UPCOMING EVENT
Friday, July 11, 2008
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Washington, DC
In the coming years, European and American leaders will face pressing global challenges such as terrorism, international trade negotiations and climate change, which will require joint action and close collaboration between American and European leaders.On July 11, the Center on the United States and Europe (CUSE) at Brookings will host Jim Murphy MP, Great Britain’s Minister for Europe, for a discussion of the role of public diplomacy in the new transatlantic agenda.
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UPCOMING EVENT
Thursday, July 10, 2008
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Washington, DC
On July 10, the Brookings Institution will host the British Secretary of State for Defence, the Rt Hon Des Browne MP, for a discussion of British and U.S. policies in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond—now and with the change in U.S. leadership in 2009. Read More
PAST EVENT
Friday, April 11, 2008
8:30 AM to 9:30 AM
Washington, DC
The Brookings Institution and the British Embassy hosted a breakfast discussion on Friday, April 11 with the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honorable Alistair Darling MP. The Chancellor discussed the context for this year's IMF Spring Meetings, recent financial market events, and international coordination. Read More
PAST EVENT
Thursday, January 31, 2008
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC
On January 31, the Brookings Institution hosted Johan Eliasch, Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s special representative for deforestation and clean energy, for a discussion of critical energy challenges facing the international community. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
H.A. Hellyer, December 2007, U.S. Relations with the Islamic World Analysis Paper #11
H.A. Hellyer notes that historians will undoubtedly mark September 11, 2001 as a turning point for politicians and policy makers in the United States. He offers recommendations from counterterrorism operations in Britain where authorities are facing a similar if not more widespread problem of radicalization. Read More
PAST EVENT
Monday, October 01, 2007
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
New York City, NY
In the second meeting of the MGI Advisory Group, members and guest experts debated a way forward on the “hard cases” within the international system, such as an effective multilateral strategy to manage the regional crises in the Middle East and a role for the United Nations in Iraq. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
12:00 AM to
Washington, DC
The failed terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow have once again brought Britain's Muslims back into the spotlight, and sparked renewed feelings of unease and suspicion, despite the alleged perpetrators having come from abroad. In this tense environment, there is an evermore urgent need for counterterrorism authorities to engage with the mainstream British Muslim community, while correctly identifying those that pose a threat to public order. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Philip H. Gordon, June 27, 2007, Online NewsHour
Interview with Philip H. Gordon, PBS (6/27/07) Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ivo H. Daalder, December 06, 2006, America Abroad - A Weblog (Sponsored by TPMCaf�)
Opinion by Ivo H. Daalder, TPM Caf� (12/6/06) Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ivo H. Daalder, December 05, 2006, America Abroad - A Weblog (Sponsored by TPMCaf�)
Opinion by Ivo H. Daalder, TPM Caf� (12/5/06) Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Alan Berube and Bruce Katz, November 2006, The Brookings Institution
This report is published by the UK Department of Communities and Local Government as one of a series associated with the State of the English Cities. It provides an overview of the state of American Cities and argues that while the U.S. and England a Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
, October 04, 2006, Khaleej Times (Dubai)
Opinion by Muqtedar Khan, Khaleej Times (10/4/06) Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz, April 03, 2006, The Brookings Institution
In this presentation, Bruce Katz summarizes the various forms of municipal and metropolitan governance that exist (both formal and informal); discusses the current fiscal condition of American cities; and offers various takeaway lessons for Britain as it continues to experiment with devolution and governance reform. Katz concludes that successful local government depends less on picking the "right" form of governance and more on ensuring that local governments possess sufficient fiscal powers to operate effectively. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Alan Berube, April 2006, The Brookings Institution
Alan Berube examines American and British policies addressing the ?neighborhood effects? of concentrated poverty as part of Going Places: Neighborhood, Ethnicity, and Social Change, a new volume published by the Institute of Public Policy Rese Read More
PAST EVENT
Friday, February 03, 2006
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Washington, DC
Chris Patten, one of Europe's most distinguished statesmen and current Chancellor of Oxford University in England, analyzes the tensions that have arisen within the West since the end of the Cold War in his new book, Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain and Europe in a New Century (Times Books, 2006). Drawing on his decades of experience in elected government and international diplomacy, Patten's book is a frank and personal assessment of the United States, Great Britain, and Europe, and the stakes for all three if the West breaks apart. Read More