Our activities include sponsoring research, hosting visiting research
fellows, organising workshops and conferences, and publishing policy-relevant
results.
Political
and security relations
During 2002-3 the Transatlantic Programme sponsored a conference
series on various aspects of the transatlantic relationship, highlighted
by the Programme's Annual Lecture, entitled "The United States,
the United Nations, and the Transatlantic Rift" and delivered by
former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, John Ruggie.
The Transatlantic Programme also launched an intensive project entitled
'After Iraq: The Atlantic Framework Under Stress', which considers the
effects of the Iraqi campaign on European integration, the transatlantic
partnership, and the institutions of global governance. The project
will continue in 2003-4, culminating in a book with contributions from
leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic and providing analysis
and recommendations from multiple national and disciplinary perspectives.
The Programme recently took part in a comprehensive
review of the framework of relations between the European Union and
the United States. Researchers from the EUI, the University of Glasgow,
the University of Edinburgh, Temple University and the Atlantic Council
in Washington, D.C. undertook extensive field research before meeting
at EUI in April, 2005 to draft the final report. The findings and recommendations
also draw on a detailed analysis of archival sources covering EU-US
relations of the past ten years. To view the report, follow this link
"Review
of the Framework for Relations between the European Union and the United
States."
Trade
and regulatory relations
The study of international trade regulation has been at the
core of the Transatlantic Programme since its creation. In 2002/3, the
Transatlantic Programme co-operated with the European Forum in a year-long
study of 'Europe after Globalisation: Regulatory Cooperation and Regulatory
Competition in an Integrating World Economy'. In addition, the Programme
continued its series of annual workshops concerning the Doha Development
Round of the World Trade Organization. These workshops bring together
WTO negotiators and leading analysts to consider the political, legal,
economic, and social questions underpinning the very detailed preparations
for the Doha Development Round. The results of the September 2002 workshop
were published and distributed to WTO negotiators at Geneva (E-U. Petersmann,
ed., Preparing the Doha Development Round: Improvements and Clarifications
of the WTO Dispute Settlement Procedure, EUI-RSCAS 2003, 150 pp.).
The June 2003 conference focused on 'Challenges to the Legitimacy and
Efficiency of the World Trading System', with particular attention to
the competing demands of democratic governance and competition culture
within the WTO. Finally, the Programme published a major study of The
Political Economy of the Transatlantic Partnership
(Mark Pollack, ed., EUI-RSCAS 2003, 99 pp.) sponsored by the British
Treasury and the Dutch Ministry of Finance, examining the nature of
the Atlantic marketplace and the changing US-EU economic agenda.
Monetary
and financial relations
The Transatlantic Programme conducts a variety of activities
in partnership with the Pierre Werner Chair in European Monetary Union,
including a June 2003 workshop with transatlantic participation examining
questions of "Governance and Legitimacy in EMU." During the
academic year 2003/4 the Transatlantic Programme will host a seminar
on the political economy of international monetary relations and an
international workshop comparing European and American perspectives
on the introduction of the Euro.
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