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Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB

OPEN DAYS – February 5th to March 6th, 2021 Registration ([email protected]) / phone: +32(0)2 537 40 75 www.ceris.be

Executive Master in International Politics (MIP) Executive Master in Governance & Development Policy (MADEV)

05/02 18:00-19:30 The rise and fall of Donald Trump MIP Michael Cox ( School of Economics & Political Science- LSE, Director of IDEAS)

06/02 09:30-12:30 Prospects for the Biden Presidency MIP Michael Cox (London School of Economics & Political Science –LSE, Director of IDEAS)

Professor Michael Cox is Director of LSE IDEAS and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at LSE. In addition, he is currently working on a history of LSE. He helped establish the Cold War Studies Centre in 2004 and expand it into IDEAS, a foreign policy centre based at

the LSE, which aims to bring the academic, and policy words together, in 2008. In a 2014 nd international survey, IDEAS was ranked 2 in the world amongst the best university affiliated Think Tanks. Since joining the LSE he has also acted as Academic Director of both the LSE- PKU Summer School and of the Executive Summer School. In 2011, he launched a new Executive Masters in Global Strategy designed to teach senior foreign policy practitioners.

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06/02 14:00-18:00 The climate change and the global politics. MIP-MADEV Jean-Pascal van Ypersele (UCLouvain, Former Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-IPCC)

Professor Jean-Pascal van Ypersele is a Belgian academic climatologist. He is a professor of Environmental Sciences at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain). He is specialized in modelling climate and the climate effects of human activities, and has recently focused his research on climate change at the regional scale (modelling and impacts) and on integrated assessment of climate change. He chairs the Energy & Climate Working Group of the Belgian Federal Council for Sustainable Development. In 2008, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele has been elected Vice-chair of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared with Al Gore the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize), after participating in its work since 1995. In that capacity, he led a reflection group on the future of IPCC, which proposed a number of reforms that were adopted by the IPCC Plenary in 2009. In 2009, he was elected a Member of the Belgian Royal Academy. He has participated to a number of United Nations conferences on climate issues as scientific advisor and was instrumental in creating in 2002 the UN work programme on climate communication and education. Among other prizes, he received in 2006 the « Energy and environment award » from the International Polar Foundation, the “Francqui Chair” from the Université libre de Bruxelles in 2007-2008, and was made Honorary Member of the Club of Rome EU Chapter in 2010. In 2011, he received the « Francqui Chair » form HUBrussel, co-organized the first Stephen Schneider Symposium, was made honorary citizen of the city of Dinant (), and received the highest distinction awarded by the Government of the Walloon Region: "Commandeur du Mérite wallon”.

12/02 18:00-19:30 & 13/02 9:30-12:30 NATO and the Future of Transatlantic Relations MIP Jamie Shea (University of Exeter, Former Senior NATO Official)

Jamie Shea is professor of strategy and security at the University of Exeter since September 2018. From 1980 to 2018, Mr. Jamie Shea was a member of the International Staff of NATO in Brussels. His last position was deputy assistant secretary general for emerging security challenges where he was responsible for taking NATO’s work forward in areas such as non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, cyber defense, counterterrorism, and energy security. His previous positions with NATO include Director of Policy Planning in the Private Office of the Secretary General, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for External Relations, Public Diplomacy Division, Director of Information and Press, Spokesman of NATO and Deputy Director of Information and Press, Deputy Head and Senior Planning Officer in the Policy Planning and Multilateral Affairs Section of the Political Directorate as well as Assistant to the Secretary General of NATO for Special Projects. Mr. Jamie Shea is a regular lecturer and conference speaker on NATO and European security affairs and on public diplomacy, political communication and many other areas of contemporary international relations. He holds a D.Phil. in Modern History from Oxford University (Lincoln College), 1981. Amongst his many associations and memberships, Jamie Shea is a member of the Advisory Board, Security and Defence Programmes at Chatham House, a member of the Policy Council at the World Economic Forum in Geneva and founder and member of the Board, Security and Defence Agenda Brussels and Friends of Europe. He serves on the Board of the Danish Defence College, Copenhagen, and the Académie Diplomatique Internationale in Paris.

