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THE MAGAZINE OF SAIS EUROPE Issue 2013 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES - BOLOGNA, ITALY
GOVERNANCE Evolving Global Challenges MESSAGE from the Director
THE MAgAzINE OF SAIS E UROPE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIvERSITy PAUL H. N ITzE SCHOOL OF ADvANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES BOLOgNA , I TALy
Editor s hard as it is to believe, I am beginning my eighth Odette Boya Resta year as director of the Bologna Center—now SAIS Assistant Editor A Europe at Bologna—and it will be my last. Such rites Tatiana Marot Pollard of passage call for summing up—perhaps something less Designer than an assessment, but more than an annual progress Orazio Metello Orsini report. And the time is right for that because there are Student writers significant changes underway, a natural and satisfying Rebecca Ben-Amou evolution in our identity within SAIS. Let me mention just a few. Nic Corbett When the administration of European Studies moved to Contributors Bologna last year, we entered a new era in the life of SAIS i t Amina Abdiuahab t e B
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Gabriella Chiappini h Kenneth H. Keller P Brittney Johnson and Eurasian Studies concentration, the first significant Linda Marion realignment in the structure of SAIS’s array of Julia Christine Schiling Clarissa Ronchi concentrations in many a year. Thomas Tesluk Two years ago we also established the Bologna Institute for Policy Research and, Francesca Torchi aided by generous alumni support as well as a grant from Johns Hopkins President Photography Ron Daniels, it supports a range of activities which continue to grow, including a Sabina Betti program of scholars in residence, the presence of up to four dissertation-stage Ph.D. Eikon Studio students each year, and the successful use of social media to increase awareness of SAIS, its European presence, and its contributions to the public dialogue. Rivista is published periodically by The Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School A search is underway to fill the Khaduri Chair in Middle East Studies, and it’s of Advanced International Studies, SAIS Europe. been agreed that the chair-holder will be resident in Bologna, taking advantage of our Rivista is distributed to alumni, friends, and supporters. proximity to the Middle East. The views and opinions expressed in the articles Just last month the Academic Board affirmed that senior faculty at Bologna should of Rivista are those of the authors or of the editor have the same opportunity to hold academic tenure as their Washington colleagues, and do not necessarily represent the views or the policies of The Johns Hopkins University or of SAIS. an explicit recognition of the quality, permanence, and vital contribution of the Bologna Center and its faculty to SAIS’s mission. Rivista reserves the right to edit any material submitted. Our new formal name, SAIS Europe, reflects this maturation in our role as the face of SAIS in Europe; as an entity that makes real the concept of SAIS as a global ©2013 by The Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, institution and a single, integrated school. This global presence and the opportunities it SAIS Europe. All rights reserved. offers makes SAIS unique among schools of international affairs. Half of SAIS students begin their education in Bologna and are exposed over two years to the On the cover contrasting perspectives on international issues that campuses in two different political Pavimento del portico and geographic settings can provide; half of the SAIS students studying in Bologna di via Carbonesi, Bologna, particolare da restaurare , come from countries other than the U.S., creating an unusually rich interchange 2013. of ideas in each classroom as well as in every other student space. Photo by Sabina Betti Two different locations, two different learning environments; complementary experiences which create synergies that no other school offers. Helping to promote that mission and these goals have made these years for me some of the most rewarding in my professional life. Follow Rivista For fifty-eight years, we have called this place the Bologna Center and so it will @SAISRivista always be for the more than 7,000 students who have studied here. Now the Center has earned recognition as SAIS Europe, a natural evolution because, of course, that facebook.com/SAISRivista is what it has always been. We can take pride in both labels. THE MAGAZINE OF SAIS EUROP E Issue 2013
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES - BOLOGNA, ITALY Table of Contents
GOVERNANCE 26 A Gelato Museum in Bologna 3 Misgovernance by Nic Corbett Corruption in Developing Countries by Arntraud Hartmann ALUMNI 28 Cari Alumni, Care Alumnae, Kenneth H. Keller 6 Is Italy Governable? Interview with John L. Harper 28 Elif Nazmiye Yavuz by Valeria Calderoni 29 Alumni Weekend 2013 9 The Ebb of Security Celebrating SAIS Europe and Governance by Francesca Torchi Mali and the Sahel. A Conversation with Winrich Kühne 31 Amici Converge on the UN by Odette Boya Resta by Thomas Tesluk 12 A Smoke of Hope An Essay on Religion 32 Berlin by Bulat Akhmetkarimov Annual Reunion of the SAIS Alumni German Chapter by Julia Christine Schiling BOLOGNA FEATURE 14 Living in a Culture Not One’s Own 34 I Bolognesi a Londra 2013 by Linda Marion DEVELOPMENT FACULTY News & Publications 36 Thanks from SAIS Europe! 18 What’s New in Bologna by Gabriella Chiappini 20 Recent Books and Other Publications 38 How to Make a Gift to SAIS Europe STUDENT VIEW 22 Cultural Chameleons 39 Fellowship Ceremonies in a Changing Global Landscape SAIS Students learn thanks to donor generosity by Nic Corbett 42 Class Initiatives 24 A Strategic Location by Rebecca Ben-Amou 44 Memorial Initiatives Editor’s NOTE
The Road We’ve Taken
his year marks the 30th anniversary of Rivista and to celebrate we’ve gone digital-only! I believe it’s important that we continue to connect with you, our readers, wherever T you may find yourselves in the world. As always we welcome feedback. Alumni and friends may have noticed a few other changes going on in Bologna. Most notably the ‘SAIS Bologna Center’ has been renamed ‘SAIS Europe.’ This change is recognition of the road we’ve taken—a reinforcement of developments that have occurred over time underscoring the significance of the presence of Johns Hopkins SAIS in Europe. Founded in 1955 as an experiment—the very first U.S. graduate school established in Europe—the Center has since developed into a program unique for its longevity, its multicultural community, and its adaptability. In the immediate post-war period, the world— and Europe in particular—was divided into two camps that would define global relations for the next forty-five years. What better place to study the unfolding story of U.S. and Soviet influence in Europe than in Bologna, the unofficial ‘capital’ of leftist thought in a country aligned with the Western Bloc? Today, a quarter of a century since the fall of the Berlin Wall, SAIS Europe continues to evolve to prepare students for the world they will face and is a leading European center of excellence in teaching and policy debate. What hasn’t changed? Dedication to the academic and professional growth of students remains at the heart of SAIS Europe. Keeping up with the needs of students in today’s fast paced global environment requires leadership that isn’t afraid to innovate. Ken Keller has defined his own chapter in this regard. Innovation is any change that brings improvement to something established and therefore creates value. Over the past eight years Keller has guided SAIS Europe through triumphs and challenges, successfully redirecting its mission in inspired ways. An engineer, a science and technology policy expert, with strong academic and cultural gravitas, many signal achievements—the establishment of a research institute, the repositioning of European and Eurasian Studies, now headquartered in Bologna, and other firsts—are due to his ability to think big, take risks, and steer the growth of the school. The end of his tenure as director next year will surely bring more change, and he will be greatly missed. We cannot tread back in time, but only move ahead on the path we’ve chosen. Bologna has taken the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. OBR
STUDENT WRITERS Governance is the rule of the rulers, Rebecca Ben-Amou B’13 “typically within a given set of rules.” is a second-year student at SAIS After wading through a dozen or so definitions, concentrating in Strategic Studies this one by The World Bank seems sufficiently and studying Arabic. She has interned for the U.S. Army War universal to describe the theme of this issue. College and LIGNET.com and Often overused as a one-size-fits-all mantra, continues to pursue a career in the term ‘governance’ is still evolving and civil service. exploring semantic solutions, just like our world’s Nic Corbett B’13 is a second-year governance challenges require real ones. As SAIS student concentrating in the editor, I hope the theme—explored from different Latin American Studies Program. A former newspaper journalist, she points of view in two interviews and in two articles spent her summer interning with submitted by members of the SAIS academic Innovations for Poverty Action community—resonates with Rivista readers. working on a midline evaluation of an anti-poverty program near Buona lettura! Cusco, Peru. OBR
2 Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe GOVERNANCE Misgovernance Corruption in Developing Countries by Arntraud Hartmann
ver the last decade from the World governance increasing attention Indicator, efforts to reduce Ohas been paid to corruption have often been the negative impacts of unsuccessful. Out of 196 corruption on growth, countries only twenty-one development and poverty (mostly Caribbean and alleviation. The most Balkan) showed statistically common definition of significant improvement corruption is “the use of since 1996, and twenty- public office for private seven countries regressed, gains.” Corruption is leaving only fewer than a examined both in developing quarter of countries around and in developed countries, the world with a reasonable but its impacts are considered control over corruption. One to be more detrimental in the could argue that survey- developing world. Most based indicators are not i t t research argues that e suitable to measure changes B
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Arntraud Hartmann h and inequality and P believe that corruption has undermines the effectiveness been significantly reduced. of aid. Two decades ago NgOs, such as Transparency Why such a high level of corruption in developing countries? International (TI), were established to place the corruption There are many reasons. The general poverty of the popula - issue prominently on the international agenda and to tion is the main reason. In addition, low salaries of civil demonstrate both its prevalence and its negative impacts. servants make it difficult for them to make ends meet. How prevalent is corruption? A key challenge is how to Institutions are too weak to provide oversight, and accounta - measure corruption. Typically it consists of illegal activities, bility mechanisms are missing. Additionally, corrupt political and so is not easily measured. In recent years significant leaders use politics to make money that they claim they progress has been made in the measurement of corruption require to advance political ends or to pay for political with perception-based indexes, such as the TI Perception support. Countries with high levels of corruption often lack an Index, or survey-based indexes. Corruption appears closely active civil society and participatory processes where corrupt linked to a country’s level of development. According to the practices could be monitored and brought to public attention, 2012 TI Corruption Index, only four advanced developing and as a result create pressure to reduce corruption. countries make the top twenty least corrupt countries: What is the role of the private sector in corruption? Singapore, Hong Kong, Barbados and Chile. All other coun - Corruption is not solely caused by bribe taking public officials. tries are highly developed countries. At the bottom of the list The private sector is an important actor on the supply side. are least developed countries and so-called failed states. Too many private sector firms offer or accept bribes. The level (Fig. 1 on p. 4) of corruption in the private sector remains disturbingly high. It Regrettably, in spite of all the efforts to reduce corruption, is quite common for domestic firms and multinationals to pay based on indicators available there has been little progress. bribes in order to secure public procurement contracts. It is Based on data published by the World Bank and gathered also common for corporate entities to exert undue pressure to
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Source: Economist Online Dec 2, 2011 influence institutions and regulations to elicit favorable invest - scarce resources. Furthermore, it leads to inefficient economic ment conditions. Corporate corruption is particularly prevalent outcomes. It impedes foreign and domestic investment, in the extractive industry and construction sectors. But many misdirects talent to rent-seeking activities, and distorts low-income countries, especially in Africa, depend on the sectorial priorities and technology choices. For example, it exploitation of gas, oil, and minerals. In its most extreme form, creates incentives for large scale overpriced contracts, rather private interests can capture political and economic systems. than rural health clinics, where little infrastructure investment In a “captured state,” competitive market forces cannot develop, is needed. It pushes firms underground, undercuts the state’s since all economic actors are captured by one interest group. ability to raise revenues and leads to ever-higher tax rates High levels of corruption and collusion between the industrial being levied on few and fewer taxpayers. and financial sectors were one of the reasons for the economic Corruption is particularly detrimental to the poor. In the failures of Indonesia’s Suharta regime. study “voices of the Poor,” undertaken by the World Bank in What are the costs of corruption? The large majority of 2000, where 60,000 poor were interviewed in sixty countries, economic research today argues that high levels of corruption the risks associated with corruption are heard loud and clear. negatively impact economic growth, disproportionately harm For a poor household, even a small bribe can be unaffordable, the poor, increase inequality, and undermine the effectiveness and the risk of being asked by police authorities or public of development aid. These negative impacts on economic enforcement authorities for a bribe to avoid negative actions growth have been contested in the past. Some researchers is a constant threat to the livelihood of poor households. argued that corruption helps to “grease” the system by Bribe paying is particularly prevalent in the allocation of public speeding up decision making in typically unresponsive and services, especially health and education. overly bureaucratic public administrations. In this view, Findings from a seven-country study in Africa (ghana, corruption helps to speed up investments and the allocation of Madagascar, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and resources. The overwhelming opinion today, however, argues Uganda) showed that 44 percent of parents surveyed had paid that corruption is more like “sand” than “grease” for the wheels illegal fees for schools that were legally free for their children. In of an economic system. Bribery tends to raise transaction cities, such as Jakarta, Lima and Manila, the urban poor pay costs and uncertainty in an economy. It increases the costs private water retailers between five and ten times more for their of investment and actually contributes to a misallocation of water than the rich pay for piped water. The National Household
