Archive 2008
23. May 2008
New Publication
Hans-Georg Ehrhart/Roland Kaestner Afghanistan: Scheitern
oder Strategiewechsel?, Hamburger Informationen zur
Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik 43, Mai 2008.
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New Publication
Detlef Bald / Hans-Günter Fröhling / Jürgen Groß /
Claus Frhr. von Rosen (Hrsg.), Zurückgestutzt, sinnentleert,
unverstanden: Die Innere Führung der Bundeswehr (Demokratie,
Sicherheit, Frieden Band 187 ) Baden-Baden 2008, 170
S., ISBN 978-3-8329-3508-5.
23. May 2008
Cercle Stratégique
Dr. Hans-Georg Ehrhart (IFSH/ZEUS) attended the 18th
meeting of the Cercle Stratégique Franco Allemand
in Paris on 21/22 Mai 2008. Four topics were on the
agenda: The situation in Afghanistan (Detlef Dzembritzki,
MP/Francois Lamy, Philippe Vitel, MP); 2. The Central
Asia Strategy of the EU (Gernot Erler, Minister of
State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Pierre Morel, EU
Special Envoy for Central Asia); 3. EU Nato Relations
(Jörn Thießen, MP/Richard Duqué, Nato Ambassador);
4. Challenges of the EU in the Mediterranean (Serge
Telle, Ambassador/Günther Gloser, Minister of State,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
16. May 2008
7th German-Chinese
Security Dialogue
Professor Hans J. Giessmann (IFSH) was one of only
two expert members of the German Delegation of Members
of Parliament, led by the former State Secretary of
Defence Walter Kolbow, to the 7th German-Chinese Security
Dialogue held in Beijing on 13-14 May 2008. His presentation
dealt with the determinants of changes in the world
order and their implications for German-Chinese relations.
The annual Dialogue has been co-organised since 2000
by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation. Speeches and a
discussion summary will be published in both countries.
Prof. Giessmann also held another presentation together
with Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider, Director of
the DGAP Research Institute. It focused on the achievements
and problems of China’s opening policy since
1979 and formed the basis for an open debate with
leading officials from the CPC’s International
Department. In addition, Professor Giessmann discussed
issues relating to China’s human rights and
Tibet policies as well as China’s relationship
with Europe at Renmin University in Beijing.
14 . May 2008
New Publication
Hans-Georg Ehrhart, EU Crisis Management in Africa:
the Operation EUFOR Tchad/RCA, in: Integration, 2/2008,
S. 145 – 158.
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7. May 2008
Lectures on arms
control and disarmament in the Berlin Reichstag
On May 5, Hans-Joachim Gießmann and Oliver Meier spoke
on a panel on “Perspectives of Arms Control and disarmament“
during the conference “Towards a European Army: Perspectives
for cooperation, integration and disarmament”. The
event in the Berlin Reichstag had been organized by
the Social Democrat Fraction in the German Bundestag.
Lecture
Gießmann
Lecture
Meier
24. April 2008
Humanitarian Aid
in Gaza Strip and West Bank
Peter Rehse from the UN World Health Organisation
and graduate of the international postgraduate programme
“Master of Peace and Security Studies” at the University
of Hamburg visited the Institute on 23 April, 2008.
He gave a talk on his experiences as a humanitarian
aid official during a seven months stay in the Gaza
Strip and the West Bank.
23. April
2008
Lecture at BLCU:
EU-China Relations
On April 22nd 2008, Bernt Berger held a lecture at
the Department of International Relations at the Beijing
Language and Culture University, where in 1994-1995
he had been a student. Subject of the presentation
was the state of EU-china relations. In the following
discussion he and the approximately 150 students discussed
critical issues and misunderstandings on both sides
concerning the recent events in Tibet.
