The decisive intervention. Transatlantic brainstorming on Iraq

Welcome and introduction

Nicole Gnesotto (EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris)

Philip Gordon (The Brookings Institution)

Session I: How to deal with Iraq

Chair: Nicole Gnesotto (ISS-EU, Paris)

Speakers

Randy Scheunemann (Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Washington, DC)

Thérèse Delpech (Commissariat à l'Energie atomique, Paris)

Rolf Ekéus (OSCE, The Hague)

Session II: The day after

Chair: Martin Ortega (EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris)

Speakers

Bassma Kodmani (The Ford Foundation, Cairo)

Patrick Clawson (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Washington, DC)

John Roper (House of Lords, London)

Session III: Implications for the transatlantic alliance and for the region

Chair: Nicole Gnesotto and Philip Gordon

Speakers

William Drozdiak (Transatlantic Center, German Marshall Fund, Brussels)

Marta Dassù (Aspen Institute Italia, Rome)

David Ignatius (International Herald Tribune, Paris)

Jim Cloos (EU Council General Secretariat, Brussels)

Conclusions

Philip Gordon (The Brookings Institution)

Nicole Gnesotto (EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris)

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