Monday 20 – Wednesday 22 June 2016
This LSE-Fundación Ramón Areces Masterclass will focus on the politics, economics and foreign policy of Europe in the 21st century. The first day will focus on EU economic governance, looking at growth, investment and jobs in the EU, with a debate on the possible ´Brexit´ from the EU. The second day will focus on EU foreign policy, drawing on fundamental historical perspectives, current debates and potential future scenarios for EU foreign policy which relate to the major diplomatic challenges of the modern world, including EU-US relations, the complex and volatile Middle East situation and the growth of Asian powers. The final day will explore EU trade relations from both an intra-EU perspective and those with the EU´s major trading partners – the US, China and Latin America – and include case studies of thematic priority, such as climate change, tax policy and internal EU policy coordination.
Programme
Monday 20 June: EU economic governance and the Brexit debate
10.00 – 11.30 Session 1: What next for the euro? Professor Iain Begg
11.30 – 12.00 Break
12.00 – 13.30 Session 2: Just days to go: the Brexit debate assessed. Professor Iain Begg
13.30 – 15.30 Lunch
15.30 – 17.00 Session 3: Growth, investment and jobs: is better EU economic governance an answer? Professor Iain Begg
Tuesday 21 June: European diplomacy: the past, the present and future
10.00 – 11.30 Session 1: European diplomacy I: Lessons from history. Sir Robert Cooper
11.30 – 12.00 Break
12.00 – 13.30 Session 2: European diplomacy II: Current challenges. Sir Robert Cooper
13.30 – 15.30 Lunch
15.30 – 17.00 Session 3: European diplomacy III: Future scenarios. Sir Robert Cooper
Wednesday 22 June: Trade and economic relations with the rest of the world
10.00 – 11.30 Session 1: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): difficult but necessary? Mr Julius Sen
11.30 – 12.00 Break
12.00 – 13.30 Session 2: Emerging issues on the international economic and commercial agenda: Climate change, inequality and tax havens. Mr Julius Sen
13.30 – 15.30 Lunch
15.30 – 17.00 Session 3: The role of Europe in global economic policy coordination. Mr Julius Sen
17.00 – 17.30 Programme close & certificates
Academic Biographies
Professor Iain Begg is a Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. His main research work is on the political economy of European integration and EU economic governance. He has directed and participated in a series of research projects on different facets of EU policy and his current projects include studies on the governance of EU economic and social policy, the EU's Europe 2020 strategy, evaluation of EU cohesion policy and reform of the EU budget. Other recent research projects include work on policy co-ordination under EMU and the social impact of globalisation. He has published extensively in academic journals and served as co-editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies, the leading academic journal focusing on the study of European integration, from 1998 to 2003. He has undertaken a number of advisory roles, including being a member of a groupe de prospective on the future of cohesion policy, serving as the rapporteur of the high-level group that carried out the interim evaluation of the EU' seventh Framework Programme for Research and acting as an expert witness or specialist adviser on EU issues for the House of Commons Treasury Committee, the House of Lords European Communities Committee and the European Parliament. He is a frequent contributor to international conferences on EU economic policy issues and is regularly solicited for interviews by journalists.
Sir Robert Cooper joined the Foreign Office in 1970. He served in several posts including Japan and Germany. In 1989 he was appointed Head of the Policy Planning Staff at the Foreign Office. He was later made the UK's Special Representative in Afghanistan, before taking up a post in the European Union in 2002. Here he was responsible to Javier Solana and assisted with the implementation of European strategic, security and defence policy. A well-known public intellectual, he is the author of two influential studies on the modern world: The Post-Modern State and the World Order (2000) and The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century (Atlantic Press, 2003).
Mr Julius Sen is academic director and senior programme advisor at LSE Enterprise. Mr Sen designs and delivers executive education programmes for private sector companies and for senior civil servants from the UK, the UAE, Taiwan, Kazakhstan, Libya, Hong Kong, Thailand and Spain. He also teaches courses at Birkbeck College on the WTO and on the political economy of developing countries. He has contributed extensively to projects that evaluate the policy and regulatory implications of commercial developments, including technological change and innovation; his expertise also relates to the commercial implications of policy and regulatory decisions taken by governments, regulators and international institutions. A member of the Indian Administrative Service for almost 30 years, Julius is now part of the International Trade Policy Unit in the Department of International Relations. He is a special adviser to the professional public affairs body FIPRA International. He was recently appointed Professor of Public Administration by the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Kazakhstan.