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Survey in Bangladesh (2010) showed that 84 percent of the which often leads to fewer but better paid and more account - households who had interacted with one or more different public able civil servants. Strengthening the judiciary is another pillar and private sectors or institutions have been victims of corrup - of governance reforms. Deregulation is often important. Overly tion. 33 percent of these people experienced corruption in complex legal provisions, for example in fiscal codes, building healthcare services. In Morocco a scheme was introduced to permits, business processes, are important opportunities in move families from a slum to new plots of land with access to which public officials can take bribes. By making laws simpler basic services. Civil servants in charge of the move reportedly and more transparent, opportunities for bribe taking are asked for unofficial, private payments amounting to around reduced. Many developing countries have put anti-corruption US$250 to receive plots of land and US$630 for a certificate of laws and commissions in place, but they are often not enforced residence. This is a third of an average yearly income. Those or the commissions are not empowered to be effective. By who did not pay were evicted and left homeless. integrating aid processes into domestic systems while at the What is the relationship between development aid and cor - same time strengthening financial accountability, the aim is to ruption? High levels of corruption undermine the effectiveness reduce the “corruption inducing” impacts of aid giving. of aid, but high levels of aid, provided in an imprudent manner, Traditional donors are trying to work towards this objective frequently increase and encourage corrup - under the so-called “Paris Aid Harmonization tion. Where aid is provided to corrupt sys - Agenda.” This focus, however, is only pursued tems or corrupt leadership, it serves to feed Corruption by the traditional donors. Major new donors, abuses. Then both domestic resources and is more like such as China, an important provider of aid in aid resources are affected. Aid provided Africa, do not align their processes with according to its own systems and require - ‘sand’ than ‘grease’ domestic systems. ments can weaken domestic institutions and for the wheels of A notable weakness of the anti-corruption further undermine embryonic accountability an economic support agenda of donors is the overly tech - mechanisms. Conflict, reconstruction and system nocratic focus on public sector management post-disaster context are particularly vulnera - and public sector governance building. There ble. Aid channeled into countries with high is little emphasis to support structures which levels of corruption tends to be misallocated. A significant per - “demand” a corruption free environment. An active civil society centage of aid is diverted away from intended purposes. with direct engagement and stakes, equipped with knowledge In the past official donors would not hesitate to provide and support, can help to create pressures to demand a reduc - major funding to highly corrupt governments, such as the tion in corruption. For example, parents actively engaged in the Mobutu government in zaire and the Marcos government in building and management of schools, equipped with knowl - the Phillipines. Such extreme misgovernance in official aid by edge about their rights and supported by funding, will more traditional donors is increasingly rare; however in some cases actively monitor whether school books allocated to the district official aid continues to be provided to many developing actually arrive or whether teachers show up for work or are country governments who have questionable records on paid. Attendance of health personnel and availability of medi - corruption. Today there is a much stronger sensitivity to this cine without illegal payments could be more actively monitored issue: that high and persistent levels of corruption will deepen through active citizen engagement. Fiscal allocations can be and prolong poverty and will make the efficient allocation of better monitored if budget formulation processes are made aid resources almost impossible. transparent and citizen groups are supported and empowered What can aid donors do to limit corruption? Most traditional to participate in and follow these processes. Some programs donors have focused their programs importantly on gover - provide support to such programs, but they are the exception nance building and make a minimum level of good gover - rather than the rule. The IT revolution provides ample opportu - nance a precondition of aid flows. Some programs, such as nity to make stakeholder engagement more effective and to the Millennium Challenge Account, are particularly demanding increase the transparency of resource allocation processes. and do not support programs with particularly high levels of For example, procurement prices of goods and services can corruption. They have also refocused the method of delivery be easily checked and compared with local conditions. of the aid by channeling funds through non-governmental organizations and charitable and religious institutions. Former senior manager at the World Bank and a member Traditional donors have focused particularly on improving of the compliance review mechanisms of both the African public governance and institutions. This includes in particular Development Bank and the Asian Development Banks, the improvement of fiscal management systems with stronger Arntraud Hartmann B’80 is Adjunct Professor of monitoring and accountability systems and civil service reforms International Development at SAIS Europe.
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Interview with John L. Harper by Valeria Calderoni
Professor Gianfranco had to be bailed out by Pasquino, in the Treccani germany and the IMF. Encyclopedia of the Social Observers often pointed to a Sciences, notes that structural factor preventing governability has been the electorate from “throwing studied and analyzed only the rascals out”—the rascals since the 1970s when it being the Christian became a problem for many Democrats and their allies— western political systems. and renewing the system. He notes that governability The main opposition party, has been defined as the PCI, had supposedly not “political stability plus accepted democracy or effectiveness in decision Italy’s European and NATO making.” Do you agree commitments. This meant a
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We’re talking now about the so-called “second republic” that To begin with, the current electoral system makes it hard emerged with the post-Cold War transformation of the PCI for any alliance of parties to win the majorities in both and implosion of the Christian Democratic and Socialist houses necessary for a stable government. The PD, which parties in the corruption scandals of the early 1990s. There many had expected to win and then govern with Monti’s has been a certain turnover of elites, but in some ways the centrists, ran a poor campaign and was blind-sided by second republic is no different from the first. The plethora of Beppe grillo’s Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5S). Berlusconi governments suggests that basic problems are unresolved. did better than expected because he lay low while Monti The parliamentary system—with its undifferentiated roles for did the fiscal dirty work, then reemerged with a burst of the camera and senato , inflated numbers of seats, and weak energy to exploit public anger over taxes. The result was executive—is still intact. There has been endless debate that nobody won. Napolitano must have been appalled by about over-hauling it but little has been done partly because the fratricide within the PD (in April many of its electors of a conservative devotion to the 1948 Constitution by the voted against the party’s candidates for president, includ - left. The French got rid of a similarly ing Romano Prodi) and would be the flawed constitution in 1958. Long-term first to admit that his re-election was a Another legacy of history is Italy’s governability requires sign of desperation. Some commenta - deeply fractured political culture: the tors have talked about an emerging kaleidoscope of ideologically and adaptability presidential republic. That might be a regionally-based factions and clans. to new conditions and good thing but it would require direct Even Berlusconi’s charismatic leader - the capacity election for president and the kind of ship hasn’t ensured cohesion on the to weather periods of powers wielded by U.S. or French chief center-right, which is a hodge-podge of executives. free market liberals, libertarian radi - instability cals, conservative Catholics, former The current broad-based govern - neo-fascists and ex-Craxi socialists. Not to mention the ment coalition led by Enrico Letta of the PD seemed to separatist Lega Nord on whom Berlusconi has always be the only possible solution, also due to Grillo’s depended to govern. The fragmentation on the center-left refusal to form a coalition with the PD. Elsewhere, the is equally striking, with radicals, liberal Catholics, social ability of ideologically distant parties to govern togeth - democrats, die-hard communists, traditional trade-union - er is considered necessary for the well-being of the ists, and ecologists clinging to their identities and agendas. country; in Italy, many see it as a shameful inciucio , or Added to this is that some magistrates are politicized— under-the-table deal. Why? Is the lack of confidence in they see themselves as taking the place of ineffectual political institutions a cause or an effect of Italy’s lack politicians—and the independence of the magistracy has of governability? What are the prospects for the pres - been strongly defended by the left. In recent years the ent experiment? Milan magistrates have doggedly, although I don’t think unfairly, gone after Berlusconi, and the PdL, backed by the A grand coalition is necessary for the time-being, but it’s Lega, has used its power to protect him by passing ad per - easy to see why many PD and Sinistra Ecologia Libertà sonam laws (shortening the statute of limitations, for exam - (SEL) voters find co-operation with Berlusconi’s PdL hard ple). This has taken up huge amounts of parliamentary to swallow after promises that nothing like that would hap - time and energy. So the running battle between Berlusconi pen. As mentioned, the last time such a deal was struck it and the magistrates, which hasn’t ended even with his helped the country but ended up hurting the left. The dis - definitive conviction for tax fraud, has had a devastating trust of the state runs deep in Italian history and is both effect on governability. cause and effect. How long will this unnatural coalition last and what will The inability of political parties to find an agreement it accomplish? No one knows. Will a deal be struck where - even within their own ranks brought, after the February by the PdL allows a new electoral system in return for the 2013 elections, a situation of stalemate. Napolitano was PD’s acceptance of constitutional reforms like a strength - the first president to be elected for a second term after ened executive? Letta and Napolitano would like the gov - six inconclusive ballots, while no government had been ernment to last indefinitely. The PdL ministers loyal to the formed seven weeks after the elections. What were the government recently thwarted an attempt by Berlusconi immediate causes of this stalemate, and was the re-elec - and his hard-core followers to provoke a crisis. For the tion of Napolitano a good or a bad sign? moment this strengthens Letta. But the PdL could over -
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come its split, and Letta still has his Renzi problem. The The M5S was very successful in the last elections. Its government could fall for any number of reasons in coming wide electoral base is eager for transparency, partici - months. pation and change, but some of its post-election choic - Will the government give a shot in the arm to the economy, es have been considered a disappointment by many. even if sustained recovery requires collective European What do you think the role of the M5S should be in the action? And European action doesn’t guarantee a reversal Italian political scenario? of Italy’s economic decline, which measured in terms of per capita income, goes back ten to fifteen years. Is it only a I think on balance M5S is a positive force because it has coincidence that this period coincides more or less with decided to try to reform the system from within, and has monetary union? I’m not sure, but in any case Italy’s loss of mobilized people who otherwise would have been disaf - competitiveness and dynamism is connected to factors fected, or worse. I say “on balance” because grillo, like beyond the control of even the most efficient government: Berlusconi, is a gifted demagogue, and his ability to stir up globalization and the rise of the Asian economies. Since a crowd is rather frightening. I hope they will keep up the the success of Italian democracy since 1945 has been con - pressure on questions like public financing, excessive par - nected to unusually favorable international economic condi - liamentary pay and benefits, and other issues that have tions, there are reasons to be concerned. alienated the public from la casta —the political class. The question of M5S’s future brings to mind another In this context, what are the reasons behind the suc - vice identified by gobetti: trasformismo , the process by cess of Berlusconi’s party? Is he, in spite of all of his which opposition forces allow themselves to be co-opted or legal issues and political history, considered by many bought off by the powers that be so that renewal becomes to be more able to deliver than the center-left coalition? impossible in the absence of major external shocks like the world wars, and people on the fringes are attracted by vio - Rivers of ink have flowed on this so it’s hard to say any - lent methods. thing new. Berlusconi is a salesman in a class with P. T. Inevitably, some of the M5S parliamentarians will shift Barnum, and with the stamina of an ox. His fans, including allegiances, and the movement may well splinter and/or a large number of women, are devoted to him despite his transform itself into a more conventional party. legal problems and serial failures to deliver on his promis - es partly because they see him as a lion-hearted victim of Are there reasons for optimism? the tax collectors, the red magistrates, and the left-wing media. Some would add, of Merkel and the European Rather than resort to the cliché that Italians are incredibly Central Bank. resourceful, resilient and creative, I’ll point out that the For a more historical perspective it’s interesting to country renewed itself after 1945, coped with the political recall the anti-Fascist journalist Piero gobetti’s argument and economic emergency of the 1970s, and brought an that Fascism embodied the traditional Italian vices of retori - unsustainable budgetary situation under control in the early ca, the tendency for posturing and seductive packaging to 1990s—to the surprise of many. So, although the interna - replace substance; demagogismo, a susceptibility to tional economic context is certainly less propitious for Italy manipulation by clever opportunists; and cortigianeria, the today than at any point since 1945, there are reasons not servile worship of the signore and reliance on his favors to despair. typical of paternalistic political systems. The same vices characterize “Berlusconismo,” in particular the last one. After completing her Masters Valeria The leader is surrounded by obsequious courtesans whose Calderoni B’11 remained in Bologna to careers are over when Berlusconi withdraws from politics. work as a research assistant for the Berlusconi courts his electorate by knowing what it wants Bologna Institute for Policy Research to hear, and thrives on its adulation. In this sense, he’s no during its first year of activity. In 2012 she Mussolini, who, after all, wanted to make the Italians mar - moved to Berlin, where she is marketing tial and disciplined. manager for Wimdu, a tourism start up. Berlusconi panders to their individualism and disdain for rules. And he’s no Thatcher or Alberto Fujimori, right- John L. Harper is Professor of American Foreign Policy. wing leaders who, whatever you think of the results, were His book The Cold War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, prepared to break with the status quo. Berlusconi only 2011) was recently published in Italian as La Guerra fredda: wants to be adored. un mondo bilico (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2013).
