Dinner Honoring Ambassador Ernesto Cespedes
Dinner in honor of Ambassador Ernesto Cespedes, Diplomat-in-Residence, SIS & Senior Fellow, CNAS. This dinner recognized the support of CEMEX and the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Mexico for the Position of Diplomat-in-Residence.
Amb. Cespedes presented his research "North America, Security, and the Next U.S. National Security Strategy: A Reflection"
Date/Time: 04/29/2008 - 06:30
Location: Mary Graydon Center 5 and 6
Event: U.S.-Canadian Relations in the Twenty-first Century
Stephen Randall Fulbright Visiting Chair in North American Studies at AU and Andrew Richter, Fulbright Visiting Scholar in Canada-U.S. Relations at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars examined the relationship between the United States and Canada in this discussion.
Date/Time: 11/27/2007 - 12:00 to 11/27/2007 - 01:00
Location: Mary Graydon Center
Conference: Building a North American Community
This conference explored the challenges to a more effective integration of and cooperation among the three NAFTA partners, and the measures which might be taken to improve performance in several specific sectors.
Date/Time: 11/16/2007 - 09:00 to 11/17/2007 - 04:30
Location: Mary Graydon Center
The Security and Prosperity Partnership -- Threat or Opportunity?
Judicial Watch sponsored a panel discussion on “The Security and Prosperity Partnership Threat or Opportunity?” Panelists included Dr. Robert Pastor, CNAS Director; Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum; Rosemary Jenks, NumbersUSA, and David Bohigian, U.S. Department of Commerce.
Date/Time: 06/20/2007 - 15:00
Location: The National Press Club, Murrow Room
Conference: Triumvirate 2007
AU students participated in the first Model North American Parliament, called "Triumvirate," to be held in Washington, D.C. took place at AU. The Triumvirate is a unique parliamentary exercise that annually brings together a hundred university students, from Canada, Mexico and the United States, in order to simulate, during five days, a parliamentary meeting between North American national and sub-national parliamentarians, joined by journalists and lobbyists. This year, the event took place in Washington D.C. in the Inter-American Development Bank and American University, from the 20th to the 25th of May, 2007. AU’s Center for North American Studies co-sponsored the event with the Montreal-based North American Forum on Integration.
Date/Time: 05/20/2007 - 09:00 to 05/25/2007 - 17:00
Location: American University and the Inter American Development Bank
Contact: info@fina-nafi.org
Dinner Honoring Mexican Diplomat-in-Residence Daniel Hernández
CEMEX sponsored a dinner honoring Daniel Hernández, CNAS Diplomat-in-Residence. Hernández presented his research, "North America: Managing our Borders and the Perimeter" at the dinner.
Date/Time: 04/11/2007 - 18:00
Location: American University - Mary Graden Center 2 & 3
Dinner Honoring Mexican Diplomat-in-Residence Daniel Hernández
CEMEX sponsored a dinner honoring Daniel Hernández, CNAS Diplomat-in-Residence. Hernández presented his research, "North America: Managing our Borders and the Perimeter" at the dinner.
Date/Time: 04/11/2007 - 18:00
Location: American University - Mary Graden Center 2 & 3
Dinner Honoring Mexican Diplomat-in-Residence Daniel Hernández
CEMEX sponsored a dinner honoring Daniel Hernández, CNAS Diplomat-in-Residence. Hernández presented his research, "North America: Managing our Borders and the Perimeter" at the dinner.
Date/Time: 04/11/2007 - 18:00
Location: American University - Mary Graden Center 2 & 3
Faculty Seminar on North American Immigration and Borders
Donald Avery, Fulbright Visiting Chair in North American Studies, Daniel Hernandez, AU Diplomat-in-Residence, and Nadia Gerspacher, CNAS Fellow, will lead an audience discussion on the subject of immigration and border policies of the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Experts from the Mexican and Canadian embassies will provide initial responses. It will be held at the Butler Board Room, Monday, February 5, 2007, 4:00-6:00 PM. Refreshments will be served.
Date/Time: 02/05/2007 - 16:00
Location: AU - Butler Board Room
Conference: Trans-border Migration and Development
Robert Pastor spoke at the conference and discussed ways to promote economic opportunity in Mexico and the Border Region.
Date/Time: 10/05/2006 - 10:00 to 10/07/2006 - 12:00
Location: University of San Diego
Summer Program: Second Annual Triumvirate
Participants simulated for five days a parliament in which participants from Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. took on the role of politicians representing local, provincial/state, or national interests of one of the three countries. Members of parliament represented a country other than their own, proposed and voted on resolutions dealing with everyday challenges confronting the three nations of North America.
Date/Time: 05/24/2006 - 09:00 to 05/26/2006 - 17:00
Location: Mexico City
Lecture: Does North America Exist?
A lecture by Dr. Stephen Clarkson, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Dr. Clarkson is the author of Canada and the Reagan Challenge, Trudeau and Our Times, and Uncle Sam and US: Globalization, Neoconservatism, and the Canadian State. His current project is tentatively titled, "More or Less Than Meets the Eye? The Governance of North America."
Date/Time: 04/05/2006 - 17:00
Location: American University - SIS Lounge
Dinner Honoring Mexican Diplomat-in-Residence Marcela Celorio
Marcela Celorio, Diplomat-in-Residence, SIS and Senior Fellow, CNAS was honored at a dinner held in recognition of the support of CEMEX and the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Mexico for the position of Diplomat-in-Residence. Ms. Celorio presented on her research findings on security in North America.
