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Bertrand Badie is a Professor of International Relations at Sciences Po Paris and former vice-president of Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). He is one of the most renowned French specialists in international relations. He has published more than 25 books which have been translated into many languages. Professor Badie is a one of the general editors of The International Encyclopedia of Political Science. He is also a member of the advisory board of several journals: European Review of International Studies (Chairman), International Journal of Human Rights, Journal of International Relations and Development, Contemporary Politics, Brazilian Journal of Strategy and International Relations, Etudes Internationales, Indian Journal of Law and International Affairs. Professor Badie has taught in many universities around the world: Universities of Lausanne, Geneva, Tunis, Rabat, Fès, Porto-Alegre, Bologna,…
BOOKS IN ENGLISH :
"The Sociology of the state", Chicago, The Chicago University Press, 1980 (with Pierre Birnbaum). The Imported State, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2000; "The Diplomacy of Connivance", London, Macmillan, Palgrave, 2012; "Humiliation in International Relations", London, Hart, 2017 (forthcoming);
"Political Science: A Global Perspective", London, Los Angeles, Sage pub, 2017, with L.Morlino, D.Berg- Schlosser; "International Encyclopedia in Political Science", London, Los Angeles, Sage pub, 8 vol, 2011 (with D.Berg-Schlosser and L.Morlino, ed.)
OPEN DAYS – October 29
thto November 27
th, 2021 Executive Master in International Politics (MIP)
Executive Master in Governance & Development Policy (MADEV) Registration ([email protected]) / Phone : 02 537 40 75 / www.ceris.be
Opening Lecture on Friday, October 29th, 2021 from 6 pm to 7:30 pm
"The New World Order or Disorder?" by Zoom
Video ConferenceBertrand Badie (Sciences Po Paris, CERI, IRIS)
CERIS-ULB Diplomatic School of Brussels Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB
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The questions we would like to explore in the conference are many. How can we explain the apparent failure of NATO troops in Afghanistan to create security and stability? Since the departure of the United States from Afghanistan, will the countries of the region have sufficient means to contain the terrorist threat? Will the the instability in Afghanistan that could result from the Taliban Government not come at the expense of China, Russia and Iran? South-Central Asia, and in particular the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, has been affected by terrorism; what tools can South-Central Asian states mobilize to overcome the security issue? Are international presences and support essential to Afghanistan still essential? Can the instability and insecurity in Afghanistan only be overcome by social development, democratization and good governance?
Programme Saturday 30/10/2021 by Zoom Video Conference
• 09:15 a.m. – 09:30 a.m. Arrival of participants.
• 09:30 a.m. – 09:35 a.m Opening session and Welcome by H.E. Ambassador Jan De Bock, President of CERIS
• 09:35 a.m. – 09:55 a.m. Lecture : “NATO’s operations in Afghanistan: strategic blunder or sideshow?” – Nicholas Williams (Former Head Operations Sections, Operation Division-NATO)
• 09:55 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Questions & answers
• 10:20 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Break
• 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Ambassadorial Roundtable: “Afghanistan Aftermath: International and Regional security Challenges at the crossroads of South-Central Asia.”
• 12:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Questions & answers
Ambassadorial Roundtable on Saturday, October 30th, 2021 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
"Afghanistan Aftermath: International & Regional Security Challenges at the
Crossroads of South-Central Asia"
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Fawaz A. Gerges is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and political Science - LSE, and holder of the Emirates Professorship in Contemporary Middle East Studies. He was also the inaugural Director of the LSE Middle East Centre from 2010 until 2013.
Gerges’ most recent books include Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East (Princeton University Press, March 2018), ISIS: A History (Princeton University Press, April 2016), Contentious Politics in the Middle East: Popular Resistance and Marginalised Activism beyond the Arab Uprisings (Palgrave Macmillan, September 2015); The New Middle East: Protest and Revolution in the Arab World (Cambridge University Press, January 2014) and Obama and the Middle East: The End of America’s Moment? (Palgrave Macmillan, September 2013). On the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, Oxford University Press released Gerges’ book, The Rise and Fall of Al Qaeda. Upcoming book: The Hundred-Year-War for Control of the Middle East, 1918-2018 (Princeton University Press, 2019).