8 Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe GOVERNANCE The Ebb of Security and Governance Mali and the Sahel
A Conversation with Winrich Kühne by Odette Boya Resta
It is well known that the most destabilizing threats to global security are no longer international power rivalries, but rather transnational threats that move easily to and from countries with ungoverned space. Today West Africa and the Sahel 1 are regions with porous borders and a number of fragile states, where in many cases drug and arms trafficking and international terrorism create a violent and combustible situation, manifested by the recent security crisis in Mali. A sobering example of how internal dysfunctions, corruption and layers of conflict can accumulate among such mobile transborder actors, Mali is an omen of the type of instability that could spread throughout the entire Sahel and West Africa— a challenging test case for global governance. Winrich Kühne, Steven Muller Professor, former member of the International Advisory Group to UN DPKO’s Lessons Learned Unit, and founding director of the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) in Berlin, Germany, talked to Rivista about the challenges Mali and the Sahel face, and what it means for political actors from West Africa, Latin America and Europe.
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crime and terrorism has resulted in a decay of governance in Mali, an incomplete implementation of the 2006 peace treaty with the Tuareg, and eventually its downfall. The long-term effects have been devastating.” A swath of land separating the Sahara desert from Africa's tropical forests, the Sahel is known for its pervasive poverty, unforgiving climate, and great diversity. The region is home to Timbuktu in Mali, a world commercial, intellectual and spiritual capital of the 15th and 16th centuries. Once hailed as a success story for democracy and stability in Africa, in recent years Mali has witnessed a rise in organized crime and domestic and inter - national terrorism. A series of watershed regional events like the fall of gaddafi in Libya and a coup d’état against the former Malian president Amadou Touré last year precipitated the crisis. The coup in Bamako enabled first Tuareg separatist rebel groups and later jihadists to capture vast parts of the country. In January, France— who ruled Mali as a colony until 1960— responded with military action to protect the South and to regain Northern Mali from the Islamist and separatist rebels who had taken control of much of the vast territory. In April 2013, the United Nations If young people beyond quick fixes and require managing Security Council transformed the extremely complicated local, regional previous West African-led cannot find and global dynamics. “The fact that Stabilization Mission AFISMA in Mali employment terrorist groups in Northern Mali received into a UN-led Chapter vII mission. a significant portion of their financial Former Dutch Development and earn satisfactory support, totaling several hundred million Minister—and SAIS alumnus— income, instead euros, from drug trafficking to Europe Bert Koenders B’80 was appointed of becoming and ransom payments for the freeing of Special Representative of the European hostages is virtually absent Secretary general of the new UN a resource, from the debate in germany and Europe,” Stabilization Mission in Mali a youth bulge asserts Kühne. (MINUSMA). It has an authorized becomes a Kühne explains that the rise of AQIM strength of 11,200 military personnel (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) and and 1,440 police officers as well as demographic problem later Ansar Dine (Defenders of the Faith) civilian personnel. Currently, only and the large mass and MUJAO (Mouvement pour l’Unicité et about 6000 have been deployed, le Jihad en Afrique de l’Ouest) has led to mostly by transforming the soldiers of frustrated youth kidnappings, especially of Europeans, as of the former West African mission a potential source a significant source of their income. into blue helmets. of social and Unfortunately for the inhabitants of the According to Kühne the Sahel, trafficking and terrorism go hand in challenges faced by MINUSMA go political instability hand. A number of groups such as AQIM
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withdrew from Algeria to Northern Mali around 2006. “The players have demonstrated time and time again that they emergence of its well-trained cadres brought a new dimen - are, for various reasons, not able to implement such an sion to the organized crime-terrorism nexus in northern approach. Lack of effective coordination mechanisms is Mali. The AQIM leadership also encouraged its fighters to one main reason.” marry into Tuareg families, knowing that in the Tuareg cul - Kühne argues for a “management of diversity” approach ture they would become part of the family and thus enjoy all guided by key strategic goals that international, regional and the ensuing privileges and solidarity of clan membership.” local actors have to agree on: the strengthening of MINUSMA Like many other developing countries, Mali has a youth to ensure it has the vital resources and capabilities to carry bulge with the overwhelming majority of young people out its tasks; army and security sector reform, which is unemployed. This is particularly true in the North where essential to long-term stabilization; and the containment of the population, not least the Tuareg, have suffered from a organized crime and terrorism. dramatic reduction of their resources for survival through “Do not forget the Sahel or you will have more Malis,” droughts and lack of development. The recruitment Romano Prodi, UN Special Envoy for the Sahel, and former possibilities by criminal organizations are obvious in this Italian Prime Minister and President of the European demographic scenario. Commission, warns. Prodi has noted that Mali represents a If young people cannot find employment and earn security and governance crisis that could be replicated across satisfactory income, instead of becoming a resource, a the region. Such challenges need to be confronted by an youth bulge becomes a demographic problem and the economic development approach that enables the Sahelians large mass of frustrated youth a potential source of social to define concrete solutions for the region’s problems. and political instability. “The population explosion Mali Observers have remarked that humanitarian efforts experienced in recent years saw its population double in Mali appear to be well coordinated. The presidential within twenty-five years—from 1987 to 2012—without the elections in late July, arguably premature and makeshift, economic growth to absorb it. Indeed, this is one of the have produced a new Malian President. The victory of reasons why West Africa and the Sahel became such Ibrahim Boubacar Keita clears the path for some $4 billion fertile ground for organized, transnational crime and in aid tied by donor nations to the completion of fair Islamist terrorism,” says Kühne. elections. “In their pursuit of prompt elections, major Since the military coup against Mali´s President Touré in international donors, such as France, the U.S., germany 2012 the country has been referred to as a failed state. and the EU, and the political class in Bamako have According to I. William zartman, state failure occurs when become strange bedfellows,” warns Kühne. “the basic functions of the state are no longer performed,” Time will tell. Now, however, is the time to begin an in other words: when governance breaks down. This inclusive political dialogue that collectively addresses the situation aptly describes the scene in Northern Mali where, issues of all groups in Mali—particularly those living in the as Kühne states, “Touré, despite his remarkably democratic North, like the Tuareg—and those of its neighbors with a vita in the 1990s and early 2000s, continued his predeces - view to peace and security. The challenges facing the sors’ disastrous policy of manipulating the North’s ethnic inhabitants of the Sahel remain immense. divisions and local criminal networks in order to control the region—instead of integrating it into a functioning state.” 1 The Sahel covers Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso and parts of Arguably, a lack of governance, like in Mali, can only neighboring countries. be remedied if tackled in the context of global governance Sources: initiatives that respond to transnational challenges—such - Winrich Kühne. “West Africa and the Sahel in the grip of Organized Crime as organized crime and terrorism—because they go beyond and International Terrorism – What Perspective for the UN Mission in Mali?” the capacity of a single state to handle them. Following this Policy Briefing, Johns Hopkins SAIS and the Center for International Peace Operations (zIF), July 2013 line of argument the UN Security Council during a meeting - Martin van vliet. “The Challenges of Retaking Northern Mali.” The CTC on peace and security in Africa last year made specific Sentinel , November 2012. vol 5. Issue 11-12 reference to the Sahel and the importance of system-wide - Report of the International Narcotics Control Board: http://www.incb.org/incb/en/publications/annual-reports/annual-report-2012.html action to combat the spread of drug trafficking and illicit weapons trading in those countries facing armed conflict and instability. Odette Boya Resta B’99’00 Kühne argues that while a call for such a comprehensive is a communications specialist and editor of Rivista. and integrated approach is very much en vogue these days, it is unrealistic. “The major regional and international
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A Smoke of Hope
An Essay on Religion
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s la fumata bianca rose from a chimney of the Despite widespread expectations that forces of the mod - Sistine Chapel on March 13, 2013, thousands gath - ern world would sweep religion away by the 21st century, A ered in St. Peter’s Square to welcome the newly religion’s influence on our lives in the age of technological elected Pope. The following week, many more across the progress has proved to be much more profound and endur - globe turned on their Tvs to watch the Holy Mass and listen ing than was assumed a few decades ago. Today, as we to the inaugural speech of Francis. In this turbulent era of desperately seek visionary solutions to global challenges, meteoric rises and falls of great worldly ideas, people were for many, religion remains a major source of inspiration and all ears for an inspiring address that would connect with hope. 1 Several reasons may explain this phenomenon. everyone, regardless of ethnicity, citizenship or political affili - First, despite our advances in the fields of social theory, ation. Neither the daunting prophecies of Saint Malachy nor the world we live in today is still full of pressing dilemmas the skepticism of “secularization” theorists kept believers and unsolved puzzles. Academics, intellectuals, policymak - from pondering deeply over the Pope’s calls for caring and ers as well as opinion leaders struggle to define and find a protecting . permanent solution to the spread of nationalism, the chal -
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lenges of democratization, the perils of globalization and have become a central issue for governments around the many other deeply important social and economic concerns. world, community leaders and active citizens who want to Sometimes we blame the lack of common terminology for improve the ability of individuals, organizations and busi - hindering communication among people and delaying reso - nesses to build their community’s capacity. Pope Francis’ lution of disputes. Sometimes despite agreement on con - universal call for mutual caring should only encourage those ceptual frameworks, lack of implementing power prevents who hold positions of responsibility in economic, political us from delivering positive results. and social life to continue seeking answers in the depths of In our lifetime, opinions ranging from the optimistic “end history and societies. of history,” symbolizing a conclusive victory of democracy Third, dialogue between people with vastly different over other political systems, to the worldviews is indeed vital in gloomy “clash of civilizations,” warning today’s world, where globaliza - about potential threats to world stabili - Today, as we tion, mass communication and ty, have influenced popular thinking in desperately seek technology have pushed individu - this rapidly changing universe. While als and groups together in ways some insisted that cultural distinctions visionary solutions never seen before in human his - define the fault lines between civiliza - to global challenges, tory. Never before have we had tions, others put forward economic or for many, the ability to collect, analyze and social class as a threshold for the share information on such a meeting of minds. As contemporary religion remains mass scale. At the same time, history has developed amid these con - a major source arguably, never before have we trasts, no theory has been able to unite of inspiration been in such despair with such a people around common humanitarian and hope pressing need for tolerance and ideals. On rare occasions alternatives understanding. It’s no secret that have been proposed with the goal of recognition of the self has always filling the existing gaps, but they soon faded away and social been a key to social interactions, and true happiness, for pressure continued to mount over the years. The Pope’s many of us, is still hidden in the ethical, spiritual and emo - pious message of trust and respect, therefore, appealed to tional domains. many because, in one way or another, it emphasized the To sum up, lessons from the past have certainly taught need for sympathy and mutual understanding. us that no religion alone may cure all the ills of humanity. We Second, throughout the known history of humankind, have learned the hard way that religious dogmatism in some quite often people have relied on brutal physical force to instances can even lead to violence and war. Interfaith dia - achieve their goals. Eventually, the notion of power took a logue, on the other hand, carries a great potential to provide central place in the definition of organized political commu - a “win-win” solution for the parties involved. It is not our fault nities and the modern state. Nevertheless, while the pres - that many of us today were born into a world of ethnic and ence of an armed authority has always been important to cultural amalgamations flowing beyond state boundaries, but maintaining basic order, it has hardly ever been sufficient to it is our responsibility to deliver a better world for future gen - address social problems. Today, a growing number of intel - erations—a world with strong platforms for the discussion of lectuals admit that physical force is incapable of delivering ideas and appreciation of cultural and religious diversity. permanent solutions for contemporary dilemmas. The spread of freedom of choice and expression across the 1 globally speaking, according to Toft, as of 2009, 79 percent of people believed in god. For a detailed analysis, see Toft et al., God’s Century: globe has left no legitimate room for violence and blunt Resurgent Religion and Global Politics (New york: W. W. Norton & Company, coercion. Instead, persuasion and convincibility seem to Inc., 2009). gradually gain ground as superior methods of addressing mushrooming challenges. Bulat Akhmetkarimov B’13 is a Ph.D. Living amid the shifts in understanding of just what per - candidate in the European and Eurasian suasion and convincibility might mean has challenged many Studies Program. His research interests of us to think more seriously about values that may unite include ethnic conflict, federalism and the global community. In part, this explains why the past interaction between religion and politics in couple of decades have seen a dramatic increase in interest Eurasia. His dissertation on confessional politics in Russia in civil society, grassroots movements and interfaith dia - seeks to explain the dynamics of state policies toward logue as agents of change in society. Such movements Islam since the Soviet collapse.
