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High Level Debate European Union 14BD06 OPM Newsletter.indd 1 06-08-2007 15:25:36 High level debate European Union On Tuesday 6 February the Clingendael and former MEP and MP Lousewies lively discussion among the participants in European Studies Programme organised van der Laan. Head of the Clingendael which amongst others the Ambassadors of a high-level debate on the future of the European Studies Programme, prof.dr. Jan the UK and France participated. European Union. The debate took place in Rood was the moderator of the debate. the context of a 4,5 weeks training course In response attention was devoted to the for junior diplomats from the 2004 EU Not surprisingly given the context and the Dutch and French no’ votes, the lack of enlargement countries. It was opened to experience of the speakers, the fate of the public debate on Europe, and the coalition other guests as well, and attracted a high Constitutional Treaty became the focus of agreement, in which the government number of participants as the subject was the discussion. Issues included the content would supposedly disfavour organising highly topical just after the ‘Friends of of a possibly modified Constitutional another referendum on a revised version the Constitution’ meeting and first news Treaty; i.e. which parts should remain and of the Constitutional Treaty, but would on the content of the Dutch coalition what should be added, and the process; still seek advice from the Council of State agreement. The high-level panel consisted i.e. how to get to a modified Constitutional after which the final say would be for the of distinguished speakers: former Minister Treaty on which all member states can Parliament. After the debate, discussions prof. Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst, Spanish agree. After a brief debate between the were continued during the social drinks. Ambassador H.E. Alfonso Dastis Quecedo panellists there was an interesting and Seminar Portuguese Presidency of the European Union Portuguese Secretary of State for European Affairs, State-Secretary Lobo Antunes during the public debate, together with Clingendael’s Chairman of H.E. Mr. Manuel Lobo Antunes, during his speech at Clingendael the Board, Dr. Bernard Bot, and Dutch Minister for European Affairs, Mr. Frans Timmermans On July 12th, the Clingendael Institute Portuguese EU-Presidency and presented As co-referent, Clingendael was pleased had the honour of welcoming H.E. Mr. a lecture, entitled Portuguese Presidency: to welcome H.E. Mr. Frans Timmermans, Manuel Lobo Antunes, Secretary of State a stronger Union for a better world? in the Dutch counterpart of minister Lopez for European Affairs of Portugal. Minister which he highlighted its priorities. The Antunes. The seminar was chaired by Dr. Lobo Antunes visited Clingendael on the event was organised by the Clingendael Bernard Bot, Chairman of the Board of occasion of the seminar regarding the European Studies Programme. Clingendael. Sudanese Diplomats at Clingendael The delegation of Junior and Mid-career Liberation Movement (SPLM), one of the Diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign key challenges for Sudan lies in the set-up Affairs of the Sudanese Government of operational joint leadership structures of National Unity (GNU) during their with a goal ratio of 30% former SPLM offi- training in Clingendael, November cials in all new structures. This delegation 2006. Following the signature of the met the target with 5 Diplomats from the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) South or Darfur out of a total of 18. between the previously existing Khartoum Government and the Sudanese People 14BD06 OPM Newsletter.indd 2 06-08-2007 15:25:44 The Hague Journal of Diplomacy In Memoriam Bart Tromp The Hague Journal of Diplomacy is the Bart Tromp was premier research journal for the study of a critical and diplomacy and its role in contemporary creative thinker international relations. It publishes the best on a wide vari- research on the theory, practice and tech- ety of issues, niques of diplomacy in both its traditional but above all a state-based bilateral and multilateral forms, stimulating col- plus more recent forms of diplomacy, such league with a as track-two diplomacy, field diplomacy warm personality. and public diplomacy practised by states and non-state entities. Each issue contains He joined Clingendael’s staff in research articles and at least one piece focu- September 2003 as visiting Senior sed on the practical aspects of diplomacy. Research Fellow. Since 2005 he was a member of the Clingendael Diplomatic The Journal promotes the analysis and Studies Programme, where his research understanding of diplomacy by acquain- focused on the evolution of internatio- ting a broad audience of readers with the nal relations in a historical perspective. best works undertaken in diplomatic stu- This was the latest step in a long and dies in a variety of intellectual traditions. ‘Towards a European Foreign Policy’, fruitful relationship with the Institute. Diplomatic studies is an interdisciplinary Brian Crowe He had lectured at Clingendael since the and inclusive field: the publication’s con- Institute’s very foundation in 1983, and tents will therefore reflect the wide array Jonas Talberg ‘Parameters of the in the 1970’s he was Vice Chairman of of methodologies by which diplomacy may Chairmanship’s Effectiveness: The Case the Dutch Institute of Peace Studies, one be studied. of the UN Security Council’, Spyros of Clingendael’s constituent organisati- Blavoukos, Dimitris Bourantonis and ons. