Events
Rediscovering Multilateralism: Toward a Cooperative Approach to Middle East Reform
October 02, 2009 // 12:00pm — 1:30pm
Audra Grant, RAND Corporation; Hanane Zelouani Idrissi, National Endowment for Democracy; Almut Moeller, Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy; Andrew Albertson, POMED Executive Director
Serbian Foreign Policy and the Possibility of Cooperation within the Western Balkan Region
October 02, 2009 // 10:00am — 11:00am
Recent surveys indicate that public support for the Serbian Progressive Party (SPP), which split from the Serb Radical Party last fall, has grown steadily, and is now at the heels of the Democratic Party, which leads the current government. SPP Party leader Aleksandar Vucic, explained the young party's foreign policy strategy at a Wilson Center noon discussion.
Kennedy and the Berlin Wall: A Hell of a Lot Better Than a War
October 01, 2009 // 3:30pm — 5:00pm
W.R. Smyser, Henry Alfred Kissinger Scholar, Library of Congress and Adjunct Professor, BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University; Mary Beth Stein, Associate Professor of German and International Affairs, The George Washington University; R. Gerald Livingston, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, German Historical Institute; Bernd Schaefer, Senior Scholar, Cold War International History Project
The German Elections: The State of the Polity and Prospects for German Foreign Policy
September 30, 2009 // 4:00pm — 5:00pm
Constanze Stelzenmüller, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, Berlin Office, German Marshall Fund and Former Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Grave Translations: The Unearthly Map of Vilnius
September 30, 2009 // 12:00pm — 1:30pm
Director's Forum: The Enlargement of the European Union
September 22, 2009 // 10:00am — 11:00am
EU enlargement has been celebrated as the European Union's most successful foreign policy. The peaceful transformation in postcommunist Europe is a tribute not only to the peoples and leaders of those 10 countries, but also to the umbrella provided by the European Union. Dr. Michael Leigh, who has served as director-general for enlargement since 2006, highlighted the successes of the enlargement process to date as well as the main challenges to come.
U.S.-Dutch Relations in the Post-1945 Era
September 18, 2009 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
L. Paul Bremer III, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands; Renée Jones-Bos, Dutch Ambassador to the U.S., Cornelis A. van Minnen, Director, Roosevelt Study Center; Hans Krabbendam, Assistant Director, Roosevelt Study Center; Giles Scott-Smith, Senior Researcher, Roosevelt Study Center
Montenegrin Politics after Independence
September 14, 2009 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Turkey's Energy Politics: Neither East or West
September 01, 2009 // 2:00pm — 3:30pm
Gulnur Aybet, Southeast Europe Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center and Lecturer in International Relations, University of Kent at Canterbury (UK)
The Cyprus Negotiations: One Year Later
July 29, 2009 // 1:00pm — 2:30pm
Frank C. Urbancic, U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus