Transatlantic Strategy Forum

3-4 December 2009, Brussels (Belgium)

With the support of the European Commission
Directorate-General for External Relations
Relations with the US and Canada

The Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies (www.globalgovernancestudies.eu) of the University of Leuven is organising a two-day conference on ‘European Union, United States and Global Governance - Major Trends and Challenges’. The forum will take place in the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Hertogsstraat 1, 1000 Brussel.

Context

The purpose of this Transatlantic Strategy Forum is to contribute to the construction of a shared transatlantic vision of the strategic challenges that will confront the United States and the European Union in the coming years, and the identification of potential transatlantic responses to these challenges with a global dimension. With the support of the European Commission, the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies aims to help building up a transatlantic capacity to identify the long-term trends in a number of key policy areas and to keep policy-makers on both sides of the Atlantic informed of the near and medium-term implications of these trends. The outcome of the Forum will be disseminated to the relevant policy communities for discussion and debate.

Challenges and Topics

The focus of the Transatlantic Strategy Forum is on the following policy fields: (i) peace and security, (ii) human rights and rule of law, (iii) energy, (iv) climate change, (v) migration, and (vi) trade and political economy. Within these policy fields, following challenges and topics have been singled out:  

• Climate Change
• Energy
• Human Rights and Rule of Law
• Migration
• Peace and Security
• Trade and Political Economy

Publications 

• Edited Volume
• Conference Report

Who can attend?

The Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies welcomes the participation of academics, think tanks, civil society organizations, EU (both Member States and EU-institutions) and US government representatives, EU and US politicians, corporate leaders, and other relevant experts. There are no registration fees.
 

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