Post-election America: Political and economic challenges after Obama

December 2, 2016 at 14:30

Center for American Studies Via Michelangelo Caetani, 32

2:30–2:45pm - Welcome

2:45–4:30pm - Electoral lessons: does the US political system need a major reform?

Chair

Marta Dassù, Senior Director European Affairs, The Aspen Institute, Editor, Aspenia

Speaker

Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow and Mosbacher Director, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Discussants

Sergio Fabbrini, Director, School of Government; Professor Political Sciences and International Relations, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome
Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies,
Sofia Federico Romero, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence

Q&A moderated by

4:45–6:00pm - The uncertain state of the economy and its transatlantic implications
Chair

Domenico Siniscalco, Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley; Country Head, Morgan Stanley Italy, Milan

Speakers

Emma Marcegaglia, President, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome
Jacek Rostowski, Professor of Economics, Central European University, Budapest

Discussants

Walter Russell Mead, Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities, Bard College, New York, NY
Erik Jones, Director of European and Eurasian Studies; Professor of European Studies and International Political Economy, John Hopkins University, Bologna

6:00–7:15pm - Post-Obama America and Europe
Conversation

Giuliano Amato, Judge, Italian Constitutional CourtAnthony
L. Gardner, US Ambassador to the European Union, United States Mission to the European Union

Moderated by

Gianni Riotta, Visiting Professor, Princeton University and LUISS School of Government.

The event is organized in cooperation with the Aspen Institute Italia (http://www.aspeninstitute.it/) and the Center for American studies (http://centrostudiamericani.org/).