Ied - Institute of European Democrats

Lai Suet-yi
National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Tony Philips and Stefan Auer
Innovative Universities European Union (IUEU) Centre, La Trobe University, Australia

A passionate sinologist and researcher on East Asia strategic security, Anna Dall’Oca studied chinese at Ca’ Foscari University and Beijing Foreign Studies University. She obtained a MSc in china in comparative perspective from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a post-graduate diploma in politics and international studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies. Ms. Dall’Oca previously worked at CASA ASIA and as a free lance translator. Her research interests include East Asia defence and nonproliferation (with particular focus on North Korea ), Asian security community building, Asia-Europe and Asian-American relations.
At the Institute she deals with EU security policies for East Asia, Australasia and the Pacific.

The Institute of European Democrats - IED will focus and study the trends of Transatlantic relations during next months. In particular, the US Presidential elections could represent a key moment to relaunch this important link and to renew the cooperation between Europe and United States on the main issues of the global agenda.

The Institute of European Democrats presents a first paper on the eve of the US Presidential challenge.

The  Institute of European Democrats mainly focuses towards the political relations between the European Union and other strategic areas of the world, its Common Foreign and Security Policy and the EU's Neighbourhood Policy.

IED considers the international projection of the EU as one of the pillar for the future achievement of the Europe as a real and respected global player in the international community and the political relations that the EU will be able to build and to strengthen over the next few years with the other main strategic areas in the world, will be the most important trial of its capacity to run an effective and innovative foreign policy.