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Den 20-21. maj 2012 mødes NATO til topmøde i Obamas hjemby Chicago.
16-05-2012 | Is Today’s Humanitarian Aid Sector Fit for Purpose? Seven Things I Wish I Had Known Ten Years Ago
The past decade has brought profound changes to the world of humanitarian aid.
15-05-2012 | The Politics of Ethics and Identity
Richard Ned Lebow has written a new book on The Politics of Ethics and Identity which will be published by Cambridge University Press later this year.
The Green Economy has been identified as one of the two overarching themes of the upcoming UN Summit in Rio de Janeiro, ‘Rio+20’, in June this year.
Gennem 2000’erne har Danmark på linje med andre europæiske lande og EU politisk anerkendt behovet for tiltrækning af kvalificeret arbejdskraft og har meldt sig på banen i den globale konkurrence om ønskede migranter.
Sacrifice and conscription express different views of the nature of political violence.
Under det danske EU-formandskab står EU over for vanskelige forhandlinger om den næste budgetramme for 2014-2020.
09-05-2012 | Critical Peace and Conflict Studies
What does critical peace and conflict studies look like today, and where are they going?
08-05-2012 | From Gorbachev to Putin: The Leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin Reassessed
On 7 May, Vladimir Putin will be inaugurated as the President of Russia – for the third time.
Deepening the understanding of Pakistan’s security challenges on a local and regional scale is instructive to understand reasons behind recent cleavages in US-Pakistani relations.
07-05-2012 | Holocaust i skandinavisk historieskrivning
Hvilken plads har Holocaust i skandinaviske befolkningers kollektive forståelse af besættelsestidshistorien?
02-05-2012 | Liberia mellem fred og konflikt i en urolig region
Liberia fremhæves ofte som et eksempel på en succes – et land, hvor den internationale indsats for fred virker.
Due to its nuclear program Iran is currently subjected to the harshest international sanctions, amounting to economic warfare.
25-04-2012 | Towards a New Era of EU-Asia Relations?
The EU has always had relations with the many and varied countries of Asia. Yet, the Europe-Asia relationship is often described as the weak link in the global power triangle
20-04-2012 | Democratic Developments in Tanzania
Democracy in Tanzania may be at a historical juncture. The 2010 elections were described as the most competitive and legitimate in the history of Tanzania
As the world’s sole remaining superpower, America and American leadership is all-pervading in the international sphere, from foreign policy and economics, to trade and international law.
During recent years, a new brand of populism has emerged in Eastern European countries and has in some cases even penetrated their governing political parties.
16-04-2012 | Yemen and ‘the Arab Spring’
Five months into the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-brokered power transition plan, the end result of ‘the Arab Spring’ is by no means clear in Yemen.
12-04-2012 | Addressing Climate Change and Conflict in Development Cooperation – Experiences from Natural Resource Management
Climate change is rarely the sole cause of conflict, but it can intensify and multiply existing conflicts over natural resources.
Under det danske formandskab står EU over for vigtige forhandlinger om reformer af den fælles landbrugspolitik, som skal gælde efter 2013.
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There is a growing consensus that politics shape the incentives that drive or hinder sustainable growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries.
There is a growing consensus that politics shape the incentives that drive or hinder sustainable growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries.
29-03-2012 | Women and Resilience – Surviving Armed Conflict
Armed conflicts can have considerable and disproportionate impact on women, as they can suffer specific risks and confront specific vulnerabilities because of their gender.
28-03-2012 | Explaining Foreign Policy
Hans Mouritzen and Anders Wivel have recently published the volume Explaining Foreign Policy: International Diplomacy and the Russo-Georgian War.
At the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan in November/December 2011, one of the major outcomes was the adoption of a New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States.
Peter Taksøe-Jensen er Danmarks ambassadør i USA. Inden han indtog denne position i Washington, var Taksøe-Jensen ansat ved FN i New York som Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs.
20-03-2012 | Past, Present and Future of International Aid - Reflections on Aid Agencies and the Development System
While ‘development’ is often discussed in technical terms, based on an underlying understanding of the concept as neutral and universally applicable, it can be argued that it is in many ways highly normative, shaped by a particular historical context and based on specific moral and ideological assumptions.
16-03-2012 | Registration closed! - Arab Spring – Where are the Democratic Movements One Year Later?
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Following the analyses of the Arab ‘revolutions’ produced by various analysts during the spring 2011, this seminar will address the question of where the popular democratic movements and demands stand to day, a year later.
Following the analyses of the Arab ‘revolutions’ produced by various analysts during the spring 2011, this seminar will address the question of where the popular democratic movements and demands stand to day, a year later.
In this seminar, Maria Sultan examines the importance of the Indian military’s Cold Start Doctrine (CSD).
29-02-2012 | How to Promote Green Growth in the EU? The Danish EU Presidency and its Green Growth Agenda
One of the top priorities of the Danish EU Presidency is to promote green growth in the EU.
23-02-2012 | Jewish Migration to the Frontiers
Why do people from the Jewish diasporic world of the United States and England choose to move into a Jewish community in the occupied territories?
The international operation in the Helmand province in Afghanistan has been one of the testing grounds for the use of development aid in the context of open armed conflict or ‘hot stabilization’.
Meet the Minister for Development Cooperation Christian Friis Bach for a dynamic debate with leading practitioners and researchers in the field.
NATO enlargement has been a topic for discussion for more than two decades since the Alliance in June 1990 decided to ‘stretch out the hand of friendship’.
Udviklingsministeren har sendt udkast til forslag til lov om internationalt udviklingssamarbejde i offentlig høring.
03-02-2012 | Dansk bistand og sikkerhed
Internationale debatter har de seneste år peget på, hvordan både udviklingsbistand og nødhjælp i stigende grad er blevet betragtet som et sikkerhedspolitisk instrument.
The international system of development aid is rapidly changing, shaped by an increasingly multipolar world order.
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Two decades after the bloody wars in former Yugoslavia, the region has become deeply involved in the challenges of democratic consolidation.
Two decades after the bloody wars in former Yugoslavia, the region has become deeply involved in the challenges of democratic consolidation.
The Research and Communication Programme (ReCom) on Foreign Aid was launched by Danida and Sida in early 2011
This migration seminar will focus on Dominican deportees. The 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act has led to the forcible deportation of tens of thousands of Dominicans from the United States.
Constitutionalization has traditionally been discussed in the context of the nation state and the relation between rulers and citizens.
The official results of the elections in Egypt for the People’s Assembly (the lower house) are ready to be announced in the end of January.
10-01-2012 | Registration closed! Morocco and the Arab Spring
Morocco has not been immune to the Arab Spring. Since 20 February 2011, a popular movement has been demonstrating regularly against corruption and for political reforms.
De globale klimaforandringer har medført en uforudset hurtig afsmeltning af iskappen i polarområdet.
Europe has changed a lot since last time Denmark sat in the chair of the EU Presidency.
05-12-2011 | Competitive Clientelism and Pockets of Efficiency in Mozambique, Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda
How and why do ruling elites support productive sector initiatives – and what are the outcomes?
The G20 leaders boldly designated themselves as ‘the premier global economic forum’.
01-12-2011 | Sudan og Sydsudan: Perspektiver for fjendskab, fællesskab og fremtid i verdens nye stat
2011 blev året, hvor Sydsudans langvarige løsrivelseskamp fra regeringen i Khartoum bar frugt.
Ruling elites support productive sectors when it helps them to remain in power. In countries with competitive clientelism, however, there are often easier ways to remain in power than to support production.
This seminar focuses on three different cases of migration and the politics of deportation
25-11-2011 | Sexual Violence and the Concept of the Human
In 1999, the United Nations adopted Resolution 54/134 on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
24-11-2011 | The Geopolitical Disaster of the 20th Century? Causes and Implications of the End of the Soviet Union
Twenty years ago at the beginning of December, a very secret meeting took place in a hunting lodge, Belovezhskaya Puschcha in the Brest area.
22-11-2011 | Post Bin Laden ― Ending Militancy in Pakistan?
In 2009, American president Barack Obama declared Pakistan to be the toughest challenge in the fight against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
The political settlement is a description of a social order constituted as a viable and interdependent set of institutions and organizations.
Den globale udfordring: FN mellem relevans, legitimitet og handlekraft (DJØF Forlag, 2011) fokuserer på FN’s centrale opgaver og redegør for, hvad FN’s arbejde med fred og sikkerhed, menneskerettigheder og udvikling i bund og grund handler om.
15-11-2011 | Mørkets hjerte i Øst: Europa under Stalin og Hitler?
Med afsæt i den amerikanske historiker Timothy Snyders bog Bloodlands inviterer Jyllands-Posten i samarbejde med DIIS til paneldebat med en række eksperter på Sovjetunionen, stalinismen, nazismen og Holocaust om Europas historie under Hitler og Stalin.
The current financial crisis reveals two major weaknesses which impact on the European project and on modern European politics as such – the absence of political brotherhood and the neglect of intra-European fault lines.
Optimism ran high in the Middle East after Obama took office. In Cairo, the administration promised a “new beginning”, based on engagement and dialogue, prioritizing a two-state solution and improving relations between the US and the Muslim world.
Like many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania has grown rapidly during the last decade.
Roger N. McDermott has recently published the book Russian Armed Forces: The Reform of Russia’s Conventional Armed Forces: Problems, Challenges and Policy Implications (The Jamestown Foundation, 2011).
08-11-2011 | Demonization – from Anti-Semitism to Anti-Zionism
A great deal of the global media debate is dedicated to the Arab-Israeli conflict. During his visit to Copenhagen, the Israeli journalist Ben-Dror Yemini will discuss the questions: How did Israel come to be portrayed as a “menace to world peace”?
02-11-2011 | G20 at a Crossroads
Since the Second World War, the IMF and the World Bank have been key pillars of global economic governance.
Ghana is an exemplary case to discuss the relationship between democracy and development.
Governing Through Standards – rather than through law and regulation – is one of the central trends that has emerged in industrialized countries since the 1980s.
Those contemplating the reconstruction of order in conflict states frequently cite the social contract.
Successful state interventions in productive sectors depend on four factors: (1) sustained political support by the government leadership.
Historically, migrants have regarded West Africa as a sub-region of free movement.
20-10-2011 | What Drives States to Support Productive Sectors? Ruling Elites’ Strategies for Political Survival
There is a growing consensus that developing country governments can, and even must, facilitate economic development by targeting particular industries to help them expand and become more competitive in domestic and global markets.
Undocumented migration to Europe and the US has turned into an increasingly dangerous enterprise in which an unknown number of migrants die on the high sea, in the desert, or at the hands of drug cartels and others who take advantage of the migrant’s vulnerable situation.
12-10-2011 | Vejen fra Paris til Busan
Paris-erklæringen om bistandseffektivitet i 2005 var den foreløbige kulmination på årtiers indsats for at forbedre udviklingsbistanden.
06-10-2011 | “The Lesser Evil”? Policy Logics and Practices of Removal and Detention in the Euro-Mediterranean Area
The arrival of more than 45,000 African boat migrants and asylum seekers in Italy this year has caused much public and political attention in Europe.
04-10-2011 | Rescue during the Holocaust – Gentile Help and Jewish Self-Help in the Escape from Nazi-Persecution
Within Holocaust and genocide studies, a recent tendency has been to focus on rescue, and how in some cases Jews were able to escape deportation either with the help of bystanders or through their own efforts.
In recent weeks, issuance of Eurobonds has moved centre stage in debates over how to deal with the escalating sovereign debt crisis in Europe.
29-09-2011 | Bahrain – The Human Rights Situation
For years the opposition in Bahrain has demanded political reforms giving all in the divided society equal rights in the political system, in economic affairs, and in access to housing and job opportunities.
26-09-2011 | Aid and Genocide-Scandinavian Relief Work among the Christian Minorities in the Ottoman Empire
This conference will focus on the relief work that was conducted among Armenians and other Christian minorities of Ottoman Turkey before, during and after World War I by primarily Scandinavian missionaries and provide a contextual understanding of the mass atrocities in the Ottoman Empire
The terrorist attack of 9/11 brought religion to the fore of public attention. Following this event, politicians and scholars had to deal with the phenomenon of religious terrorism.
