BERTI B. & LETE B. - US-EU Relations in the 21st Century : Transatlantic Project (20h)
Professors: Benedetta BERTI & Bruno LETE
Academic Assistant: Coralie BALLIEU
This course is designed to enable students familiar with transatlantic affairs during their first semester in the MATA programme to go a step further and apply their knowledge to a specific case, moving from theory to practice and from analysis to policy advice. Throughout the course, students will be guided towards understanding and tackling key decision points that will shape transatlantic cooperation, particularly focusing on transatlantic security.
The project-based course will require the class to work collectively towards preparing think tank-like policy deliverables offering policy-oriented recommendations to senior transatlantic, European, and US policy-makers. The interactive course provides the necessary skills for working on the cusp between research and policy.
For the academic year 2024-2025, the class will be divided in 3 teams. Each team will be asked to prepare a policy memo on “A Policy Agenda for the new Secretary General: State of Play and Priorities”. The memo should be written for the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, who took office on 1 October 2024, with the objective of advising him on what a “3-year agenda” as Secretary General should entail. The memo should assess the current state of the Alliance and identify concrete priorities to shape the leadership’s strategic agenda.
Academic year
2024 - 2025
Semester
Second semester
Course type
Compulsory courses
ECTS Points
5.00
Meeting link:
https://coleurope.webex.com/coleurope/j.php?MTID=m935136cfdd45ff2aa37683...
Meeting number:
2730 709 3868
Meeting password:
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