20. April
2008
Kick-off Meeting
of the Multipart Project
The kick-off meeting of the EU project "Multi-Stakeholder
Partnership in Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Role
of the European Union" (Multipart) took place in Pisa
on 18 and 19 April 2008. Multipart is a project financed
by the European Commission in its 7th Framework Programme.
The consortium consists of the following members:
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Project Coordinator),
Italy; Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques,
France; University of Bradford, UK; University of
Amsterdam, Netherlands; Institute for Peace Research
and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg,
Germany; London School of Economics, UK; European
Training and Research Centre, Austria; University
of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Royal Institute of International
Relations, Belgium; International Security Information
Service, Belgium; Institute for Security and International
Studies, Bulgaria and University of Florence, Italy.
Prof Michael Brzoska, Director of the IFSH, is member
of the Steering Committee. Dr. Hans-Georg Ehrhart
is Coordinator of Working Package 4a on security.
Further information will soon be available on the
project website, which will shortly go online.
15. April
2008
Change in the Middle
East – Peaceful Solution or Escalation?
On April 14, Dr Margret Johannsen participated in
the “Flensburg Dialogue”, convened by the Julius Leber
Forum of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Knut Dethlefsen,
Director of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s Office
in East Jerusalem, gave a speech on “Change in the
Middle East – Peaceful Solution or Escalation?” and
discussed the prospects of a negotiated settlement
to the longstanding conflict between Israel and the
Palestinians. In his talk, he warned against developments
that are undermining the two-state formula as the
basis of a sustainable solution. In the discussion
between the speaker and Dr. Margret Johannsen that
followed, both pointed to other cases of constructive
conflict transformation and emphasized the lesson
learned that, as a matter of principle, dialogue must
be possible between each and every party to the conflict
and that excluding relevant players from negotiations
will only turn them into spoilers. In a third session,
Dethlefsen and Johannsen took questions from the audience,
many of which dealt with the role of international
law in the Middle East conflict.
14. April
2008
Conference and
Interviews in Beijing
On 12-13 April 2008, Bernt Berger took part in a jointly
organised conference of the University of International
Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing and the Heinrich
Boell Foundation. The topic of the event was “Competition
and Partnership: Key Issues of Economic Relations
between China and the EU”. Bernt Berger gave a presentation
on „Common Global Responsibilities of China and Europe:
Fundamental Issues and Problems“. After the conference
he spent two weeks in Beijing conducting interviews.
10. April
2008
Federal Academy
for Security Policy
Dr. Hans-Georg Ehrhart taught at the Federal Academy
for Security Policy in Berlin on 8 and 9 April 2008.
He gave a talk on “Criteria for Success in Conflict
Management: the Case of EUFOR RD Congo” in the crisis
management module of the yearly seminar on security
and moderated one of the four case study working groups.
The results were discussed in the plenum with the
director of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
Prof. Volker Perthes.
03. April
2008
Civilian Crisis
Management
Mr. Radek Khol from the DG 9 of the Council General
Secretariat of the Europaen Union visited the IFSH
on 2 April 2008. After talks with Michael Brzoska,
Hans-Georg Ehrhart and Wolfgang Zellener he gave a
presentation on the latest developments in EU civilian
crisis management and discussed the issue with the
audience.
02. April
2008
CORE Presentation
at University of Maastricht
On 11 March 2008, Marietta König participated in a
debate on the EU and Russia: Strategic partners of
competing neighbours at Maastricht University. The
event was part of Maastricht Debates, a discussion
series initiated by several Maastricht based NGOs,
University Maastricht and Student Organization Concordantia
in order to have monthly discussions on topics related
to International Relations, Globalization and International
Governance. Ms. König and the two other speakers,
Vladimir Socor, Senior Fellow of the Jamestown Foundation
in Washington, and Hiddo Houben, Member of the Commission
of the European Union’s Cabinet for External Trade,
each gave a 20-minute long statement on the EU-Russia
relationship, followed by a discussion moderated by
Stafford Wadsworth, Editor and Publisher of the Meuse-Rhine
Journal. Special focuses were laid on energy issues
and the impact of Kosovo’s independence for negotiations
in the ethno-political conflicts of the CIS region.
