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Europe has changed a lot since last time Denmark sat in the chair of the EU Presidency.
The current financial crisis reveals two major weaknesses which impact on the European project and on modern European politics as such – the absence of political brotherhood and the neglect of intra-European fault lines.
The cooperation in Europe has been tested over the past year. Pressure on the Euro and the Schengen area – two of the EU’s greatest achievements – as well as a financial and economic crisis call for a strong European leadership in the future.
Europe is often derided as an economic giant but political dwarf, divided and unable to defend its interests and values in the world.
28-04-2011 | The EU and Strategic Partnerships
At the European Council meeting in September 2010, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton put the topic of strategic partnerships on the agenda.
22-03-2011 | Registration closed! - The EU’s Eastern Neighbours - The Road to Viable Reforms and Efficient Assistance
This conference will elaborate on how the EU and its member states can improve cooperation with the EU’s Eastern neighbours.
How to reach out to Muslim communities has constituted an issue of pre-eminent strategic importance both in the United States and in Europe.
10-02-2011 | EU and the Uprisings in North Africa
The events in Tunisia and Egypt in the recent weeks have caught Europe off-guard.
08-12-2010 | The Road to Europe – A Conversation with Minister Egemen Bağış, Turkey’s Chief EU Negotiator
The negotiations on the accession of Turkey into the European Union have now entered their fifth year.
Next year will be an important time for the Eastern Partnership, the EU’s flagship initiative addressed to countries of Eastern Europe.
Today’s world is an increasingly complex environment. The fault lines between conflict and cooperation among a plethora of different actors are getting fuzzier.
18-10-2010 | Why Nations Fight: Past and Future Motives for War
Why Nations Fight, Richard Ned Lebow takes, in his most recent book, on one of the most fundamental questions of International Relations.
Questions pertaining to the EU’s future enlargement remain high on the Turkish political agenda with the weakening of the prospects of membership in all probability slowing down the country’s diffusion to European norms.
07-10-2010 | Democratic Counter Terrorism after 9/11
The 9/11 attacks by Al Qaeda led to a very harsh democratic policy toward enemy prisoners, led by the United States but supported by various allies.
On 3 October, Bosnia-Herzegovina will hold general elections. Almost 15 years since the Dayton Agreement put an end to the civil war, the challenges facing the country remain enormous.
Stoltenberg-rapporten som inspirationskilde for forstærket nordisk samarbejde i Østersøområdet, Nordområderne, Barentshavområdet og Arktis.
17-06-2010 | Culture of Fear: Challenging Europe’s Global Role
Europe is gripped by a culture of fear: of multiculturalism; of the ‘Other’, to be sure; but also of its own loss of purpose.
03-06-2010 | Europe and the Mediterranean: Normative Influence and Threat Perception in the EU’s Southern Neighbourhood
On 7 June, the EU-sponsored ‘Union for the Mediterranean’ – comprising the 27 member states of the EU and 16 North African, Middle Eastern and Balkan countries – will organise its second summit in Barcelona.
26-04-2010 | Academia and Foreign Policy Making: Bridging the Gap
The seminar explores the relationship between academic research in the field of International Relations (IR) and the making of foreign policy. How do the two coincide and coexist? It seems, as such, that the scholarly community is confronted by an ever increasing call to produce useful and relevant knowledge, although the gap between analysis and policy making remains formidable.
Seminaret er det tredje og sidste i seminarrækken EU bag kulisserne – Europa-Parlamentets vej til magten.
Seminaret er det andet af tre i seminarrække EU bag kulisserne – Europa-Parlamentets vej til magten.
Danske og udenlandske EU-aktører vil over de tre arrangementer fortælle om deres personlige opfattelser af og bidrag til begivenheder, der har formet magten i Europa-Parlamentet.
Danske og udenlandske EU-aktører vil over de tre arrangementer fortælle om deres personlige opfattelser af og bidrag til begivenheder, der har formet magten i Europa-Parlamentet.
On 9 November, Europe will remember the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The anniversary calls for celebration but also for reflection about the legacy of that event and of the systemic changes it has brought to Europe ever since.
With the occasion of the publication of a new report from the think tank European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), one of the authors, Daniel Korski, will discuss the future of the EU’s civilian capacities and the role of Denmark as a contributing country
EADI is the leading professional network for development and regional studies in Europe. The network includes a wide range of development research and training organizations, think tanks, national bodies and researchers throughout Europe.