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13/02 14:00-18:00 60 Years of European development policy: an essential instrument of EU foreign Policy MADEV Mr. Stefano Manservisi (Former Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development - DEVCO)

Stefano Manservisi is Chair of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) and Special Advisor to Commissioner Gentiloni. He has occupied different functions in the European Union: Head of Cabinet to Monti (Commissioner for Internal Market, taxation, customs and competition), to Prodi (President of the European Commission) and lastly to Mogherini (High Representative for Foreign Policy/Vice President of the Commission). Director- General for Development and political relations with Africa, Caribbean and Pacific, then Director-General for Migration and Home affairs and finally EU Ambassador to Turkey. Manservisi last position has been Director-General for International Cooperation and Development. He is Scientific Advisor at IAI and distinguished Fellow in various think tanks. He also lectures in universities

(Sciences-Po/Paris School for International Affairs, European University Institute) and advises several UN specialised agencies.

19/02 18:00-19:30 Europe at the Crossroads: current challenges and future trends Jacques Rupnik (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris-IEP, CERI, Harvard University) MIP

20/02 09:30-12:30 From EU enlargement to unstable neighbourhoods: Balkans, East and South Jacques Rupnik (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris-IEP, CERI, Harvard University) MIP

Jacques Rupnik is currently Research Professor at CERI-Sciences Po in Paris as well as visiting professor at the College of Europe in . Since he joined CERI, Sciences Po in 1982, he has been writing and lecturing about East and Central European history and politics and European integration. He was advisor to president Vaclav Havel in the 1990’s. Executive director of the International Commission for the Balkans, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1995-1996) and drafter of its report Unfinished Peace (1996); member of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo (1999-2000) and co-drafter of The Kosovo Report (Oxford UP, 2000). Among the various positions held: advisor to the European Commission (2007– 2010). Member of the board of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague 2010-2017. Member of the board of directors of the European Partnership for Democracy in Brussels (2008-2013). He has been a visiting Professor in several European universities and at Harvard. J.Rupnik’s publications include The Other Europe

(1989), Le Printemps tchécoslovaque 1968 (1999), and, more recently, 1989 as a Political World

Event: Democracy, Europe and the new international system, with an introduction by V.Havel, London, Routledge, (2014), Géopolitique de la démocratization, l’Europe et ses voisinages, Presses de Sciences Po (2014), Europe at the Crossraods: Democracy, neighbourhoods, migrations, published by the Vaclav Havel Library, Prague, 2018, Senzo il muro, l’Europa et il mondo dopo il crollo del

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20/02 14:00-18:00 The European Green Deal: internal and external perspectives MADEV Christian Egenhofer (Senior Research Associate, School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Florence & Associate Senior Research Fellow, CEPS, Brussels, Visiting Professor, SciencesPo, Paris and College of Europe, Natolin/Poland)

Prior to joining the School for Transnational Governance, Christian Egenhofer has been (Founding) Director of Energy Climate House, the research division on energy, climate change and resources since 2015 and since 2000 a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor at SciencesPo and the College of Europe. Other

prior university assignments included the Free University of Brussels

(U.L.B), Guido Carli LUISS University, Rome, MGIMO, Moscow and the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee in Scotland/UK where he also held a part- time position as Senior Research Fellow from 1998 to 2005. Preceding his position at CEPS, he was Director & Owner of IMPACT SPRL, a public affairs consulting group and for a brief spell worked at the Ministry for the Interior of Baden-Württemberg (Germany). He has published 8 books and written more than 160 articles, book chapters or policy reports. Selected articles and book chapters have been translated into 9 languages. He holds a Master in Business Administration of the University of Konstanz, Germany, and LLM (Public Law Degree, A-grade; qualifying exam for civil service).

