Description

The transatlantic community arose in the middle of the twentieth century as a response to external threats posed by authoritarian states and the crisis of capitalism produced by the Great Depression. Over time, it has successfully integrated into the international order former authoritarian powers, most notably Germany and Japan, as well as newer democracies in Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America. How will it fare with its latest challenge—the “rise of the rest” and particularly the rise of China? Arguably, the best way to respond to the global shift is to demonstrate that our democratic systems are capable of continuing to adjust and adapt to the myriad of problems our societies face internally, regionally, and globally, including fiscal constraints, demographic changes, environmental degradation, rising social and economic inequalities, and political gridlock. We also need more effectively and creatively to refurbish and globalize the institutions of the community and advance a comparable program to work with others to make international institutions more effective, accountable, and representative.

9:00 am
Introduction
Jeffrey Kopstein (University of Toronto), Stephen Szabo (Transatlantic Academy)

9:15 am
Panel 1: Security, Transatlantic Threats and the Global Commons
Chair: Stephen Szabo (Transatlantic Academy)
Speakers: James Goldgeier (George Washington University), Iskander Rehman (Science Po)
Respondents: Janice Stein (University of Toronto), Ron Deibert (University of Toronto), Emanuel Adler (University of Toronto)

11:00 am
Panel 2: Economics: Trade, Finance, and Investment
Chair: Jean-Yves Haine (University of Toronto)
Speakers: Stefan Schirm (Ruhr University of Bochum), Steffen Kern (DeutscheBank), Soo Yeon Kim (National University of Singapore)
Respondent: Alan Alexandroff (University of Toronto)

2:15 pm
Panel 3: Values and Global Governance
Chair: Jeffrey Kopstein (University of Toronto)
Speakers: Hanns Maull (University of Trier), Daniel Deudney (Johns Hopkins University)
Respondents: Steven Bernstein (University of Toronto), Jean-Yves Haine (University of Toronto), Joseph Wong (University of Toronto)

The Transatlantic Academy
The Transatlantic Academy was conceived as a partnership between the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the ZEIT Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius. The Transatlantic Academy serves as a forum for research and dialogue, a place where scholars, policy experts, and authors from both sides of the Atlantic and from different disciplinary perspectives come together and develop a common agenda for dealing with the mutual challenges facing transatlantic relations in the coming years. Four senior fellows and two junior scholars, three from Europe and three from North America, spend ten months working in a collaborative environment in which they present their own research, react to the work of their colleagues and discuss their research with policy makers, nongovernmental organizations and other policy oriented institutions, both in the United States and Europe. With the addition of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and the partial support of the Compagnia di San Paolo and the Joachim Herz Stiftung, the Academy has come to represent a truly transatlantic institution.

The research theme for this year is the “Global Shift: The Transatlantic Community and the new Global Politics,” which examines the ongoing transfer of geopolitical power from the West to East, with a particular focus on political, military and economic developments in China. Fellows examine how Europeans and Americans view this shift and whether a common transatlantic approach is possible in such key policy areas as climate change and energy security, security threats in Asia and trade and financial policy.

The Canada Centre for Global Security Studies
The Canada Centre for Global Security Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs was established in spring 2010 with a grant of $25 million from the Government of Canada. Areas of interdisciplinary study include the intersection between global security and cyber espionage, global health and region-specific concerns, such as the Arctic, post-Soviet Europe, the new Asian powers, and the changing face of the Americas. The Centre draws on the expertise of scholars at the faculties of law, engineering, and medicine, and the Rotman School of Management.

The Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
The Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies is one of North America’s leading academic institutes for the study of the member countries of the European Union, the countries of the former Soviet Union, and Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing upon the expertise of more than fifteen departments and dozens of faculty members, CERES sponsors an undergraduate degree program in European Studies and a Master’s degree program in European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. Through its intensive relations with the European Commission, the German Academic Exchange Service, the wider local community in Toronto, and institutions of higher learning across Europe, CERES supports the exchange of ideas and scholars across the Atlantic.