Atlanticism in a changing world

HUM:Global Talk! public roundtable discussion.

We are truly at a historical crossroads: The strategic and value-based relationship between Europe, the United States and like-minded partners is both more essential than ever and unprecedentedly challenged by both external threats and domestic ruptures.

At the same time, a profound shift has unfolded in the democratic societies of Northern Europe. Waking up to the threat of Russia, the entire Baltic Sea region is dramatically recalibrating its geopolitical priorities.

This roundtable of eminent scholars will discuss Atlanticism as both a historical relationship with ups and downs over the past several decades and as a contemporary challenge and opportunity in need of reconceptualisation.

Programme

Time	Activity
Monday 9 December Location: Room 12-3-07, Saxo Institute, South Campus, UCPH.
12:00-13:00	Arrival and lunch (main canteen – KUA1, building 23)
13:15-14:45	Panel 1 – NATO and Northern Europe – Way Back When The OEEC and NATO Secretariats in the early 1950s. Convergence and Divergence around Economic Cooperation and Rearmament Haakon A. Ikonomou (UCHP) & Marine Pierre (UCPH) ‘Smooth Assimilation’: On the Prehistory and Practices of ‘Finlandisation’ Michael Jonas (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität) The Socialist International, the Transatlantic Divide and the End of the Cold War in Northern Europe Rasmus Mariager (UCPH)
14:45-15:00	Coffee/tea & refreshments
15:00-16:30	Panel 2 – NATO and Northern Europe – Then Finland’s reactions and adaptations to the end of the Cold War, a view from the Foreign Ministry Louis Clerc (Turku University) Swedish Neutrality and NATO during the Cold War Aryo Makko (Stockholm University) (via zoom) Balancing between East and West: Neutrality as a foreign and security policy strategy in Finland during the Cold War Johanna Rainio-Niemi (University of Helsinki)
Tuesday 10 December Location: Room 12-3-07, Saxo Institute, South Campus, UCPH.
08:30-09:00	Coffee/Tea & Refreshments
09:00-10:30	Panel 3 – NATO and Northern Europe – Now Germany and NATO's northern flank after the Zeitenwende Robin Allers (Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies) Gender as a geopolitical faultline in the narration of war Elsa Hedling (Lund University) Finland, NATO and the emergence of a Nordic-Atlantic orientation Tuomas Iso-Markku (Finnish Institute of International Affairs) & Matti Pesu (FIIA)
10:30-10:45	Coffee/tea & refreshments
10:45-12:15	Panel 4 – NATO and Northern Europe – Now How to defend Norway? The military-strategic debate in Norway since 2014 Håkon Lunde Saxi (Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies) In the shadow of the war in Ukraine: Weimarer Dreieck or Międzymorze? Mogens Pelt (UCPH) and Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke (DIIS) Home Alone? U.S. Retrenchment from Europe and the Implications for NATO Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard (DIIS)
12:15-13:00	Lunch (on site)
13:30-15:30	Concluding public roundtable: Atlanticism in a changing world

Concluding roundtable participants

Moderator: Haakon A. Ikonomou (University of Copenhagen)

	Marlene Wind (University of Copenhagen)
	Eckart Conze (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
	Jussi Hanhimäki (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
	Patrick O. Cohrs (University of Florence)