Transatlantic Research Activities
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The Transatlantic Programme focuses its research activities in three different areas:
- Political and security relations
- Trade and regulatory relations
- Monetary and financial relations
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.
Page last updated on 17 August 2017