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A Foreign Policy and Center on the United States and Europe Event

Fifth Annual Conference of the Center on the United States and Europe

Europe, Transatlantic Relations, France, European Union, International Relations

Event Summary

On May 20, 2008, the Center on the United States and Europe held its fifth annual conference. As is in previous years, the Conference brought together leading scholars, officials, and policymakers from both sides of the Atlantic to examine issues shaping the transatlantic relationship and to assess the evolving roles of the United States and Europe in the global arena.

Event Information

Where

Falk Auditorium
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC
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Event Materials

Contact: Brookings Office of Communications

E-mail: CUSE@brookings.edu

Phone: 202.797.6494

Gary Schmitt of the American Enterprise Institute; Sir Lawrence Freedman of King’s College, London; Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times; former Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Petersen; and Strobe Talbott, President of The Brookings Institution joined other prominent panelists and CUSE scholars for this year’s sessions. The series of panel discussions explored transatlantic relations beyond the Bush presidency, Sarkozy’s plans for France’s EU presidency, and the future of Russia under Medvedev.

Transcript

DANIEL BENJAMIN: I don't think it's necessarily a gloomy time, but it is certainly a time of great portent and questions in the transatlantic relationship and in international affairs, full stop.

Obviously, at the heart of this is the question of the American presidential election, which is something we could talk about for hours today and consider its many potential implications.

This has been a tumultuous period in our national history and also in global affairs. And it appears, one way or another, to be coming to an end.

Whether what stands before us is a period of unprecedented comity across the Atlantic, profound disappointment, slow erosion, or something else is something that is attracting the energies of many thinkers these days.

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