Friday November 5th, 2021 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm and Saturday, November 6th, 2021 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
"The Global War on Terror: Lessons learned Twenty Years After 9/11"
Fawaz Gerges (London School of Economics & Political Science - LSE)
Surinamese economy (Teaching case study, Lim A Po Institute, Suriname, 2009), ‘Inflation in Sri Lanka: Ideology vs reality’ (chapter contribution in felicitation volume for Prof. W.D. Lakshman.
University of Colombo) in W.M. Wimalaratne (ed) The Economics of Professor W.D. Lakshman, (University of Colombo, 2008), “World Economic Crisis, Deflation, Recession, and the Coming Shift in the Balance of Global Economic Power” (Paper presented at Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, Colombo, Sri Lanka, October, 2008).
Professor Howard Nicholas is a Sri Lankan economist and social scientist, Senior Lecturer in Economics at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. His areas of interest are non- neoclassical economics, capacity building for economics related policy and business decision making. Among his publications we cite: Macroeconomic dynamics of the Surinamese economy (Teaching case study, Lim A Po Institute, Suriname, 2009), ‘Inflation in Sri Lanka: Ideology vs reality’
(chapter contribution in felicitation volume for Prof. W.D. Lakshman.
Among his publications, we cite: Macroeconomic dynamics of the
fellow at "Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations". His area of expertise : great power's relations, geopolitics, geoeconomy, foreign policy analysis, international relations, security and defense policy, new actors in international relations.
Tanguy Struye de Swielande is professor in international relations at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and at the Royal Military Academy, where he teaches Geopolitics, International Relations Theories and Foreign Policy Analysis. He also coordinates the Baillet Latour Chair "European Union-China". Since September 2016, he is the Director of the "Centre d'Etude des Crises et des Conflits Internationaux"
(CECRI). Professor Tanguy Struye de Swielande is the founder of
"Genesys Network for Geopolitical Studies" and he is the co-founder of the "Réseau Multidisciplinaire d'Etudes Stratégiques". He also research
6/11 14:00-18:00 Economic Globalization & Development / MADEV (Video Conference) Howard Nicholas (Erasmus University-Rotterdam, ISS-Den Haag)
12/11 18:00- 19:30 Introduction to Geopolitics / MIP (On Campus)
Tanguy Struye de Swielande (Director of CECRI, Catholic University of Louvain - UCLouvain) 13/11 09:30-12:30 Contemporary Geopolitics / MIP (On Campus)
Tanguy Struye de Swielande (Director of CECRI, Catholic University of Louvain - UCLouvain)
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chapters appearing in the Introduction to International Development Studies (Oxford University Press), The Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Modern World, and the Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid. Among his books on foreign aid are Compassion and Calculation.
The Business of Private Foreign Aid, Mozambique: Perspectives on Aid and the Civil Sector, and Give and Take. What’s the Matter with Foreign Aid.
David Sogge is a researcher based in Amsterdam, where he is an Associate of the Transnational Institute. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, and advanced degrees in development studies from Princeton University and the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague). Over a career that began in 1970, his professional activities have included numerous sojourns and research assignments in Africa, eastern Europe and Asia. He has held guest lectureships in Europe including the University of Amsterdam. Apart from African politics and civil society studies, foreign aid has been a particular focus, with
fellow at "Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations". His area of expertise : great power's relations, geopolitics, geoeconomy, foreign policy analysis, international relations, security and defense policy, new actors in international relations.