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy is publis- Panayotis Tsakonas hed by Martinus Nijhoff, an imprint of Bart Tromp studied Political Sociology Brill Academic Publishers (www.brill.nl). Diplomacy with Fundamentalists: The at Groningen University. After gradua- It aims to stimulate research on diplomacy United States and the Taliban’, Juergen ting cum laude in 1971, he first taught and serve as a platform for a number of Kleiner Sociology at the Eindhoven University activities. In cooperation with the city before moving to Leiden University to of The Hague, Clingendael will orga- ‘A Case Study in Summitry: the British lecture in Political Science. He publis- nise a two-yearly The Hague Diplomacy Experience under Edward Heath, 1970-74’, hed a wide variety of works, including Conference, of which the first one has John W. Young books on Thomas Hobbs and Karl Marx, taken place on 21-22 June 2007. European integration and cultural policy, Diplomatic Cultures: Comparing Russia the Balkan wars of the early 1990’s, the Manuscripts or proposals should be sub- and the West in Terms of a ‘Modern evolution of Dutch social democracy, and mitted by e-mail to the editors, Model of Diplomacy’, Tatiana V. Zonova a handbook on political science. He also Jan Melissen and Paul Sharp, at was a political commentator and colum- [email protected]. The Impact of Enlargement: nist for many years for Dutch newspa- Europeanization of Polish Foregn Policy? pers Het Parool and De Gelderlander and Selected articles from Volumes 1 and 2: Tracking Adaptation and Change in weekly Elsevier. the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ‘The Diplomacy of Proximity and Karolina Pomorska Since 1978 he served on various advisory Specialness: Enhancing Canada’s councils of the Dutch government on Representation in the United States’, Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy: matters of peace and security. He was Brian Hocking and Donna Lee Some Cautionary Reflections, also a member of the Committee on David W. Lovell Peace and Security of the Advisory Board ‘Public Diplomacy Between Home and of International Affairs. Abroad: Norway and Canada’, Josef Bátora ‘Do This One For Me, George’: Blair, In addition to his work for Clingendael, Brown, Bono, Bush and the ‘Actor-ness’ of Bart Tromp was a Professor in the the G8, Geoffrey Allen Pigman and John Theory and History of International Kotsopoulos Relations at the University of Amsterdam by special appointment of Summit Diplomacy: High-Level Meeting the Netherlands Society of International or Courtesy Call? A Response to John Affairs (NGIZ). Young, David Hastings Dunn We will remember him as an indepen- Reforming Foreign Services for the dent, creative spirit, who has contribu- Twenty-First Century, Shaun Riordan ted immensely to both the Institute’s research and its training activities, and The first contributor to The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Alan Experience Matters Most, whose original and critical input will be Henrikson, flanked by the editors Jan Melissen and Paul Sharp, Karl Theodor Paschke sadly missed. at The Journal’s launch in San Diego 14BD06 OPM Newsletter.indd 3 06-08-2007 15:25:48 Clingendael Asia Studies On 1 September 2006, the Clingendael Clingendael Asia Studies is a unique visiting fellow at CAS Willem van Institute launched Clingendael Asia cooperation of the Clingendael Diplomatic Kemenade presented his new Clingendael Studies (CAS). This new research project Studies Programme and Security and Diplomacy Paper, ‘China and Japan: is aimed at promoting academic and Energy Programmes, supported by the Partners of Permanent Rivals?’. Various public discussion on a diverse range of Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. further events are scheduled, dealing with topics relating to Asia’s international Geostrategic implications of the such topics as Dutch China policy, relations. The objectives and outline of emergence of China for the region and Russian-Asian energy relations, Chinese research to be undertaken within CAS also for Europe and the Netherlands are a influence in Africa, trade and human were presented by its supervisor Jan major point of interest. Clingendael Asia rights, and the planned EU-China Melissen and individual researchers Studies thus responds to Asia’s growing Partnership and Cooperation Agreement. during a ‘kick-off’ seminar on Tuesday importance in international economics 17 October. and (resource) security. The initiative CAS is actively establishing contacts with reflects intensifying Asian-European Asia institutes and experts, academics as relations in the public and private well as practitioners.
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