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My Italian sojourn proved to be the quintessential life-altering, horizon-broadening experience. It convinced me that the world would be a better place if everyone had the opportunity to live for a time in a culture not one’s own—communicating in another language, observing and participating in local traditions, and being exposed to different values, priorities and points of view.
hen I arrived at the SAIS Bologna Center in close friends, with whom I still keep in touch; and I dived into 1982, I discovered that I was ten to fifteen years the SAIS Bologna Center experience, one which can only be W older than the other students. I had already described as unique. earned a master’s degree—in fine arts, of all things Two academic years later, shortly after earning my SAIS (apparently SAIS thought my background wouldn’t impede degree following the second year in Washington, D.C., I my study of international relations) and I had worked in an returned to the SAIS Bologna Center as a staff member. The art gallery and taught art at a local college. I had also first issue of Rivista had just been published in the spring of studied basic Italian, in hopes of visiting Italy some day, but 1983, and, as the assistant to the director of development, I once I found myself in Bologna having to speak a language helped in the production of Rivista for the next couple of I barely knew, I wondered if I had made a huge mistake. years—that is, until my supervisor left and the magazine was My reason for enrolling at SAIS was to combine my handed over to me, along with a new title: director of alumni background in fine arts with international relations in order to and public affairs and editor of Rivista . While I already had join the United States Information Agency (USIA) as a cultural some experience writing and editing, assuming responsibility attaché. Even though I never made it as far as the USIA, I for the magazine still proved a steep learning curve. eventually learned that there were equally challenging and The mid-80s was of course a pre-PC and email era so all surprising things in store. of the magazine’s text had to be typed out and then retyped As an older student, I soon discovered that my worries by Italian typesetters, who struggled admirably to make as about not fitting in were unfounded. The multinational student few mistakes as possible. Even so, proofreading was a body accepted me as a peer; I eventually found a group of challenge, and so was having to learn Italian terminology for
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publication production. By the mid-1990s, thanks to techno - logical advances, it became possible to e-mail or download text and photos onto a disk and whisk it off to the publisher. Now, three decades later, Rivista is celebrating its 30th anniversary, with its original intent intact: to reach out to SAIS Bologna Center alumni—as well as to Johns Hopkins administrators, local dignitaries, board members and other supporters. It’s primary purpose was—and is—to instill a sense of community among the school’s alumni, to keep them engaged, to let them know about events taking place at the school and in the various alumni chapters across Europe, and to involve them in the Center’s future. For, without a doubt, the best spokespersons for the value of a SAIS Bologna Center education are its former students. My experience as editor of Rivista proved invaluable when I returned home to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1998. After a bit of frantic job hunting, I was hired by the University of Utah Alumni Association as managing editor of Continuum , the university’s magazine, which has a circulation of almost 300,000. The previous experiences I had at the SAIS Bologna Center in engaging with students and alumni, interviewing professors, writing articles, conducting research and overseeing the production of Rivista proved enormously helpful in my new position. One of the first articles I wrote for Continuum , as a way of introducing myself to readers, was titled “Room for a view” (Continuum , vol. 10 No. 4, Spring 2001), which recalled some of the fond memories I held of Bologna and the impact that my fifteen year sojourn at the SAIS Bologna Center had on me personally, and on my world view: [Some] years ago I occupied an office in Bologna, in northern Italy (“about an hour north of Florence,” I always explain to those who have heard of the city… but don’t know where it is). There, my window overlooked a section of the venerable University of Bologna... 900 years and counting. Bologna is a city of [roughly] 500,000 inhabitants. The city’s origins are Etruscan; the Romans followed a few centuries later. Medieval Bologna eventually took shape atop Roman ruins, which are invariably revealed with every excavation. It’s no place to break a water main. Once protected by high stone walls, the city center is now encircled by a four-lane highway, which still acts as protection from “foreign invaders,” only today’s disincentive to entry is speeding cars instead of spears… Known as the “capital of Italian cuisine,” Bologna offers fabulous food, few tourists, friendly, if somewhat reserved, inhabitants, an abundance of astounding works of art and architecture, and some thirty-eight kilometers of porticoes that crisscross the city, protecting its citizens from the elements. Bologna is therefore the most walkable of cities, and one of Italy’s most captivating—although few tourists know
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it, opting to invade the more high profile Florence, Rome, and venice. Wandering through the town’s narrow side streets is like touring a stage set constructed of timbered and tiled porticoes, marble facades, leaning towers, terra cotta tiled roofs, and stucco walls painted earth colors— ochre, umber, and mauve—that radiate a ruddy glow in the afternoon light. From spring through fall, the air is warm and moist, yet underneath the porticoes and inside the many basilicas, the atmosphere is cool and tinted blue. It is a city of startling contrasts, and almost impossible to photograph. But photograph it, I did. My favorites are those images I captured of the magnificent view from the Bologna Center terrace overlooking the Due Torri and the hillside beyond. It’s a scene that every student likely recalls with affection and a bit of awe, which, as the years pass, re-emerges as a nostalgic reflection on one’s year (or years) in Bologna. Unforgettable. As are the many friends I made there, both as a student and as a staff member. Apart from an abundance of memories—of Alumni Weekends, alumni chapter gatherings in the great capitals of Europe, penthouse receptions, evenings at La Fatica playing briscola , fabulous Bolognese cuisine, the open air markets that inevitably resulted in a refrigerator overstocked with fresh fruits and vegetables, weekend bike rides into the countryside, the neighborhood gelateria , and so many other things—the most important insight I took away from the SAIS Bologna Center was the sentiment I expressed in my Continuum article, which is this: My Italian sojourn proved to be the quintessential life- altering, horizon-broadening experience. It convinced me that the world would be a better place if everyone had the opportunity to live for a time in a culture not one’s own— communicating in another language, observing and partici - pating in local traditions, and being exposed to different values, priorities and points of view. Happy 30th anniversary Rivista . And kudos to all those who have followed for carrying on the tradition, turning the magazine into a sleek, well-crafted publication that reinforces the value of the SAIS Bologna Center and its highly trained graduates who are spread around the world. Saluti a tutti!
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Eliot A. Cohen , Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Arntraud Hartmann was appointed for Studies, is holding four discussions for students this a five-year term to a three-member semester on the topic Shakespeare on War and Politics , panel of experts of the Internal Review The group will review four plays by the Bard of Avon on Mechanism of the African Development the themes of war and politics: Macbeth , Coriolanus , Julius Bank (AfDB). She is also a member of Caesar , and Richard II . “We will discover how Shakespeare the compliance review mechanism of the portrays the nature and consequences of the lust for power; Asian Development Bank (ADB). This the tension between personal honor and soldierly discipline; year Hartmann was appointed senior fellow at the European the ways in which high office deludes those who hold it; the Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building in nature of conspiracy.” Berlin and is visiting professor at the Hertie School of governance in Berlin. Gary Sick , visiting Professor of Middle East Studies, has returned this year to offer the mini series United States in In August Erik Jones was keynote the Persian Gulf: From Outlier to Empire . The object of the speaker at the Alpbach European Forum lectures is to put in context U.S. foreign policy decision- 2013 - Political Symposium in Alpbach in making in the Persian gulf over a particularly tumultuous Austria. period, and to engage in a dialogue on the subject with SAIS students and faculty.
We will also host three visiting scholars in the spring: In June Hanns W. Maull joined the Guy Lodge , Associate Director for Politics and Power, german Institute for Security and Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), London; Foreign Relations in Berlin, germany’s Michael Leigh, Consultant and Senior Adviser, german foremost foreign and security policy Marshall Fund, Brussels, Belgium and Former Director- think tank, as senior distinguished fellow. general of the European Commission on Enlargement (2006-2011); and Melvyn Leffler, Edward Stettinius Professor of History, University of virginia. Gianfranco Pasquino spent last November and December at the In July the Mayor of venice, giorgio Transatlantic Academy in Washington, Orsoni, named Anna Ottani Cavina D.C. director of the Federico zeri Foundation Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Musei Civici di venezia. Also this year Cavina was named member of the panel Stefano Zamagni was awarded the of judges for the literary prize, Premio international Economy and Society Campiello . book prize from the Centesimus Annus Foundation this year. In 2013 he Justin Frosini was awarded a Bocconi became a member of the Pontifical University 2013 Excellence in Research Academy of Social Sciences and Award for his book Constitutional president of the Italian Observatory Preambles. A Crossroads between for Family Policies. Politics and Law . In July Ebrahim Afsah, of the University of Copenhagen, reviewed the book in the International Journal of Constitutional Law , the world's leading constitu - tional law journal published by Oxford University Press.
