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Stanley Hoffmann Was Spread Upon the Permanent Records of the Faculty
At a meeting of the FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES on April 5, 2016, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Stanley Hoffmann was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty. STANLEY HOFFMANN BORN: November 27, 1928 DIED: September 13, 2015 Stanley Hoffmann, the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Emeritus, died at the age of 86 after a long illness, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 13, 2015. As the preeminent American scholar of French and of European politics, Hoffmann charted the course of the continent’s politics in discerning essays that joined an innate sympathy to critical distance, attracting wide audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. As a leading scholar of international relations and American foreign policy, he left a deep mark on contemporary understandings of some of the most perplexing issues of our time. At Harvard, he was a founder of the Social Studies concentration in 1960 and of what is now the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies in 1969, where, as its chairman for twenty-five years, he created a community especially receptive to young scholars. As a dazzling lecturer in the legendary courses War, Modern France, and Ethics in International Relations, he shaped the ideas of thousands of Harvard students during his fifty-eight years on the Harvard faculty. Stanley Harry Hoffmann was born in Vienna on November 27, 1928, of a distant American father and an Austrian mother, with whom he moved in the early 1930s to France, where he grew up, attending schools in Nice and Paris. -
FRENCH POLITICS and POLICY GROUP NEWS No.8/October 2007 FPG/Apsacoordinators: Amy G
FRENCH POLITICS AND POLICY GROUP NEWS No.8/October 2007 FPG/APSACoordinators: Amy G. Mazur and Andrew Appleton, Nirmal Joshi (Assistant Coordinator) Department of Political Science, Washington State University e-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.wsu.edu/~frg/ FPPG/ PSA Coordinator: Ben Clift, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick e-mail [email protected] Website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/staff/clift/psafpp/ ________________________________________________________________________ ______ GREETINGS TO ALL This is the joint newsletter of the French Politics Group of the American Political Science Association and the French Politics and Policy Group of the Political Science Association in the UK. We begin with the activities of the US-based group and follow with the UK group’s news. We invite you to also go to our websites for more information on both groups. Welcome to the new members of the APSA French Politics Group and also to Andrew Appleton who will be co convening the FPG. We currently have over 192 members, also listed on our website. Our meetings at APSA Chicago this year were the most successful to date- with a short course, five panels, a working group, our second reception and the announcement of our first Stanley Hoffmann Best Article Award. In addition to an attendance of over 110 for our various panels and roundtable, we had the pleasure of hosting two special guests - - the Deputy Chief of Mission from the French Embassy François Rivasseau and the French Consul General in Chicago, Jean Baptiste Main de Boissière. We have continued the momentum of our international collaboration with our regular French institutional partners: Association Française de Science Politique, Sciences Po Paris, CEVIPOF and starting this year, many of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of the regions. -
European Integration and Defence: the Ultimate Challenge?