Tanguy Struye de Swielande is professor in international relations at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and at the Royal Military Academy, where he teaches Geopolitics, International Relations Theories and Foreign Policy Analysis. He also coordinates the Baillet Latour Chair "European Union-China". Since September 2016, he is the Director of the "Centre d'Etude des Crises et des Conflits Internationaux"
(CECRI). Professor Tanguy Struye de Swielande is the founder of
"Genesys Network for Geopolitical Studies" and he is the co-founder of the "Réseau Multidisciplinaire d'Etudes Stratégiques". He also research
13/11 14:00-18:00 Questioning Development Aid / MADEV (On Campus)
David Sogge (Harvard & Princeton Universities, Transnational Institute - Amsterdam)
19/11 18:00- 19:30 Geoeconomy: Theoretical approach & Case studies / MADEV-MIP (On Campus) Tanguy Struye de Swielande (Director of CECRI, Catholic University of Louvain - UCLouvain)
in The Oxford Companion to International Relations (Oxford University Press), "Private Sector Cyber Weapons: An Adequate Response to the Sovereignty Gap?,“ in Herbert Lin and Amy Zegart, Bytes, Bombs, and Spies: The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2019), “Cyber Threats,” in Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws, eds., The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, second edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), “European Cyber Defense,” in Hugo Meijer and Marco Wyss, eds., The Handbook of Lucas Kello is Associate Professor of International Relations at Oxford University. He serves as Senior Lecturer/Director of the Centre for Technology and Global Affairs, a major research initiative exploring the impact of modern technology on international relations, government, and society. He is also co-Director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security at the Department of Computer Science. His publications include The Virtual Weapon and International Order (Yale University Press), “The Meaning of the Cyber Revolution: Perils to Theory and Statecraft” in International Security, and “Security”
20/11 14:00-18:00 Covid, Climate, and the Future of Trade / MADEV- MIP (Video Conference) Richard Baldwin (Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies, Geneva)
26/11 18:00-19:30 The impact of modern technology on the International Relations Lucas Kello (University of Oxford, Director of the CTGA) / MIP (Video Conference) 27/11 09:30-12:30 The impact of modern technology on the International Relations Lucas Kello (University of Oxford, Director of the CTGA) / MIP (Video Conference)
coauthored half a dozen articles. He received honorary doctorates from the Turku School of Economics (Finland), University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). He was Associate Professor (1989–1991) and Assistant Professor (1986–1989) at Columbia University Business School. In 1990–1991 he followed trade matters for the President’s Council of EconomicAdvisors in the Bush White House. He worked as an Associate Economic Affairs Officer for UNCTAD in the early 1980s.
In 1991 he joined the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies as Professor of International Economics, where he has remained. He has also been a visiting research professor at MIT (2003), Oxford (2012-2015), and is still an Associate Member of Nuffield College at Oxford University. He has consulted for many governments and international organisations including the EU, the OECD, the World Bank, EFTA, and USAID.
Richard E. Baldwin is a professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, where he has been researching globalization and trade for the past 30 years. He is also ex-President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Editor-in-Chief of VoxEU, which he founded in June 2007. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was twice elected as a Member of the Council of the European Economic Association. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980, he received a master’s degree from the London School of Economics in 1981. He completed his PhD at MIT in 1986 under the guidance of Paul Krugman, with whom he has
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27/11 14:00-18:00 The Global Economy: Capitalism and its Crises / MIP-MADEV
Anastasia Nesvetailova (UNCTAD Geneva- Head of Macroeconomics and Political Development Department, Professor at CITY University of London) TBC (Video Conference)
countries. She is a former lecturer at the Centre for Global Political Economy of the University of Sussex. Professor Nesvetailova is the author of Fragile Finance: "Debt, Speculation and Crisis in the Age of Global Credit" (Palgrave, 2007) and "Financial Alchemy in Crisis: The Great Liquidity Illusion" (Pluto, 2010). She is a co-editor of "Global Finance in the New Century" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), "International Political Economy: A Reader" (Sage, 2007). Her latest book (January 2020): "Sabotage: The Hidden Nature of Finance" or "Sabotage: The Business of Finance", edited with Ronen Palan.
Professor Anastasia Nesvetailova is Head of Macroeconomics and Political Development Department, UNCTAD, Geneva and Professor of International Political Economy at City University of London. She was Director of City Political Economy Research Centre - CITYPERC.
Anastasia is a research specialist in International Political Economy. Her areas of interest cover finance and financial crises, globalisation and governance and her current research focuses on the themes of global financial fragility and crises, the formation of financial and monetary policies, and the process of capitalist evolution in Russia and other FSU
If you want to make money in the industry, you need to find ways of sabotaging either your clients, your competitors or the government (or all three), and above all, the market itself. Talking to industry insiders, economists and high net worth customers, examining the history of finance and its workings today, the authors show us how the idea of sabotage not only makes sense of all past economic crises, but must also be at the heart of all future regulations. With each financial bust, people expect to hear who the culprit was, and cynically know to not expect much punishment to ever reach them. But the innovation of this book is to show that each individual gaming the system isn’t a crook—the whole system is sabotage.
Financial malpractice, we're told, is an aberration: the actions of a few bad apples deviating from the norms of a market-governed process and gaming the system. In Sabotage, political scientists Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan blow this fiction apart, showing that sabotage is not an anomaly, but part of the business model of finance - and always has been.
Abusive lending practices, misleading investors, manipulating prices, deliberately falsifying figures, cheating, obstruction and taking advantage of 'the dumbest person in the room' - they're actually the main source of profitability in finance, and the surest way to a bonus.
