Café Collaborations: Transatlantic Relations in a Turbulent Era

After February 24, 2022, the today's world became increasingly dangerous and divided, and global conflict becoming more frequent and volatile. Transatlantic relations between the United States and Canada, and the EU, in the long run based on the traditional cultural, political, economic and social links, face a turning point after Donald J. Trump’s inauguration as the 47th President of the United States on 20 January 2025. His ‘America First’ rationale results in the application of conditionality to all major US foreign policy commitments. For Canada, a founding member of the Alliance, NATO is a cornerstone of Canadian security. Canada and its Allies are continuing building their defense capabilities to ensure our individual and collective security. What challenges do we face on both side of the Atlantic today? These questions will be discussed by:

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H. E. Emily McLaughlin, Ambassador of Canada to the Czech Republic

Emily McLaughlin joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 2001. Her early assignments were as a policy adviser; she has worked as a trade commissioner in the Calgary regional office and was a departmental adviser in the Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2021. She has served abroad at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, the High Commission in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in London and the Consulate General in Hong Kong. Most recently, she was the director of the Inter-American Affairs division. In August 2023, Ms. McLaughlin was appointed Ambassador of Canada to Czechia.

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Jan Hornát Head of the Department of North American Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University

Jan Hornát is a researcher within the Peace Research Center Prague. He currently focuses on US foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific, transatlantic relations, and the role of status in international affairs. His articles have been published in International Relations, Asian Affairs, Communist and Post.Communist Studies, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Global Affairs and The National Interest; he has published monographs with Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan. In 2022-2023 he was a Fulbright-Masaryk scholar at the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University and in 2024 a Europe and America Fellow at the University of Regensburg.

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Moderator: Štěpán Vizi

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