Danske og udenlandske EU-aktører vil over de tre arrangementer fortælle om deres personlige opfattelser af og bidrag til begivenheder, der har formet magten i Europa-Parlamentet.
01-10-2009 | French Arab and Mediterranean Policy
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been busy travelling around in the Middle East, the Golf states and North Africa.
I februar måned fremlagde Thorvald Stoltenberg, fhv. norsk forsvars- og udenrigsminister og indehaver af adskillige internationale topposter, en rapport om fremtidens nordiske udenrigs- og sikkerhedspolitiske samarbejde.
12-05-2009 | Race to the Bottom or the Emergence of Transnational Cleavages? Service Liberalization and the ECJ in the Enlarged EU
Conflicts between the Single Market and the European Social Model have heightened with EU enlargement.
11-05-2009 | Baltic Sea Cooperation: Current Challenges
Baltic Sea Cooperation is of current interest for a variety of reasons. Firstly, the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS) recently finalized a rather thorough review process as to the forms of cooperation, achievements gained and the challenges to be addressed in the near future.
28-04-2009 | Konflikten i Kaukasus 2008 og den vestlige reaktion
Spændingerne i Kaukasus omkring løssrivelsesrepublikkerne Abkhasien og Syd-ossetien eskalerede i løbet af foråret og sommeren 2008 og førte fra 7. august til en egentlig væbnet konflikt mellem Georgien og Rusland.
16-04-2009 | Prospects for EU-Russia Relations
If there is one major issue that divides the EU it is policy towards Russia. Some member states view Russia as the major security threat while others do not think the EU should upset a resurgent Russia.
There has been much talk about a European split from the United States during the Administration of George W. Bush, and some differences were certainly evident regarding the invasion of Iraq.
27-10-2008 | The French EU Presidency’s Goal: Reinforcing the EU’s Defence Capacity and the EU’s Role on the International Stage
The Russia-Georgia conflict became the French Presidency’s first international challenge. A key goal for the French EU Presidency is to develop and strengthen the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) equipped with credible resources and capabilities, in order to enhance the EU’s role as a global player in crisis management.
23-10-2008 | Transatlantic Trends and the Next American President
This seminar follows the release of the 2008 Transatlantic Trends study by the German Marshall Fund of the United States – a major international public opinion survey examining American and European attitudes toward the U.S.-European relationship.
25-09-2008 | Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Europe’s Energy Supply — Perspectives for the Supply of Europe to 2020
Hardly a day goes by without news – often disturbing news – about energy supplies, energy security and global warming. To some degree, such news helps shape the fate and wealth of nations. Thus, signalling the enormous political, economic and security implications of our energy future, energy diplomacy has become a new term in the study of international relations
08-09-2008 | Diplomacy in the Post-International Era
Old certainties are challenged in the field of diplomacy. With the borderlines between the internal and the external crumbling and power being understood differently – with communication becoming increasingly important and the relevant sphere of action broadened to apply not only to states but also societies and other non-statist actors – much is changing in the field of diplomacy.
26-06-2008 | Udenrigspolitiske udfordringer i det 21. århundrede
Udenrigsminister Per Stig Møller debatterer det 21. århundredes udenrigs- og sikkerhedspolitiske udfordringer med et panel af fire yngre forskere, samt forskere og studerende blandt publikum
13-03-2008 | Europæisk sikkerhedspolitik ved en skillevej
Seminar om europæisk sikkerhedspolitisk samarbejde og mulighederne for en styrkelse af den fælles europæiske forsvars- og sikkerhedspolitik (European Security and Defence Policy, ESDP).
04-03-2008 | Freedom of the Press in Russia?
Svend Aage Christensen, who is a Senior Researcher with DIIS, will present a sketch of recent, concrete impressions and examples from the Russian media.
20-09-2007 | Geopolitik i Østersøen: Gas, olie og rørledninger
Et seminar som vil belyse udviklingen på energiområdet i Østersøregionen
A seminar with Paul Hollander from Harvard University.
07-12-2006 | Changing Conceptualisations of War
A seminar with Dietrich Jung, Pertti Joenniemi, Karen Lund Petersen and Kristian Søby Kristensen
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