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December
Thursday, December 16
“Working with a Post-Lisbon EU” with William E. Kennard, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union
Tueday, December 14
"NATO's Lisbon Summit: A New Foundation?" with Pieter De Crem, Minister of Defense of Belgium. Click here for prepared remarks.
Friday, December 10
"Forging a Transatlantic Consensus on Russia: Recommendations for Action" conference co-sponsored by The Foundation Institute for Eastern Studies
Thursday, December 9
"Central Europe: A Time for Leadership" with The Visegrad Four Political Directors: Pavel Fischer (Czech Republic), Peter Sztaray (Hungary), Jarosław Bratkiewicz (Poland), andĽubomír Rehák (Slovakia)
Wednesday, December 8
"Women in the Boardroom: The EU Strategy for Gender Equality" with Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission, Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship
Wednesday, December 8
"Prospects for Transatlantic Cooperation on Homeland Security, featuring the new EU Internal Security Strategy - what does it mean for the United States?" with Cecilia Malmström, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs and Bruce C. Swartz, U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General. Click here for prepared remarks.
Monday, December 6
"Kosovo and Serbia: a Challenge for a Historic Accord" with Veton Surroi, Chair, Foreign Policy Club of Kosovo
November
Tuesday, November 30
"How to Free the Transatlantic Marketplace: Two Approaches" discussion on Removing Non-Tariff Barriers with Koen G. Berden and Saara Tamminen of Ecorys; and Trying a TAFTA with Charlie Ries of RAND. Click here for the remarks of Charles Ries, and here for the presentation of Koen Berden.
Tuesday, November 30
European Studies Lecture Series - "The Rise of Asia: What it Means for Europe" panel discussion with Visiting Scholars at the German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Academy including Hanns Maull, Professor and Chair of Foreign Policy and International Relations, Department of Political Science and History, University of Trier; Giovanni Andornino, Research Fellow, University of Turin and Iskander Rehman, Ph.D. candidate, Institute of Political Sciences (Sciences Po), Paris
Thursday, November 18
"Belarus 2010: Presidential Elections, Political Stability and Foreign Relations" with Orest Deychakivsky, Policy Advisor, U.S. Helsinki Commission; David J. Kramer, Executive Director, Freedom House; Taras Kuzio, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow at CTR; Mitchell Orenstein, Associate Professor of European Studies, SAIS
Tuesday, November 16
European Studies Lecture Series - "Values, Allies, and Strategy: Changes in Transatlantic Relations?" with Kurt Volker, Managing Director and Senior Fellow
at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO
Wednesday, November 10
"Bosnia and Herzegovina after the Elections: Prospects for bringing Bosnia back on the EU reform path" with Daniel Serwer, Professorial Lecturer and Visiting Fellow, SAIS; Kemal Kurspahic, Managing Editor, The Connection Newspapers in Alexandria, VA and Chairman/Founder, Media in Democracy Institute; Vedran Dzihic, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow at CTR, SAIS and Director of Center for European Integration Strategies (CEIS); and Michael Haltzel, Senior Fellow at CTR, SAIS, discussant and chair
Tuesday, November 9
"Ideas and Economic Crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair" book discussion with Matthias Matthijs (author), Assistant Professor at American University and Professorial Lecturer at SAIS; Peter Matheson, Economic Counsellor, British Embassy, DC; Michelle Egan, Associate Progessor, American University; Daniel Hamilton, Director, SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations; Pravin Krishna (moderator), Chung Yu Yung Professor of International Economics, Johns Hopkins University (SAIS)
Monday, November 8
Open House for Stavros Niarchos Foundation fellowships at SAIS, at the Wilson Center
Friday, November 5 - Saturday November 6
“The State of the European Economic Union” at American University
Friday, November 5
"The Crimea: Europe's Next Flashpoint?" event featuring CTR's Taras Kuzio, at the Jamestown Foundation
October
Friday, October 29
Transatlantic Leaders Forum - "Present Challenges: an Austrian Perspective" with Dr. Michael Spindelegger, Foreign Minister of Austria
Thursday, October 21
A Conversation with Ambassador William C. Eacho III, U.S. Ambassador to Austria, on the transition from the private sector to diplomacy, and his perspective on transatlantic relations and the world from Vienna - click here for his prepared remarks.
