Laurent Cohen-Tanugi
In collaboration with the radio des cinq académies de l’Institut de France (Canal Académie)
On An Alliance at Risk: The United States and Europe since September 11 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003):
"This book is a cogent, highly knowledgeable, and articulate examination of the strains in the transatlantic relationship in the aftermath of September 11. The value of Laurent Cohen-Tanugi's contribution to the debate is his synthesis of a sophisticated European perspective and an informed understanding of American politics and society."
Michael Brenner, The University of Pittsburgh, coauthor of Reconcilable Differences: US-French Relations in the New Era
"I read An Alliance at Risk with interest and growing admiration. The essay is simultaneously analytical, prescriptive, and hortatory. It is a much needed response to skeptics who readily dismiss a Euro-Atlantic architecture that remains vital to the interests of the United States and the states of Europe. The author calls for a 'new Atlanticism' that acknowledges the transformation of Europe but emphasizes the continuity of its ties with America. It is a European call that deserves to be heard."
Simon Serfaty, Director, Europe Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies
The Speaker
International lawyer and member of the Paris and New York bars, Laurent Cohen-Tanugi specialized in trans-national mergers and acquisitions and international arbitration. He was an associate with the firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, then with the firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton from 1991 to 2003. He was also Senior Vice-President and member of the executive committee of Sanofi-Synthélabo, the European pharmaceutical group, in 2004.
In October 2007, the French government asked him to conduct a study on the future of the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Employment in the European Union. This mission led to the publication of a report entitled Beyond Lisbon: A European Strategy for Globalization.
He holds a degree from the Ecole normale supérieure and the Institut d’études politiques de Paris [Institute of Political Studies of Paris]. He also has a degree in French language and literature and is a graduate of both Paris and Harvard Law Schools. He is the author of numerous works, including Le Droit sans l’Etat [Law without the State] (PUF, 1985), a comparative essay on French and American political and legal traditions, and l’Europe en danger [Europe in Danger] (Fayard, 1992), a work which predicted the current political crisis in Europe.
His recent publications in English include An Alliance At Risk, The United States and Europe since September 11 by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 (French title: Les Sentinelles de la liberté, L’Europe et l’Amérique au seuil du XXIème siècle) which explores the current state and the perspectives on the evolution of transatlantic relations; The End of Europe? (Foreign Affairs, November/December 2005, volume 84, # 6, French title: La Fin de l’Europe?), an analysis of the situation in the European Union after the French and Dutch rejection of the European constitutional treaty; and more recently, The Shape of the World to Come, Charting the Geopolitics of a New Century, (Columbia University Press, 2008) (French title: Guerre ou paix, Essai sur le monde de demain), on the geopolitics of globalization.
Laurent Cohen-Tanugi is also a regular contributor to the French dailies Les Echos and Le Monde, and is a board member of several think tanks, including Notre Europe [Our Europe] and the Fondation pour l’innovation politique [Foundation for Political Innovation]. He is also a member of the French Academy of Technologies. A regular consultant to the French government, he is a member of the Commission de réflexion sur la justice [Commission on Reflections on Justice], established by President Chirac in 1997 and the Commission sur l’économie de l’immatériel [Commission on the Economy of the Intangible], established by the French government in 2006.
Lectures
Perspectives on the World of Tomorrow: Geopolitics of Globalization and Post-Crisis Economy
Guerre ou paix, Essai sur le monde de demain (Grasset, 2007)
[The Shape of the World to Come, Charting the Geopolitics of a New Century]
Less than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the supposed triumph of democracy and the free market, an uncertain world is taking shape. It is marked by the rise in power of China, India and Russia, the affirmation of a radical Islam hostile to the West, the threats of nuclear proliferation and other global risks and the most serious economic and financial crisis since 1929.
At the same time, the fiasco of the American adventure in Iraq and the difficulties of European politics announced the end of the Atlantic era and of the European-American leadership of the international system.
Strategies of power, energy competition, resurgence of nationalism and sectarian passions, war and terrorism have lead economic globalization, once thought to herald a decline in politics, has, on the contrary, created the return of geopolitics, bringing dangerous tensions along with it.
It was said that globalization would create a level playing field for the world, however, it is fragmenting it just as much. The global economic crisis will not help matters at all.
Barack Obama’s America: What Are the Implications for Europe?
Les Sentinelles de la liberté, L’Europe et l’Amérique au seuil du XXIème siècle (Odile Jacob, 2003)
[An Alliance at Risk, the United States and Europe since September 11]
The election of Barack Obama stirred great enthusiasm in Europe, as elsewhere in the world. The new president seems to Europeans to be not only the antithesis of George W. Bush, but also closer to European values and sensibilities in the international realm.
Myth or reality? What will Barack Obama’s foreign policy be like? How will the trans-Atlantic relationship evolve? Is the new American really more in step with Europe?
The State of the European Union: Towards a New World Player?
EuroMonde 2015: Une stratégie européenne pour la mondialisation (Odile Jacob/ La Documentation Française, 2008)
[EuroWorld 2015: A European Strategy for Globalization]
La fin de l’Europe? (Commentaire numéro 112 Winter 2005-2006)
[The End of Europe?]
Ten years after the launch of the euro, five years after the great expansion to Central and Eastern Europe and four years after the rejection of the constitutional treaty, where is the European Union on economics, politics and diplomacy?
Is Europe finally ready to become a world player?
Can Europe become a credible and effective partner of the United States in an increasingly uncertain world?
How can Europe deal with the economic crisis? Is it the laboratory for future global governance or an outdated vision?
Link to an interview of Laurent Cohen-Tanugi on the radio des cinq académies de l’Institut de France (Canal Académie)
http://www.canalacademie.com/Laurent-Cohen-Tanugi-Guerre-ou.html
Links to articles and interviews of Laurent Cohen-Tanugi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wpLb3D-Pk0
http://www.euromonde2015.eu/spip.php?rubrique4
http://www.minefe.gouv.fr/directions_services/sircom/
europe_international/mondialisation/rap_europe_mondialisation080115.pdf
www.euroworld2015.eu
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