Draft Program of the Conference:
Venue: Center for American Studies, Via Michelangelo Caetani 32, Roma (Directions)
MONDAY 7th JULY
10.30 Registration
11.30: OFFICIAL OPENING
Federiga Bindi, Jean Monnet Chair University of Rome Tor Vergata and Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution: Introduction
Giuliano Amato Former Prime Minister of Italy, former Vice President of the European Convention, Professor of Constitutional law: Official Opening Lecture
Welcome Buffet
15.00: THE NEW TOOLS OF THE EU FOREIGN POLICY
Nicola Verola, Counselor, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The EU Foreign Policy under the Lisbon Treaty
Francesca Longo, Jean Monnet Chair, University of Catania: Home and Justice Affairs as a New Tool of European Foreign Policy
Alberto Heimler, Italian Antitrust Authority and Italia Representative to the OECD - Competition Policy as a Tool of EU Foreign Policy: Multilateralism, Bilateralism and Soft Convergence
TUESDAY 8th JULY
9.30: US-EU RELATIONS AFTER THE ELECTIONS
Andrew Moravcsik, Professor, Princeton University and Non-Resident Fellow, The Brookings Institution: Transatlantic Relations in Historical Perspective
Jeremy Shapiro, Senior Fellow and Director of Research, The Brookings Institution: After the Storm: Forecasting the future of US-European Relations after 2008
Marta Dassù, Director General, Aspen Institute Italy: Economics and Security: the Reversed Alliance
14.00: THE RELATIONS OF THE EU WITH THE REST OF AMERICAS
Joaquin Roy, Jean Monnet Chair, University of Miami: The relations between the EU and Latin America: Cooperation or Competition with the US?
Finn Laursen, Jean Monnet Chair, Dalhousie University: EU-Canada Relations: Case of Mutual neglect?
WEDNESDAY 9th JULY
10.30: AFRICA and ASIA
Maurizio Carbone, Lecturer, University of Glasgow and Director of the Scottish Jean Monnet Centre of European Excellence: The European Union in Africa: from partnership to paternalism?
Philomena Murray, Jean Monnet Chair, Director of the Contemporary Europe Research Centre, University of Melbourne: Regionalism, inter-regionalism and bilateralism: The EU and the Asia Pacific
Mara Caira, Sinologist, Assistant Professor of Contemporary History, IULM University, Milan: The EU-China Relationship, from cooperation to strategic partnership: issues and evolution
15.00: THE EU AND ITS NEIGHBOURS
Tom Casier: Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent: Neighborhood Policy
Lara Piccardo, Lecturer, University of Genoa: The EU and Russia: Past, Present and Future of a Difficult Relation
Serena Giusti, Senior Researcher, ISPI - EU policy towards Ukraine and Belarus: diverging paths?
Luca Gori, Couselor, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The Balkans and the EU
THURSDAY 10th JLUY
10.30: THE EU, the MEDITERRANEAN AREA and MIDDLE EAST
Joseph Joseph, Jean Monnet Chair, University of Cyprus: EU Enlargement: the Challenge and Promise of Turkey
Alfred Tovias, Jean Monnet Chair, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The EU and the Mediterranean Non Member States
Jose Lamego, Member of Portuguese Parliament and former Secretary of State: The Relations between EU and The Middle East
Khalid Emara, Minister Counselor, Permanent Mission of Egypt in Geneva: Is Sarkozy’s Union for the Mediterranean going to work?
15.00 : PROMOTING VALUES AND MODELS ABROAD?
Laura Ferreira Pereira Assistant Professor, University of Minho: Human Rights, Democracy and Peace: Is a ‘Model Power Europe’ a Contradiction in Terms?
Elena Baracani, EFSPS Post Doc Researcher, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane:Â US and EU Strategies Compared in Promoting Democracy
Bernard Yvars, Jean Monnet Chair “ad personam” in Compared Regional Integration at the University of Montesquieu, Bordeaux: EU Integration & Other Integration Models