Tuesday, October 19
European Studies Lecture Series - "Busy on Various Fronts: Angela Merkel, her Coalition of the Unwilling, and the Fight for the German Economic Model" with Markus Ziener, Director of the Washington Office of Handelsblatt, Germany’s largest daily business newspaper
Tuesday, October 19
“The Feasibility of European Monetary and Fiscal Policies” all day conference, convened with The Cournot Centre for Economic Studies
Tuesday, October 19
Seventh Annual Alvin H. Bernstein Lecture with Admiral James G. Stavridis, Commander of the United States European Command, Supreme Allied Commander for Europe (NATO)
Monday, October 18
"The United States and Europe: An Agenda for Engagement" with Philip H. Gordon, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State - click here for prepared remarks and video from the event
Thursday, October 7
Transatlantic Leaders Forum Event - “How a Small Country is Coping with the Global Economic Crisis: the Case of Latvia” with Ilmārs Rimšēvičs, Governor of the Central Bank of Latvia
Tuesday, October 5
European Studies Lecture Series - The Euro's First Real Crisis and What it Means for the Transatlantic Relationship panel discussion with: Randall Henning, Professor, School of International Service, American University; Matthias Matthijs, Assistant Professor, American University and Professorial Lecturer, Johns Hopkins SAIS; and Kathleen McNamara, Associate Professor of Government, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
September
Friday, September 24
"Two Roads? The Transatlantic Relationship and Diverging Economic Policies" with Delegation of German Bundestag Members from the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union led by Chairman Gunther Krichbaum
Wednesday, September 22
Transatlantic Leaders Forum - "Europe, the Systemic Consequences of the Slowly Abating Crisis and the Need to Re-Formulate the Case for Capitalism" with Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic - click here for written remarks.
Tuesday, September 21
European Studies Lecture Series - "U.S. and EU Public Opinion: Issues and Implications" with Bruce Stokes, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, The German Marshall Fund, Washington and Contributing Editor at the National Journal
Thursday, September 16
"Closing the Gender Gap: Global Perspectives on Women in the Boardroom" all-day conference. Click here to visit the conference webpage.
Thursday, September 16
“Three Presidents, Three Policies: Nixon, Bush, Obama and Europe” with CTR Fellow Klaus Larres, at the Library of Congress
Tuesday, September 14
European Studies Lecture Series - "EU Foreign Policy-Making After Lisbon" with Sergio Fabbrini, Professor of Political Science, University of Trento, Italy and
Recurring Visiting Professor, Comparative and International Politics, University of California, Berkeley
August
July
Wednesday, July 14
Transatlantic Leaders Forum - "The Balkans at a Crossroads: Time to move forward with the Euro-Atlantic Agenda" with H.E. Samuel Žbogar, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Slovenia - click here for prepared remarks.
Wednesday, July 14
"THE ICC AT EIGHT - Assessing US Policy and International Criminal Law: Reciprocal Influences" with Ambassador João de Vallera, Ambassador of Portugal to the United States; Patricia Pinto Soares, 2009-2010 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Fellow at CTR; and Prof. Michael J. Matheson, Moderator, Visiting Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
June
Friday, June 25
Washington Central Europe Initiative Event - “Central Europe in a Changing World. The Hungarian EU Presidency 2011” with Dr. János Martonyi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary - click here for event audio
Tuesday, June 22
"International Harmonization in Chemical Toxicity Testing - Implementing the US National Academy of Sciences Toxicity Testing Report: An EU Perspective on the Way Forward" half-day event co-sponsored with the JHU Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
Monday, June 7 and Tuesday, June 8
"Changing the Odds Beyond the Borders: Adapting the Harlem Children's Zone Model in Hungary" conference co-sponsored by the Embassy of Hungary and the Woodrow Wilson Center
Thursday, June 3
The Washington Initiative on Central Europe - "100 Days of Yanukovych: Where Is Ukraine Heading?" with Dr. Taras Kuzio, 2010 Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow at CTR
May
Tuesday, May 25
Transatlantic Leaders Forum - "Croatia's Role in Fostering a Euro-Atlantic Perspective for Southeastern Europe" with Jadranka Kosor, Prime Minister of Croatia. Click here for audio of her remarks.