CHAILLOT PAPER 43 European integration and defence: the ultimate challenge? Jolyon Howorth Institute for Security Studies Western European Union Paris - November 2000 CHAILLOT PAPER 43 (A French translation of this paper is also available from the Institute) The Institute for Security Studies of Western European Union Director: Nicole Gnesotto © Institute for Security Studies of WEU 2000. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photo-copying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the Institute for Security Studies of WEU. ISSN 1017-7566 Published by the Institute for Security Studies of Western European Union and printed in Alençon, France, by the Imprimerie Alençonnaise. Contents Preface v Introduction 1 Overall plan 6 Chapter One: Where is CESDP coming from? 9 Hegemony and the European pillar 9 CFSP: an ‘alternative’ European security narrative? 13 From ESDI to CESDP 22 Chapter Two: Where is the CESDP project today? 31 The institutional framework 32 Military capacity: the Helsinki ‘Headline Goal’ 37 The problem of resources 41 Differing national perspectives and the chances of an ESDP ‘at Fifteen’ 44 Stumbling blocks on the road to Feira . and Nice? 56 US perceptions of CESDP 63 Chapter Three: Where is the CESDP leading us? 71 What sort of military power will the EU become? 71 Geographical scope and scenarios 76 CESDP and the institutional evolution of the EU 81 Norms, values and political legitimacy 87 Conclusions: CESDP in a new global order 93 Abbreviations 99 Select bibliography on CFSP and CESDP 101 Annexes 103 Jolyon Howorth is Professor of French Civilisation and Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at the University of Bath (UK). -
Shift Or Rift, Assessing US-EU Relations After Iraq
Transat-COVER-3.qxd 12/11/2003 15:04 Page 1 Shift or Rift Assessing US-EU relations after Iraq Nicole Gnesotto, Stanley Hoffmann, Antonio Missiroli, David Gompert, Jean-Yves Haine, Ivo Daalder, James Lindsay, Martin Ortega, Patrick Clawson, Dimitrios Triantaphyllou, Daniel Serwer, Gustav Lindstrom, Brian Jenkins Edited by Gustav Lindstrom Institute for Security Studies Security for Institute Transatlantic Book 2003 Book Transatlantic European Union European Transat-COVER-3.qxd 12/11/2003 15:04 Page 2 Transatlantic Book 2003 Transatlantic Shift or Rift In January 2002 the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) beca- me an autonomous Paris-based agency of the European Union. Following an EU Council Joint Action of 20 July . 2001, it is now an integral part of the new structures Assessing US-EU relations after Iraq that will support the further development of the CFSP/ESDP. The Institute’s core mission is to provide analyses and recommendations that can be of use and relevance to the formulation of the European security and defence policy. In carrying out that mission, it also acts as an interface between European experts and decision-makers at all levels. edited by Gustav Lindstrom TRANSATEnglish-Text.qxd 12/11/2003 14:56 Page 1 Shift or rift Assessing US-EU relations after Iraq Nicole Gnesotto, Stanley Hoffmann, Antonio Missiroli, David Gompert, Jean-Yves Haine, Ivo Daalder, James Lindsay, Martin Ortega, Patrick Clawson, Dimitrios Triantaphyllou, Daniel Serwer, Gustav Lindstrom, Brian Jenkins Edited by Gustav Lindstrom Institute for Security Studies European Union Paris TRANSATEnglish-Text.qxd 12/11/2003 14:56 Page 2 Institute for Security Studies European Union Paris Director: Nicole Gnesotto © EU Institute for Security Studies 2003. -
Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard Scholar of International Relations and French Politics, Dies at 86
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Gila Naderi, Communications Manager Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University Cell: 617-581-2678 Work: 617-495-4303 ext. 260 [email protected] Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard scholar of international relations and French politics, dies at 86. September 13, 2015 (Cambridge, MA) - Stanley Hoffmann, the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor emeritus at Harvard University, has died at the age of 86 after a long illness in Cambridge, Mass. on September 13, 2015. The author of 19 books and countless articles for scholarly journals as well as leading newspapers and publications such as The New York Review of Books, Hoffmann has been a leading public intellectual on both sides of the Atlantic for more than fifty years. As a scholar of international relations and American foreign policy, as well as French and European politics, he has left a deep mark on contemporary understandings of some of the most perplexing issues of our time. At Harvard, he was a brilliant lecturer and beloved teacher of a dazzling array of courses, including legendary ones on ‘War’ and ‘Political Doctrines and Society: Modern France’, which he taught for more than thirty years. Stanley Hoffmann was born in Vienna on November 27, 1928 of a distant American father and Austrian mother, with whom he moved to France in the early 1930s, where he grew up, attending schools in Nice and then Paris. Although baptized at birth as a Protestant, his mother’s family were classified as Jews by the Nazis, and the two of them were forced to flee Paris in 1940, barely days before the German troops arrived, initially for a small village in the Languedoc and then to Nice where they spent the war hiding from the Gestapo.