 1990s, the tensions over conflict in the Balkans and over the management of the post-Cold War world were central. The last two decades have also seen tensions over the Middle East, over Ukraine and over the management of the global political economy and the global environment in the wake of the international financial crisis, as well as more recent major (but unsuccessful) efforts to upgrade the EU-US relationship through agreements such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Each of these periods of change and crisis has demonstrated the ways in which questions of economic competition and convergence and issues of security are linked with domestic politics on both sides of the Atlantic and with the shifting nature of power in the global arena more generally. The past two years, with the impact of the Trump Administration in the US, Brexit in the EU and the lingering effects of economic crisis have been no exception to the rule. The question ‘what type of change and what type of crisis?’ in transatlantic relations persists.

In this round table, we focus on both the overall discussion about the future of transatlantic relations and its links to world order, and on a number of key policy areas – specifically, the impact of Brexit, the nature of transatlantic security relations, and trade relations. Speakers will present a range of views and assess a number of scenarios, with the aim of generating discussion around the questions outlined above.

Speakers:

Dr Maria Garcia, University of Bath

Professor Christopher Hill, Cambridge University/Johns Hopkins Bologna Centre

Dr Jocelyn Mawdsley, University of Newcastle

Professor Michael Smith, PAIS

Chair: Dr Gabe Siles-Brugge, PAIS

Time and location:

13 February, 17.00 to 19.00

Oculus Building, OC0.01

Please register on the page below. As this is a public event, we would like to have a good sense of the numbers.