Tuesday, May 25
The Washington Initiative on Central Europe - “Moving the Transatlantic Partnership Beyond the Prague Agenda” with Senator Alexandr Vondra, Senator (Civic Democratic Party) and Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic, at the Atlantic Council
Monday, May 24
"The Rise of Transnational Direct Democracy: The European Citizen’s Initiative and What It Means for the World" panel discussion at the New America Foundation with Andreas Gross, Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly and the Swiss National Parliament; Bruno Kaufmann, Initiative and Referendum Institute Europe; CTR's Daniel Hamilton; Desmond Dinan, George Mason University; Paul Jacob, Citizens in Charge Foundation; Former U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel, National Initiative for Democracy; Nida Gelazis, Woodrow Wilson International Center
Tuesday, May 18
History as a Way of Life: Jürgen Kocka in Conversation with CTR's Klaus Larres, at the Library of Congress
Tuesday, May 18
Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way Is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age book discussion with author Steven Hill, Director of the Political Reform Program, New America Foundation
Tuesday, May 18
“Organized Anarchy-The New World We Live In” event at the George Washington University with Dr. Wendelin Ettmayer, Former Austrian Ambassador, Council of Europe, Canada and Finland
Thursday, May 13
"The 2010 Elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Chance for a New Beginning" with Dr. Zlatko Lagumdžija MP, President of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Friday, May 7
"The British Election: What Happened and What Does it Mean?" panel discussion co-sponsored by the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) with Klaus Larres, Senior Research Fellow at CTR and Professor of History & International Affairs at the University of Ulster, UK; Paul Ingram, Executive Director at BASIC; Joanna Spear, Director, Security Policy Studies Program, George Washington University; Amb Kurt Volker, Senior Fellow and Managing Director at CTR; and Moderated by Amb Robert Bradtke, U.S. Co-Chair, OSCE Minsk Group
Wednesday, May 5
"New Initiative on Central Europe" with the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, at the Amerika Haus, in Vienna
Wednesday, May 5
"America and Europe: Transatlantic Ties or Global Responsibility?" with CTR's Dan Hamilton; Heinz Gaertner, Austrian Institute for International Affairs; and Christian Ultsch, Die Presse; in Vienna
Tuesday, May 4
"Currency Without a Country: Death Throes or Growing Pains of the Euro?" event co-sponsored by the Streit Council for a Union of Democracies
April
Friday, April 30
"Obama and Europe: Year Two" with Álvaro de Vasconcelos, Director, EU Institute for Security Studies; Marcin Zaborowski, Director of the transatlantic program, EU Institute for Security Studies; Katarzyna Pisarska, Discussant, Associate Professor at the Warsaw School of Economics and CTR Visiting Scholar; Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher, Discussant, CTR Visiting Scholar; and Thomas Omestad, Moderator, CTR Senior Fellow
Thursday, April 29
Transatlantic Leaders Forum - "Central and Eastern Europe Two Decades after the Collapse of Communism" with Miroslav Lajčák, Foreign Minister of Slovakia. Click here for his prepared remarks.
Thursday, April 29
Transatlantic Leaders Forum - "The New European Parliament: Politics and Power in Today's European Union" with Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament. Click here for event audio.
Wednesday, April 28
Transatlantic Leaders Forum - "The End of the Old World Order and Leadership to Build the New One" with José María Aznar, Former President of Spain. Click here for his prepared remarks, and here for event audio.
Tuesday, April 27
The Anatomy of the Red Brigades: Ideological Roots of Revolutionary Terrorism book discussion and brownbag lunch with Alessandro Orsini, author
Monday, April 26
"The United States and Europe in the Age of Obama: Economic and Security Challenges" all day symposium
Wednesday, April 21
"Innovation as a Key Component to Strengthening the Transatlantic Economic Partnership" with Mr. Angelos Pangratis, Acting Head of the European Union Delegation to the United States of America; Gary Litman, Vice President, Europe Policy and Initiatives, Europe and Eurasia International Division, US Chamber of Commerce; Michael A. Peck, founder of MAPA Group; and Michael Maibach, President and CEO of the European-American Business Council
Tuesday, April 20
Capitol Hill Briefing: The Transatlantic Economy 2010 co-sponsored by the European-American Business Council and CTR
Tuesday, April 20
European Studies Lecture Series: “Iceland and the Impact of the Financial Crisis" with Geir H. Haarde, former Prime Minister of Iceland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and SAIS MA Graduate 1975
Thursday, April 15
Chair of the House Financial Services Committee Barney Frank explained to the CTR/BMW Foundation 3rd Transatlantic Economic Dialogue how to balance the budget here (in German). Deutsche Bank Chief Economist Thomas Mayer traces the growing North-South divide; European Central Bank executive board member Jürgen Stark explains the current impact of the financial crisis here and here; Atlanta Federal Reserve Director of Research David Altig sketches a guide to financial reform here; German council of economic advisors member Beatrice Weder di Mauro analyzes the current state of the crisis here.