The European Union has been a pioneer in climate change policies, especially through its "cap and trade" emissions trading system (the ETS) for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by the year 2020. This book analyzes the economic consequences of supplementing the ETS with an import tax on

the CO2 content of all goods imported into the EU. The authors

find that a CO2 border tax or import tariff would increase global

welfare and that it can probably be made to be WTO-compatible. Moreover, given the increasing ability to measure a product's carbon footprint, there are no insurmountable, practical obstacles to introducing such a tariff. Such a tariff might not be appropriate, however, if developing countries live up to their obligations of differentiated responsibilities and capabilities spelled out under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Whether this will be the case is not yet clear.

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26/02 18:00-19:30 BREXIT what next? Christian Lequesne (SciencesPo-Paris, CERI) MIP

27/02 9:30-12:30 The Future of European Union Christian Lequesne (SciencesPo-Paris, CERI) MIP

Christian Lequesne is professor of political science at Sciences Po's Center for International Studies (CERI), where he specializes in European Studies and Diplomacy. He participates in the ESRC project "The UK in a changing Europe" and is Sciences Po’s principal investigator within the H2020 EU-LISTCO project on European foreign policy. Research fellow and then Professor at Sciences Po since 1988, he was deputy director of CERI from 2000 to 2003, and director of CERI from 2009 to 2013. Director of the Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (CEFRES) in Prague from 2004 to 2006, LSE-Sciences Po Alliance. Professor at the European Institute of the London chool of Economics from 2006 to 2008, member and vice- president of the Board of Directors of Sciences Po from 2007 to 2013. He is a regular visiting professor at the School of Government of LUISS University and the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna . Co-Founder and Co-Chief Editor with Prof. Christopher Hill (Cambridge) of European Review of International Studies (Brill), member of the international adversory board of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Journal of European Integration; Politique européenne. Member of the evaluation committee of the European Research Council (ERC) in 2017 ; member of scientific councils of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Regular columnist in the daily newspaper Ouest France. Was awarded the F. Palacky social sciences medal by the Czech Academy of Sciences and Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes académiques.

The Member States of the European Union combines an analysis of individual EU member states with the effects of Europeanization on domestic institutions and policies. Examining both sides of this crucial relationship, it is the best guide to EU member state relations available. The second edition has been thoroughly updated to take in the latest round of EU enlargement and includes chapters on eight member states from different geographical regions and dates of accession. These are followed by seven thematic chapters on the Europeanization of structures, actors, and processes within the EU 27. Each chapter is written by an international expert in an accessible and engaging way. It is the ideal text for all those with an interest in the member states of the European Union and how they work together.

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27/02 14:00-16:00 Food Security: a security challenge for all Laura Hammond (School of Oriental & African Studies - SOAS) MADEV

27/02 16:30-18:00 The global food price crisis. Laura Hammond (School of Oriental & African Studies - SOAS) MADEV

Professor Laura Hammond is Head of Department and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. She is an anthropologist specializing in food security, conflict, forced migration and diasporas. She is Challenge Leader for Security, Protracted Conflict, Refugees and Forced Displacement for the Global Challenges Research Fund, Head of the London International Development Centre's Migration Leadership Team, and Team Leader for the Research and Evidence Facility (Horn of Africa Window) of the European Union Trust Fund for Africa. She also is Chair of the Independent Advisory Group for Country Information. She has worked in the Horn of Africa since 1993 (with a particular emphasis on Ethiopia and Somalia/Somaliland), and has done consultancy for a wide range of development and humanitarian organizations, including UNDP, USAID, Oxfam, Medécins Sans Frontières, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the World Food Programme. She is the author of This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia (Cornell University Press: 2004), co-editor with Johan Pottier and Christopher Cramer of Researching Violence in Africa: Ethical and Methodological Challenges (Brill: 2011) and many book and journal articles.

Researching violence and conflict can be challenging for a variety of reasons, including security risks to researchers and informants, restricted or lack of access to informants and field sites, and poor reliability of official data. Traditional methodological approaches may need to be adapted, and new methods may be called for. In addition, such research carries ethical challenges about representation of informants and information and possible use of the research for harmful ends. This book, drawing on research conducted throughout Africa in conflict zones and other insecure environments, considers the everyday dilemmas researchers face. It provides essential contributions to ongoing challenging debates about the use of alternative and mixed methods in social science research.