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Weary Policeman: Immigrazione, Diritto Oxford Handbook on the Quarant'anni di Scienza American Power in an Age e Diritti: profili internaziona- European Union Politica in Italia of Austerity listici ed europei Erik Jones, co-editor by gianfranco Pasquino Dana H. Allin and Erik Marco gestri, co-editor Oxford University Press, Il Mulino, 2013 Jones, co-authors CEDAM, 2012 2013 The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Constitutional Secularism 2012 in an Age of Religious Revival Machiavelli on Susanna Mancini, co-editor International Relations Oxford University Press, Marco Cesa, editor 2013 Oxford University Press, The Emergency State Globalisation of Natural forthcoming 2014 (paperback edition) Gas Markets by David Unger Manfred Hafner, co-author Penguin/verso, 2013 Claeys & Casteels, 2013
Un affare di donne. L'aborto tra libertà eguale Democrazia rappresentativa e controllo sociale e referendum by Susanna Mancini nel Regno Unito Padua, Cedam, 2013 Justin Frosini, co-editor Handbook on the Maggioli, 2012 A New Architecture for EU Economics of Reciprocity Gas: Security of Supply and Social Enterprise Manfred Hafner, co-author Stefano zamagni, co-editor Claeys & Casteels, 2012 E. Elgar, 2013
Zhong Mei Ou Guanxi: Goujian Xin de Shijie Zhixu The Extraterritorial Effects by Hanns W. Maull of Legislation and Policies World Affairs Press, 2012 in the EU and U.S. By Justin Frosini European Parliament, 2012 La Guerra fredda: Impresa Responsabile un mondo bilico e Mercato Civile by John L. Harper by Stefano zamagni Il Mulino, 2013 Il Mulino, 2013
Finale di partita. Tramonto di una Repubblica by gianfranco Pasquino Unibocconi, 2013 Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe 19 FACULTY News & Publications
Other Faculty Publications Transition after the Arab Spring’ by Manfred Hafner (with Simone Tagliapietra) in R. Ferroukhi and g. Luciani (eds.) ‘Imperfect Substitutes for Perfect Complements: Solving the The Political Economy of Energy Reform: the Clean Anticommons Problem’ by Matteo Alvisi and Emanuela Energy/Fossil Fuel Balance in the Gulf States , gerlach, 2013 Carbonara , Bulletin of Economic Research 65 (3), Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 ‘A New Euro-Mediterranean Energy Roadmap for a Sustainable Energy Transition in the Region’ by Manfred ‘National Treatment under the TBT Agreement’ by Hafner (with Simone Tagliapietra) in Policy Brief of the Arthur Appleton in A. Kamperman Sanders (ed.) The Energy and Climate Section of the EU Funded Research Principle of National Treatment in International Economic Project MEDPRO (Mediterranean Foresight analysis), 2013 Law, Trade, Investment, and Intellectual Property , University of Maastricht / Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2013 ‘The European Union and Private Military and Security Contractors: Existing Controls and Legal Bases for Further ‘Conformity Assessment’ by Arthur Appleton in M. Regulation’ by Marco Gestri in C. Bakker and M. Sossai Trebilcock and T. Epps (eds.) The TBT Handbook , Edward (eds.) Multilevel Regulation of Military and Security Elgar, forthcoming 2013 Contractors: The Interplay between International, European and Domestic Norms , Hart, 2012 ‘Product Labelling 15 years On: The Role of the Judiciary’ by Arthur Appleton in M. Cremona, P. Hilpold, N. Lavranos, S. ‘A Shift in Mood: The 1992 Initiative and Changing U.S. Schneider and A. ziegler (eds.) Reflections on the Perceptions of the European Community, 1988-1989’ by Constitutionalisation of International Economic Law - Liber Mark Gilbert in K.K. Patel and K. Weisbrode (eds.) Amicorum Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann: Essays in Honour of European Integration and the Atlantic Community , Professor Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann , European University Cambridge University Press, 2013 Institute, BRILL, 2013 ‘Constructing Europe’ by Mark Gilbert in European History ‘Forum Selection in Trade Litigation’ by Arthur Appleton , Quarterly , January 2013 ICTSD Programme on International Trade Law, Issue Paper No. 12, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable ‘E.H. Carr: Changing the Intellectual Milieu’ by Mark Gilbert Development, 2013 in A. L. Knudsen and K. gram-Skjolager (eds.) Living Political Biography: Narrating 20th Century European Lives , ‘The Landscape of the Macchiaioli. A Path towards the Aarhus University Press, 2013 Modern’ by Anna Ottani Cavina in Journal of Modern Italian Studies 18 (2), Brown University, 2013 ‘Mario Monti and Italy's generational Crisis: Rome's Economic Solutions Don't Solve Its Political Problems’ by ‘Are you Doing your Part? veterans’ Political Attitudes, and Mark Gilbert in Foreign Affairs, Council on Foreign Heinlein’s Conception of Citizenship’ by Tyson Chatagnier in Relations, February 14, 2012 Armed Forces & Society , Sage Publications, forthcoming ‘The EU Security Role in Chad and the Central African ‘Teaching the Enemy: The Empirical Implications of Republic’ by Winrich Kühne in A. Adebajo and K. Whiteman Bargaining under Observation’ by Tyson Chatagnier in the (eds.) The EU and Africa—From Eurafrique to Afro-Europa , Journal of Conflict Resolution , Sage Publications, forthcoming C. Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd., 2012
‘Defining Borders and People in the Borderlands: EU ‘West Africa and the Sahel in the grip of Organized Crime and Policies, Israeli Prerogatives and the Palestinians’ by International Terrorism - What Perspective for the New UN- Raffaella A. Del Sarto in Journal of Common Market Mission in Mali?’ by Winrich Kühne Policy Paper, zIFBerlin Studie s, forthcoming 2014 (Center for International Peace Operations) and Johns Hopkins University SAIS Washington/Bologna, August 2013 ‘Israel and the European Union: Between Rhetoric and Reality’ by Raffaella A. Del Sarto in C. Shindler (ed.) Israel ‘zwanzig Jahre robuste Friedenseinsätze – eine zwischenbilanz’ and the World Powers , IB Tauris, forthcoming 2013 by Winrich Kühne in Vereinte Nationen 1, 2013
‘A vision for a Future Triangle of growth: gCC-North Africa- ‘From the Struggle for Suffrage to the Construction of a EU: Elaborating a New Paradigm for the Regional Energy Fragile gender Citizenship: Italy 1946-2009’ by Susanna
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Mancini in B. Rodriguez-Ruiz and R. Rubio-Marin (eds.) ‘Resource-rich Transition Economies’ by Richard Pomfret in Women's Suffrage in Europe, Brill, 2012 P. Hare and g. Turley (eds.) Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition , Routledge, 2013 ‘Patriarchy as the Exclusive Domain of the Other: The veil Controversy, False Projection and Cultural Racism’ by ‘Sub-regional zones and ASEAN Economic Community’ by Susanna Mancini in International Journal of Constitutional Richard Pomfret (with Sanchita Basu Das) in S. Basu Das, Law 2, 2012 J. Menon, R. Severino and O. Lal Shrestha (eds.) The Asean Economic Community: A Work in Progress , ‘Secession and Self-Determination’ by Susanna Mancini in M. Singapore, 2013 Rosenfeld and A. Sajo (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law , Oxford University Press, 2012 ‘Turkmenistan after Turkmenbashi’ by Richard Pomfret in J. Ahrens and H.W. Hoen (eds.) Institutional Reform in Central ‘Unveiling the Limits of Tolerance. Comparing the Treatment Asia , Routledge, 2013 of Majority and Minority Religious Symbols in the Public Sphere’ by Susanna Mancini (with Michel Rosenfeld) in L. ‘How to Decarbonize the Transport Sector?’ by Bob van der zucca and C. Ungureanu (eds.) Law, State and Religion in Zwaan (with Filip Johnsson and Ikka Keppo) in Energy the New Europe , Cambridge University Press, 2012 Policy , forthcoming 2013
‘The European Union as Civilian Power: Aspirations, ‘Potential for Renewable Energy Jobs in the Middle East’ by Potential, Achievements’ by Hanns W. Maull in R. Ross, Bob van der Zwaan (with Lachlan Cameron and Tom Ø. Tunsjø, z. Tuosheng (eds.) US-China-EU Relations – Kober), Energy Policy 60, 2013 Managing the New World Order , Routledge, 2010 (published also in Chinese) ‘The Role of Nuclear Power in Mitigating Emissions from Electricity generation’ by Bob van der Zwaan in Energy ‘german Foreign Policy: From “Civilian Power” to “Trading Strategy Reviews 1, 2013 State”?’ by Hanns W. Maull in S. Colvin (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary German Culture and Europe and Islam Politics , Routledge, forthcoming Erik Jones and Saskia van Genugten (co-editors), Special Issue of The ‘Italian Presidents and their Accordion: Pre-1992 and Post- International Spectator 48 (1), 1994’ by Gianfranco Pasquino in Parliamentary Affairs , Routledge, 2013 October 2012
‘Non-partisan governments Italian-style: Decision-making and ‘Secularism and Islam: The Theological Accountability’ by Gianfranco Pasquino (with Marco Predicament’ by Olivier Roy valbruzzi) in Journal of Modern Italian Studies , December 2012 ‘EU Foreign Policy and Political Islam: Towards a New Entente in the Post-Arab Spring Era?’ ‘ASEAN’s New Frontiers: Integrating the Newest Members by Timo Behr into the ASEAN Economic Community’ by Richard Pomfret , ‘The French Debate on National Identity and the Sarkozy Asian Economic Policy Review 8(1), 2013 Presidency: A Retrospective’ by Jonathan Laurence and Gabriel Goodliffe ‘The Economic Future of Central Asia’ by Richard Pomfret in ‘Muslim Organisations and Intergenerational Change in The Brown Journal of World Affairs 19(1), Fall/Winter 2012 germany’ by Dirk Halm ‘Muslims in Italy: The Need for an “Intesa” with the Italian ‘Exchange Rate Policy and Regional Trade Agreements’ by State’ by Karim Mezran Richard Pomfret (with victor Pontines) in R. Baldwin, M. ‘The Netherlands and Islam: In Defence of Liberalism and Kawai and g. Wignarajan (eds.) The Future of the World Progress?’ by Saskia van Genugten Trading System: Asian Perspectives , www.voxeu.org/con - ‘Islam and the Muslim Communities in the UK: tent/future-world-trading-system-asian-perspectives, 2013 Multiculturalism, Faith and Security’ by Catherine Fieschi and Nick Johnson ‘Le passage à l’économie de marché des années 1990: des ‘Identity, Solidarity, and Islam in Europe’ by Erik Jones performances contrastées’ by Richard Pomfret in M. Laruelle ‘An Encouraging Account of Muslim Integration in Europe’ and S. Peyrouse (eds.) Eclats d’Empire: Asie Centrale, by Sanam Vakil Caucase, Afghanistan , Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2013 ‘The Mission of a Mosque’ by Camille Pecastaing
Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe 21 STUDENT VIEW Cultural Chameleons in a Changing Global Landscape by Nic Corbett
or some Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe students, the yasmin mostly identifies with Egyptian culture, but not entirely. concept of home is not easily defined. Ask Austrian- “I take a bit of each country I live in with me,” yasmin Fyemeni International Development concentrator says, “and reject the stuff I don’t like.” Karim Bin-Humam B’13 where he’s from, and he’ll reply “good question.” Pose the same query to yasmin Anis B’13, Karim an Egyptian-Turkish student concentrating in Conflict Although Karim is a citizen of yemen and Austria, he has Management, and silence fills the air. “That’s what I do. I never lived in either country. His parents’ UN careers took pause for a really long time,” she says, “the way I was him and his sister around the world. They lived in Nigeria, brought up, moving around, allows you to adapt easier to all New york City, Sri Lanka, Syria and Jordan, and then places, but it makes you feel like you don’t really belong to returned to New york, where Karim finished high school. He any one place.” went on to study mechanical engineering at Tufts University in Boston. Yasmin Over the years Karim’s experience has shaped his per - Born in the United Arab Emirates to enterprising parents spective on new countries and cultural environments.“There’s in the hotel industry, yasmin spent her formative years in no one culture I identify with most,” he says. “Often it seems countries spanning three continents, bouncing back and like it’s the culture I happen to be living in at a particular forth between the homes of each parent, whose careers moment, sometimes not. Some cultures have been easier, sometimes separated them by thousands of miles. “They and others more difficult for me to adjust to, but overall, each both wanted to become general managers,” yasmin says. culture has elements you can relate to, if you're open.” “There’s only one general manager per hotel so they were unable to work in the same place.” Out in the World Before she was a year old, yasmin’s family moved to yasmin, who is concentrating in Conflict Management at Cairo, and a year later to Basra, Iraq, where her father SAIS, witnessed firsthand the Arab Spring revolution in worked until they had to evacuate at the start of the war Egypt. She gathered with demonstrators at Tahrir Square with Kuwait. twice before seeking refuge at a relative’s house outside the For her first few years, yasmin lived by the Red Sea in center of Cairo. Hurghada, Egypt. At five, she moved again when her mother “It started getting violent,” she said. “When security forces took a job in Beijing. yasmin flew so frequently between in Tahrir Square saw us with our phones, they’d want to take Cairo and Beijing as an unaccompanied minor she was well them and smash them. The security forces were becoming known among the flight attendants of Singapore Airlines. alarmed. They didn’t know how to control the people.” At ten, she moved back to Egypt and lived in Alexandria with Like yasmin, Karim was also inspired by the events of her father for a year. Following this she spent two years back the Arab Spring to study International Relations, with a focus in the UAE, with her mother. on the Middle East. He was working in Ramallah, West Bank yasmin went to high school in zimbabwe, where her when the revolution in Egypt happened. father ran a hotel. She attended college at American “When Hosni Mubarak fell, I was in the West Bank, and it University in Washington, D.C., majoring in International was pure euphoria,” he says. “Everybody was out in the Studies with minors in Psychology and Chinese and a streets. Having lived in the Middle East for so many years, I regional focus in Africa. She spent her junior year studying in noted there was consensus: ‘Nothing will ever change in this ghana. Because she traveled regularly to Egypt to visit family, region; we just don’t have it in us to make it happen.’