Tuesday, April 13
European Studies Lecture Series: “Identity, Solidarity and Islam in Europe" with Erik Jones, Professor of European Studies, SAIS Bologna Center
Thursday, April 8
"Entering the U.S. Defense Market: An Italian Perspective" with Simone Bemporad,CEO of Finmeccanica North America
Thursday, April 8
“The European Union and Moldova” with Kálmán Mizsei, EU Special Representative for Moldova
Tuesday, April 6
European Studies Lecture Series: "The Monetary Conservative: Jacques Rueff and 20th Century Free Market Thought" book discussion with Christopher Chivvis, Political Scientist, the Rand Corporation, Washington and Adjunct Professor, European Studies Program, SAIS
March
Tuesday, March 30
European Studies Lecture Series: “The United States and Europe in the Age Of Obama” with Klaus Larres, Professor of History and International Affairs, University of Ulster, Belfast and Adjunct Professor, European Studies Program, SAIS
Thursday, March 25
"Serbia, its Neighbors, and Beyond" with Dušan Janjić, Founder of Forum for Ethnic Relations, Serbia, Founder & Coordinator of the NGO ‘Club 21’, Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Social Sciences, University of Belgrade, Serbia, and first Secretary General of the European Movement in Serbia
Tuesday, March 23
European Studies Lecture Series: Panel Discussion on Moving Beyond The “Losing Turkey” Debate: Turkey’s Transatlantic Value in The Middle East,
Co-Sponsored with The Transatlantic Academy of The German Marshall Fund, with Natalie Tocci, Senior Fellow At The Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome And Associate Fellow At The Center for European Policy Studies, Brussels; Kemal Kirisci, Jean Monnet Chair, Political Science Department, Bogazici University, Istanbul, and Joshua W. Walker, Ph.D. Candidate In Politics, Princeton University
Thursday, March 18
Transatlantic Leaders Forum - "Albania in the Balkans and the World" with Ilir Meta, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania
Thursday, March 11
Transatlantic Leaders Forum - "Conflict Prevention and the Rights of National Minorities" with Ambassador Knut Vollebaek, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities - click here for the prepared remarks.
Tuesday, March 9
"Germany Says “No”: The Iraq War and the Future of German Foreign and Security Policy" book discussion with author Dieter Dettke, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown, former Executive Director of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation 1985-2006, and former Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
Wednesday, March 3
"The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Eastern Europe" with Dr. Erhard Busek, Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI); Dr. Anders Åslund, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Dr. Krzysztof Bledowski, Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI
Tuesday, March 2
"Jobs, Debt and Deficits: Economic Crisis in the U.S. and Europe" with John Bruton, Distinguished Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, Former Prime Minister of Ireland and Former EU Ambassador to the United States; Desmond Lachman, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; Alan P. Larson, Senior International Policy Adviser, Covington & Burling LLP and Former Undersecretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State; and Bruce Stokes, International Economics Correspondent, National Journal
Tuesday, March 2
“International Economic Priorities in a Multilateral World” with Robert Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State
February
Thursday, February 25
Transatlantic Leaders Forum - "Serbia, the United States, and the Riddle of Europe" with Vuk Jeremić, Foreign Minister of Serbia - click here for the prepared remarks.
Monday, February 22
“More wars or less? More peace or less?” Presentation of Research Findings on Global Trends in Armed Conflict with Dr. Peter Wallensteen, Director, Uppsala Conflict Data Program and Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, at the House of Sweden
Tuesday, February 16
European Studies Lecture Series: Panel Discussion on Ukraine’s Economy, with commentator Anders Aslund, Senior Fellow, the Peterson Institute of International Economics, and several second-year European Studies concentrators just returned from a study trip to Ukraine
February 5-6
BMW Center for German and European Studies 2010 Graduate Student Conference "European Dynamics in the Age of Globalization" at Georgetown University
Thursday, February 4
"Human spaceflight and exploration: A successful example of international peaceful cooperation?" with Simonetta Di Pippo, Head of Human Spaceflight
European Space Agency
February 2
Transatlantic Leaders Forum -"Kosovo Two Years after Independence: Political, Security, and Economic Development" with Skender Hyseni, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Kosovo
February 1
“After Copenhagen - What Next for Transatlantic Environmental Cooperation?” with Sascha Müller-Kraenner, European Representative, The Nature Conservancy and Alexander Ochs, Director of the Climate and Energy Program, Worldwatch Institute.
January
January 26
Screening of "The Soviet Story" with Edvins Snore, Latvian film director
January 25
Transatlantic Leaders Forum - "The Major International Security Challenges in 2010: Italy’s Role and Vision" with Franco Frattini, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Italy - click here for speech and here for video.
January 21
Transatlantic Leaders Forum - "Montenegro’s Path to Euro-Atlantic Institutions" with Milo Djukanović, Prime Minister of Montenegro - click here for video.
