The Atlantic Within the Atlantic

Scientific Paper, nº. 37

A regional transformation has taken place over the past decades in the Atlantic, opening a new window of opportunity for rethinking the Atlantic Space. The purpose of this paper is to set out the results of the fieldwork done by the Atlantic Future project between the autumn of 2014 and the spring of 2015 and to provide a regional comparison of what Atlantic stakeholders think about the regional dynamics and the region itself. Specifically, the following pages will set out the results of 488 interviews carried out in 25 countries in Africa, Europe and North, South and Central America and three cities that are hubs of international organisations: Geneva, New York and Washington D.C. The final aim is to give voice to those leaders that are shaping the future of the Atlantic and provide qualitative evidence of the possible emergence of an Atlantic Space beyond the traditional North Atlantic Alliance and the North-South dependency