The America and the World 2007-2008 Lecture Series Presents:

"Does Europe Still Matter? The State of US-European Relations"
Professor Karl Kaiser
Harvard University

Thursday, March 6, 2008
7:00 - 8:30 PM
IR/PS Robinson Auditorium
University of California, San Diego

Abstract:
The growing importance of regions like Asia or the Middle East as well as global problems like climate change or terrorism has shifted American attention away from Europe. However, an analysis of the central problems of contemporary international politics suggests that the US-European relationship will, in fact, remain crucial for security, political and economic reasons. A renewed effort should be made by both sides to revitalize that relationship in the interest of world order.

Biography:
Karl Kaiser is Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and the Ralph I. Straus Fellow, in a joint appointment with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He was educated at the Universities of Cologne, Grenoble and Oxford and taught at the Universities of Bonn, Johns Hopkins (Bologna), Saarbruecken, Cologne, the Hebrew University, and the Departments of Government and Social Studies of Harvard. He was a Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Bonn/Berlin and an advisor to Chancellors Brandt and Schmidt. He was a member of the German Council of Environmental Advisors. He serves on the Board of FOREIGN POLICY, INTERNATIONALE POLITIK, the Asian-Pacific Review, the Advisory Board of the American-Jewish Committee, Berlin, and the Board of the Federal Academy of Security Policy, Berlin. He is a recipient of the Atlantic Award of NATO. Professor Kaiser is the author or editor of several hundred articles and about fifty books in the fields of world affairs, German, French, British and US foreign policy, transatlantic and East-West relations, nuclear proliferation, strategic theory, and international environmental policy. He holds a Ph.D. from Cologne University and an Honorary Doctorate of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

This event is sponsored by the American Council on Germany, the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS), the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, and European Studies at the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS).

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