CRASSH

9.20

Registration and Coffee

9.45

Introduction

10.00 - 12.00 

EUROPE, RUSSIA, CHINA AND THE USA
Andrew Gamble
The United States and the European Union: the end of hegemony?

David Lane
Russia’s Transformation: The Rise of a World Power?

Martin Jacques
Implications of the Rise of China

Chaired by: Jochen Tholen
Discussant: Helen Thompson

12.00 - 13.00

Andrew Duff (Leader, UK Liberal Democrat European Parliamentary Party)
The European Union and World Politics

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 16.00 

DIVISIONS WITHIN EUROPE IN CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN ENLARGEMENT
Vivien Schmidt
European Elites On The European Union:  What Vision For The Future?

Georgy Lengyel
Divisions between Elites on European Integration in the New Member States

Mario Telo
EU external policies between multilateralism, bilateralism and interregionalism

Chaired by: Geoffrey Edwards 

Discussant: Pieter Van Houton 

16.00 - 16.15 

Coffee Break 

16.15 - 18.15

EU AND FOREIGN POLICY
Christopher Hill
Elites in European foreign policy-making: consensus and competition

Rosemary Hollis
European Elites and the Middle East

Simon Bromley
The EU and Foreign Energy Policy

Chaired by:  Andrew Gamble
Discussant:  Julie Smith

18.15

Close

9.00- 11.00

POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EUROPE
Georg Menz
Varieties of Capitalism and Europeanization: National Response Strategies Revisited

Otto Holman
Neo-liberal Hegemony and Transnational Class Formation

Max Haller
Divisions on European Integration between Elites and Citizens

Chaired by: Bahri Yilmaz
Discussant: Christel Lane 

11.00 - 11.15 

Coffee Break 

 11.15 - 13.15

WHITHER THE EUROPEAN UNION?

Patrick Minford
The Economic Model

Ben Clift
National or European Social Models?

Montserrat Guibernau
Towards a European Identity?

Chaired by: David Lane

 13.15

Closing remarks

13.30 

Lunch

14.30 

End of Conference