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05/03 18:00-19:30 Impact of Internet & social media on Power and Politics, in the aftermath of Brexit and the Trump presidency MIP Tom Fletcher (Hertford College, University of Oxford)

Tom served as the foreign policy advisor to Prime Ministers Blair, Brown and Cameron, before becoming British Ambassador to Lebanon (2011-15) and a Visiting Professor at NYU (2015-20). He is the author of the bestselling Naked Diplomacy: Power & Statecraft in the Digital Age (2016) and Humanifesto:

How to Take Back Control of the 21st Century

(Harper Collins, September 2021). He led reviews of the modernisation of the FCO (2016); future of the UN (2017) and the future of learning (2019). He is a former chair of the international board of the

UK's Creative Industries Federation, adviser to businesses, academies and NGOs, and a member

of the EU Global Tech Panel. He writes for the NYT, Prospect, Foreign Policy, The National and

others, is a regular interviewee on BBC, Sky, CNN and has been profiled by the BBC, Arab News and more. His Foundation for Opportunity supports good people doing good things in public life. His insider's view of modern international relations, Naked Diplomacy: Power & Statecraft in the

Digital Age is the bestselling book on diplomacy ever written by a British author. Tom considers

the 21st century survival skills we need as states, businesses and individuals.

Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future? Digital technology is changing power at a faster rate than any time in history. Distrust and inequality are fuelling political and economic uncertainty.

The scaffolding built around the global order is fragile, and the checks and balances created over centuries to protect liberty are being tested, maybe to destruction. Tom Fletcher, the youngest senior British ambassador for two hundred years, considers how we – as governments, businesses, individuals – can survive and thrive in the twenty first century. And how we can ensure that technology can make it easier of citizens truly to take back control.

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06/03 14:00-18:00 The Political Economy of Russian Capitalism: what is beyond the Oil Needle? Anastasia Nesvetailova (CITY, University of London) MIP-MADEV

Professor Anastasia Nesvetailova is Director of City Political Economy Research Centre - CITYPERC. She is a research specialist in International Political Economy. Her areas of interest cover finance and financial crises, globalisation and governance and her current research focuses on the themes of global financial fragility and crises, the formation of financial and monetary policies, and the process of capitalist evolution in Russia and other FSU countries. She currently teaches at the School of Social Sciences of the City University in London at undergraduate and PG level. She is a former lecturer at the Centre for Global Political Economy of the University of Sussex. Professor Nesvetailova is the author of Fragile Finance: Debt, Speculation and Crisis in the Age of Global Credit

(Palgrave, 2007) and Financial Alchemy in Crisis: The Great Liquidity Illusion (Pluto, 2010). She is a co-editor of Global Finance in the New Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), International Political Economy: A Reader (Sage, 2007). Upcoming book (Out 28 January 2020): Sabotage: The Hidden Nature of Finance by Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan.

"I don't like the word 'sabotage',"--a former Goldman Sachs trader admitted. "It's just harsh.... Though, frankly, how else do you make money in this business...I mean, real money." The fundamental motive for financial innovation is not to make the system work better, but to avoid regulation and oversight. This is not a bug of the financial system, but a built-in feature. The president of the US is not a tax avoider because he is an especially fraudulent financier; he's a tax avoider because he is a wealthy man in a system premised on such deceit. Finance is an industry of sabotage. This book is a brilliant, intellectual detective story that traces the origins of financial sabotage, starting with the work of a prescient American economist who saw the capacity for banks and businesses to dissemble and profit as early as the 1920s. What was accomplished modestly in the first half of the 20th century became a booming global industry in the 1980s. Financialization took over everything, culminating in instruments so complex and confusing their own creators were being destroyed by them in 2008.

With each financial bust, people expect to hear who the culprit was, and cynically know to not expect much punishment to ever reach them. But the innovation of this book is to show that each individual gaming the system isn't a crook---the whole system is sabotage. "A fierce denunciation of the practices and principles underlying the financial industry and a history of how we got here--from two professors expert in the workings of financial markets and offshore tax havens."

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