- The Current Debate Regarding the SPP: Security and the Integration of North America (PDF)
- The North American Security and Prosperity Partnership: An Evaluation (PDF)
Date/Time: 01/17/2006 - 18:30
Location: American University - Mary Graden Center 4 & 5
Faculty Seminar: North American Military and Security Issues
In the final seminar in this series, Marcela Celorio, Mexican Diplomat-in-Residence of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Relations, Senior CNAS Fellow, discussed military and security issues in Mexico and North America.
Date/Time: 01/17/2006 - 17:00
Location: American University
Faculty Seminar: North American Energy Markets and Economic Growth
Dr. Isidro Morales Moreno, Senior Fellow at CNAS, visiting Fulbright Fellow and Dean of Social Sciences, Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, discussed "The Prospects and Challenges for Enhanced Cooperation in North America's Continental Energy Market." Professor Robert A. Blecker, Department of Economics, College of Arts and Sciences, discussed his paper, "Reviving Economic Growth in Mexico in the Context of North American Integration."
Date/Time: 12/01/2005 - 09:00
Location: American University - Butler Board Room
Faculty Seminar: North American Regulatory Convergence
Senior representatives of the governments, the faculty advisory committee, AU students, and others discussed parts of the reports from The Independent Task Force and the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America focusing on the harmonization of regulations. Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, Building a North American Community, and the Report to the Prime Minister and Presidents of Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.
Date/Time: 10/26/2005 - 16:30
Location: American University - Butler Board Room
Faculty Seminar: North American Community
The presenters led a discussion of the May Report of the Independent Task Force on the Future of North America, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, Building a North American Community, and the June Report to the Prime Minister and Presidents of Canada, Mexico, and the U.S., The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
Date/Time: 09/21/2005 - 09:00
Location: American University
Conference: Triumvirate
The North American Forum on Integration (NAFI) organized in May 2005 the first inter-parliamentary simulation of North America which will allow a hundred university students to participate in an innovative and challenging initiative.
Date/Time: 05/23/2005 - 09:00 to 05/25/2005 - 17:00
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Conference: The North American Perspective: Democratic Deficits at Home and Abroad
Various scholars looked at the way Democracy is working in North America, and the rest of the world, discussing its progress, failures and prospects for the future.
Date/Time: 01/26/2005 - 09:00
Location: American Univeristy - Butler Board Room
Six University Conference: Security, Trade, and Culture
Senior scholars and administrators from six universities representing six nations in East Asia and North America discussed international security, trade, and culture and strengthened partnerships at the second annual Six University Conference at American University in Washington, DC.
Representatives from all regions collaborated to produce a paper proposing a unified North American and a unified East Asian approach to each of the issues.
Date/Time: 09/30/2004 - 09:00 to 10/01/2004 - 17:00
Location: American Univeristy - Butler Board Room
Six University Conference: Security, Trade, and Culture
Senior scholars and administrators from six universities representing six nations in East Asia and North America discussed international security, trade, and culture and strengthened partnerships at the second annual Six University Conference at American University in Washington, DC.
Representatives from all regions collaborated to produce a paper proposing a unified North American and a unified East Asian approach to each of the issues.
Date/Time: 09/30/2004 - 09:00 to 10/01/2004 - 17:00
Location: American University - Butler Board Room
Forging North American Energy Security
To the extent that governments work to strengthen security, North American energy security is increasingly becoming a priority. During the conference, this topic was addressed in regard to the following aspects:
- Guaranteeing the reliability and physical integrity of energy supply networks;
- Aiming for the growth of North American energy self-sufficiency in the medium and long term;
- Promoting the diversification of energy sources, in particular renewable energies;
- Providing energy at affordable and stable prices;
- Increasing energy efficiency in North America;
- Assuring efficient national and cross-border interaction between the different governmental levels of North America;
- Minimizing the environmental impacts of the energy sector.
Date/Time: 04/01/2004 - 09:00 to 04/02/2007 - 15:30
Location: Monterrey, Mexico
Competing with China: Will Democratic Politics Help or Hurt Mexico?
Carlos Elizondo Mayer-Serra, President of CIDE, Mexico's leading institution for teaching and research in the social sciences discussed Mexico's relationship with China and the USA.
Date/Time: 02/05/2004 - 09:00
Location: American Univeristy
Conference: Democracy and Elections In North America: What Can We Learn From Our Neighbors?
The conference was convened to analyze the state of democracy of these three countries, extract lessons concerning best (and worst) practices, and recommend measures to improve democracy in each.
- Event Information
Date/Time: 11/14/2003 - 09:00
Location: American Univeristy - Mary Graydon Center
41st CCS Forum: "Regionalism in North America and East Asia: A Comparative Analysis"
Speaker, Professor Victor López Villafañe is the director of the Center for North American Studies at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico). He addressed North American and East Asian issues.
Date/Time: 02/03/2003 - 10:00
Location: American University
CNAS Inaugural Lecture
Lecture addressing the future goals of CNAS
- Comments by Juan José Bremer, Mexican Ambassador to the United States
- Comments by Michael Kergin, Canadian Ambassador to the United States
Location: American University
Study Group on North American Monetary and Financial Integration
Keynote Address by Dr. Robert A. Pastor at the Pan American Partnership for Business Education.
Date/Time: 10/31/2002 - 09:00
Location: American University
