Graduate Student Conference

"Renewing the Transatlantic Relationship: Prospects for Europe and the United States in an Emerging Multipolar World"

Co-sponsored by the Ashburn Institute and the European Union Center, School of International and Area Studies, The International Programs Center, The University of Oklahoma
 
13-14 November 2008
 
The Ashburn Institute, an independent institute committed to the promotion of democracy and international peace, and The European Union Center of the School of International and Area Studies, a unit of the International Programs Center at the University of Oklahoma, will convene a graduate student conference on the topic of "Renewing the Transatlantic Relationship: Prospects for Europe and the U.S. in an Emerging Multipolar World." 
 
After a brief  "unipolar moment," many U.S. foreign policy makers have come to believe that achieving U.S. foreign policy objectives requires greater multilateralism.  The EU, meanwhile, continues its troubled quest to develop a more cohesive foreign policy making apparatus, while also confronting the limits of Europe's "soft" power.  Both the U.S. and EU face new global challenges at the same time that the rapid growth of economic power in China, India, Russia, Brazil and elsewhere marks the emergence of an increasingly multipolar order.
 
The conference is timed to follow closely on the U.S. presidential election and will focus on the prospects for collaboration and competition between the U.S. and European Union member states in the wake of the election and the change in leadership in Washington, D.C.

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