REGISTRATION DESK OPENS*
8:00 am

WELCOMING REMARKS BY DEAN RICHARD A. CHILCOAT
8:30 to 8:45 am

SESSION I: FORCE STRUCTURE & POWER PROJECTION FOR THE REGION AND BEYOND
8:45 to 10:15 am

• Defense Transformation: Impact on Transatlantic Relations
• Repositioning US Forces: Historical Views of Strategic and Operational Dimensions
• European Views: the Impact of Transformation and Repositioning on Europe, NATO, and Regional Security

Chair

Dr. Jeffrey Engel of the Bush School, Texas A&M University 

Panelists

Colonel William J. Gallagher
Commanding General's Initiatives Group, U.S. Army Europe and 7th Army

Dr. Alan Dobson
Director of the Institute for Transatlantic European and American Studies, University of Dundee, Scotland

Dr. Jay Lockenhour
Department of History, Temple University

BREAK
10:15 to 10:40 am

SESSION II: OVERVIEW OF TRENDS, THEMES & GRAND STRATEGY
10:40 to 12:10 noon

• Emerging Trends & Themes in Transatlantic Relations: a US View
• Emerging Trends & Themes: a European View
• Converging and Diverging Forces, and the Opportunities for Building Consensus

Chair

Dr. Michael Desch of the Bush School, Texas A&M University

Panelists

Dean James B. Steinberg
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Guillaume Parmentier
French Center on the United States (CFE), Institut Français des Relations Internationales (Ifri)

Dr. Christopher Layne
The Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University

LUNCHEON KEYNOTE SPEAKER
12:15 to 1:50 pm

Dr. Robert Ivany, President, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas
Major General (U.S. Army-Ret.), Former Commandant, U.S. Army War College

SESSION III:  HOMELAND SECURITY AND TERRORISM
2:00 to 3:30 pm

• The Atlantic Storm Exercise: Learning Lessons
• Homeland Security: US and European Views

Chair

Dr. David McIntyre of the Bush School, Texas A&M University

Panelists

Colonel Randall J. Larsen, USAF (Ret)
Director of The Institute for Homeland Security, Washington, D.C.

Mr. Klaus-Peter Gottwald
Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Germany, Washington, DC

Dr. Daniel Hamilton
Center for Transatlantic Relations, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

BREAK FOR TOURING THE BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY*
3:30 to 4:55 pm

SESSION IV: Realigning American Forces in Europe: Demise or Rebirth of the Atlantic Alliance?
Public Forum
5:00 to 6:50 pm

• Synthesizing the day’s proceedings
• Comparative views from the United States and Europe: Opportunities and Obstacles
• Is consensus possible?

Chair 

Dr. Johan Lembke of the Texas A&M University European Union Center of Excellence and the Bush School 

Panelists

Dr. Michael Brenner
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Plamen Pantev
Director, Institute International Relations, Sofia University, Bulgaria

Dr. Sven Biscop
Senior Research Fellow, Royal Institute for International Relations, Brussels, Belgium

Ms. Oya Dursun
Department of Government, The University of Texas at Austin

EVENING/ DINNER KEYNOTE SPEAKER*
7:00 to 9:00 pm

Dr. Josef Joffe

Visiting Professor of Political Science, U.S. Foreign Policy & Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Josef Joffe is Editor of Die Zeit in Hamburg, Germany. He is also an Associate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard and a Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Previously, he was Editorial Page Editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich. He has held visiting appointments at Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, Princeton University, and Stanford University.