21-09-2011 | Registration closed! - The Deportation Regime: Migration “Illegality” and Danish Return Operations
During the last two decades, expulsion of irregular migrants and rejected asylum seekers has become an increasingly widespread practice and policy priority.
The cooperation in Europe has been tested over the past year. Pressure on the Euro and the Schengen area – two of the EU’s greatest achievements – as well as a financial and economic crisis call for a strong European leadership in the future.
I lighed med andre steder i Europa har de skandinaviske lande siden slutningen af 1990’erne haft et særligt fokus på at undervise nyere generationer i historien om Holocaust.
02-09-2011 | Tilmelding lukket! 10 år efter 11. september
Den 11. september 2011 er det 10 år siden, USA blev ramt af det største terrorangreb verden nogensinde havde set udført af en ikke statslig gruppe.
In the context of the Arab Spring, Israel is becoming more isolated in the region.
Philippine au pair migration to Denmark and Norway has increased considerably during the last decade, in spite of the Philippine ban on au pairing to Europe.
“If 1989 saw the end of the ‘Second World’ with Communism’s demise, then 2009 saw the end of what was known as the ‘Third World’”, Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, famously declared in April 2010.
09-06-2011 | Divided Government in the United States
Divided government is a product of the separation of powers which is a key institution in the American political system and is designed to create conflict between the executive and legislative branches of government.
The economics profession appears to have been unaware of the long build-up to the current worldwide financial crisis and to have significantly underestimated its dimensions once it started to unfold.
Europe is often derided as an economic giant but political dwarf, divided and unable to defend its interests and values in the world.
I de første måneder af 2011 blev Mellemøsten ændret. Demonstranter tvang regimerne i først Tunesien og derpå Egypten til fald, og protesterne spredte sig til en række andre lande, hvor magthaverne kæmper for overlevelse.
A small but highly successful island in the Indian Ocean, multi-ethnic Mauritius has been called a “miracle” for its combination of a robust democracy and strong economic growth.
Until the East Asian financial crisis, Malaysia was taken to be a successful development country balancing rapid economic growth and industrialization with poverty alleviation and ethno-economic redistribution.
As US/NATO forces prepare to pull out of Afghanistan in the backdrop of a worsening security situation, the question of how to ensure a peaceful settlement becomes more pertinent and urgent.
Given the adoption of neoliberal principles by African countries over the last twenty years, studies have burgeoned on the causes and consequences of market formation and private sector development on the continent.
Angolan state resources were partly privatized after the Cold War, resulting in elite oligopolies in every major economic sector.
13-05-2011 | Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World
Book launch. In "Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World" Lisa Ann Richey and Stefano Ponte offer a deeply informed and stinging critique of ‘compassionate consumption’.
06-05-2011 | Tanzania and Vietnam: Comparative Political Economy of Growth, Primitive Accumulation and the State
Tanzania and Vietnam were at the forefront of the struggle to construct socialism in the 20th century.
The phenomenon of rapid and uncontrolled urbanisation in developing countries is increasingly threatening the well-being and the development opportunities of millions of city dwellers.
02-05-2011 | After NATO’s New Strategic Concept
The Atlantic Alliance has a new strategic concept that will guide it into the 21st century.
Interest in ‘rigorous’ evaluation of Danish development assistance is increasing mainly as a result of the strong political interest in solid documentation of results and what works and what doesn’t.
29-04-2011 | Film og forskning
Forskningens Døgn. Vi viser film om Liberia efter borgerkrigen; demokratisering i Benin; lokal adgang til vand i Zambia, Vietnam og Nicaragua; politiets arbejde mod menneskehandel og prostitution; og danske børn i nazistisk koncentrationslejr
28-04-2011 | The EU and Strategic Partnerships
At the European Council meeting in September 2010, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton put the topic of strategic partnerships on the agenda.
Until the 1980s, political scientists and sociologists studying economic development attempted to explain why growth did not occur, occurred slowly or occurred in a distorted, dependent form.
13-04-2011 | Listening to Radicals
The European Study of Youth Mobilization (ESYM) explored the political and social attitudes among highly active young people in Central and Nordic Europe, who see themselves as outside of the mainstream.
Det politiske landskab i Libyen har den sidste måned ændret sig markant og måske for altid.
07-04-2011 | The Politics of Large-Scale Mining in Tanzania: Between Domestic Policy and Global Economic Processes
The rapid increase in direct foreign investment for large-scale commercial mining since the 1980s is spurring industry and public policy circles to consider the potential for resource-based sustainable development.
07-04-2011 | A Better Life for All: The Post-1994 South African Journey in the Second Decade of the 21st Century
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been described as an important element of the healing process in South African society, which followed the end of apartheid.
The current wave of changes shaking the Middle East have led several experts to re-evaluate their analysis of the role of Islamism in domestic politics of the region.
05-04-2011 | Inequality, Development and Development Aid
The Human Development Report (HDR) 2010 notes that despite much progress, inequality both within and across countries is growing.
01-04-2011 | From Collusion to Collaboration? State-Business Relations and Economic Performance in India
There is a long-standing proposition that collaborative relations between the state and the business sector can be growth-enhancing.
28-03-2011 | Tilmelding lukket! - Anerkendelsen af en palæstinensisk stat: Paradigmeskift eller utopi?
Til trods for den demokratiske bølge, der i disse uger går gennem Mellemøsten, er håbet om fred mellem Israel og Palæstina beskedent.
22-03-2011 | Registration closed! - The EU’s Eastern Neighbours - The Road to Viable Reforms and Efficient Assistance
This conference will elaborate on how the EU and its member states can improve cooperation with the EU’s Eastern neighbours.
How to reach out to Muslim communities has constituted an issue of pre-eminent strategic importance both in the United States and in Europe.
Technological latecomer countries face a dilemma. They are confronted with more severe market failure than mature market economies.
We know that industrial policy is imperative for economic development.
09-03-2011 | Economic Affairs in Syria and in the Region
Economically, Syria has done relatively well during the global financial crisis.
What happens when 100,000 people are put in a camp for years and years?
Literature outside of Turkey has studied the Kurdish Question only with relevance to international conflict, whereas until recently Turkish academia has devoted itself to proving there were neither Kurds nor a lingering Kurdish Question in Turkey.
10-02-2011 | EU and the Uprisings in North Africa
The events in Tunisia and Egypt in the recent weeks have caught Europe off-guard.
04-02-2011 | Industrial Policy on the Rise?
Industrial policy is on the rise. Despite fiscal austerity in the UK, for instance, the British government recently launched a comprehensive industrial policy.
04-02-2011 | 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang from University of Cambridge will visit DIIS to present his new book, 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism
DIIS hosted two seminars, one on Industrial Policy on the Rise with Robert Wade and Ha-Joon Chang and the second on 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
28-01-2011 | Adolf Eichmann: Fifty Years Later
Adolf Eichmann was a German SS officer during World War II who was responsible for the logistics of mass deportation of the Jews to ghettos and death camps.
In his new book, Extremely Violent Societies:Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World (Cambridge, 2010), Christian Gerlach tackles the theme of mass violence from a comparative perspective.
Almost a decade has followed since the issue of migration and development surged the international development agenda and gained substantial attention among both policy makers and academics.
18-01-2011 | Financial Transaction Tax
A Financial Transaction Tax could potentially generate revenues and stabilize markets
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Afghanistan is facing a number of key challenges: The transition of security responsibilities from foreign forces to the Afghan National Security Forces, and at some stage the exit of foreign forces; a likely reconciliation and reintegration process with insurgents and the political consequences of that; the need for progress in governance and development; the relationship with its neighbors.
Afghanistan is facing a number of key challenges: The transition of security responsibilities from foreign forces to the Afghan National Security Forces, and at some stage the exit of foreign forces; a likely reconciliation and reintegration process with insurgents and the political consequences of that; the need for progress in governance and development; the relationship with its neighbors.
17-12-2010 | Governing the Dead
Within international studies, the dead would seem to make up an exotic but marginal subject of research and policy analysis.
14-12-2010 | How UN Ideas Change the World
Ideas and concepts are a main driving force in human progress, and they are arguably the most important contribution of the United Nations.
This seminar will discuss past, present and future approaches to studies of the migration-security nexus.
08-12-2010 | The Road to Europe – A Conversation with Minister Egemen Bağış, Turkey’s Chief EU Negotiator
The negotiations on the accession of Turkey into the European Union have now entered their fifth year.
Next year will be an important time for the Eastern Partnership, the EU’s flagship initiative addressed to countries of Eastern Europe.
03-12-2010 | Local Development and the Millennium Development Goals: What Role for Local Governments?
There is growing consensus that democratic governance creates the conditions for sustainable development and poverty reduction.
In recent years, the images of young Africans in ramshackle boats on the Spanish or Italian shores have reached the European public.
Inden for både samfundsfaglig udviklingsforskning og evalueringer af udviklingssamarbejdet er der en tendens til at gennemføre analyser, der omfatter flere lande.
Sudan is at an important, historic moment. A referendum vote planned in January 2011 may very likely result in the South becoming an independent state.
22-11-2010 | Holy Wrath – My Journey through Pakistan
In recent years, Pakistan has become a symbol of violence, extremism and terror. An expert on terrorism, Norwegian Laila Bokhari has visited her father’s homeland, Pakistan, many times in the past few years.
19-11-2010 | A New Global Governance? Climate Change Negotiations and International Development Cooperation
Climate change negotiations are a volatile policy field. They address a potentially devastating issue, they are based on contradicting interests and principles, and their organisation is not as ingrained as other older policy fields.
17-11-2010 | Sino-Indian Relations in Strategic Asia
The Sino-Indian relations have become an inclusive phenomenon. As the global economic integration deepens and the economies of both China and India develop rapidly, new conditions are being created for reshaping Sino-Indian relations.
Today’s world is an increasingly complex environment. The fault lines between conflict and cooperation among a plethora of different actors are getting fuzzier.
Dette års udgave af Human Development Report fejrer den årlige rapports 20 års jubilæum.
Why Africa is Poor: And what Africans can do about it. This seminar is focused around the recently published book by South African academic Greg Mills.
19-10-2010 | Political Asylum in the 21st Century
Few issues have remained as politicized as asylum in the past few decades.
18-10-2010 | Why Nations Fight: Past and Future Motives for War
Why Nations Fight, Richard Ned Lebow takes, in his most recent book, on one of the most fundamental questions of International Relations.
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The guiding development philosophy of Bhutan is ‘Gross National Happiness’. Pronounced by His Majesty the 4th King in 1972, Bhutan is the only country in the world to measure its wellbeing by Gross National Happiness (GNH) instead of Gross National Product (GDP).
The guiding development philosophy of Bhutan is ‘Gross National Happiness’. Pronounced by His Majesty the 4th King in 1972, Bhutan is the only country in the world to measure its wellbeing by Gross National Happiness (GNH) instead of Gross National Product (GDP).
DIIS hosted an international conference on the Financial Crisis and its Impact on Low Income Countries with a discussion of the responses from LIC and initial lessons to be learned.
Forsvarsministeriet oplyser, at partierne bag forsvarsforliget vil nedsætte en arbejdsgruppe, der skal udarbejde forslag til en officiel dansk veteranpolitik.
Still Alive is a documentary that follows the lives of former gang members in Guatemala over a five-year period as they join an art collective amidst a climate of intense violence, displacement and a conflict rooted in a 36-year long civil war.
12-10-2010 | Asia’s Long-term Growth and Development Prospects
Despite rapid growth in the last decades, Asia remains a region marked by widespread poverty, home to two-thirds of the world’s poor.
11-10-2010 | Grænser for solidaritet
I bogen Grænser for solidaritet giver 11 bidragydere historiske og aktuelle vinkler på indvandrerpolitik i Danmark og Europa.
Questions pertaining to the EU’s future enlargement remain high on the Turkish political agenda with the weakening of the prospects of membership in all probability slowing down the country’s diffusion to European norms.
