From September 4 to September 7, 2008, more than 200 former Bucerius Summer School participants came together for the second Reunion. The first day was dedicated to discussing current challenges of global politics such as climate change, Russia, the future role of the UN and the EU and perspectives for a transatlantic community in a Post-Bush-world. These and other debates took place in ten different Working Groups chaired by renowned experts like Dmitri Trenin, Deputy Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, Ivo Daalder, Foreign Policy Advisor to Barack Obama and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, the former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, the UN Special Representative and Harvard scholar John Ruggie, Tariq Rauf from the International Atom Energy Agency in Vienna and Professor David Held from the Centre of the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics. The groups’ extensive exploration of global focal points was rounded out by a speech given by the former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt on "„The World Ahead: Forces shaping the 21st Century". Finally, with the participants exploring the Hamburg Harbor on a newspaper-ralley, the last day of the Reunion was all about networking.

Detailed Program (pdf, 400 KB)

Speech by Helmut Schmidt (pdf, 100 KB)

Best-of-the-Newspaper-Ralley (pdf, 1 MB)

Photos