By way of analysis and research, the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies aims to contribute to the debates on - political - economical - social - strategic development in and outside Europe. To this end the LIEIS - organizes conferences - initiates multidisciplinary research by inviting researchers and institutes from various countries to study and comment on certain subjects over a longer period of time - publishes collective volumes including the proceedings of these conferences The background of the LIEIS. The Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies was created in October 1990 in the context of a relationship with Harvard University. This relationship began in early 1987 when the then Prime Minister Jacques Santer visited Harvard. A first major academic conference was held in December of the same year on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Marshall Plan, to be followed a year later by a conference on the Western community and the Gorbachev challenge. Eminent scholars as John Kenneth Galbraith, Wassily Leontief and Leonid Abalkin attended those meetings. Activities involving students both from Harvard and from Luxembourg were launched in parallel: the Harvard Model Congress Europe involving some thirty Harvard undergraduates every year and, in return, an annual visit by a group of some twenty Luxembourg students to Harvard, In general the events during those first years revolved around the following themes: - East-West relations after the End of the Cold War (new opportunities and risks; building of democracy and a market economy), bringing scholars, experts and civil servants from Central and Eastern Europe together with Western colleagues in Luxembourg. - Transatlantic relations: rethinking and redefining the relationship at the political, economic, and strategic levels. - The European integration process, with a focus on the single market, the Maastricht ans Amsterdam Treaties, the process of deepening and widening, flexible integration, CFSP, the Schengen process, EMU. For more information: www.ieis.lu Le processus d'intégration européen dans la suite du Traité d'Amsterdam The European integration process in the wake of the Amsterdam Treaty Serge Allegrezza, Mario Hirsch, Norbert von Kunitzki L'Immigration au Luxembourg, et après Armand Clesse & Sergei Lounev The vitality of Russia Armand Clesse & Christopher Coker (eds.) The vitality of Britain Armand Clesse & Vitaly Zhurkin (eds.) The future role of Russia in Europe and in the world Armand Clesse & Xu Mingqi The vitality of China and the Chinese Armand Clesse & Seyfi Tashan Turkey and the European Union: 2004 and beyond François Crouzet & Armand Clesse (eds.) Leading the world economically Immanuel Wallerstein & Armand Clesse (eds.) The world we are entering 2000 - 2050