Welcome and opening comments: Nicole Gnesotto, Director, EUISS

Session I: The future course of US strategy

Chair and Introduction:
Marcin Zaborowski, EUISS

Speakers:

François Heisbourg, Fondation pour la Recherche stratégique, Paris

Patrick Clawson, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Washington, DC Session II: Iraq's future: a federal democratic and Islamic Iraq?

Chair and Introduction: Martin Ortega, EUISS

Speakers:

Joost Hilterman, International Crisis Group, Amman

Pierre-Jean Luizard, Centre national de la Recherche scientifique, Paris

Session II: The Iraqi situation - Implications for regional security and the global economy

Chair and introduction:
Walter Posch, EUISS

Speakers:

Kemal Kirisçi, Bogazici University, Istanbul

Nicola Pochettino, International Energy Agency, Paris Session IV: Three years on: what next?

Chair and introduction:
Nicole Gnesotto, EUISS

Speakers:

Ghassan Salamé, Sciences-Po, Paris

Volker Perthes, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin