Reviving Transatlantic Cooperation

8th Editors' Roundtable on Terrorism, International Order, and Global Challenges

19.05.2008 · Improving Responsiveness

Kori Schake (Policy Planning, State Department) and Prof. Weidenfeld

In the inspiring atmosphere of the historic city of Philadelphia, about 20 editors of foreign policy journals joined the invitation to debate key questions regarding the future of transatlantic relations with policy makers, analysts, and journalists. On May 8-9th, 2008, a thought provoking and stimulating conference entitled "Reviving Transatlantic Cooperation" has highlighted current challenges as well as future options for a close cooperation between Europe and America.

Kristina Notz (C·A·P), Nikolas Gvosdev (Editor, The National Interest), and Craig Gilbert (Journalist and Washington Bureau Chief of Sentinel)

In Europe, anticipations are high that a new leadership in Washington will improve the until recently strained transatlantic partnership. Without a doubt, the presidential election in the United States will have major implications on the transatlantic agenda and affect the prospects of increasing the transatlantic cooperation after 2009.

Harold James (Professor of History, University of Princeton), James Hoge (Editor, Foreign Affairs), and Werner Weidenfeld (C·A·P)

Obviously, security policy and the war on terrorism remain a priority on both sides of the Atlantic. Additional policy questions further describe the scope of transatlantic relations: How to achieve international security and how to stabilize trouble spots such as Iraq and Afghanistan? What is the role for NATO as a security provider that needs to combine the different interests of NATO partners? How can governments effectively work together to combat climate change? What challenges will Russia’s new policy present? How will financial and economic crises affect transatlantic cooperation? These issues are not only challenging our world today but also reveal a great potential to become the driving forces in shaping the strings of transatlantic cooperation.

This year's roundtable was organized in cooperation with the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia and supported by the GMF and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Christian Wernicke (Journalist, Süddeutsche Zeitung) and Ettore Greco (Editor, The International Spectator)

We would like to thank the German Marshall Fund of the United States for the generous support of this conference. The German Marshall Fund of the United States is an American public policy and grantmaking institution dedicated to developing ideas, leaders and institutions necessary for an effective long-term partnership between the United States and Europe.

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