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But after that seismic event,” he says, “even the most cynical taught at SAIS with fast-paced developments on the ground. person was an idealist for a day.” In my own country, things are changing so fast that the term This summer, Karim went back to Ramallah to intern paper I wrote on the new Egyptian constitution a few months at global Communities, where he worked on the Local ago no longer applies today.” government and Infrastructure Program, which aims to Karim’s peripatetic childhood may make it easier for him improve the lives of Palestinians by building local gover - to connect quickly with people, more than just superficially, nance capacity. he explains. His career goal is to better people’s lives, not “The internship tied into my career goals perfectly,” he necessarily to “make rank” or “be successful.” says, “that is, improving governance practices in developing “In some ways I'm surprised at how much of an academic countries, particularly in the Middle East. I could also see endeavor ‘international development’ can be to people at a myself specializing in targeting corruption.” school like ours. yasmin, too, has also worked with NgOs. Before coming to “We often miss the point that there are real people, real SAIS, she worked at the “I, the Egyptian” Foundation, or Ana lives affected by the issues that we write about in our El-Masry, in Cairo on community development, rehabilitation for papers,” he argues, “and while keeping an analytical eye on at-risk children and microfinance. She was also an intern in developments is important to determine what is effective and New york City at Onevoice, working on the Israeli-Palestinian what is not, analysis in and of itself has never changed a fact conflict. This summer she interned in Liberia with the on the ground. I think my background has helped me to Accountability Lab, an organization started by SAIS alumnus maintain that perspective.” Blair glencorse B’03 that works to create innovative tools for accountability and transparency in Nepal and Liberia. News of Nic Corbett B’13 is a second-year SAIS student concentrating the ousting of Hosni Mubarak and then Mohamed Morsi in the Latin American Studies Program. A former newspaper stirred in yasmin the desire to be back in Egypt. journalist, she spent her summer interning with Innovations “We are living in a time of continuous change,” she says. for Poverty Action working on a midline evaluation of an “At times, I find it a challenge to reconcile what we are being anti-poverty program near Cusco, Peru.
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From left: Jared Metzker, David Vaino, Charles Ludwig, Guy “Bo” Friddell, Guli Du, Ann Dailey, Elisabeth Reed, Rebecca Ben-Amou, Benjamin Locks, Jory Bentley, Eliasz Krawczuk, Stephen Crosse
o one can argue with the advantage of a strategic and Eurasian Studies, Energy Resources and Environment, location. The proximity of SAIS Europe to companies, and American Foreign Policy, visited professionals working Ngovernments, NgOs and international organizations at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and in Europe gives students a leg up in finding post-degree Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) employment. Each year students attend career trips around located in Brussels and Mons respectively, as well as the the continent with SAIS Europe’s career services program or United States European Command (EUCOM) and United organize excursions of their own. States African Command (AFRICOM) in Stuttgart, germany. Traditionally, trips haven’t focused on defense or Discussions during meetings were not only helpful to intelligence-related professional opportunities, but last students seeking career advice but also complemented what year’s group of Strategic Studies students decided it was they were learning in the classroom. At NATO headquarters, time for a change. By pooling resources and connections, students participated in a number of meetings about public they organized an expedition concentrating on strategic diplomacy and the U.S. Mission to NATO as well as topic- studies with visits to select defense and military installations specific conversations with the Director of NATO-Russia and in Europe. NATO-Ukraine and the Director of Arms Control. Firsthand Ann Dailey B’13 coordinated the trip with guy “Bo” Friddell accounts from staff, some of whom are SAIS alumni, proved B’13. Students from several academic concentrations, revealing. They offered insight into what it would be like to including Strategic Studies, Middle East Studies, European work for the organization and what future key issues will be.
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Discussion focused on how decisions are made, priority public affairs office, strategic communications office and areas, the changing role of the NATO alliance and its the State Department liaison. According to insiders the enlargement. command has recently been focusing on issues involving At SHAPE students gained a deeper understanding of terrorist activities from groups like Al-Qaeda in the Islamic how the various military forces of NATO work together Maghreb, Boko Haram, Al-Qaeda in Eastern Africa and towards a common goal. They met with representatives from other smaller sub-groups across the continent. In addition, the public affairs office, the human resources department students learned that AFRICOM’s main mission is to deter and the EU liaison department. Through these meetings they violent extremism, promote regional cooperation and learned how NATO coordinates its efforts with the EU and develop crisis response and contingency operations. how SHAPE communicates NATO goals to the rest of the The March Strategic Studies career trip was much world. more than a chance to explore more of Europe, meet After two jam-packed days in Belgium, students moved alumni and sightsee. It was a chance for students to get on to Stuttgart, germany to visit the headquarters of first-hand information about professional opportunities with EUCOM and AFRICOM. Once again, thanks to the wide organizations throughout Europe and an inside look at the network students tapped into, they managed to participate issues and decisions they are confronting. Organizer Ann in meetings and discover more about the American military Dailey comments, “Student-led trips offer greater flexibility in Europe. and allow students to tailor meetings to their interests. At EUCOM, students met with the head of intergovern - This enables them to build more meaningful relationships mental liaison directorate, the public affairs office, the with employers and expands the SAIS network for future george C. Marshall Center liaison, the head of EUCOM classes.” intern coordination and the chief of Black Sea/Eurasia policy. At AFRICOM, students met with a multitude of Rebecca Ben-Amou B13’ is a second-year student at SAIS representatives: intergovernmental liaison directorate, chief concentrating in Strategic Studies and Arabic. She has of policy planning, chief of human resources and manpower interned for the U.S. Army War College and LIgNET.com directorate, intelligence/knowledge development office, and continues to pursue a career in civil service.
At NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium March 4, 2013
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A Gelato Museum in Bologna by Nic Corbett
hen you enter the cavernous exhibition room of and multimedia and walks visitors through the origins and the gelato Museum Carpigiani in Anzola Emilia history of gelato, starting from—believe it or not—the bronze W outside of Bologna, you immediately notice a wall age of Mesopotamia. The museum’s eponyms, however, are covered in quotes in English and Italian. They are phrases straight out of the 20th century. Bruto Carpigiani designed an about frozen delicacies from novels and by famous people. ice cream machine called an autogelatiera just before he died A line from Madame Bovary refers to a character in ecstasy in 1945, and the following year his brother Poeri founded the as she consumed the treat. “She was eating maraschino ice company that produces the machines. Today Carpigiani that she held with her left hand in a silver-gilt cup, her eyes equipment is exported around the world. In 2003, the company half-closed, and the spoon between her teeth.” founded a gelato school to train entrepreneurs and in the fall The exhibit features original equipment, historical images, of 2012 opened the gelato museum. Last year, the company
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Carpigiani vehicle carrying a soft serve machine at the Bologna fairgrounds, 1958. Photo courtesy of the Bruto and Poerio Carpigiani Foundation
began exporting Italian-style artisan gelato- New kinds of gelato were developed in making lessons through training seminars held Florence in the 16th century during the time in Dubai, São Paulo and Kuala Lumpur. of the Medici dynasty. By the 1800s, gelato “The museum agrees in principle with street vendors were common in Europe and Carpigiani's main mission, that is, to spread America. the culture of artisanal gelato worldwide,” says At the museum’s gelato Lab SAIS students valentina Righi, vice president of the Bruto learned about the artisanal gelato and sorbet and Poerio Carpigiani Foundation. “The making trade. Makoto Irie, the instructor, gelato Museum aims to be a source of infor - demystified the process explaining how to mation for artisanal gelato makers around the obtain the precise proportions of sugar, world who want to make their customers melon, water, dextrose and stabilizer to create aware of the difference between the fresh melon sorbet and then mix them into the product and the industrial one.” original Carpigiani machine. She selected One thing is clear from the museum’s volunteers to spoon the sorbet out of the history exhibit: shrb , the predecessor of sorbet machine, and everyone was treated to a in the Middle Ages, was a fundamental step serving, their eyes half-closed with delight. in spreading the gelato gospel. Shrb was a sugary syrup prescribed by Arab apothecaries Nic Corbett B’13 is a second-year SAIS that would later be used to flavor sorbets. student concentrating in the Latin American Sorbet was initially only enjoyed in royal Studies Program. A former newspaper
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It’s always a pleasure to see our alumni communities grow and thrive. We are proud that you stay connected in so many European countries including Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Traditional events such as Alumni Weekend in Bologna, Amici di Bologna in New York, the Annual German Alumni Meeting in Berlin and I Bolognesi a Londra have been regular appointments for SAIS alumni throughout the year. But so have the monthly meetings in Austria and Belgium, and the smaller events and activities around Europe. All of these gatherings demonstrate the involvement of our alumni, each of whom is part of a real community. Connect with SAIS alumni communities : learn about upcoming events and participate in alumni activities in Europe by contacting the SAIS Europe Alumni Office .
See you next year at Alumni Weekend in Bologna on April 25-27, 2014. A presto! Elif Nazmiye Yavuz
n September Elif Nazmiye Yavuz B’03,’04 was among in our commitment to the study of energy, health, conflict more than sixty people killed in the terror attack by mili - and many other important challenges we face as a global Itants at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. community. In that way we can honor not only Elif, but also A Dutch citizen of Turkish heritage, Elif was working on the countless others who stand shoulder-to-shoulder with malaria research in Africa for the Clinton Foundation. She you in shaping tomorrow’s world.” and her partner Australian architect Ross Langdon, who Elif was known for her compassion and ability to inspire was also killed in the attack, were expecting a baby. others. She will be deeply missed by all who knew her. SAIS At SAIS Elif earned an M.A. degree with a concentration has lost an unforgettable member of its community and in European Studies. After SAIS, she worked for the World mourns the loss of so many other lives at the Westgate mall. Bank before attending the Harvard School of Public Health, Elif’s life and legacy will be celebrated at a memorial where she carried out her dissertation on malaria in East service on Saturday, November 16th at 10:00 am at the Africa before joining the Clinton Foundation. Princeton Club in New york City, 15 West 43rd Street, President Bill Clinton said in a released statement : “Elif between 5th and 6th Avenues. The invitation is open to all devoted her life to helping others, particularly people in who wish to gather to remember Elif. R.S.v.P . to Camilo developing countries suffering from malaria and HIv/AIDS.” Tellez B’03,’04. Dean vali Nasr in a recent message to the SAIS alumni To learn about the initiative in Elif’s memory, please see community remarked “we must remain steadfast and pure article on page 44 .
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n 2013 about 400 alumni got together at via Belmeloro 11 Friday evening Panel Discussion: from left Elena Panaritis B’90,’91, to commemorate their SAIS experience. At this year’s Michael G. Plummer B’82, Arntraud Hartmann B’80 and Thóra Arnórsdóttir B’03,’04 Alumni Weekend the classes of 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, I Class of 1963 celebrating the 50th anniversary 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003 and 2008 all celebrated their Bologna class anniversary. The Class of 2003 was represented by more than sixty members for its 10th anniversary, and the Class of 2008 by almost eighty for its 5th. Friday evening, after Director Keller’s warm welcome to alumni, Elena Panaritis B’90,’91, Thóra Arnórsdóttir B’03,‘04 and Arntraud Hartmann B’80 participated in Coping with the Crisis , a lively roundtable moderated by Michael g. Plummer B’82. On Saturday the members of the Class of 1963 received a gift from the school, a special recognition certificate of their Bologna class 50 year anniversary. The Bologna Center Journal of International Affairs, a student-run publication, gave a presentation, which was followed by the morning's main event, a discussion panel about revisions in world politics with BC Journal students and moderated by Professor David C. Unger. This year’s Alumni Back to Class sessions covered a wide range of issues: Machiavelli's Prince after 500 Years with Marco Cesa, Brazil as Regional Power: What Do Brazil's Neighbours Think? with Mahrukh Doctor B’89, ‘90, Weary Policeman: American Power in an Age of Austerity with Erik Jones B’89, ’90, PhD’96, From Private Leverage to Public Debt Crisis: Lessons for the World Economy and its Banker with Filippo Taddei and Is the EU still Willing to Promote Friday night, cocktail on the Abernethy Terrace at SAIS Europe, Bologna Center Industry? with vera Negri zamagni. Alumni enjoyed the wonderful view of San Luca and the Due Torri from the Abernethy terrace during the cocktail and lunch organized by SAIS Europe. The three-day event came to an end with Sunday morning tours of local attractions such as Palazzo Fava and the New International Museum of Music. In 2013 we had record alumni attendance. Our thanks go out to all the alumni who traveled to Bologna for the event— o as usual, it was their participation in all of the formal and i d u t S
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A special thanks to alumni volunteers who met with current They made the Alumni Career Sessions, one of the most students to answer their questions about career paths in significant moments of the weekend for both alumni and various sectors. students.
