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Centre Européen de Recherches Internationales & Stratégiques European Post Graduate School of International & Development Studies OPEN DAYS – February 2nd to March, 3rd, 2018. Registration ([email protected]) / phone: 02 537 40 75 www.ceris.be Venue : Campus Solbosch of the ULB ( Free University of Brussels), Building A (Entrance Y); 1st Floor- Auditorium: S.AY2.108 ; Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Brussels. Executive Master in International Politics (MIP) 02/02 18:00-19:30 NATO and the Future of Transatlantic Relations. Jamie Shea (NATO-Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges) 03/02 09:30-12:30 NATO and the Future of Transatlantic Relations. Jamie Shea (NATO- Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges) Jamie Shea is NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges. He has been working with NATO since 1980. Positions included 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. 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. 1 Brussels Diplomatic School Since 1985 09/02 18:00-19:30 US Foreign Policy after Trump's elections Michael Cox (London School of Economics & Political Science-LSE) 10/02 09:30-12:30 America and the transatlantic relations Michael Cox (London School of Economics & Political Science-LSE) 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 international survey, IDEAS was ranked 2nd 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. 16/02 18:00-19:30 Brexit : causes, modalities and consequences Franklin Dehousse (Université of Liège, College of Europe) 17/02 09:30-12:30 Brexit : causes, modalities and consequences Franklin Dehousse (Université of Liège, College of Europe) Franklin Dehousse has been Professor in several universities (Universities of Liège and Strasbourg, College of Europe, Higher Royal Institute of Defense, University Montesquieu of Bordeaux, Collège Michel Servet of the Universities of Paris, faculties Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur). He was a consultant to the European Commission from 1990 to 2003 on matters relating to the WTO and the information society. He was the Special Representative of the Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs (1995-1999) and Director of European Studies of the Royal Institute of International Relations (1998 to 2003). He was also an assessor at the Legislation Section of the Council of State, and a member of the Internet Observatory (2001-2003). He has been a judge at the Tribunal of the European Union since 7 October 2003. Franklin Dehousse has published numerous articles and monographs. He has also published numerous commentaries in the press, both national and international. 2 Brussels Diplomatic School Since 1985 23/02 18:00-19:30 Terrorism and Counter Terrorism : European and American experiences. Rick Coolsaet (Gent University- Senior Associate Fellow at Egmont Institute – Brussels) 24/02 09:30-12:30 Terrorism and Counter Terrorism : European and American experiences. Rick Coolsaet (Gent University- Senior Associate Fellow at Egmont Institute – Brussels) Rik Coolsaet is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Ghent University and Senior Associate Fellow at Egmont–Royal Institute for International Relations (Brussels). He was appointed a member of the original European Commission Expert Group on Violent Radicalisation (established 2006) and the subsequent European Network of Experts on Radicalisation (ENER). He was chair of the Department of Political Science at Ghent University from 2006 to 2014. He served as Director of the ‘Security & Global Governance’ Program at Egmont–Royal Institute for International Relations (Brussels). In the 1980s and 1990s, he held several high-ranking official positions, such as deputy chief of the Cabinet of the Belgian Minister of Defence and deputy chief of the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. His areas of expertise are international relations, diplomacy and Belgian foreign policy, and terrorism and radicalisation. He recently published three successive studies, all released by Egmont: Assessing the fourth foreign fighters wave. What Drives Europeans to Syria, and to IS? Insights from the Belgian Case (March 2016); ‘All Radicalisation is Local’. The Genesis and Drawbacks of an Elusive Concept (June 2016); and Anticipating the Post-Daesh Landscap (October 2017). 02/03 18:00-19:30 The Future of Europe Jacques Rupnik (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris – CERI) 03/03 09:30-12:30 The enlarged EU and its neighbors: Balkans, Eastern and Southern Europe. Jacques Rupnik (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris – CERI) Jacques Rupnik is Director of Research at the Centre de Recherches Internationale (CERI) at Sciences Po, France, where he also serves as Professor of Political Science. In addition, he is a Visiting Professor at Havard and at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. Beyond academia, Rupnik has held numerous positions advising on Eastern and Southeastern Europe. During the Balkan crisis, he was Executive Director of the International Commission for the Balkans and drafted its report Unfinished Peace. As member of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo, he co-drafted The Kosovo Report. Rupnik was an advisor to Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic. He is currently a member of the scientific council of the Prague Institute of International Relations, the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague and the International Forum for Democracy Studies in Washington. 3 Brussels Diplomatic School Since 1985 Executive Master in Governance & Development Policy (MADEV) 03/02 14:00- 18:00 The Challenges faced by, and responses of, the environmental movement to the policies of Donald Trump. John Sauven (Executive Director of Greenpeace, UK) & Howard Nicholas (International Institute of Social Studies–ISS, Den Haag) Mr. John Sauven is the executive director at Greenpeace UK. He joined the organisation in the early 1990 and became involved in the campaigns to ban underground nuclear testing in the Pacific and in the campaigns against Trident in the UK. M. Sauven contributed to the development of Greenpeace's "Greenfreeze" campaign for better standards in refrigeration to protect the ozone layer. He also contributed to the promotion of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) as part of Greenpeace’s forest campaign meant to support the buying of legal and sustainable timber and paper. Sauven was the leader of the global campaign to stop the expansion of soya in the Amazon rainforest, leading to a historic victory when a moratorium was agreed on further deforestation by the large multinational corporations like Cargill. He is also a regular contributor to the UK daily, The Guardian. Professor Howard Nicholas is a Sri Lankan economist and social scientist, Senior Lecturer in Economics at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. His areas of interest are non-neoclassical economics, capacity building for economics related policy and business decision making. Among his publications we cite: Macroeconomic dynamics of the Surinamese economy (Teaching case study, Lim A Po Institute, Suriname, 2009), ‘Inflation in Sri Lanka: Ideology vs reality’ (chapter contribution in felicitation volume for Prof. W.D. Lakshman. University of Colombo) in W.M. Wimalaratne (ed) The Economics of Professor W.D. Lakshman, (University of Colombo, 2008), “World Economic Crisis, Deflation, Recession, and the Coming Shift in the Balance of Global Economic Power” (Paper presented at Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, Colombo, Sri Lanka, October, 2008). 4 Brussels Diplomatic School Since 1985 10/02 14:00-18:00 Demographic Foundations of Human Development - Andrew Fischer (International Institute of Social Studies-ISS, Den Haag) 17/02 14:00-18:00 Poverty & Income disparities in the South. Andrew Fischer (International Institute of Social Studies-ISS, Den Haag)