Transatlantic Governance

No other regions of the global economy are as deeply integrated as Europe and the United States. Bilateral trade between the EU and the US amounts to over $2.1 billion a day and supports 14 million jobs on both sides of the Atlantic. In addition to being each other's largest trade partner, the EU and the US economies are further enmeshed as they provide each other with their biggest source of foreign direct investment. These economic ties are a bedrock of the world economy and as such the transatlantic partnership is a driver of global regulatory norms and practices that not only impact their own societies, but also fundamentally shape the rules of the international system. The EUCE encourages research that examines the ways in which the EU and the US are shaping global governance in many different policy realms from trade and commerce to the environment and energy to the emergence of new technologies. The EUCE seeks to foster this wide-ranging and interdisciplinary research area by hosting visiting experts, policy makers and scholars, presenting a series of roundtable discussions, and collaborating with our partner, Georgia Tech's CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research),

This year the EUCE and CIBER will launch a doctoral consortium on “Regional Economic Integration: Researching Dimensions of EU and Transatlantic Competition and Collaboration" in cooperation with other North American and European universities. The yearly practicum is designed for students in the management and social science disciplines pursuing doctoral research at the intersection of international political economy and management. Relevant formal and informal regional economic integration topics include corporate strategy and alliances; FDI and state-firm bargaining; regulatory regimes; innovation, knowledge and technology management in a globalized world; and policy areas (e.g., health, education, transportation, intellectual property, labor markets, entrepreneurship, services).