Kenneth Anye B’08,’09 Jennifer Hunnewell B’93,’94 Bernardo Monzani B’03,’04 Seth Arenstein B’83,’84 Mathias Huter B’08,’09 Henrique Mota B’83 Bartosz Augustyniak B’08,’09 Dara Iserson B’08,’09 Andrew Natenshon B’03,’04 Stefania Benaglia B’08,’09 Francis Jacobs ’73,’74 Klas Nyman B’93 Jeremy Bowen B’83,’86 Thomas Jetter B’83 Malka Older B’03,’04 Karen Brown B’73,’74 Laura Johnston B’93,’95 Jan Panek B’93,’94 Wolfgang Buchner B’73 Natalie Kempkey B’08,’09 Claire Pierangelo B’83,’84 Christopher Cantelmi B’93,’94 Eric Kessler B’08,’09 grazina Raguckaja B’08 Clinton Carter B’03,’04 Scott Kleinberg B’88,’91 Joseph Richardson B’03,’04 Filippo Chiesa B’08,’09 Martina Klenner-Auvillain B’03 Jonathan Rosen B’08,’09 Conor Clyne B’03,’04 Christine Knudsen B’93,’94 Justine Rubira B’03,’04 Daniel Daley B’88,’89 Rajiv Kochar B’93,’94 William Saab B’08,’09 Michael Darling B’08 Erik Kooijmans B’82,’83 Natasha Sachs B’08 Mafalda De Avelar B’03,’04 Bastiaan Körner B’66 Burcu San B’93 Reneta Dimitrova B’08,’09 Edith Laszlo B’96,’97 Elvira Sánchez Mateos B’88,’89 Jana Dorband B’03,’04 georg Lennkh B’63 gunther Seibert B’63 Elijah Duckworth-Schachter B’93,’94 Jaime Levine B’93,’99 Thomas Seidner B’08,’09 Henner Ehringhaus B’63,’64 Christopher Lewis B’08,’09 Megan Sheehan B’08,’09 gerald Charles Fitzgerald B’63 Jennifer Linker B’03,’04 Frank Spellerberg B’83 Martin Fraenkel B’83,’84 Ellen Liu B’03,’04 Marcos vaena B’03,’05 John gans B’08, ’09 Ryan Marshall B’08,’09 Frederik van Hogendorp B’73 Aart geens B’08,’09 Angela Mazer Marshall B’08,’09 Peter van Krieken B’73 Blair glencorse B’03,’04 Jacqueline Mazza B’83,’84, Ph.D.’98 gerold vollmer B’03,’04 Brad glosserman B’83,’84 Hanna McCloskey B’08 Florian Weiler B’08,’09 Nicole goldstein B’08,’09 Kate McNulty B’08,’09 Jens Wirth B’08,’09 Jaume guardans B’93 Antonio Missiroli B’93 vladimir zuberec B’03 1955 Alumni Weekend 2014 Save the Date th April 25-27 Francesca Torchi is a member of the SAIS Europe 2014 Bologna, Italy Alumni Relations Office. 530 9 Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe ALUMNI Amici Converge on the UN
by Thomas Tesluk
Photos by Reneta Dimitrova and Kishor Nagula
n an unseasonably warm Saturday evening last All SAIS graduates and friends of SAIS are welcome October 5th, hundreds of alumni and friends of to attend Amici events. O SAIS and the wider Johns Hopkins community This year’s event drew a larger, more geographically came together from across the country and across the diverse, and younger audience than ever before. Thanks to Atlantic at the UN headquarters in New york City. the generous support of accounting firm grant Thornton, The occasion was the 6th annual “Symposium and Amici Steering Committee members including Jack Celebration,” a signature event organized for the benefit of Wasserman B’64, Alison von Klemperer B’86, ‘87, Robert SAIS Europe by Amici di Bologna. Amici is an association gurman B’81, ‘82, and SAIS Europe supporters including of SAIS Europe alumni launched in 2008 by a group of Bill and Inger ginsberg, Pam and Eric Melby B’71, ‘72, and like-minded alumni. From the start, Amici volunteers have Director Ken Keller, Amici was able to offer deeply discounted worked closely with SAIS Europe staff to build and expand tickets to members of the current SAIS class as well as to the alumni community. Our goal was to create opportunities each of the past three SAIS classes. “I was delighted to be for alumni to come together to reconnect with each other able support this effort to help keep so many of our young and the center. alumni connected with the life of SAIS Europe,” says Keller. As a result of the Committee’s fund raising efforts, over sixty
From left: Erik Jones, David C. Unger and Thomas Tesluk young alumni were able to participate this year and network with other alumni. This is more than three times the number who participated in past Amici events. With over two hundred guests in attendance, Amici’s annual event has grown to become one of the largest annual gatherings of SAIS alumni anywhere. The program kicked off with the traditional academic symposium featuring members of the SAIS faculty. Professor Erik Jones, Director of the European and Eurasian Studies Program and the Bologna Institute for Policy Research, was joined on stage by Adjunct Professor of American Foreign Policy David C. Unger. In addition to teaching at SAIS Europe, Unger is a senior member of the New York Times Editorial Board. Following the popular “Charlie Rose” format used last year, Professors Jones and Unger engaged in a wide-ranging
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conversation about the limits of an American interventionist foreign policy. The audience responded with a spirited Q&A Berlin session encompassing Syria, the Middle East generally, and other geopolitical “hot spots.” After the discussion guests and speakers moved to the Annual Reunion terrace overlooking the East River for the reception. As the sun began to set, guests were called to dinner in the newly of the SAIS Alumni renovated Delegates Dining Room where younger alumni German Chapter were seated together with their more senior counterparts. The wine served this year was a particular treat for those lucky enough to have sampled it in Bologna. by Julia Christine Schiling With the special assistance of Alessandra Forni B‘11,‘12 guests were offered the spectacular wines of Tizzano his fall the alumni reunion in Berlin convened vineyards of Casalecchio di Reno. more than fifty SAIS alumni whose graduation Ajay Kaisth B’89 and Daniela Kaisth B’89, JHU’90 years span 1961 to 2012 for an annual event co-chaired this year’s silent auction. As a result of their T organized by the SAIS Alumni german Chapter and its generous support, each table featured an elegant engraved President Jürgen glückert B’62. Together with Mark print depicting scenes of Bologna which were very popular Maskow B’99,’00, glückert organized a stimulating cultural with guests. Bidding on them took off! and academic program for alumni who came from all The highlight of this year’s silent auction, however, was parts of Europe and beyond. the special contribution of five luxury handbags donated by Current students Samantha Witte B’14 and vincenz Furla, Bologna’s own historic leather goods manufacturer. Klemm B’14 attended the reunion to personally thank the Together, the prints and the Furla handbags helped raise german Alumni Chapter for their fellowship support and to thousands of dollars in sponsorship of the event. update alumni on their current experience at SAIS. Alumni Amici would like to extend a very special thanks to all of from other Johns Hopkins University schools also attended. this year’s sponsors: The weekend began with a guided tour of the Bundeskanzleramt (german chancellery) and beautiful grant and Thornton view over the Reichstag and other Parliament buildings. Furla USA Participants met at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Tizzano vineyards Auswärtige Politik (DgAP, german Council on Foreign Del Corona & Scardigli Relations) to hear the keynote speech IT and the Social Ajay and Daniela Kaisth Networks and their Impact on the Democratic System delivered by SAIS Europe Director Kenneth H. Keller. Amici di Bologna is run entirely by volunteers. To get This was followed by remarks by Dr. Ole Wintermann, involved in planning and managing alumni events on behalf a specialist on social media and global trends and a of Amici di Bologna, please contact Tom Tesluk . discussion with alumni, moderated by Winrich Kühne, Steven Muller Professor for german Studies. During Thomas Tesluk B’81,’82 is CEO of MissionID, Inc. and the afternoon, alumni relaxed in the DgAP garden with Sequent Consulting LLC. He serves as Chairman of the coffee and light fare. Alumni dined at Amuse restaurant— SAIS Europe Advisoy Council and is member of the SAIS which opened just for them—and impressed everyone Board of Advisors. with a delicious meal and great Italian wines.
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Sunday morning, participants toured the former airport Tempelhof, which between 1948 and 1949 connected West germany and West Berlin during the Berlin Airlift. During the blockade of the city by Soviet forces, more than 277,000 flights of the so-called “candy bomber” airplanes delivered food and other necessary supplies to keep the Western part of Berlin going. The annual reunion of the SAIS Alumni german Chapter takes place every third weekend in October in Berlin and is fully subsidized by participating alumni. The next informal happy hour for SAIS Alumni in Berlin will be held in early December. For information about future events or to get involved, contact the SAIS Europe Alumni Office and join the SAIS Alumni german Chapter on LinkedIn .
Julia Christine Schiling B’10,’11 works as research assistant and policy advisor for the chairwoman of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development of the german Bundestag in Berlin. From left: Claude Cornet B'62, Moritz Schmid-Drechsler B'11, '12, Isabel Hoffmann B'10, '11, Jakob Liermann B'11, '12
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Exchanging Perspectives 2013 by Francesca Torchi
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he 4th edition of I Bolognesi a Londra was held on November 2 at the Royal College of Defence Studies T(RCDS) in London’s Belgrave Square with about ninety alumni and friends in attendance. Organized by the Bolognesi a Londra alumni committee, the event is an opportunity for SAIS alumni to reconnect with former classmates and professors. The evening opened with welcoming remarks by Kenneth H. Keller, Director of SAIS Europe, and an introduction to the RCDS by Louis Armstrong CBE, former deputy commandant of the RCDS. A panel discussion titled U.S. Military Intervention: Whether, When and How? was moderated by John L. Harper B’76,’77, Ph.D.’81, Professor of American Foreign Policy. Eliot A. Cohen, Robert E. Osgood Professor 10 of Strategic Studies, Director of the Strategic Studies Program, and Director of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies spoke on the panel along with and David C. Unger, Editorial Board member of The New York Times and Adjunct Professor of American Foreign Policy.