07-10-2010 | Democratic Counter Terrorism after 9/11
The 9/11 attacks by Al Qaeda led to a very harsh democratic policy toward enemy prisoners, led by the United States but supported by various allies.
06-10-2010 | Rethinking Foreign Aid: Where Do We Go from Here?
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Foreign aid is increasingly being delivered in accordance with general guidelines based on international agreements like the Millennium Development Goals and the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness.
Foreign aid is increasingly being delivered in accordance with general guidelines based on international agreements like the Millennium Development Goals and the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness.
On 3 October, Bosnia-Herzegovina will hold general elections. Almost 15 years since the Dayton Agreement put an end to the civil war, the challenges facing the country remain enormous.
30-09-2010 | The International Response to Darfur
The Darfur conflict lingers on. Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has been charged by the International Criminal Court with war crimes, crimes against humanity and of genocide in the country’s western region.
17-09-2010 | What is the Responsibility to Protect?
The seminar is held to mark the five-year anniversary for the Follow-up to the Millennium Summit. In two paragraphs of the 2005 World Summit Outcome, the UN gave formal expression to the norm of responsibility to protect (R2P).
Stoltenberg-rapporten som inspirationskilde for forstærket nordisk samarbejde i Østersøområdet, Nordområderne, Barentshavområdet og Arktis.
15-09-2010 | The Nuclear Future 150910
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Population growth and climate change are often regarded as factors that will lead to increased water conflicts in developing countries in the future.
10-09-2010 | Testimonies from Auschwitz: An Intimate Look at the Sonderkommandos and the Process of Mass Murder
In order to carry out the extermination of European Jewry, the Nazi regime needed to develop efficient methods of mass murder
08-09-2010 | Combating Tax Avoidance by Multinational Corporations in Poor Countries:Will Country-by-Country Reporting Do the Job?
Tax avoidance is a global problem. It involves the abusive exploitation of gaps and loopholes in domestic and international tax law that allow multinational companies to shift profits from country to country
DIIS’s migration unit has invited Rubén Hernández-Leon from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) to present an analysis with regard to migration to the United States.
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Lebanon has gone through dramatic changes since 2005: the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the withdrawal of Syrian forces, the Israeli war against Hizbullah in 2006 and internal conflict in 2008.
Lebanon has gone through dramatic changes since 2005: the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the withdrawal of Syrian forces, the Israeli war against Hizbullah in 2006 and internal conflict in 2008.
11-08-2010 | Carbon Footprints, Trade and Development
Carbon footprint labels and border measures are at the centre of current debates cutting across climate change, trade and development policies.
24-06-2010 | The Illusory Lure of ‘Good Governance’ and the Hard Realities of Growth in Poor Countries
The ‘Good Governance’ agenda identifies a host of desirable governance goals for developing countries but its implementation and results have been very poor.
Debatten om det danske engagement i Afghanistan er for tiden domineret af filmen Armadillo, der grundlæggende skildrer hvordan soldaterhåndværket gennemføres i praksis – professionelt, men også råt.
When the EU and IMF announced its joint €750 billion rescue plan to prevent Greece’s sovereign debt crisis from spreading to Spain and Portugal and ultimately casting doubt on the future of the euro, international markets and media responded with relief.
17-06-2010 | Culture of Fear: Challenging Europe’s Global Role
Europe is gripped by a culture of fear: of multiculturalism; of the ‘Other’, to be sure; but also of its own loss of purpose.
14-06-2010 | Standards, Trade and Africa: Research, Capacity Building and Policy Outcomes of the SAFE Programme
A growing proportion of global agro-food trade is currently managed through the use of standards. This is the result of increasing consumer concern with food safety and ‘sustainability’, the leading role assumed by large supermarkets and processors in agro-food value chains, and massive investments by these in brand development and protection.
With an insurgency in its tribal areas, a campaign of suicide attacks in its major cities, a history of unstable political and economic institutions, a population living largely in poverty, a difficult relationship with its immediate neighbours, and a strained security alliance with the United States, Pakistan is facing challenges on a momentous scale.
10-06-2010 | Juggernaut or Catalyst for African Industry? China’s New Overseas Economic Zones and Industrial Investment in Africa
Competition from China’s ambitious export drive is widely regarded as closing off opportunities for entry-level industries in Africa. But is this actually the case?
03-06-2010 | Europe and the Mediterranean: Normative Influence and Threat Perception in the EU’s Southern Neighbourhood
On 7 June, the EU-sponsored ‘Union for the Mediterranean’ – comprising the 27 member states of the EU and 16 North African, Middle Eastern and Balkan countries – will organise its second summit in Barcelona.
31-05-2010 | Vi slår ihjel - og lever med det
Som bekendt er Danmark i krig i Afghanistan. Det er ikke, fordi det præger vores hverdag, men jævnligt bliver vi mindet om det, når det meddeles, at en eller flere danske soldater er blevet dræbt eller såret af vejsidebomber eller i direkte kamphandlinger med fjenden, talebanerne.
28-05-2010 | NATO and the Effect of Afghanistan
It has dramatically (and perhaps unwisely) been said that NATO’s survival as an alliance depends on its success in Afghanistan.
28-05-2010 | Regional Integration: The Case of North America
In contrast to Europe, where balance and coalition interests have marked the process of regional integration, North American integration has been dominated by a ‘natural hegemon’ since its early stages.
Since the mid-1990’s, Europe has experienced an increased interest in the Holocaust. In 1996 Germany made 27 January – the day Auschwitz was liberated – a day to remember the victims of National Socialism
24-05-2010 | The Jihadi Affiliates of al-Qaida
Almost ten years after 9/11, al-Qaida still looms large as the manifestation of global, Islamic terrorism, but what is the current state of the al-Qaida organisation?
Do we need a new security architecture in Europe after the end of the Cold War, the re-unification of Germany, and the collapse of the Soviet Union?
In public debate, the story of the financial crisis has largely been a story of deregulation, complex financial products and greedy financiers.
10-05-2010 | The Rise of China and Liberal World Order
The rise of China within global society and politics constitutes a development that is likely to have major repercussions both for China and for the established world order, and may well turn out to be one of the most significant world-order changes in the 21st century.
Launch of a new research network entitled “The Migration Industry and Markets for Managing Migration”, which aims at developing new concepts and theories for the study of international migration.
05-05-2010 | Børn i skyggen af Holocaust
Børnene er de sidste øjenvidner til nazisternes forbrydelser mod jøderne før og under Anden Verdenskrig.
04-05-2010 | Less Pretension, More Ambition: Dutch Discussions of Development Aid that Makes a Difference
In January 2010, the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (SCGP) published a report called Less Pretension, More Ambition: Development Aid that makes a Difference. Using a scientific approach, the aim of the SCGP is to advise the Dutch government about future developments of great public interest.
03-05-2010 | Sovereignty, Territory and Emerging Geopolitics
The neat division of the world into sovereign, territorial states is still the norm that underpins international order, and unilateral attempts to change existing borders are sanctioned resolutely. But the past decades have increasingly eroded the degree to which the link between territory, citizenship and sovereignty can be taken for granted as the natural state of affairs
28-04-2010 | Forsvarschefen om forsvarets udfordringer
Danmark er i krig i Afghanistan, en krig, der har vist sig i alle henseender at være langt mere ressourcekrævende, end den politiske og militære ledelse havde forestillet sig.
In recent years, there has been a growing tendency amongst certain professionals to make use of apocalyptic terms to describe almost any crisis or emergency. Even when pronouncements are measured, which is usually the case in counterterrorism, actions often convey a tremendous confusion.
26-04-2010 | Academia and Foreign Policy Making: Bridging the Gap
The seminar explores the relationship between academic research in the field of International Relations (IR) and the making of foreign policy. How do the two coincide and coexist? It seems, as such, that the scholarly community is confronted by an ever increasing call to produce useful and relevant knowledge, although the gap between analysis and policy making remains formidable.
The west in the Middle East: Fixed Perceptions of Shifting Dynamics
Seminaret er det tredje og sidste i seminarrækken EU bag kulisserne – Europa-Parlamentets vej til magten.
08-04-2010 | Talking to Terrorists:Understanding the Differing Motivations of Militant Jihadi Extremists
Anne Speckhard will present the results of her in-depth interviews with over 350 terrorists, extremists, suicide bombers, their senders, hostages, family members and close associates
29-03-2010 | Rethinking the World Bank
These years are unusual ones for the World Bank. In the course of just two years the global economic recession has more or less eradicated the hard-won achievements made in terms of poverty reduction over the preceding two decades.
FN’s rolle som det naturlige centrum for globalt samarbejde er til debat. G8 er blevet til G20 – et handlekraftigt og overskueligt forum, der samler 85 procent af verdens økonomi omkring ét mødebord.
Not many decades ago, citizens who left their motherland due to conflict, political disagreement or in search of a brighter future were considered traitors by their compatriots and the state.
08-03-2010 | Iran and Israel: A Couple at Odds
The Islamic Revolution of 1979 was a major turning point in Iranian history, representing a dramatic change in its domestic landscape and a momentous change in its foreign outlook
24-02-2010 | Governing Through Standards
The Governing Through Standards international symposium brought together scholars with a common interest in how and why standards are used as economic and social governance tools and with what effects.
Seminaret er det andet af tre i seminarrække EU bag kulisserne – Europa-Parlamentets vej til magten.
Danske og udenlandske EU-aktører vil over de tre arrangementer fortælle om deres personlige opfattelser af og bidrag til begivenheder, der har formet magten i Europa-Parlamentet.
Danske og udenlandske EU-aktører vil over de tre arrangementer fortælle om deres personlige opfattelser af og bidrag til begivenheder, der har formet magten i Europa-Parlamentet.
29-01-2010 | From Africa to Auschwitz and After
In 1951, Hannah Arendt postulated that European imperialism played a crucial role in the development of totalitarian and genocidal policies in Europe.
27-01-2010 | Erhvervssektorbistand og dansk erhvervslivs rolle: Kan Danmark skabe økonomisk vækst i fattige lande?
Beskæftigelse og økonomisk vækst er nøgleord i Afrika-kommissionens rapport, der udkom 6. maj 2009, og midlet er ikke mindst erhvervssektorudvikling.
Coming out of one of the worst financial crises in modern history, the task of fundamentally reforming banking should be on the top of the political agenda
China’s rise as a global economic superpower is one of the most significant changes in the world economy for decades.
I hvilket omfang styrede serbiske agenter Bosnien under krigen? Hvad var det politiske mål for de bosniske muslimer – et samlet Bosnien eller en lille islamisk stat?
10-12-2009 | Obama’s World: Promising or Illusory?
10 December, President Obama receives the Nobel Peace Prize 2009. The Nobel Committee emphasises President Obama’s “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”. The seminar will focus on President Obama’s visions, his principles and policy goals
The terrorist attacks in Madrid and London in 2004 and 2005 introduced two new concepts to the European public debate: “home-grown terrorism” and “radicalization”.
20-11-2009 | Remittances, Migration and the Financial Crisis
One of the most direct ways in which migrants and refugees influence their countries of origin is through the sending of remittances. On a global scale, remittances exceed overseas development assistance and equal foreign direct investments.
10-11-2009 | China’s Economic Diplomacy
China’s growing role in the world economy is indisputable. After more than two decades of export-driven economic growth averaging nine per cent a year, China is today the third largest economy in the world.
On 9 November, Europe will remember the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The anniversary calls for celebration but also for reflection about the legacy of that event and of the systemic changes it has brought to Europe ever since.
Europa-Huset inviterer til seminar og debat mandag d. 9. november, kl. 10.00, under overskriften "Hvordan håndterer EU flygtninge- og indvandringspresset op Europa?".
Can one speak of a Holocaust memory in Ukraine? Soviet leaders distorted and suppressed the truth of the Holocaust for decades.
With the occasion of the publication of a new report from the think tank European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), one of the authors, Daniel Korski, will discuss the future of the EU’s civilian capacities and the role of Denmark as a contributing country
Liberalism and imperial practices have historically been closely related and based on an implicit assumption of a hierarchical order.
