Friday, 14 May
0845 Welcome: Stefano Bartolini
0900 Introduction: Kiran Klaus Patel & Ken Weisbrode
0915 Panel 1: Cleavages and Debates
N. Piers Ludlow, London School of Economics
“Who Speaks for Europe? Evolving Transatlantic Dialogues during the 1980s”
Mark Gilbert, University of Trento
“Intellectual Overstretch? The EC Between the SEA and the Treaty of Maastricht”
Frédéric Bozo, Sorbonne—Paris III
“France, the United States and NATO: Between Europeanization and re-Atlanticization (1990-91)”
Discussant: Kiran Klaus Patel, European University Institute
1115 Break
1130 Panel 2: Problems and Trends
Matthias Schulz, University of Geneva
“Euromissiles, the INF, and Europe”
Edwina Campbell, US Air Command and Staff College
“After the Edwardians: Transatlantic Relations and the Evolution of European Politics in the 1980s”
Christian Wenkel, German Historical Institute, Paris
“France and the Problem of German Unification—a European Challenge in a Transatlantic Context”
Discussant: Gabriele D’Ottavio, University of Bologna
1330 Lunch
1500 Panel 3: Borders and Bridges
Angela Romano, European University Institute
“The Madrid CSCE meeting: Is There Still Room for
Cooperation in Europe?”
Antonio Costa Pinto & Nuno Severiano Teixeira, University of Lisbon
“Dilemmas of Democratic Consolidation, Cold War, and EU Membership: Portugal and the Transatlantic Ally”
Ksenia Demidova, European University Institute
“The Deal of the Century: the Impact of Construction of SNGP on the US-West European Relations during the First Term of the Reagan Presidency”
Discussant: Friedrich Kratochwil, European University Institute
1900 Dinner
Saturday, 15 May
0900 Panel 4: Contemporary Perspectives
Marten van Heuven, U.S. Foreign Service & National Intelligence Council (retired)
“European Integration in the 1980s: An American Practitioner’s View”
Graham Avery, Honorary Director General, European Commission
“Attitudes to Enlargement of the European Union”
David Buchan, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
“The 1980s: A Defining Decade for Europe and the US”
Discussant: Ken Weisbrode, European University Institute
1100 Break
1115 Panel 5: The Long and the Short Term
Duccio Basosi, University of Venice
“The International Economic Dimension of Transatlantic Relations in the 1980s”
Giles Scott-Smith, Leiden University
“Reviving the Transatlantic Community? The Successor Generation Concept in US Foreign Affairs, 1960s-1980s”
Ken Weisbrode, European University Institute
“Contending Mental Maps of Atlanticism and Europeanism”
Discussant: Aurélie Gfeller, European University Institute
1315 General Discussion