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On 15 September 2021, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom announced the creation of AUKUS, a trilateral security partnership for the Indo-Pacific region. Only a day later, the EU announced a new strategy towards the Indo-Pacific, aimed at strengthening its presence in a region that has become the centre of global affairs. The lack of strategic coordination between these actors, along with the cancellation of a submarine deal between France and Australia, have created immense challenges for the future of the transatlantic relationship at a moment when Europeans expected the new US administration to foster stronger cooperation. This webinar will try to make sense of these two high-profile diplomatic initiatives and explore how they impact the transatlantic relationship, Europe’s quest for strategic autonomy and its strategy towards China and the Indo-Pacific.

Full Program on https://mailchi.mp/ggs/transatlanticlecture_indo-pacific

The speakers will be: Ambassador Pierre Vimont (Carnegie Europe); Prof. Marianne Riddervold (Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies (USA); Dr. Steven Everts (Senior Advisor on strategy and communications at the European External Action Service) and Prof. Stephan Keukeleire ( Jean Monnet professor in European Foreign Policy, LINES). The event will be moderated by Gustavo Müller, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven.

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