The Future of Transatlantic Security Relations

March 8, 2006, Annenberg Presidential Conference Center in College Station Texas


Executive Committe

Richard A. (Dick) Chilcoat LTG, U.S. Army (Ret)
Dean, Bush School of Government & Public Service


Dr. Sam Kirkpatrick
Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Management, Bush School of Government & Public Service

Dr. Charles Hermann
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Bush School of Government & Public Service

Mr. Joseph Cerami
Director, Public Service Leadership Program, Bush School of Government & Public Service


Panelists

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Robert Ivany
President,University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas

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

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

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

Dr. Johan Lembke
The European Union Center of Excellence and The Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University

Dr. Jay Lockenour
Department of History, Temple University

Dr. David McIntyre
Integrative Center for Homeland Security and The Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University

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

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

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




Dr. Michael J. Brenner

Education:
PhD, 1968, political science; MA, 1962, political science, University of California, Berkeley; BA, 1961, political science, Brooklyn College.

Teaching and Research Fields:
American foreign policy, international relations theory, international political economy, national security.

Selected Publications
  1. Europe's New Security Vocation, Institute for National Strategic Studies, Washington, DC: National Defense University, 2001
  2. Reconcilable Differences: US-French Relations in the New Era with Guillaume Parmentier, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2002.
  3. Terms of Engagement, The US and European Security Identity, Washington DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1998.
  4. NATO and Collective Security In Post-Cold War Europe, London; Macmillion, 1997, editor and contributor.
  5. "Kritischer Dialog oder Konstruktives Engagement?" Internationale Politik, Bonn, September 1997.
Consultancies and Public Service
  • Foreign Service Institute
  • US Department of Defense
  • * Westinghouse Corporation



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.