What should a reunited West look like?

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Description:	Nearly 80 years ago President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill drew up the statement which became the Atlantic Charter, cementing the transatlantic alliance. Today that alliance is at a low point but is not beyond resurrection. While the Trump presidency brought into stark focus the modern challenges for multilateralism, the promise of a Biden presidency encourages us to consider what a renewed system for action based on shared values would look like and whether we want one. If this is a time of re-making alliances, what do they need to look like to be practical and acceptable, and what is their purpose?

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Nearly 80 years ago President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill drew up the statement which became the Atlantic Charter, cementing the transatlantic alliance. Today that alliance is at a low point but is not beyond resurrection. While the Trump presidency brought into stark focus the modern challenges for multilateralism, the promise of a Biden presidency encourages us to consider what a renewed system for action based on shared values would look like and whether we want one. If this is a time of re-making alliances, what do they need to look like to be practical and acceptable, and what is their purpose?


Created:	2020-12-03 08:19
Collection:	Centre for Geopolitics
Publisher:	Centre for Geopolitics
Copyright:	Centre for Geopolitics
Language:	eng (English)
Keywords:	Transatlantic; geopolitics;


Abstract:	Panel: Dr Bart M.J. Szewczyk, along with David McKean, is author of Partners of First Resort. America, Europe and the Future of the West which is published this year. He served as Member of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State and Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, as well as Adviser on Global Affairs at the European Commission’s think-tank. He is adjunct professor at Sciences Po in Paris and author of two forthcoming books: Europe’s Grand Strategy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and European Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Power (Routledge, 2020). Xenia Wickett is Vice President of Political Analysis and Integrity Due Diligence at Equinor. She also serves as a commissioner of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission. Her previous roles have been as the head of the US and the Americas Programme at Chatham House and the dean of the Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs. She has worked in the US government, academia and non-profit worlds covering US foreign policy, America’s role in the world and geopolitics in South Asia, including as director for South Asia on the US National Security Council, at the State Department as special adviser at the Homeland Security Group and as an officer in the Bureau of Non-Proliferation. Shortly after 9/11, she was detailed to the US Office of the Vice President to help launch the Office of Homeland Security Affairs. Xenia holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School and a Bachelor of Arts from Oxford University. Dr David Gordon is Senior Adviser for Geo-Economics and Strategy at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS). He writes extensively on global political and economic risks, great-power rivalry and US foreign and national security policy. David had a long career in both government and the private sector. He served as director of policy planning in the US State Department and as vice-chair of the US National Intelligence Council. After leaving government service, he was chairman and head of research for the global political risk advisory firm Eurasia Group. David received his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College, and his master's and PhD from the University of Michigan. He has taught at Michigan, Michigan State, the University of Nairobi and Georgetown. Moderator: Suzanne Raine is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Imperial War Museum and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). She served for 24 years in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office on foreign policy and national security issues. This included postings in Poland, Iraq and Pakistan. She specialised in counter-terrorism, holding a number of senior domestic appointments including Head of the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre from 2015-2017. She was also a senior member of the UK government assessment community.

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Dr Bart M.J. Szewczyk, along with David McKean, is author of Partners of First Resort. America, Europe and the Future of the West which is published this year. He served as Member of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State and Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, as well as Adviser on Global Affairs at the European Commission’s think-tank. He is adjunct professor at Sciences Po in Paris and author of two forthcoming books: Europe’s Grand Strategy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and European Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Power (Routledge, 2020).

Xenia Wickett is Vice President of Political Analysis and Integrity Due Diligence at Equinor. She also serves as a commissioner of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission. Her previous roles have been as the head of the US and the Americas Programme at Chatham House and the dean of the Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs. She has worked in the US government, academia and non-profit worlds covering US foreign policy, America’s role in the world and geopolitics in South Asia, including as director for South Asia on the US National Security Council, at the State Department as special adviser at the Homeland Security Group and as an officer in the Bureau of Non-Proliferation. Shortly after 9/11, she was detailed to the US Office of the Vice President to help launch the Office of Homeland Security Affairs. Xenia holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School and a Bachelor of Arts from Oxford University.

Dr David Gordon is Senior Adviser for Geo-Economics and Strategy at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS). He writes extensively on global political and economic risks, great-power rivalry and US foreign and national security policy. David had a long career in both government and the private sector. He served as director of policy planning in the US State Department and as vice-chair of the US National Intelligence Council. After leaving government service, he was chairman and head of research for the global political risk advisory firm Eurasia Group. David received his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College, and his master's and PhD from the University of Michigan. He has taught at Michigan, Michigan State, the University of Nairobi and Georgetown.

Moderator: Suzanne Raine is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Imperial War Museum and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). She served for 24 years in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office on foreign policy and national security issues. This included postings in Poland, Iraq and Pakistan. She specialised in counter-terrorism, holding a number of senior domestic appointments including Head of the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre from 2015-2017. She was also a senior member of the UK government assessment community.

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