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Once more, I Bolognesi a Londra offered its guests, the 1. MacPharlin Broderick B'11, '13, Marco dell'Aquila B'85, '86, Fabrizio Jacobellis B'02, '03
SAIS alumni community, an interesting breadth of perspectives 2. Staircase in the Seaford House, Royal College of Defence Studies from a panel of SAIS professors who teach both in Bologna 3. Filippo Gamba B'03, '04, Lena Wong and Davide Scigliuzzo B'10, '11, and in Washington, D.C. Kenneth H. Keller JHU ‘63, JHU Ph.D.’64, David Rosskamp B'11, '12, An aperitivo and buffet followed the panel and allowed Gianluca Esposito B'01, '02, Anna Wilson B'10, '11 guests to chat and continue the debate for the rest of the 4. Detail of the Seaford House evening. The president of the Johns Hopkins University 5. Efsan Askin B'93, Hasan Teoman B'80, '81 and Kenneth H. Keller JHU ‘63, JHU Ph.D.’64 Alumni Council Association, Terri McBride ’99 and the co-president of the Johns Hopkins University Alumni 6. Martin Fraenkel from the Bolognesi committee speaks to alumni Association in the U.K., Fabrizio Jacobellis B’02, ’03, 7. The audience in the Lecture Room, Royal College of Defence Studies also attended. 8. Kenneth H. Keller, Eliot A. Cohen, John L. Harper, David C. Unger during the discussion in A special thank you to the I Bolognesi a Londra the Lecture Room, Royal College of Defence Studies
Committee, composed of Mimi Meyer Armstrong B'82,'83, 9. Fabrizio Jacobellis, co-President of the JHU Alumni Assiciation in the UK speaks to alumni Marco Dell'Aquila B'85,'86, Martin Fraenkel B'83,'84 and 10. Detail of the Seaford House geraldine Kelly B'80,'81, who made the event a great success and to Louis Armstrong, who made it possible to 11. The Seaford House, Royal College of Defence Studies hold the event in the delightful Seaford House of the Royal Photos by Francesca Torchi College of Defence Studies. To stay in touch and hear about SAIS alumni activities in London, please contact the SAIS Europe Alumni Office Francesca Torchi is a member of the SAIS Europe Alumni and join the SAIS London Alumni group on LinkedIn . Relations Office.
Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe 35 DEVELOPMENT Thanks from SAIS Europe!
by Gabriella Chiappini
ith the 59th academic year now underway in Bologna, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have generously and W loyally supported SAIS and Bologna, in particular, over all these years. your generosity has been fundamental in advancing our institution and in expanding our role in the life of SAIS. Our brand new name, SAIS Europe, captures this notion and recognizes the enhancement of our program’s stature within SAIS and in Europe. I hope you will enjoy reading about how meaningful and effective your support is for the school and for its students and faculty. Alumni giving to SAIS Europe has increased steadily over time, accounting now to almost 90 percent of our yearly donors. yet only 10 percent of our alumni population chooses every year to direct their philanthropy to us. We count on you as a source of strength now and in the future. Alumni participation not only allows us to offer the SAIS experience to the next generations of international experts by offering them the unique combination of a year in Bologna and a year in Washington. But it is also often a key element for measuring the success of our program. And this is critical as we look to encourage more foundations and corporations to partner with SAIS. Every gift makes a difference and I welcome you to learn more about how to give back to SAIS and to join our community of donors today. I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible during the course of the coming year at our many events or in your city to express in person the gratitude of the School. Grazie mille!
Gabriella Chiappini is Director of Development, SAIS Europe
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Making a donation to SAIS Europe is very simple, click here for giving instructions
ll donations from the U.S. and Canada are tax To make a tax deductible donation from one of the following deductible. Tax deductible donations can also countries: Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Romania, Slovenia, A be made through the Transnational giving Europe Spain, Hungary please contact us . network in the following countries: If your country is not on this list or for more information BELGIUM please contact: King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) Clarissa Ronchi Development Coordinator FRANCE Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe new e! Fondation de France cod via Belmeloro 11 40126 Bologna, Italy GERMANY Tel. +39 051 2917821 verein der Freunde des Bologna Center [email protected]
IRELAND Community Foundation for Ireland
ITALY Associazione Italo-Americana “Luciano Finelli”
NETHERLANDS Oranje Fonds
POLAND Foundation for Poland
SWITZERLAND Swiss Philanthropy Foundation
U.K. ine onl Johns Hopkins University UK ing giv le ilab Charitable Trust ava
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SAIS Students learn thanks to donor generosity
ivista has, in the past, given space to fellowships, one of the most important areas in the life of our R students. Today we focus on the opportunity that fellowships open to students by allowing them to benefit from the SAIS academic program and the interaction with fellow students in their path to becoming professionals ready to leave a footprint in the outside world. We are pleased to tell the story of an Italian alumnus who was able to join SAIS in 2000 thanks to the financial aid he received at the time. He recently told us that he had applied to SAIS because he wanted the best education for enhancing his understanding of the contemporary Class of 1968 Fellowship - Patrick H. Harper, Winfried Lambertz, world and to become part of a stimulating international Brigitte Fliegauf (Roller), Helmut Dorn, Chimdindu Onwudiegwu, environment. Tain Tompkins, Jacqueline Lafon-Hengl and Dr. Eckhard Bergmann
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However, he did not have the financial means to fully cover tuition and expenses and, as he recalls, “without the fellowship I received with my admission letter, I would have been forced to decline the offer.” He talks of his time as SAIS as “a continuous learning experience, both in the classroom and outside” and says that it is hard to underestimate the impact on his own personal development of those conversations at the cafeteria, “where there was always some fellow student City of Vienna Fellowship able to talk about a given major world event from some Anis Chouchane, Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Rupinder Rai and sort of direct experience. This made me aware of new Matthias Dirnbacher possibilities which I could try to make true.” Thanks to the fellowship he received, SAIS became the “defining moment” in his life. This has always been clear in his mind. So clear that last year he decided to give back to the school and support an individual fellowship to benefit a new student, as well as contribute to his class initiative. His fellowship recipient wrote him in a letter “I am excited to be here and eagerly looking forward to whatever this year has in store for me. I greatly appreciate the financial support you provided to me to complete my studies. In other words, I could not be happier.” She took advantage of all the opportunities offered by SAIS here in Bologna and is now in Washington for her second year of studies. And the cycle continues: this current student will tomorrow become an alumna, and perhaps a donor. ..
Tanya Lolonis and Wilhelm Hemetsberger Fellowship Wilhelm Hemetsberger, Xian Liao and Dean Nasr
UniCredit Fellowship James Anderson Fellowship Roberto Nicasto and Koru Selim James Anderson and Oliver Russell
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Henry Tesluk Fellowship Thomas Tesluk and Sylvia Staneva
UK Charitable Trust Fellowship Cormac Sullivan and Martin Fraenkel
Mario Possati Fellowship Alberto Possati, Alberto Vacchi, Martin Vladimirov, Stefano Possati, Tiziana Ferrari, Ken Keller and Edoardo Possati
Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe 41 DEVELOPMENT Class Initiatives
lumni faithfully gather in Bologna for the annual Class of 1963’s 50th Anniversary Gift Alumni Weekend and many celebrate their class Naneen and Axel Neubohn have launched a 50th Anniversary A reunions to recognize the very special year they gift to establish a Class of 1963 Fellowship. experienced by learning togheter in such a demanding and visit the class webpage to learn more, see the progress, stimulating environment. and make your contribution. It’s a heady combination that bonds the students and produces graduates who have a wider vision and superior The Class of 1983 Made It! skills for working in today’s global and diverse world. In April an anonymous donor offered a challenge gift of At class reunions alumni enjoy spending time together $15,000 to the Bologna Class of 1983 LEAD Fellowship Fund and participating in the Alumni Weekend program. to stimulate contribution from all class members. They also reflect on how life-changing their year in The class challenge was to bring the 30th anniversary Bologna was and are inspired to make it possible for new gift’s participation to 25 percent—and they made it in less than generations to share a similarly positive experience. This a month! Up to 41 percent of the Class of 1983 has con - wish comes true in the form of class initiatives. Almost tributed to the LEAD Fund since its inception, which makes every year existing initiatives are “revitalized,” and new the 83ers one of the classes with the highest participation initiatives are launched. rates. The initiative is still ongoing. If you have not made a gift This year’s highlights include the Bologna classes of to the fund, please consider doing it now! Join your class gift: 1963, 1983 and 1993. your generosity has a life-changing impact on future genera - tions of Bologna students. visit the class webpage to learn more, check the fund’s progress and make your contribution.
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Class of 1983 Join Your Class Initiative!
Class of 1993
A New Fellowship from the Class of 1993 Following in the footsteps of other Bologna classes, the 93ers decided to celebrate their 20th anniversary with a fellowship under the name of their class. The goal is to raise $200,000 by their next class reunion in 2018. The fellowship will contribute to increasing the geographic diversity of SAIS students. This is a newly-born initiative and needs the support of all members! you will soon hear from Susanne, Anita, Abigail, Christine and Teri – class of 1993 leaders – who strongly encourage their classmates to join!
Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe 43 DEVELOPMENT Memorial Initiatives To Remember Members of Our Community
Remembering Enzo Grilli Memorial Elif Nazmiye Yavuz Fellowship now a perpetual fellowship he SAIS community lovingly remembers nzo grilli was a SAIS TElif Nazmiye yavuz alumnus and a well B'03,'04 who was among the E respected professor victims of a tragic terror attack whose connection to SAIS at a shopping mall in Nairobi, spanned nearly forty years. Kenya ( see article on page 28 ). Upon his sudden death in 2007, An initiative is underway to an initiative was launched to honor Elif through a fellowship in her name that would help establish a permanent Enzo grilli Memorial Fellowship to a next generation SAIS students carry on her legacy and benefit SAIS students. Led by two of Enzo grilli’s former commitments to serving others. It was spearheaded by students, Silvia zucchini B’99,’00 and Alessandra Campanaro Bob Hildreth B’75, former member of the SAIS Board of B’00,’01, the initiative has now reached its first goal thanks to Advisors, who most generously pledged $50,000 toward a the generosity of anonymous donors. The fellowship is now goal of establishing a $500,000 endowed fellowship fund in endowed in perpetuity , and SAIS is proud to announce this Elif’s memory. To join the initiative please click here and to year’s recipient in Bologna, Nicolaas van vliet from the learn more, contact Camilo Tellez and Alexandra Jaeckh . Netherlands. The initiative continues with the aim to increase the fund to augment the yearly fellowship. Click here to join the Gita Beker Busjeet Enzo grilli Memorial Fellowship initiative. Memorial Fellowship
ita Beker Busjeet Fred Hood Research Fund B’04,’05 will be g remembered in he Bologna Class of perpetuity thanks to the 2003, together with generosity of her parents, T his family, remembers husband Jeremy B’04,’05, Fred Hood B’03,’04 through classmates and friends who the Fred Hood Fund to support established the gita Beker research activities of Ph.D. Busjeet Memorial Fellowship to honor her memory. Since and M.A.I.A. students at SAIS its inception, the initiative has been incredibly successful. in Bologna. The initial long-term goal to raise $100,000 and create an Pete, Headley and Saverio, endowment has already been reached and SAIS is proud class leaders for this initiative, to announce the first fellowship recipient, Lama Kiyasseh strongly encourage their classmates to join to reach the from Syria, who is now studying at SAIS in Bologna. “I feel $300,000 goal as part of the class 10th anniversary honored to be the first fellowship recipient and a part of the celebrations. extended gita Beker Busjeet family here at SAIS Europe, and visit the Fred Hood webpage for more information, hope that I can be an inspiration in my passion for international to see the progress, and to contribute. relations, like gita Beker Busjeet was to her family and friends,” says Lama. visit the Gita webpage to learn more, see the progress, and to make your contribution.
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Patrick McCarthy Fund
pon his death, many Updates of his former students Uand friends decided to establish the Patrick SAIS Welcomes McCarthy Fund to support New Members faculty research at SAIS of its Legacy Circle Europe with the ultimate goal of funding a Patrick McCarthy Chair at SAIS in Bologna. harles Anson B'66 has decided to include The “Patrick McCarthy Seminar Series on SAIS in his will to benefit U.K. students in Intellectuals and Politics” aims to revive a tradition of CBologna with a fellowship that will offer new studies in the humanities that has always been part of the generations of students the opportunity to share the SAIS mission. Studying International Relations requires same positive life-changing experience Charles had knowledge of the mores, ideas and histories of societes in Bologna. around the world. Patrick McCarthy was an able interpreter of this cultural dimension to international affairs, one of rans Lijnkamp B'81 has made provisions in the leading scholars of contemporary Italian history his will to establish a permanent fellowship and a major figure in the field of intellectual history of Ffund to support one or more Dutch students twentieth century Europe. at SAIS in Bologna and in Washington. This year the Patrick McCarthy Fund will support the conference Macchiavelli and International Politics organized by Professor Marco Cesa to be held on Grazie Charles e Frans! November 23, 2013 in Bologna. Click here to learn more about the initiative and make your contribution.
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