EADI is the leading professional network for development and regional studies in Europe. The network includes a wide range of development research and training organizations, think tanks, national bodies and researchers throughout Europe.
22-10-2009 | Torture, Terror and the Sovereign Imagination
Paul Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for Human Rights at Yale Law School.
22-10-2009 | Is the global economy recovering?
Is the global economy recovering – or heading for even deeper trouble? Professor Ajit Singh (University of Cambridge) will present a paper giving an optimistic response to this question – and Professor Morten Ougaard (Copenhagen Business School) will act as discussant.
08-10-2009 | The Middle East: Future Challenges and Possibilities
The Middle East has been going through war and crisis. The Iraq war changed the balance of power in the region and threw the country into near civil war.
Danske og udenlandske EU-aktører vil over de tre arrangementer fortælle om deres personlige opfattelser af og bidrag til begivenheder, der har formet magten i Europa-Parlamentet.
In light of weak common and centralised management regimes, under which natural resources are depleted and economic development is often disappointing, the private sector is increasingly mentioned as a potentially significant positive player...
01-10-2009 | French Arab and Mediterranean Policy
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been busy travelling around in the Middle East, the Golf states and North Africa.
30-09-2009 | Natural Resources and the Return of Geopolitics?
Increased demand for natural resources over the past twenty years caused by population growth, depletion of known reserves, massive economic growth in India and China, Western consumerism and, not least, climate change has once again put geopolitical issues at the top of the list of security concerns
Over the last 5-10 years, it has generally been assumed that international migration contributes to social and economic development in migrant sending countries in the developing world.
“Low Carbon Development” has become a new buzz-word in both climate change and development debates, and increasing evidence suggests that it can also help address poverty alleviation in developing countries.
22-09-2009 | Det internationale udviklingssamarbejde anno 2020:Gode viljer og kortsigtede interesser
Verden har de senere år gennemgået betydelige forandringer, som giver nye udfordringer til det internationale udviklingssamarbejde.
The concept of security sector reform (SSR) has become increasingly popular since it was first coined in a speech in 1998 by Clare Short, then British Secretary of State for International Development.
18-09-2009 | Pakistani Taliban
With the reported death of the Pakistani Taliban leader Beitullah Mehsud we are seeing a number of conflicts coming to the surface.
16-09-2009 | Reforming the Bretton Woods Institutions
In November 2008, an international policy process of huge potential significance for the future livelihoods of people throughout the world was initiated by the G-20 countries.
North Korea remains enigmatic to the rest of the world. Its approach to the outside world is based on a long history as the Hermit Kingdom in East Asia.
11-09-2009 | The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism
Is Liberal Internationalism in Crisis? The question is prompted by recent events in the international system such as the Financial Crisis, the Fight Against Terror
Forelæsning med David Golove professor ved New York University Center.
10-08-2009 | Arctic Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
The rapid shrinking of the Arctic’s polar ice will not only produce rising ocean levels in the region and globally, but will also open Arctic waters to new shipping lanes and exploration of the Arctic seabed previously prevented by an impenetrable ice cap.
During the 20th century, the international environment was characterised by great power conflict and ideological competition. By contrast, international stability and national security today are increasingly challenged by weak and failing states.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have been very supportive and even praising the macroeconomic performance of the Sudanese government of President Al-Bashir. This support and encouragement has continued even at the height of the atrocities in Darfur.
18-06-2009 | Military Orientalism
As America and its allies fear military failure abroad, culture is being touted as the key to strategy and even the essence of warfare.
16-06-2009 | Radicalization in the West
Al Qaida is no longer the sole force organizing or authorizing terror attacks justified by references to Islam.
Change in American administrations is an occasion which offers opportunities for a basic rethinking and reevaluation of American foreign policy.
03-06-2009 | Global Governance and the Paradoxes of Liberalism
It is pertinent to reflect on the immediate history of our global economic institutions. There is a fundamental need to reform the World Bank and the IMF say academics and politicians alike, and some have even spoken of the need for a new global deal, a ‘Bretton Woods II’ agreement.
02-06-2009 | History and International Criminal Justice
While many volumes have been written about both the Nuremberg and the Tokyo trials, historians have to date paid relatively little attention to the effect that the more recent trials have upon the writing of history.
The Obama Administration has announced a new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
29-05-2009 | Mapping a Liberal World Order
Liberal ideas have always played a major role in the field of international relations – both from a practical and a philosophical perspective.
26-05-2009 | Chronic Poverty or Inequality: What should be the Overall Objective of Development Cooperation?
The first of the eight Millennium Development Goals is to halve the number of poor people by 2015 and most donor agencies state poverty reduction as their general objective. However, one may criticise the objective for being insufficient and for drawing attention away from more serious problems.
19-05-2009 | Japan’s UN Diplomacy in International Peace and Security: The Role of the UN Peacebuilding Commission and Beyond
Japan places great importance on efforts to ensure international stability by participating in global peacebuilding efforts and extending help to those who are trapped in a vicious spiral of conflict, as such efforts contribute to Japan’s own security and prosperity.
18-05-2009 | Bringing Culture Back in: Social Remittances and Local Practices in the Migration-Development Nexus
At this seminar, two of the leading scholars in transnational migration, Peggy Levitt and Ninna Nyberg Sørensen, challenge the mainstream perception of migration and development, arguing that culture must be brought back in, and a transnational social field perspective must be applied.
15-05-2009 | Zimbabwe in Ruins or Zimbabwe Resurgent?
The recently negotiated government of national unity in Zimbabwe is the product of a long drawn-out negotiation process in which South Africa along with other countries in the so-called SADC region played major roles in finding a solution to the crisis.
I februar måned fremlagde Thorvald Stoltenberg, fhv. norsk forsvars- og udenrigsminister og indehaver af adskillige internationale topposter, en rapport om fremtidens nordiske udenrigs- og sikkerhedspolitiske samarbejde.
Security today involves a variety of issues besides the conventional military ones: Organized crime, weapons proliferation, piracy, global warming, energy security, pandemics, terrorism and cyber-security are just some of the issues that currently warrant the attention of politicians and policy-makers.
12-05-2009 | Race to the Bottom or the Emergence of Transnational Cleavages? Service Liberalization and the ECJ in the Enlarged EU
Conflicts between the Single Market and the European Social Model have heightened with EU enlargement.
11-05-2009 | Baltic Sea Cooperation: Current Challenges
Baltic Sea Cooperation is of current interest for a variety of reasons. Firstly, the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS) recently finalized a rather thorough review process as to the forms of cooperation, achievements gained and the challenges to be addressed in the near future.
07-05-2009 | Current Debates in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Have we lost faith in the power of history? What are the answers to denial? How effective is international law as a preventive instrument? How are past atrocities shaped and reshaped in the aftermath?
This seminar will feature a lecture by Martha Crenshaw
30-04-2009 | Religion, Development and Good Governance
For many years, religion was effectively ignored by development practitioners and academics. Secularist development traditions, combined with essentialist conceptions of religion as inherently conservative and reactionary, left no room for religion.
Political extremists and terrorists are using the internet as an instrument for radicalisation and recruitment. Peter Neumann recently published a report on this topic.
28-04-2009 | Konflikten i Kaukasus 2008 og den vestlige reaktion
Spændingerne i Kaukasus omkring løssrivelsesrepublikkerne Abkhasien og Syd-ossetien eskalerede i løbet af foråret og sommeren 2008 og førte fra 7. august til en egentlig væbnet konflikt mellem Georgien og Rusland.
In recent years, a coalition of priests, politicians and pop-stars have campaigned to ‘make poverty history’ through foreign aid.
24-04-2009 | Civil-militær samtænkning. De næste fem år?
På baggrund af danske og internationale erfaringer fra de sidste fem år vil seminaret gøre status og kigge fremad for at diskutere hvordan den danske civil-militære indsats kan udvikles.
22-04-2009 | Eurussia: Is Pan-European Security Possible?
On the outlook for a new pan-European security architecture.
21-04-2009 | Poverty, Forests and Climate Change – Practical Strategies for Ensuring Pro-Poor Approaches to REDD
One of the controversial issues at the upcoming United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen is the establishment of a possible global mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD).
The five day war in the Caucasus in August last year between Georgia and Russia left Georgia as well as Western institutions at a crossroads.
16-04-2009 | Prospects for EU-Russia Relations
If there is one major issue that divides the EU it is policy towards Russia. Some member states view Russia as the major security threat while others do not think the EU should upset a resurgent Russia.
Diaspora organizations are often praised as central development actors, perceived to bridge the gap between foreign donors and the local population.
As efforts continue to fight militarily on multiple fronts to disrupt the efforts of al-Qaeda and its affiliates, the United States government has come slowly to the realization that military force alone cannot defeat radical Islamist extremism.
31-03-2009 | Aflyst: I bagklogskabens lys: Er der noget at tage ved lære af to af dansk udviklingsbistands største indsatser?
Dette seminar er blevet aflyst.
17-03-2009 | Where Next for International Financial Regulation?
The G-20 summit in November initiated an international policy process of enormous significance for the future livelihoods of people throughout the world and many hope for a new era in international economic governance.
NATO is approaching its 60th anniversary. Such an event calls for celebration, but also presents an opportunity for reflecting upon past achievements and setbacks, as well as for anticipating the future of the Atlantic Alliance.
A seminar with Andries du Toit. Fifteen years after the end of Apartheid, and on the eve of its fourth democratic general election, South Africa faces daunting challenges.
04-03-2009 | Religion, Development and Education
For many years, religion was effectively ignored by development practitioners and academics. Secularist development traditions, combined with essentialist conceptions of religion as inherently conservative and reactionary, left no room for religion.
03-03-2009 | The Obama Administration – Strengths and Challenges
The hopes and expectations for the Obama Administration are extreme. However, it is important to realize that Obama faces enormous challenges, primarily a deep economic crisis and America’s involvement in two wars.
02-03-2009 | From Brain Drain to Brain Gain? Sending Country Perspectives on Skilled Migration and Development
Highly skilled migration from developing to Western countries is often conceptualised as brain drain and as detrimental for development. However, recent research and policy development challenges mainstream assumptions of brain drain, insisting that skilled migration is a more complex phenomenon.
20-02-2009 | Glemsel, erindring og vidnesbyrd. Erfaringer fra kz-lejre og deres betydning for eftertiden
I anledning af udgivelsen af antologien 'De nazistiske koncentrationslejre', der kaster lys over over et af de uhyggeligste kapitler, den moderne verden har frembragt.
09-02-2009 | China’s Role in Regional Cooperation
What role does China play in regional cooperation, and what are the prospects for the future of international relations of the Asia-Pacific?
Sovereignty Games (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) offers a new conceptual framework for analysing how states and other actors instrumentalize claims to legal and political authority.
The world’s low income countries are facing an enormous task in the years to come. Not only are they continuing their uphill battle for economic growth and poverty reduction; they also have to wrestle the global climate changes that are threatening exactly these countries the most.
08-01-2009 | Religion, Development and Health
Professor Ezra Chitando will give a presentation on Religion, Development and Health, based on his many years of experience working with HIV and AIDS in Africa.
17-12-2008 | The South Caucasus after the conflict in Georgia
The short August conflict in the Caucasus between Russia and Georgia left the EU at a crossroads. However, the EU managed to take immediate steps to secure a ceasefire, stabilise the situation and facilitate political talks between the parties.
12-12-2008 | Økonomiske konsekvenser af ØMU-deltagelse
I juni 2008 udgav DIIS en udredning om de fire danske forbehold over for den Europæiske Union, der blandt andet analyserede de økonomiske og politiske konsekvenser ved det danske forbehold for ØMU-samarbejdet.
10-12-2008 | Migration and Climate Change
Climate change will force people to flee – current estimates of the number of displaced range from 25 million to one billion by the year 2050. DIIS seminar discusses the topic of climate change and displacement.
Water governance is becoming an increasingly significant issue in development agendas at local, national and international levels.
This seminar investigates a crucial issue for the study of genocide – the justice seeking that follows the end of the genocidal process and the installation of a new regime.
