Network Meeting n°1: Jean Monnet Atlantic Network on Atlantic Studies
The Policy Center for the New south has partnered as a core member with Jean Monnet Atlantic Network on Atlantic Studies for the period 2020-2022. In this framework a series of discussions around a number of research papers will tackle the following three themes:
- Rethinking Trade and Economic Co-operation in Times of US-China Tech War and Covid-19
- US-China Tech War: future developments and impacts for the Atlantic Community
- Covid-19 legacy on trade vulnerabilities and GVCs
- Mercosur-EU Trade Agreement and African Continental Free Trade Area
- Impacts of the Chinese digital currency
- Energy and Sustainability in the Atlantic Basin
- Covid-19 impacts on energy production & security
- A new impetus to sustainability and climate ventures?
- Energy transition; wind, solar, different carbon taxes
- New ‘green winds’ coming from US?
- Covid-19 and its Multilayer Impacts on the Society
- The raise in inequality and related tensions
- Impacts of health and economic crises on Atlantic regimes; security issues
- A new geography of defence: The European Army?
- Lessons for the next world (health?) catastrophe
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March 09th, 2021 |
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14h15 – 14h30 |
Opening remarks Renato Flôres, Director of FGV IIU - International Intelligence Unit; JMAN |
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14h30 – 16h00 |
Panel 1: Trans-border Economic Flows from an Atlantic Perspective: Rethinking Trade and Economic Co-operation in Times of US-China Tech War and Covid-19 Chair: Renato Flôres, FGV IIU Speakers: - EU-China: The Comprehensive Agreement on Investments (CAI): Bilateralism as a leverage for a new multilateralism Mario Telò, ULB IEE - A Future for the WTO? Renato Flôres, FGV IIU Discussants: Eduard Soler, CIDOB Abdelaaziz Ait Ali, PCNS Mark Aspinwall, CIDE |
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16h00 – 16h20 |
Break |
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16h20 – 17h40 |
Panel 2: Energy and Sustainability: A Transatlantic Vision of the Green Agenda for Post-Pandemic Recovery Chair: Anna Ayuso, CIDOB Speakers: - New ‘green winds’ coming from US? Daniela Stevens, CIDE - Towards a Green Recovery in Africa? The Case of Nigeria Rim Berahab, PCNS Discussants: Ruderico Pimentel, former Analyst from FGV IIU Frank Mattheis, ULB IEE Carmen Fonseca, IPRI-NOVA |
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March 10th, 2021 |
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14h00 – 15h30 |
Panel 3: Security and Inequality in Atlantic Societies: Covid-19 and its Multilayer Impacts on the Society Chair: Nuno Severiano Teixeira, IPRI-NOVA Speakers: - Covid-19 and its Multilayer Impacts on the Society Ana Pinto, IPRI-NOVA - A Pandemic of Inequalities: Vaccine Nationalism and Human Insecurity Salma Daoudi, PCNS - Post-pandemic recovery, an opportunity to address urban inequalities in the Atlantic region Eva Garcia Chueca, CIDOB - Public perception and attitudes on migrants in the time of COVID-19 Elena Sánchez-Montijano & Gerardo Maldonado, CIDE Discussants: Susana Peralta, NOVA University of Lisbon Leonardo Paz Neves, FGV IIU |
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Closing remarks |