Announcement Last update: 15 May 1999

The Centre for Study of International Affairs (Europe and America), School of Humanities and Cultural Studies of the Middlesex University, in collaboration with the Atlantic Council of the United Kingdom and Baylor University, Texas. 4th Annual Trent Park Conference on the Future of the Atlantic Community London - 18 June 1999 "NATO's Future and Atlantic Friendships and Rivalries" Date & Venue : Friday, 18th June 1999, 9.45am to 5pm; The Mansion and New Hall, Middlesex University, Trent Park, London N17. Nearest Station : Oakwood (Piccadilly Line). Cost : £30 (£15 students and concessions) including lunch refreshments. Lunch (12.45-2.15) will be served on the mansion terrace overlooking Capability Brown's lake and park. Apply to : Anna Pavlakos, Conference Secretary, The Future of the Atlantic Community, Middlesex University, White Hart Lane, London N17 8HR (Email A.Pavlakos@mdx.ac.uk or Telephone 0181-362 5363; Fax 0181-362 6652) Speakers (all confirmed, but not necessarily in order of speaking) : Sir Oliver Wright GCMG GCVO DSC, HM Ambassador to the United States, 1982-86, and to Bonn, 1975-81 : "Europe and America: Friends or Foes?" Air Marshal Sir John Walker KCB CBE AFC FRAeS, Chief of Defence Intelligence, Ministry of Defence, 1990-95; previously Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations and Intelligence HQ Allied Air Forces Central Europe; Chairman, Airship Technologies : "NATO : 50 and still growing up." Richard Balfe MEP, Member of the European Parliament (Labour) for London South Inner since 1979, Labour Defence Spokesman, Member Foreign Affairs and Security Committee: "The Democratic Input." Professor Margarita Mathiopoulos, Professor for American Foreign Policy and International Politics, University of Braunschweig, and Senior Advisor for European and North American Markets, British Aerospace plc: "Europe: a Future Global Player with London on Its Side." Professor Emil J Kirchner, Jean Monnet Professor in European Integration and Director of the Centre for European Studies, University of Essex; co-author (with James Sperling) of Recasting the European Order: Security Architectures and Economic Co-operation: "NATO and New Security Threats" based on a study prepared for the European Commission. Dr William Schneider Jr, Member of the Rumsfeld Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat, President of International Planning Services Inc, US Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance (1982-86), Chairman of the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament (1987-93): "Findings of the Rumsfeld Commission: threats from the proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction - and possible remedies." Professor Stephen Gardner, Herman Brown Professor of Economics and Director of the McBride Center for International Business, Baylor University; founding member of the International Educational Consortium for St Petersburg; author of Comparative Economic Systems, used at more than 100 universities around the world: "Atlantic Economic Relations and NATO." Advisory Board of the Centre : Sir Oliver Wright (chairman), The Rt Hon the Lord Ryder of Wenum OBE, The Hon Edward Streator, Richard Balfe MEP, Nicholas Harvey MP, Alan Lee Williams OBE, Professory Gary L McDowell, Professor Joseph A McKinney, Professor Geoffrey Lee Williams, Dr William Schneider Jr, Dr Melvyn Stokes, William Mader, Peter Robinson, Geoffrey Smith.