There has been much talk about a European split from the United States during the Administration of George W. Bush, and some differences were certainly evident regarding the invasion of Iraq.
27-11-2008 | Europa-Parlamentet og EU-kritiske bevægelser
Seminaret er det tredje og sidste seminar i den samtidshistoriske EU-seminarrække Berettet for eftertiden II. Denne gang med Jens-Peter Bonde, Freddy Blak og Drude Dahlerup. Ole Ryborg kommenterer.
Water governance is becoming an increasingly significant issue in development agendas at local, national and international levels.
17-11-2008 | 2009 – Time for Détente and Disarmament?
Calls for the complete disarmament of nuclear weapons have taken on an unprecedented, renewed drive. Current and former leaders and high-level government officials from around the world are forwarding the call for a more secure world; one where stepping out from under the nuclear umbrella will strengthen international security. With Hans Blix, Chair of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission.
In Turkey, there seems to be a shift in continuity from a commitment to deep Europeanisation to loose Europeanisation, and a simultaneous shift to soft Euro-Asianism. A seminar with Ziya Öniş of Istanbul‘s Koç University.
13-11-2008 | EU’s udenrigspolitik og EU’s udviklingspolitik
Seminaret er det andet af tre i den samtidshistoriske EU-seminarrække Berettet for eftertiden II. Denne gang med Niels Helveg Petersen og Poul Nielson. Jess Pilegaard kommenterer.
13-11-2008 | Energy Security: Charting New Strategic Challenges
The strategic importance of hydrocarbons has helped shape states’ foreign policy for the past century. With changing global consumption patterns, a tightness of supply that appears to continue and new political fault lines taking shape, the question of how to achieve energy security looms larger than ever.
Hvorfor høres forskernes stemmer sjældent? Hvordan bliver feltarbejde til en god historie i primetime? Og hvilke dilemmaer og muligheder rejser dokumentarfilm som medie? På seminaret vil antropolog Sine Plambech og filminstruktør Janus Metz vise deres nye film Fra Thy til Thailand, som er opfølger til den prisbelønnede dokumentar Fra Thailand til Thy, der blev vist på DR1 i januar 2008.
07-11-2008 | Who are the Fighters in Colombia? FARC, Armed Conflict, Social Movements and the Left in Colombia
Who are the FARC, and what do they want? What is their relation to Colombian social movements and leftish political parties? Do they represent a broader constituency? Antonio Navarro Wolff, Governor of the Department of Nariño, Colombia and himself a former rebel, will answers these and other questions. This seminar will be held in Spanish.
06-11-2008 | Religion, Development and Gender
The second of five seminars in the Religion and Development Seminar Series. With Wendy Tyndale, and comments by Lene Sjørup and Connie Carøre Christensen.
This conference is organised in cooperation with the Latin American Centre for Rural Development (RIMISP), with whom DIIS shares a deep concern about growing rural inequality, and with whom we therefore have a strong mutual interest in understanding the dynamics of rural inequality and the ways in which social actors and institutions interact in shaping the use of – and access to – assets, including natural resources.
04-11-2008 | The Role of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions in the Fight against Terrorism
One of the biggest new threats that we face is the combination of weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. Since the Biological Weapons Convention (1975) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (1997) entered into force, new security challenges have emerged, including the possible use of toxic chemicals and disease as weapons by terrorists.
Rusland er tilbage som stormagt. For 17 år siden brød det sovjetiske imperium endegyldigt sammen. Rusland blev kastet ud i en dramatisk omstillingsproces fra kommunistisk planøkonomi til markedsøkonomi og kapitalisme. Afholdes i anledning af udgivelsen af Karsten Jakob Møllers nye bog af samme navn, der udkommer på mandag den 3. november.
03-11-2008 | Understanding the Global Financial Crisis
“Deprive a person of oxygen and he will turn blue, collapse and eventually die. Deprive economies of credit and a similar process kicks in. As the financial crisis has broadened and intensified, the global economy has begun to suffocate” (The Economist, 9 October, 2008).
30-10-2008 | ØMU’en og Domstolen
Seminaret er det første af tre i den samtidshistoriske EU-seminarrække Berettet for eftertiden II. Denne gang med Niels Thygesen og Claus Gulmann. Martin Marcussen og Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen kommenterer.
After the Russian-Georgian war of 2008, the question of Ukraine’s future relationship with the European Union and NATO has become of crucial importance. Borys Tarasyuk, one Ukraine’s leading politicians and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, will give his assessment of Ukraine’s new position.
28-10-2008 | Local Participation in Protected Area Management – Opportunities and Constraints Part II
The fourth of six seminars in the 2008 Poverty and Environment Seminar Series. With Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, and comments by Mikkel Funder and Jakob Kronik.
27-10-2008 | The French EU Presidency’s Goal: Reinforcing the EU’s Defence Capacity and the EU’s Role on the International Stage
The Russia-Georgia conflict became the French Presidency’s first international challenge. A key goal for the French EU Presidency is to develop and strengthen the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) equipped with credible resources and capabilities, in order to enhance the EU’s role as a global player in crisis management.
After a period of chaos and recession in the 1990s, Russia is now proclaimed to be back among the worlds leading powers. The main reason for this apparent success has been a remarkable economic growth, driven to a large extent by the booming energy prices.
Poor nations are not operationally independent; they work inside a global development regime whose leading authorities are in rich western countries and institutions. With Professor David Ludden.
23-10-2008 | Transatlantic Trends and the Next American President
This seminar follows the release of the 2008 Transatlantic Trends study by the German Marshall Fund of the United States – a major international public opinion survey examining American and European attitudes toward the U.S.-European relationship.
23-10-2008 | America between the Wars – From 11/9 to 9/11
Although it cannot be disputed that 9/11 is an important historical date, it is the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November (11/9) rather than the events of 11 September, that is defining America’s role in the world today.
The African continent may be about to escape the marginalisation from world politics in which the end of the Cold War landed it. Both the Western powers and China seem to be re-engaging with the continent, both economically and politically, driven by humanitarian concerns, concerns for their own security as well economic motives.
On the occasion of the launch of a book of the same title, this seminar will present findings on the specificities of how recipient responses to different donors affect the aid relationship.
Today, almost all Latin American countries have cash transfer programmes, and they are spreading in Africa as well. However, different aspects of the programmes are still heavily discussed. With Fabio Veras Soares
While the general public may expect that concerns of development and poverty reduction strongly influence foreign aid, studies of the allocation of international aid have repeatedly demonstrated how foreign policy interests frame development assistance. Does the various non-development concerns influencing aid, reduce the effectiveness and quality of aid? With Carol Lancaster
30-09-2008 | Local Participation in Protected Area Management – Opportunities and Constraints Part I
The third of six seminars in the 2008 Poverty and Environment Seminar Series. With Helle Munk Ravnborg, Iben Nathan, Melissa de Kock, Vlada Fuks, Lucia Stacey and Jørgen Erik Larsen
25-09-2008 | Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Europe’s Energy Supply — Perspectives for the Supply of Europe to 2020
Hardly a day goes by without news – often disturbing news – about energy supplies, energy security and global warming. To some degree, such news helps shape the fate and wealth of nations. Thus, signalling the enormous political, economic and security implications of our energy future, energy diplomacy has become a new term in the study of international relations
Since the turn of the millennium, the issue of migration and development has regained substantial attention among both practitioners and researchers. Some even refer to this as the migration-development mantra.
24-09-2008 | Dansk udenrigspolitik og Mellemøsten
Efter Den Kolde Krig ændrede vilkårene for dansk udenrigs- og sikkerhedspolitik sig markant: De nære strategiske trusler var væk, Danmark engagerede sig stærkere i NATO, og deltog i de humanitære militære interventioner på Balkan.
23-09-2008 | Dead End or Breakthrough? Where is International Development Cooperation Heading after the Accra High Level Forum?
The seminar will discuss the results of the Accra High Level Forum and attempt to assess whether international development cooperation can overcome the significant contemporary challenges. With Richard Manning and Vagn Berthelsen
18-09-2008 | Forging a World of Liberty under Law
American foreign policy under the Bush administration has been controversial both at home and abroad. Many will agree that change is needed, which can produce a bipartisan consensus within America, and which may heal some of the wounds inflicted on the transatlantic relationship and America’s standing in the wider world.
I den seneste tid har forskellige medier bragt adskillige historier om svindel og korruption med danske bistandsmidler. Der har været fokus på antallet af sager, på manglende åbenhed om sagerne og på, hvorvidt der passes godt nok på pengene. Dette seminar sætter fokus på svindlens omfang og form, samt følgerne heraf
11-09-2008 | An Introduction to Religion and Development
The first of five seminars in the Religion and Development Seminar Series. With Jeffrey Haynes, and comments by Holger Bernt Hansen and Christian Friis Bach.
11-09-2008 | Religion and Development Seminar Series
For many years, religion was effectively ignored by development practitioners and academics. Secularist development traditions, combined with essentialist conceptions of religion as inherently conservative and reactionary, left no room for religion.
08-09-2008 | Diplomacy in the Post-International Era
Old certainties are challenged in the field of diplomacy. With the borderlines between the internal and the external crumbling and power being understood differently – with communication becoming increasingly important and the relevant sphere of action broadened to apply not only to states but also societies and other non-statist actors – much is changing in the field of diplomacy.
01-09-2008 | Jihadi Discussion Forums
Jihadi Discussion Forums are frequently indicted for radicalizing Sunni Muslims and for facilitating their travel to fight abroad. William McCants will argue that forums do not facilitate much travel to active battlefronts and that forum participants are already radicalized by the time they join.
The Indo-Pakistani relationship has deteriorated significantly over the past several months. This was dramatically underscored by the recent official Indian accusation that Pakistan’s military intelligence arm helped plan the recent bombing at the Indian Embassy in Kabul that killed two senior embassy officials.
22-08-2008 | Afghanistan – udfordringer og løsninger
Danmarks ambassadør til Afghanistan, Franz-Michael S. Mellbin, analyserer udfordringer og løsninger på situationen i Afghanistan.
26-06-2008 | Udenrigspolitiske udfordringer i det 21. århundrede
Udenrigsminister Per Stig Møller debatterer det 21. århundredes udenrigs- og sikkerhedspolitiske udfordringer med et panel af fire yngre forskere, samt forskere og studerende blandt publikum
18-06-2008 | State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa – A New Dawn for Traditional Authorities?
Why has the recent wave of democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa coincided with a salient resurgence of traditional authorities, both from ‘below’ and as part of formal legislation and development policies?
A seminar with Ariel Colonomos, author of the book Moralizing International Relations: Called to Account, who will present his book and discuss the role of ethics in international relations around the turn of the century
Caroline Bledsoe will examine the emerging dynamics surrounding family reunification policies in Spain, following the increasing efforts of the EU to tighen border security
04-06-2008 | Khat – Innocuous Herbal High or Dangerous Drug? New Challenges for International Drug Control in the 21st Century
Khat – the plant-based, amphetamine-like stimulant, which has transformed from a regional luxury into a global commodity – provides a rare opportunity for studying a cash crop across the market chain and can provide an alternative approach to resolving existing problems of drug control. With Axel Klein of the University of Kent
Anton Baaré, who was adviser to the team which mediated the peace agreement between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army, will provide an insider's view on the mediation process, its trade-ffs, tactics, strategies and results
Hvad har de sidste 10-15 års historieforskning betydet for opfattelsen af nazismens forbrydelser i dag? Kan man tale om en europæisering af bevidstheden om Holocaust? Hvordan ser opgøret med nazismen ud i henholdsvis Tyskland og Skandinavien?
The second of six seminars in the 2008 Poverty and Environment Seminar Series. With Christina Nilsson, Lola Garcia Alix, Thomas Birk and Sara Trærup
27-05-2008 | Good International Environmental Citizenship
Warming up to the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, which is to be held in Copenhagen, Lorraine Elliot will attempt to shed light on the question of when a country can claim it is a good environmental citizen, and whether is it possible to use the label to assume international leadership?
