[New-Poetry] "Atlantic Community 1960s - 1970s" Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands

[Anny Ballardini]

> Van: Scott Smith G.P. [mailto:gp.scott_smith at zeeland.nl] 
> Verzonden: woensdag 13 september 2006 9:26

Call for Papers
International Conference, September 2007

Location: Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands

Promoters: Roosevelt Study Center, in cooperation with the University
of Cergy-Pontoise

Theme: Atlantic, Euratlantic, or Europe-America? The Atlantic Community and
the
European Idea from Kennedy to Nixon

Date: Thursday 20th - Friday 21st September 2007 (with arrival on
Wednesday 19th)

Background: 
For more than forty years the security alliance of the North Atlantic Treaty
symbolised the common interests of Western Europe and North America, and
provided the context for all transatlantic political and economic relations.
However, since the end of the Cold War the changing international
environment has raised questions about the actual depth of mutual interests
between Europe and the United States. Together with the availability of new
research materials, this has provoked a renewed investigation among
historians into the whole concept of Atlantic Community: The particular
individuals and groups that promoted it, the methods they used to promote
it, the different perspectives across national interests, and its impact on
political and social life in general.  

This project consists of two conferences:

The first, which took place at the University of Cergy-Pontoise in June
2006, focused on the Atlantic Community idea and those who developed it
during the 1940s and 1950s. 

The second, which will take place at the Roosevelt Study Center in September
2007, will continue the theme by looking at the transition of the Atlantic
Community and the European Idea from 1960 through to the early 1970s.

Synopsis:
>From the early 1960s onwards the development of a stronger European voice
within the Atlantic Alliance - both collectively via the EEC and
individually from specific nations - caused many questions to be raised
about the goal of an Atlantic Community.
The 'European Idea' and the proposal for 'two pillars', based on a greater
equality between the United States and Western Europe, was an attempt get
beyond the impression of Atlantic Community as American hegemony. But was
the Community concept flexible enough to absorb it? From Kennedy's
optimistic Trade Expansion Act to Kissinger's ill-fated Year of Europe, the
United States attempted to accommodate and encompass a stronger European
presence. Yet tensions among the European powers themselves over the future
of Europe, particularly between Britain and France, also prevented a clear
vision from emerging. Meanwhile global forces impacted on the passage of
transatlantic cooperation. Economic difficulties spurred on by the 1973 oil
crisis brought disappointments for those who thought the Hague summit of
1969 was the blueprint for a new leap forward in European integration.
Ostpolitik and superpower detente revealed different perspectives on each
side of the Atlantic concerning the future of East-West relations. The rise
of new economic powers such as Japan brought a reconfiguring of 'the West'
via an expanded OECD and the arrival of the Trilateral Commission. 

Call for Papers:
We invite papers that will offer insights into the different perspectives on
and uses of the Atlantic Community and the European Idea, and the impact
that they had on policy-making during the 1960s and 1970s. We are
particularly interested in the following themes:

1) Key actors (both organisations and individuals) who played a role in
conducting transatlantic relations during these decades.
2) Inter-governmental and transnational non-governmental organisations
such as NATO, OECD, CSCE/OSCE, Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission.
3) National perspectives as portrayed through government policies,
public diplomacy, and the media in North America and Western Europe.
4) Key policies that encapsulated the Atlantic idea e.g. the
Multilateral Force.
5) Influential individuals who had a major impact either publicly or
behind the scenes, such as Kennedy, Ball, de Gaulle, Kissinger, Brandt,
Luns, and Prince Bernhard.
6) Developments that caused major strains within the Atlantic Alliance,
such as Gaullism, crises in the Middle East, and Eurocommunism.

Please send all proposals to the following email addresses:
Giles Scott-Smith at g.scott-smith at zeeland.nl
Valerie Aubourg at valerie at aubourg.net

Deadline for proposals:
1st December 2006

Each proposal should include a provisional title, an abstract (max. 1 page),
and a brief CV.

For further information please contact Giles Scott-Smith at
g.scott-smith at zeeland.nl





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