The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) has the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar on:
Russia and European Security:
Do We Need a New European Security Architecture?
Wednesday, 19 May 2010, 10.00-12.15
Danish Institute for International Studies
Main Auditorium
Strandgade 71, ground floor, 1401 Copenhagen K
Background
Do we need a new security architecture in Europe after the end of the Cold War, the re-unification of Germany, and the collapse of the Soviet Union? NATO was set up and functioned during the Cold War as a collective defence organization, and after the democratic revolutions in Eastern and Central Europe and the independence of the Baltic countries, it was a widespread view that consideration should be given to a broader collective security alternative. Today, it is obvious that NATO continues to be the primary vehicle for organising security in Europe while Russia advocates that there is a need for a new European security architecture, for instance in the form of a European security treaty to enshrine ‘legally binding’ assurances that Europe’s security is indivisible and that Russia is part of it. However, the reaction of many Europeans towards that idea is sceptical at best. Is a new European security architecture worth aiming at? Is it feasible? Or is it just a fashionable idea?
Neil MacFarlane is head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. Previously, he was professor of International Relations at Queen’s University (Canada), and assistant and associate professor of Government at the University of Virginia. He has also directed the Center for Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Virginia, the Centre for International Relations at Queen’s University, and the Centre for International Studies at Oxford University. He has written extensively on Soviet and Russian foreign policy, nationalism and national liberation, intervention, humanitarian action and its relationship to peacekeeping, the responses of states and international organizations to civil conflicts (particularly in the Caucasus and Central Asia), and state and system formation in the former Soviet Union. With Yuen Foong Khong, he recently completed a critical history of the concept of human security. He is currently working on a study of the emergence of international relations in the former Soviet region. He also has broad experience of professional training for mid-career defence personnel and diplomats and has served as a consultant to UNDP and UNOCHA, the Canadian and US governments, various private corporations, and the Soros Foundation. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, an associate of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, an International Fellow at the Centre for Social Sciences, Tbilisi State University, and an associate fellow at Chatham House. He has held research posts or visiting professorships at Harvard, the University of British Columbia, Berkeley, the College of Europe, and Rajaratnam School (Nanyang University, Singapore).
Programme
10.00-10.10 Introduction
Erik Beukel, Senior Researcher, DIIS
10.10-10.55 Russia and European Security: Do we Need a New European
Security Architecture?
Neil MacFarlane, Head of the Department of Politics and International
Relations, University of Oxford
10.55-11.15 Discussant
Karsten J. Møller, Senior Analyst, DIIS
11.15-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-12.15 Q & A
Practical Information
The seminar will be held in English.
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use our below online registration form no later than Tuesday, 18 May 2010 at 12.00 noon.
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