26-05-2008 | Doing Development in a Downturn: What should be Our Narrative on International Development in 2008?
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals have been the main focus of development policy for a decade, but the ‘project’ faces great challenges in 2008: Aid pledges made at the extensively covered 2008 G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, are not being met; the credit crunch and the threat of recession are eroding support in rich countries; the rise in oil and food prices threatens to entrench protectionism; and the continued crisis in Darfur is testing patience with international diplomacy.
26-05-2008 | Kina i verden – problemer, paradokser og potentialer
Mandag d. 26. maj udkommer Den Ny Verden med et temanummer om ”Kina i verden”. Nummeret er blevet til i et nært samarbejde mellem Institut for Menneskerettigheder (IMR) og Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier (DIIS) og manifesterer, at det i dette forår er fem år siden, at de to institutter indgik i Dansk Center for Internationale Studier og Menneskerettigheder (DCISM).
The American presidential election of 2008, scheduled for 4 November, will mark an exciting first-ever in American history and politics no matter who of the three remaining candidates of the two major parties elected.
Aaron Cosbey, Tao Wang and John Kornerup Bang will present a Trade Monday perspective on climate change
19-05-2008 | Turkey between Europe and the Middle East
Turkey is placed at a crossroads between Europe and the Middle East. Only a minor part of Turkish territory is placed in Europe, and the crucial issue is political: Should Turkey be considered a European country which should become member of the European Union?
The world of international development is changing and this has important consequences for development NGOs from rich countries trying to combat poverty in poor countries.
Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier (DIIS), Dansk Center for Internationale Studier og Menneskerettigheder (DCISM) og Nordisk Institut for Asienstudier (NIAS) inviterer til en konference om Open Access Publishing
13-05-2008 | Warlordism and Human Rights in Afghanistan
The causes for the low level of security in Afghanistan are numerous, but many scholars point to the inclusion of warlords in the post-conflict reconstruction process and the later Afghan government as one of the causes for instability. With Malalai Joya, Member of the Afghan Parliament
Poverty is simultaneously both created and removed – even under conditions of rapid overall national progress. Anirudh Krishna will speak on such poverty dynamics at the household level, drawing on his experience from such varied places as India, Kenya, Uganda, Peru and North Carolina, USA
The first of six seminars in the 2008 Poverty and Environment Seminar Series. With Chasca Twyman
25-04-2008 | Umulig mission?
Er de danske soldaters indsats i Irak og Afghanistan prisen værd? Det er et af de spørgsmål, Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen stiller i bogen Umulig mission?
22-04-2008 | Prospects for Arms Control
Can the old arms control really be born again, or must a new approach be found for the 21st century? With Alyson Bailes
15-04-2008 | Africa Beyond Aid?
A seminar with Robert Calderisi snd Greg Mills, organised in coorporation with the Politiken newspaper
Two different perspectives from the contested ground of Southern Afghanistan
A seminar in the 'Trade Monday' series on current and future developments in trade agreements
26-03-2008 | Perspectives on Syria and Lebanon
A seminar with Eyal Zisser, who will present his views on the perspectives for Syria and Lebanon
13-03-2008 | Europæisk sikkerhedspolitik ved en skillevej
Seminar om europæisk sikkerhedspolitisk samarbejde og mulighederne for en styrkelse af den fælles europæiske forsvars- og sikkerhedspolitik (European Security and Defence Policy, ESDP).
04-03-2008 | Freedom of the Press in Russia?
Svend Aage Christensen, who is a Senior Researcher with DIIS, will present a sketch of recent, concrete impressions and examples from the Russian media.
03-03-2008 | NATO Towards Bucharest and Beyond
A seminar with US Ambassador to NATO, Victoria Nuland, and the Danish Ambassador to NATO, Per Poulsen-Hansen, who will present some of the issues likely to be on NATO’s agenda in the lead-up to the summit in Bucharest and beyond.
29-02-2008 | Dark Networks
A seminar with H. Brinton Milward on the application of network analysis to terroist networks, human traficking, drug smuggling, and other illegal activities.
27-02-2008 | The Political Crisis in Zimbabwe: Who Can do What?
A seminar on the upcoming presidential, parliamentary and local elections in Zimbabwe 29 March 2008.
21-02-2008 | Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of Combatants: The Magic Bullet for Peace and Stability?
A seminar with Irma Specht on the challenges in connection with reintegrating former combatants to civilian life.
19-02-2008 | Kosovo – EU’s nye stedbarn?
Kosovo er i en vanskelig brydningstid lige nu. FN vil slippe tøjlerne og EU er nærmest til at tage over, hvis området ikke får fuld selvstændighed. Senioranalytiker Niels Aadal Rasmussen vil tale om Kosovo som en ny Europæisk statsdannelse og sætte det i et storpolitisk perspektiv.
A conference with Ghanem Jawad and Reidar Visser on Shia-islamic politics in Iraq
Seminar i anledning af det seneste nummer af Den Ny Verden ”We’ll always have Paris” – Paris-erklæringen om bistandseffektivitet: Sund fornuft eller nykolonialisme? (2007:3)
Seminar presenting recent work by DIIS researchers focusing on access to global capital markets and Economic Partnership Agreements
Det sidste seminar i serien "Berettet for eftertiden". Med Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Holger K. Nielsen og Poul Smidt
18-12-2007 | EU-Afrika-topmødet: Hvor peger resultaterne hen?
Relationerne mellem EU og Afrika bliver stadig mere og mere sammensatte, men bygger de også i højere grad på ligeværdighed? Det, og andre spørgsmål adresseres af tidligere EU-kommissær for udvikling, Poul Nielson og institutleder Gorm Rye Nielsen fra RUC
This seminar explores a range of questions arising from the history or current use of Holocaust photographs in museums, art and the media
11-12-2007 | Africa’s Riches, the World’s Rewards: Sudan and the Global Political Economy of Resource Extraction in Africa
While many of the continent’s ‘resource wars’ have faded, an urgent need to ensure their submission and locate the mechanisms of good governance and sustainable development remains
Det fjerde af fem seminarer i serien "Berettet for eftertiden". Med Jørgen Ørstrøm Nøller og Ann-Christina Lauring Knudsen
With Professor John Harriss of the Simon Fraser University in Canada
03-12-2007 | The Annapolis Middle East Peace Conference and the Prospects for Peace in the Palestinian Self-Rule Areas
Ambassador Saleh H. Abdel-Shafi of the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will presents his views on the prospects for peace
A seminar with Dr. Joyce Apsel on how to teach about issues of genocide and human rights and connecting it with issues of citizenship
22-11-2007 | Danske bidrag til Det Europæiske Råd
Det tredje af fem seminarer i serien "Berettet for eftertiden". Med Niels Ersbøll og Rebecca Adler-Nissen
21-11-2007 | South African Trans-National Activities and Changing Forms of Belonging: New Perspectives on African Migration
A seminar with Loren B. Landau and France Bourgouin on different aspects of migration to the city of Johannesburg – Southern Africa’s economic and financial hub
20-11-2007 | Zimbabwe's Continuing Self-Destruction
Seminar with Senior Adviser to ICG’s Africa Program, Ambassador Andebrhan W. Giorgis.
16-11-2007 | Islam and Civil Society in the Middle East
An invitees-only conference with Barbara Ibrahim and John Esposito
15-11-2007 | Maastricht - de dramatiske 1990'ere
Det andet af fem seminarer i serien "Berettet for eftertiden". Med Gunnar Riberholt og Rasmus Leander Nielsen
14-11-2007 | Kilder til kinesisk udenrigspolitik
Clemens Stubbe Østergaard og Erik Beukel fortæller om Kinas udenrigspolitik, og dynamikkerne der former den
Historikeren Henrik Tjørnelund fortæller om hvordan fanger i kz-lejren Buchenwald, med den danske regerings vidende, blev brugt som forsøgskaniner for Statens Serum Institut
I anledning af valget inviterer DIIS til debatmøde om fremtidens udviklingsbistand. Repræsentanter fra alle partier er inviteret til et debatarrangement, der vil diskutere Danmarks målsætning om fattigdomsbekæmpelse set i forhold til bistand gennem multilaterale organisationer, integration af andre politikområder i bistanden såsom klima, handel og indvandring, skrøbelige stater og Paris-erklæringen.
05-11-2007 | China - Friend or Foe?
This Trade Monday seminar seeks to answer the question by examining China's economic relations with Japan and the United States
30-10-2007 | Cancelled: On Diplomacy (Revisited)
This seminar has been cancelled
30-10-2007 | EU Enlargement and the Choices for Europe
This is the last of six lectures in the DIIS Lecture Series funded by Europa-nævnet. With Edward Best
29-10-2007 | Optakt til medlemskab og de første medlemsår
Det første af fem seminarer i serien "Berettet for eftertiden". Med Jens Christensen, Ivar Nørgaard, Morten Rasmussen og Sebastian Lang-Jensen
24-10-2007 | Scandinavia and the EU in 2007 – Still Exceptional?
Seminar with Peter Lawler. This is the fifth of six lectures in the DIIS Lecture Series funded by Europa-nævnet
24-10-2007 | Putins Rusland, Europas problem?
Et seminar med Karsten Møller, om det spændingsfyldte forhold mellem EU og Rusland
This is the fourth of six lectures in the DIIS Lecture Series funded by Europa-nævnet.
09-10-2007 | Bistandsformer, ejerskab og fattigdomsbekæmpelse
Marie Hertz og Poul Buch-Hansen vil på basis af deres bog "Dansk udviklingsbistand - er der en fremtid?" præsentere deres tanker om forskellige bistandsformer.
A seminar on China's security and defence policy in a regional as well as a global perspective
25-09-2007 | What Characterises Today’s EU Debates?
This is the third of six lectures in the DIIS Lecture Series funded by Europa-nævnet.
20-09-2007 | Geopolitik i Østersøen: Gas, olie og rørledninger
Et seminar som vil belyse udviklingen på energiområdet i Østersøregionen
This is the second of six lectures in the DIIS Lecture Series funded by Europa-nævnet.
This seminar focuses on the current status of political debates on international trade and Doha Round in the EU and the US
Dr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, will present the impact and role of ICC today, five years after the entry into force of the Rome Statute
13-09-2007 | Why Memory Matters to Current EU Debates
A seminar in the DIIS Lecure Series funded by Europa-nævnet with Catherine Guisan on the founding and identity of the EU
05-09-2007 | Codevelopment and citizenship: The mobilization of migrants in Spain around development in their countries of origin
Visiting senior researcher at DIIS, Eva Østergaard-Nielsen will present her paper on the mobilization of migrants in Spain around development in their countries of origin
A seminar about the current political crisis in Ukraine and the parliamentary elections on 30 September 2007
31-08-2007 | EU and NATO
A seminar about the relationship between EU and NATO
Seminar on the expanded role of China in Africa.
21-08-2007 | Glemsel og erindring
Seminar om erindring og folkedrab som afslutning på forårets specialeforløb.
20-08-2007 | Radicalization in Europe: A Post-9/11 Perspective
As part of the Transnational Terrorism, Security and the Rule of Law research network, under the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Program, DIIS is hosting a one-day seminar on this illusive phenomenon.
29-06-2007 | Contemporary Peace and Security Studies
An international symposium in honour of Håkan Wiberg, featuring several internationally respected researchers
15-06-2007 | Civil Protection in Africa
A seminar with Dennis McNamara on Civil protection in Africa, commented by a panel
A seminar on Portugal's challenges and priorities during the six-month rotating European Union presidency starting on 1 July 2007
This DIIS seminar presents and discusses remittances and explores their potential for development and poverty alleviation.
A seminar with Minister for Foreign Affairs Per Stig Møller and Terje Rød-Larsen, President of the International Peace Academy (IPA).
The presentation will analyse the main political risks associated with Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections.
15-05-2007 | Trafficking Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Forced Labor and Anti-trafficking Programmes
Trafficking in humans is a topic of serious concern to policy makers, NGOs, trade unions and academics alike.
15-05-2007 | Finansiering af udvikling i Afrika
Som et led i udredningen om finansiering af udvikling i Afrika indbyders til et seminar med fokus på eksterne finansieringskilder til udvikling i Afrika.
