Research on the broad complex of issues surrounding the implications of resource scarcity for the new geopolitical environment.

Globalization has brought great challenges to the western centric system which has dominated politics for the last three hundred years.

The research theme for the first year centers on the movement of peoples and how these movements are affecting North American and European societies.

The Transatlantic Academy is a scholarly forum for addressing the mutual challenges facing transatlantic relations in the coming years.

2009 - 2010 Turkey and Its Neighbors: Implications for the Transatlantic Relationship.