Jean Monnet Atlantic Network 2.0 Dialogues
This webinar is part of an alliance between the Jean Monnet Atlantic Network 2.0 and EU-LAC Foundation with the aim of promoting a high-level debate on the potential contribution of the countries and regions of the Atlantic Basin to multilateralism in key aspects to face the global challenges in the post-pandemic scenario.
The webinar consists of four sessions that address different issues of global challenges and the responses that are being promoted from the international community. The first block, led by EU-LAC Foundation, asks about the different perceptions and perspectives of the different regions in reference to the renewal of the multilateral system in a global way. The other three sessions correspond to challenges related to the three thematic pillars of the Jean Monnet Atlantic Network; the second panel analyses the regional visions on the commitments in the fight against climate change and specifically the expectations before the COP26 of November 2021; the third panel focuses on the results of the NATO Summit and its impact on the transatlantic security agenda; and the fourth panel analyses the challenges of the post-pandemic recovery in terms of sustainability.
>> The webinar will be streamed live at CIDOB’s Youtube channel.
16.00 – 16.15 Opening
Pol Morillas, Director, CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)
Renato Flôres, Director, International Intelligence Unit (IIU), Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Adrián Bonilla, Director, EU-LAC Foundation
16.15 - 17.45 Panel 1 JMN-EU-LAC Panel: Multilateralism 2.0: How 21st century multilateralism should look like?
Assessing multilateralism on the 21st century: What were its major flaws and contributions? What are the changes in the global order that would increase the international system’s resilience? What are the perceptions and perspectives as well as the contributions from the Atlantic Basin regions in shaping a renewed global multilateral system?
Adrián Bonilla, Director, EU-LAC Foundation
Rebecka Villanueva Ulfgard, Research Professor, Instituto Mora
Ana Covarrubias, Research Professor, Colegio de México
Christian Leroux, Chief of Agreements and Negotiations Department, ALADI
Moderator: Ernesto Jeger, Senior Programme Manager, Sustainable Development and Economic Issues, EU-LAC Foundation
18.00 - 19.30 Panel 2. Regional visions in the fight against climate change: The path to COP26
The COP26 to be held in Glasgow in November 2021 will be the moment when all the countries committed to the fight against climate change will make their proposals for the goals to be achieved to stop climate change. How will the different regions of the Atlantic position themselves? What are the goals they will commit to? With which resources and projects do they plan to achieve the objectives? What alliances can be made in the Atlantic space to generate synergies and forms of solidarity cooperation?
Dan Hamilton, Director, Global Europe Program; Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Distinguished Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Centre (WWC)
Jacob Werksman, Principal Advisor for International Aspects of EU Climate Policy, Directorate-General for Climate Action, European Commission
Izabella Teixeira, former Environment Minister of Brazil
Landry Signé, Senior Director and Professor, Thunderbird School of Global Management; Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South
Moderator: Anna Ayuso, Senior Research Fellow, CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)
16.00 – 17.30 Panel 3. Is the 2021 NATO Summit the turning point for the revitalization of the Transatlantic Security Agenda with a global vision?
During the four years of Trump's presidency, the transatlantic Security agenda fell into its lowest hours. Biden has set out to revitalize relationships, but what are the challenges of that new agenda? How will the new threats that transcend the traditional transatlantic geography be responded to? How does that affect cooperation in the Atlantic area? The results of the NATO Summit in June 2021 help us to analyse some of these issues.
Ian Lesser, Vice President, German Marshall Fund (GMF)
Patrcia Daehnhardt, Researcher, Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais (IPRI-NOVA)
Elena Lazarou, Acting Head, External Policies, European Parliamentary Research Service; Associate Fellow, Chatham House
Moderator: Carmen Fonseca, Researcher, Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais (IPRI-NOVA)
17.45 – 19.15 Panel 4. Transborder Economic Flows from an Atlantic Perspective: Post Covid-19 Economic Recovery: is there a sustainable alternative?
After the economic contraction caused by COVID19, the challenge is economic recovery in terms of sustainability. Does the economic and development crisis, caused by the Pandemic, provides an opportunity for advancing in the ongoing transition for a sustainable future? What are the most feasible opportunities and most complex obstacles? How your region is dealing with the theme? Highlight the support and resistance positions towards a sustainable economic recovery?
Renato Flôres, Director, International Intelligence Unit (IIU), Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Otaviano Canuto, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South
Lorena Ruano, Professor of International Relations, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
Rym Ayadi, Founder and Director, Euro- Mediterranean Network for Economic Studies (EMNES)
Moderator: Leonardo Paz Neves, Intelligence Analyst, International Intelligence Unit (IIU), Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (FGV)