Major questions come to mind when dealing with the Holocaust. What main causes made it possible? What made Germans stick together in the middle of the catastrophic total warfare until 1945?
03-05-2007 | Sustaining the Non-Nuclear Norm
This seminar will examine the question of how the non-nuclear norm is sustained in two lectures by Dr. Marianne Hanson and Cindy Vestergaard.
The risk of rogue states and terrorist groups acquiring weapons of mass destruction is an imminent threat to international peace and security.
25-04-2007 | Into Troubled Waters: Liberal Values and World Order
It can be argued that the present world is characterised by a “clash of values”. Yet, it is not so much a clash between liberal and non-liberal convictions. Rather, the problem lies within liberalism itself.
This conference aims at addressing this visible and emergent overlap in the matters of religion and security politics.
This DIIS seminar aims to debate dilemmas and tensions between policy ideals and migrant practices.
En eftermiddagskonference i anledning af EUs 50 års jubilæum.
Dr. Craig Kennedy on: Where are the real tensions and opportunities in the U.S.-EU relationship and what do they mean?
A seminar on how trade policy can help Africa
A seminar with Paul Hollander from Harvard University.
A seminar with Dr. Alisa DiCaprio on: The WTO and the Shrinking of Development Space
13-02-2007 | Film seminar: Ingando – When Enemies Return
Ingando – When Enemies Return
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 14.30 – 16.00
Danish Institute for International Studies
Main Auditorium
Strandgade 71, ground floor, 1401 Copenhagen K
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 14.30 – 16.00
Danish Institute for International Studies
Main Auditorium
Strandgade 71, ground floor, 1401 Copenhagen K
08-02-2007 | Afrika og WTO’s Doharunde
DIIS-seminar om WTO's Doharunde og Afrikas handelsinteresser
A seminar with Ambassador Martin Sajdik, the Director General for European Integration and Economic Affairs at the Austrian Foreign Ministry
01-02-2007 | Hidden Hands and the Conspiracy against Community: The Image of the Jew in Contemporary Arab-Islamic Discourses
A seminar with Goetz Nordbruch, Humboldt University, Berlin
A seminar under the Migration Thursday series ‘Europe’s New Migration Challenges’ with Jorrit Rijpma and Alexander Betts
A seminar with Professor Natalia Narochnitskaya, member of the State Duma of Russia
A seminar organised by the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and Latin American Centre for Rural Development (Rimisp)
A conference organised by University of Copenhagen and Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
15-01-2007 | Demarcating Borders:Geopolitical and Territorial Factors in the Israel-Palestine Peace Process
A seminar with David Newman, professor of political geography at the Ben Gurion University in Israel
A seminar under the Migration Thursday series ‘Europe’s New Migration Challenges’ with Christina Boswell and Jørgen Carling
11-12-2006 | Sudan: Briefing on the Present Situation
A seminar with Manuel Aranda da Silva, UN Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General
07-12-2006 | Changing Conceptualisations of War
A seminar with Dietrich Jung, Pertti Joenniemi, Karen Lund Petersen and Kristian Søby Kristensen
21-11-2006 | Flight from the Reich
A seminar with Holocaust historian Debórah Dwork
A seminar with Bruce Jenks, Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Bureau for Partnerships at the UNDP
17-11-2006 | Eurovisioner
DIIS-debatmøde i samarbejde med Informations Forlag om EU's dilemmaer
A seminar under the Migration Thursday series ‘Europe’s New Migration Challenges’ with Ruud Koopmans, Ulf Hedetoft and Adrian Favell
14-11-2006 | Sovereignty and Securization; Social Becoming; Collective Memory. Launch of three Africa books
A book launch organised by The Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) and Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
A seminar in the 'Trade Monday' series that examines the evolution, recent visibility, and future potential of ‘Aid for Trade’ as a development assistance mechanism
02-11-2006 | The Normal Politics of the Hybrid European Union
A seminar with Ian Manners, Head of the European Union Internal Dynamics Unit at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
31-10-2006 | Forests, Conservation and Poverty Alleviation – Participatory Forest Management and the Role of the Poor
A seminar organised by the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) as a partner of the Participatory Environmental Management Programme (PEMA)
An international conference on transforming NATO in light of the challenges of the 21st century
25-10-2006 | Human Security and Peace Building through a Gender Lens: Challenges of Implementation in Africa
A seminar with Heidi Hudson, Professor of Political Science and chair of the Department of Political Science, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein (South Africa)
A book launch with Preben Kaarsholm
A conference organised by Danida, Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
09-10-2006 | Land Rights and Land Conflicts in Africa
A seminar organised by Danida, Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
A seminar with Gilles Kepel, a prominent French scholar and analyst of the Islamic and the Arab world
05-10-2006 | Migration and Labour Markets in the New Europe
A seminar in the 'Migration Thursday' series with Adrian Favell and Philip Muus
02-10-2006 | Trade Monday seminar: Trade and Public Health: Patents, Medical Services and Access to Medicines
A seminar in the 'Trade Monday' series that concerns the consequences of globalisation for the organisation of pharmaceutical industry and public health in general and in developing countries
A seminar and book launch with prof. Eberhard Kienle
19-09-2006 | Water reform and access to water for the rural poor
A conference organised by Danida, Danish Water Forum (DWF) and Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS).
07-09-2006 | Forsker i trøjen: Indblik i danske styrkeenheders dagligdag i Irak, Kosovo og Afghanistan
Seniorforsker Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen fra DIIS fortæller om sine oplevelser som medfølgende forsker ved danske styrkeenheder i Irak, Kosovo og Afghanistan i perioden februar til juni 2006
30-08-2006 | The Future of UN – an Asian Perspective
A seminar with Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General of the UN and possible successor of Kofi Annan
28-08-2006 | Trade Monday Seminar: The Doha crisis: What does it mean for developing countries and the WTO?
A seminar in the 'Trade Monday' series that examines the repercussions of the current crisis in the Doha round of trade negotiations at the WTO
A seminar coorganised by the Embassy of Canada in Copenhagen featuring speakers from DIIS and SHIRBRIG, bringing a perspective of situation in Sudan and other conflict-affected regions of Africa
A seminar coorganised by NIAS with Professor S. D. Muni, Adviser to the Chairman of Academic and Research Affairs at the Observer Research Foundation
An international conference on 12-13 May 2006 to explore the nature and value of uses of religious language, beliefs and practices in attempts to understand or come to terms with an atrocious past.
03-05-2006 | “Competing Memories” - Holocaust and GULAG in European History: Memory Culture in the Baltic Sea Area
The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and the Department for History and Social Theory at Roskilde University has the pleasure of inviting you to a conference on
“Competing Memories” - Holocaust and GULAG in European History: Memory Culture in the Baltic Sea Area
“Competing Memories” - Holocaust and GULAG in European History: Memory Culture in the Baltic Sea Area
15-03-2006 | EU's dilemmaer - debatdag på DIIS
I februar udkommer et temanummer om EU af DIIS’ tidsskrift Den Ny Verden og primo marts offentliggør DIIS en serie papirer om EU’s dilemmaer. I den anledning inviteres alle interesserede til en markedsdag på DIIS, hvor du vil få lejlighed til at debattere med en række af forfatterne til DIIS’ seneste EU-udgivelser og få politikernes reaktion på dine egne idéer.
22-02-2006 | The Pentagon Quadrennial Defence Review 2006: Changes in the U.S. Approach to Peace and Stabilisation
A seminar with Henrik Breitenbauch, Elizabeth Kier and Colonel Peter Harry Lund on the implications for Denmark of changes in the U.S. approach to peace and stabilisation operations.
02-02-2006 | The Future of NATO
A lecture by Dr. Jamie Shea, Director of Policy Planning in the Private Office of the NATO Secretary General.
02-02-2006 | Mellemøsten - lokalt, regionalt og internationalt
Præsentation af DIIS's nye Mellemøstbog med oplæg af Helle Malmvig, Bjørn Møller, Hanne Kirstine Adriansen samt Julie Pruzan-Jørgensen
30-01-2006 | Transatlantic Homeland Security
Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen and Esther Brimmer will present their recent publications on transatlantic homeland security and transforming homeland security.
25-01-2006 | The Use of Force: Prospects for The Future
A seminar with Professor Ian Brownlie, Roman Kolodkin, Director Ben Kioko, Sabine Nölke and Jens Elo Rytter on the future legal and political challenges on the issue of the prohibition of the use of force in international relations with special focus on the role of the UN Security Council.
Seminar with Inge Kaul og Pedro Conceição, UNDP, on the challenges and opportunities for public finance generated by globalisation.
19-01-2006 | The Future of Migration to Europe: Brain Drain, Brain Gain and Brain Waste - Policy Options
A seminar in the ‘Diaspora, Development and Conflict’ Seminar Series with Simon Turner, Rainer Münz and Meera Sethi.
16-12-2005 | The French Security and Defence Policy
Seminar with Lieutenant General Jean-Paul Raffenne, who will be discussing French Security and Defence Policy, especially regarding the ESDP and NATO.
13-12-2005 | The Middle East: Greater, Broader or Real?
Seminar with Professor Gulshan Dietl, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli, on the Wstern concerns for democracy in the Middle East.
A seminar in the ‘Diaspora, Development and Conflict’ Seminar Series with Simon Turner, DIIS, Eva Østergaard-Nielsen, Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, Autonomous University of Barcelona and Abdullah Awil Mohamoud, Director, SAHAN research & advice bureau, The Netherlands.
05-12-2005 | Trade Monday Seminar:China Taking Over the World? The Future of Textile and Clothing Trade
A seminar in the Trade mondays' series on the developments in the global textile and clothing trade and Chinas role in it.
29-11-2005 | Africa and the New Security Agendas
A conference with visitors from the Institute for Security Studies, one of South Africas leading research institutions.
Seminar with professor Hartmuth Behr, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, on the relations between EU accession politics and nineteenth century imperial rule.
16-11-2005 | Why the US Did Not Join the ICC: How Agreement Design Can Affect International Cooperation
A seminar with Assistant Professor Barbara Koremenos, Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the American Academy, Berlin
Et seminar til belysning af de igangværende indsatser i Afghanistan og Irak med udgangspunkt i fire oplæg fra danske eksperter på området
09-11-2005 | Social Remittances
A seminar in the "Diaspora, Development and Conflict" seminar series
08-11-2005 | Det Arabiske Initiativ
Embedsmænd fra Udenrigsministeriet præsenterer baggrunden for ”Det Arabiske Initiativ” og intiativets placering i forhold til udenrigs- og bistandspolitikken. Endvidere deltager en ngo-repræsentant i diskussionen af ngo’ernes rolle i Det Arabiske Initiativ
03-11-2005 | Resources and Citizenship Contestations: The State and Afro-Asian Relations in Uganda, 1962-2005
Seminar with Dr. godfrey B. Asiimwe on Resources and Citizenship Contestations: The State and Afro-Asian Relations in Uganda, 1962-2005
31-10-2005 | Belarus in Europe
Invitation to the public hearing Belarus in Europe. The public hearing will raise questions like what are the hopes for democratic change in Belarus? How can we assist in this? And what are the prospects for Belarus once it decides to join democratic Europe?
26-10-2005 | Traktater forgår, problemer består – EU i krise
Lige inden EU’s ledere holder topmøde, åbner Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier (DIIS) dørene til en spændende debatdag om EU’s fremtidige udfordringer
A seminar with Mr. Bruce Jenks, Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Bureau for Resources and Strategic Partnerships, UNDP
A seminar in the "Diaspora, Development and Conflict" seminar series
A conference that aims to explore the problems and priorities the EU is confronted with in the wider European framework of security and cooperation, and to understand the lessons coming from Northern Europe/Baltic Sea Region in this respect
04-10-2005 | 25 Years of Solidarity: The Road to a New Europe
A seminar celebrating the 25th anniversary of Solidarity, bringing together the leader of Solidarity and former President of Poland, Lech Walesa, Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller and Polish and Danish scholars.
