Worldwide Alliances

Graduate School of North American Studies Hosts Conference on International Alliances on May 7 to 9. This year's annual conference of the Graduate School of North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin will deal with the past, present, and future of forming alliances. Experts from Europe and the USA will discuss the global power shifts that result when alliances are formed or ended. The focus will be on geopolitical or global economic processes as well as socio-economic and ecological issues that affect culture and everyday life. The conference language will be English. The event is entitled "Alliances: Un/Common Causes and the Politics of Participation." It is public, and admission is free. Seventy years after the so-called anti-Hitler coalition of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union, unusual alliances even on a smaller scale continue to affect the balance of power in our society.