American Policy and International
Security Study Program
in Barcelona
Program
‘American Cultural Diplomacy after the Cold War’ Workshop
On 18 March 2022, the Institut d'Estudis Nord-americans in collaboration with the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals hosted an academic workshop ...
Interview with Dr. Jeffrey Michaels
Since October 2020, the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI) and the Institute of North American Studies (IEN) Foundation have ...
Recommended reading
Recommendations to get into US Foreign Policy
Recommendations to get into US Foreign Policy by Doctor Jeffrey Michaels, IEN Senior Fellow at IBEI.Isolationism: A History of America's ...
Activities
Seminar Series: Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO
Susan Colbourn (Duke University) Chair: Jeffrey Michaels (IBEI) November, 23rd, 2023 Europe was the principal battleground of the Cold War ...
Workshop | A New American Civil War: Realistic Possibility or Fantasy?
Julie Norman (University College London Centre on US Politics), Ken Kalfus (author, 2 a.m. in Little America), Andrew Gawthorpe (University of Leiden) and Emma Long (University of East Anglia) ...
Seminar Series: US-China Relations
Todd H. Hall (University of Oxford) Chair: Jeffrey Michaels (IBEI) 29th May 2023 The trajectory of US-China relations, particularly the prospect ...
Webinar Series: Somatic Markers and American Foreign Policy
Professor David Houghton (Naval War College) 29th November 2022 Growing understanding of the connections between the mind and the body, ...
“Are we going to fight wars in all these nations?” Citizen Responses from the end of World War II
Professor Michaela Hoenicke Moore (University of Iowa) 22nd November 2022 Americans contested their country's militarized cold war expeditions more vigorously ...
American Deterrence Signaling
Roseanne McManus (Pennsylvania State University) 10th November 2022 Extended deterrence poses challenges for credibility. Would the United States really risk ...
Links in the Same Chain: The Intersection of Race and the Nuclear Weapons
Vincent J. Intondi, Montgomery College. Professor Vincent Intondi's talk will address how issues of race and civil rights have featured ...
Russia-Ukraine Sanctions: Assessing Impact and Drawing Lessons
Bruce W. Jentleson, Duke University. Economic sanctions are a major part of the US and EU response to the Russia-Ukraine ...
All About Politics? How the American Electoral Cycle Shapes Wartime Decision-Making
Andrew Payne, University of Oxford. How does electoral politics affect presidential decision-making in war? As both Commanders-in-Chief and elected officeholders, ...
Fair winds and following seas?: U.S. Perspectives on NATO, 1989-2022
Sara Bjerg Moller, Seton Hall University. ¿Cómo ha cambiado la política de EE. UU. hacia la OTAN en los últimos ...
Status as a Driver of US foreign policy
Michelle Murray, Bard College Dec' 14, 2021 6 PM Concerns about America’s status in the world can be considered a ...
Continuity and Change in U.S. Human Rights Policy
Professor Sarah B. Synder, American University. Nov'11, 2021 6pm Professor Sarah B. Snyder discusses the history of human rights policy ...
Seven Decades of American Studies in Europe
Professor Philip McGowan, Queen’s University Belfast Nov'9th, 2021 6pm Professor Philip McGowan provides an overview of the evolution of American ...
The Biden Foreign Policy: First Year Assessment
Professor Bruce W. Jentleson, Sanford School of Public Policy Nov' 2nd, 2021 5pm Professor Bruce W. Jentleson’s talk provided a ...
Trump Was Not Unique: Continuity and Change in American Foreign Policy
Dr. Andrew Gawthorpe, University of Leiden Oct'26th, 2021 6pm Dr. Andrew Gawthorpe addressed the degree to which continuity versus change ...
The United States, the International Criminal Court, and the Crime of Aggression
Dr. Giulia Pecorella, Middlesex University. Oct'19th, 2021 6pm Dr. Giulia Pecorella discussed the evolution of US political attitudes and legal approaches towards ...
IEN-IBEI US Foreign Policy Seminar Series (Fall 2021)
As part of the US policy and international security program at the Institute of North American Studies (IEN) and the Barcelona Institute ...
US Foreign Policy: A Political Psychology Perspective
El Professor David Houghton del US Naval War College delivered a talk where he developed a quick overview of psychological ...
US-Spanish Relations and the Biden Presidency
On 16 March, Dr. Carlota Encina of the Real Institut Elcano addressed the seminar on the topic of US-Spain relations ...
The global policeman: Past, Present, and Future
On March 2, Dr. Stuart Schrader of Johns Hopkins University addressed the theme of the United States as a ‘global ...
American Exceptionalism in the Post-Trump era
On February 16, Hilde Restad from Bjørknes University in Norway discussed the history of American exceptionalism as an important concept ...
The US Senate and Arms Control
On February 2, Dr Lowell Schwartz, Senior Professional Staffer attached to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee addressed the seminar on ...
The Evolution of US Climate Change Diplomacy
The Evolution of US Climate Change Diplomacy Dr. Mara Oliva, University of Reading At the second seminar on 19 January, ...
Curating and Re-Curating the Wars in Vietnam and Iraq
Curating and Re-Curating the Wars in Vietnam and Iraq Professor Christine Sylvester, University of Connecticut. On 12 January, Professor Christine ...
IEN-IBEI US Foreign Policy Seminar Series (January-June 2021)
As part of the US policy and international security program at the Institute of North American Studies (IEN) and the ...
Workshop “Foreing Policy Implications of the 2020 US Presidential Election”
On October 28th took place the workshop to analyze the 2020 US Presidential Election and its implications for the future ...