30-09-2005 | Strengthening the Integration of Environment as a Cross-cutting Issue in Danish Bilateral Assistance
A seminar to discuss the DIIS review of the post-1999 experiences with integrating environment in Danish bilateral assistance and to suggest ways to further strengthen these efforts
27-09-2005 | Dansk bistandspolitik og dansk udenrigspolitik – nye sammenhænge? Samtænkning – muligheder og problemer
Embedsmænd fra Udenrigsministeriet og Forsvarsministeriet præsenterer idéen om samtænkning af civil og militær indsats i konfliktområder, som ministerierne har udarbejdet. Endvidere deltager en ngo-repræsentant i diskussionen af, hvilke muligheder og problemer en sådan strategi giver for såvel de civile aktører som de militære
A seminar with Radhika Chopra, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi; Friday, 16 September 2005, 14.00-15.30
15-09-2005 | Integrating Indigenous Peoples, Gender and Natural Resources Management – challenges and the way forward
A seminar organised in cooperation with the IGNARM network on Integrating Indigenous Peoples, Gender and Natural Resources Management – challenges and the way forward; Thursday, 15 September 2005, 13.30-16.30
13-09-2005 | Sandhedens time – Europa efter forfatningstraktaten
Sandhedens time – Europa efter forfatningstraktaten
Road-show med Daniel Keohane, Sebastian Kurpas og Carlos Closa
Road-show med Daniel Keohane, Sebastian Kurpas og Carlos Closa
A road show with Daniel Keohane, Sebastian Kurpas and Carlos Closa who will be speaking on The moment of truth – Europe after the Constitutional Treaty.
A seminar with Maura Conway, Department of Political Science, Trinity College in Dublin and Myriam A. Dunn
Center for Security Studies, ETH (Swiss Institute of Technology) in Zurich
Center for Security Studies, ETH (Swiss Institute of Technology) in Zurich
25-08-2005 | Conference: "Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century: Will Multilateral Diplomacy Work?"
An international conference on nuclear non-proliferation regimes in light of the challenges of the 21st century
Call for papers for a workshop gathering a range of international scholars to discuss the state of the global music industry and the position of small companies and other minor agents in it
18-08-2005 | Arkady Moshes: "The EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood as an Opportunity for the Nordic Actors"
A seminar with Arkady Moshes, Head of the Russia and EU programme at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs
28-06-2005 | Seminar: "Kaliningrad Transit: Challenge or Opportunity for the EU-Russia Relationship?"
A seminar with Vaidotas Verba and Arūnas Vinčiūnas from the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and comments from the Russian Ambassador to Denmark, Dmitriy Ryurikov
19-06-2005 | Debatbrunch: Hvad nu EU?
Debatbrunch om visioner for Europa
14-06-2005 | Nye prioriteringer i dansk ulandsbistand?
Det første i en række møder om dansk bistandspolitik og udenrigspolitik
12-06-2005 | Hvad nu EU? Debatbrunch den 12. juni 2005 kl. 10-12
Café Salonen, Sankt Peders Stræde 20, København K
06-06-2005 | Trade Monday seminar: GATS and trade in services
A seminar in the Trade Mondays series on the General Agreement on Trade in Services with Counsellor Lee Tuthill, WTO and Researcher Michael Friis Jensen and PhD Candidate Jon Mortensen, DIIS.
A seminar with Prof. Shlomo Aronson, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and Dr. Muriel Asseburg, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin
The seminar will touch upon hopes, ambitions and political reality in relation to NEPAD and the speakers will include: Chairman of the NEPAD Steering Committee, Professor Nkuhlu and Danish Minister for Development, Mrs. Ulla Tørnæs.
30-05-2005 | Seminar om filmen Der Untergang
Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier, Afdeling for Holocaust og Folkedrabsstudier afholder seminar om den tyske film Der Untergang d. 30. maj i København. To oplægsholdere vil sætte diskussionen i gang: Therkel Stræder og Ulla Strange Hansen. Seminaret er åbent for alle interesserede lærere.
24-05-2005 | Seminar: "Migrant Remittances and Development"
A seminar highlighting the current evidence and policy discussions about the link between migration and economic development that is attracting increasing attention among governments of migrant sending and destination countries as well as within various international development agencies.
An international conference on the Armenian genocide with researchers from ten countries organised by the Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at DIIS, in cooperation with the University of Southern Denmark
17-05-2005 | Seminar: Kenneth N. Waltz: "The Nuclear Future"
A seminar with Kenneth N. Waltz, world-renowned professor at Columbia University and author of the world's most cited book in the field of International Relations. Moderator: Prof. Ole Wæver, University of Copenhagen.
12 forskere ved DIIS giver deres bud på internationale udfordringer efter 11. september 2001.
Videreuddannelseskursus for journalister, embedsmænd og andre interesserede om EU's forfatningstraktat
A seminar with Dr. Venkatesh Balasundaram Athreya, professor and head of department at Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli
19-04-2005 | The Africa Commission’s Work and Recommendations
A seminar with Myles Wickstead, Head of Secretariat for the Commission for Africa
Seminar med Grigoriy Pasko, russisk journalist og tidligere flådeofficer
A seminar with Ihor Ostash, Vice-chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Ukrainian Parliament
15-04-2005 | Conference: Democratisation and Development: New Political Strategies for the Middle East
A conference on democratisation and development in the Middle East
13-04-2005 | Islam in France
A conference with Françoise Lorcerie and Vincent Geisser, CNRS Researchers at Aix-en-Provence
A seminar in the 'Trade Mondays' Series
04-04-2005 | Meeting on Nordic Cooperation in Genocide Studies
April 1-2 a meeting on cooperation in genocide studies is held at the Department for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Scholars from five European countries will attend the conference.
1-2. April afholder Afdeling for Holocaust og Folkedrabsstudier et forskermøde om samarbejde i folkedrabsforskningen. Deltagerne kommer fra fem lande i Europa.
A seminar with Anatoly S. Kulikov, Member of the Russian Duma and former Minister of the Interior
16-03-2005 | Robert Templer: Nepal: Responding to the Royal Coup
A seminar with Robert Templer, Director of the International Crisis Group's Asia Programme
Kenneth R. Weinstein, vice president and chief operating officer of the influential Hudson Institute’s Washington D.C. office, will offer his views on the direction for the American administration’s policies after the re-election.
Speeches from the conference on Nordic Peace Diplomacy, held at Eigtveds Pakhus on 24 February 2005
04-03-2005 | Seminar om international landbrugsforskning (CGIAR)
På seminaret gennemgås og drøftes den tværgående evaluering af CGIAR, den internationale rådgivningsgruppe for landbrugsforskning.
24-02-2005 | Nordic Peace Diplomacy: Looking Back, Moving Forward
The conference brings together researchers, politicians, officials and opinion leaders to discuss how the Nordic peace diplomacy can continue to make a difference in the post 9/11 world characterized by the threat of terror and an increased resort to military force.
18-02-2005 | Countering Terrorism: The Role of the United Nations
The conference will examine what role the United Nations should play in the fight against international terrorism in the light of the recommendations of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change.
09-02-2005 | Humanitarian Assistance in Darfur
A seminar with Rheka Das, former Humanitarian Affairs Officer in Darfur for the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
27-01-2005 | Landsdækkende temadage om folkedrab
Fra d. 18 til d. 27 januar afholder Afdeling for Holocaust – og Folkedrabsstudier temadage om folkedrab for landets ungdomsuddannelser. I år er temaet “Gerningsmænd”.
A seminar with Dr. Raghid El-Sohl
17-01-2005 | Putin's Foreign and Security Policy
A seminar with Andrei A. Piontkovsky, member of the Russian Democratic Party "Yabloko"
The Aid Impact Forum concludes with an afternoon meeting on challenges and possibilities in private sector programmes.
The 'Trade Monday' seminar for January, featuring Stefano Ponte, Peter Robbins, Peter Gibbon and Charles Gore
05-01-2005 | Farmer Empowerment: Lessons Learned and Ways Forward
A conference co-arranged by DIIS and the Section of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Technical Advisory Service (TAS), Danida/Ministry of Foreign Affairs
16-12-2004 | Nuclear Terrorism – Assessment and Prevention
DIIS Conference: Nuclear Terrorism – Assessment and Prevention.
DIIS gathers a number of distinguished international experts to discuss how imminent the threat from nuclear terrorism is and how to prevent it from happening.
DIIS gathers a number of distinguished international experts to discuss how imminent the threat from nuclear terrorism is and how to prevent it from happening.
15-12-2004 | DoDR seminar today CANCELLED
DoDR seminar today CANCELLED
14-12-2004 | Development Research Seminar Series Fall 2004
New Development Research seminar series programme, fall 2004
10-12-2004 | Israel, Europe and the New Anti-Semitism
A seminar with Göran Rosenberg, Swedish journalist and writer, who will be speaking on "Israel, Europe and the new anti-Semitism"
A conference that brings together researchers, politicians, officials and opinion leaders to discuss challenges and possibilities facing Western efforts to further democracy in the Middle East, with a particular focus on the relationship between democratisation and security.
A seminar in the "Trade Mondays" series on: WTO, Trade and the Environment
02-12-2004 | The Meta-evaluation of the CGIAR: Issues and Challenges for Donors and Research Institutes
A seminar with Researcher Henrik Egelyng, DIIS, in the Department of Development Research seminar series.
A seminar with Sonja Biserko, head of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
The New Danish Defence Agreement and the Danish International Military Commitment with Chief of Defence, General Jesper Helsø
16-11-2004 | Montenegro and the Euro-Atlantic Community
A seminar with the Montenegrin Minister of Foreign Affairs
A seminar with Professor Göran Hyden, guest professor at the University of Aarhus and author of the highly influential book "No Shortcuts to Progress"
27-10-2004 | The Future of Globalisation
A seminar with Grahame F. Thompson, editor-in-chief of the journal ‘Economy & Society’ and author of several internationally known works on globalisation
A seminar with Alexey K. Pushkov, Russian political commentator and TV anchor
25-10-2004 | The Role of Values in a Reunited Europe
A seminar with Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller and Latvian Foreign Minister Artis Pabriks
A seminar with Stanley R. Sloan, Director of the Atlantic Community Initiative
08-10-2004 | Sixth Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies
A conference organised by the Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies in cooperation with the Danish Institute for International Studies
07-10-2004 | German Priorities in EU Matters
A seminar with Dr Eckart Cuntz, Director-General for European Affairs at the German Federal Foreign Office
The 'Trade Monday' seminar for October, featuring Chantal Pohl Nielsen, Paul Kalenga, Peter Gibbon and Vanessa Saenz Prytz
23-09-2004 | DoDR seminar 22 September postponed (Social Capital and Collective Management of Water)
The DoDR seminar, Social Capital and Collective Management of Water in the Bolivian Andes: Presentation of an Analytical Framework, 22 September has been POSTPONED
16-09-2004 | Visions and Realities in Danish Foreign Policy
A seminar with Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller who will present his visions for Danish foreign policy in the light of the multiple challenges facing us in the coming years, including the expectations of a Danish membership of the UN Security Council from 2005
06-09-2004 | French Perspectives on the Future of Europe
A seminar with French Minister Delegate for European Affairs Claudie Haigneré
A conference on how to strengthen the African conflict prevention and management capacity, with primary focus on the major African regional organisations
A seminar with Danish Minister of Defence Søren Gade
A seminar with Eva Kolker, student at Copenhagen International School, with commentary by Peter Steenberg Ørnemark, research assistant at DIIS, Dept. for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
22-06-2004 | When the Music Stops: The Post-Transnational Migration Reality of Three Andean Communities
A seminar with Dr David J. Kyle, Dept. of Sociology, University of California at Davis
14-06-2004 | What to Learn and Not to Learn from the Cold War
A seminar with Professor Vojtech Mastny, Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.
07-06-2004 | Standards and Trade...
19-05-2004 | Whither U.S. Defence Policy
A seminar with Dr Robbin F. Laird, President of ICSA, LLC, a company working on national security strategic issues with the U.S. and West European governments and key aerospace and defence firms in both Europe and the United States
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