Wednesdays 12:00 – 2:00 PM
February 16th, 23rd & March 2nd, 2005
D.O.C. House
This course will begin with a brief history of the institutions leading to the European Union, with a focus on the contrasting objectives of the European countries and the United States. We will explore the role that an expanding European Union has played in shaping economic, agricultural, and political international relations and the American reaction to growing European Union assertiveness. The third session will concentrate on the current state of the trans-Atlantic relationship. The course will consist of lecture and discussion.
Participants going to Holland/Hungary in May 2005 will have precedence.
GERALD AND EVANGELINE MONROE are retired Foreign Service Officers. His thirty-five-year career and her twenty-two-year career included service at Embassies to Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. While at the Department of State, Gerald worked on economic and agricultural issues, areas in which the European Union speaks for its members. Evangeline worked on political and security issues, areas where the member states have not yet ceded sovereignty but where the push toward a greater role for the European Union made the EU an important interlocutor for the U.S.
