Alumni event
Cleveringa Meeting Leiden: Making Europe Great Again?
- Date
- Wednesday 27 November 2024
- Time
- Location
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Academiegebouw
Rapenburg 73
2311 GJ Leiden - Room
- Groot Auditorium
Making Europe Great Again? After the presidential elections: Europe in a changing world
Speakers: Monika Sie Dhian Ho, Jan Paternotte and Koen Petersen
Language: English
Now that Donald Trump has won the US elections, it is clear that Europe will face some major challenges. There is a big chance that the US will stop supporting Ukraine and leave the conflict to Europe. Trump has even suggested that the US will withdraw from NATO. Meanwhile, there is no sign that the war in the Middle East will end any time soon. What is clear, however, is that the US will focus more on the Indo-Pacific region, for economic reasons, but also because of the continued rise of China as an economic and military superpower. China is presenting itself as the champion of the global South, but not without making some of its partners in Africa and Asia dependent on it.
How should Europe react to these developments? Should it prepare for a more independent role? Is such a role realistic? Or should it seek to strengthen NATO and keep America interested in its traditional North Atlantic links, with or without Britain? How should it position itself vis-à-vis the Global South? What strategy is advisable in a world where local conflicts can easily explode but are no longer defined by a simple East-West dichotomy?
Information & registration
| Date | Wednesday 27 November 2024 |
| Location |
Academy Building, Rapenburg 73, Leiden (optional dinner at Augustinus, Rapenburg 24) |
| Start |
18:00 Dinner at the Restaurant of LVVS Augustinus (optional*) |
| Cost | 15 euros p.p. for LUF Student Members (coffee, lecture & drinks) 17.50 euros p.p. for other students (coffee, lecture & drinks) 21 euros p.p. for alumni (coffee, lecture & drinks) 48.50 euros (dinner, coffee, lecture & drinks) |
| Registration |
Live in Academy Building: to the registration form |
*Signing up for the dinner can be done until 25 November 09:00 a.m.
About the speakers
Monika Sie Dhian Ho is General Director of the Clingendael Institute for international affairs. She is also vice-president of the State Committee on Demographic trends 2050 and a lecturer at the Netherlands School of Public Administration in The Hague. Earlier she was a lecturer in International Relations and International Political Economy at Leiden University, researcher with the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy WRR, and Director of the Wiardi Beckman Foundation, the social-democratic think tank in the Netherlands.
Jan Paternotte is a Member of Parliament for D66. He studied international relations and international law and is a specialist in American History. In Parliament, he is his party’s specialist on foreign affairs and Europe, foreign trade, higher education, and the media. He lives in Leiden.
Koen Petersen is a member of the Dutch Senate for the VVD. He has studied American studies and political science and has published extensively on American politics. The position of the Netherlands in the world is one of his other interests, and he is chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Development Aid.
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