Then the 220 people strong audience was invited to
ask questions.
01. April 2008
Response on CFE-Treaty-Appeal
Responding to the international appeal “Bring the
Adapted CFE Treaty into Force”, issued in November
2007 by former diplomats and scientists from the USA
and Western Europe, about 30 prominent Russian scholars
and diplomats have presented the statement “Revitalize
the CFE Regime” at a press conference in Moscow on
20 March 2008.
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01. April 2008
Overseas Development
Assisance from China in Southeast Asia
On March 31 Bernt Berger participated in a conference
with the title "Japan's regional foreign, foreign economic
and security policies" organised by the University of
Milan and the Toshina International Foundation. In the
section on regional (power-)competion he presented a
paper on overseas development assistance from China
in Southeast Asia.
31. March 2008
Workshop and Lecture
in Shanghai
Dr Hans J. Giessmann, Deputy Director IFSH, participated
in the Sixth Workshop on “Globalization”, jointly organised
by the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation and the Shanghai Institute
for International Studies. This year the Workshop, held
in Shanghai on 13 – 15 March, focused on the trilateral
cooperation between Africa, China and Europe. Professor
Giessmann contribution dealt with conceptual approaches
to conflict transformation in Africa by external actors.
On invitation of the East China Normal University (ECNU)
Professor Giessmann held lectures as a Visiting Professor
at the Centre for European Studies of ECNU. The five-blocks
lecture was titled “European Security in Transition:
Foundations, Actors, Perspectives”. Giessmann’s lecture
has kicked off the academic cooperation between IFSH,
the University of Hamburg and the Chinese University
that the three partners had agreed upon in October 2007.
10. March 2008
Petersberg High-level
Talks on Security
Dr Hans-Georg Ehrhart attended the fourth Petersberg
Talks on Security in Königswinter near Bonn on Saturday,
8 March 2008. The high level conference dealt with the
topic “Crisis missions of armed forces – taking stock
and perspectives”. The event was organized by the Karl
Theodor Molinari Foundation and headed by Ulrike Merten,
chairwomen of the Defence Committee of the German Bundestag.
01. March 2008
Transatlantic Workshop
on Post-Conflict Management
A transatlantic workshop on post-conflict management
took place in Berlin on 28 and 29 February, 2008. The
workshop was organised by the Stiftung Wissenschaft
und Politik Berlin and the National Institute for Public
Policy, Virginia, U.S.A. Dr. Hans-Georg Ehrhart attended
the event on behalf of the IFSH.
01. March 2008
Workshop on Sustainable
Security
A international workshop on “Sustainable Security in
the Age of Globalisation” took place in the German House
in London on 26 February, 2008. The workshop was organised
by the European Movement, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Participants were from the areas of politics, diplomacy,
economics and political science. Dr. Hans-Georg Ehrhart,
who attended the meeting on behalf of the IFSH, gave
an input in the first panel dealing with peacekeeping
and reconstruction.
22. Februar
2008
New
Publications
Hans J. Gießmann,
EU - China: "Strategische Partnerschaft" auf tönernen
Füßen? in: Österreichisches Studienzentrum für Frieden
und Konfliktlösung (Hg.), Europäische Friedenspolitik.
Inhalte, Differenzen, Methoden und Chancen, Wien-Berlin:
LIT-Verlag, 2008, S. 408 - 427.
Heiko
Fürst, Europäische Außenpolitik zwischen Nation
und Union. Die Konstruktion des polnischen, rumänischen
uund ungarischen Diskurses zur GASP. Baden-Baden 2008,
412 S. (Demokratie, Sicherheit, Frieden, 185).
Hans J. Giessmann (ed.), Security
Handbook 2008. Emerging Powers in East Asia: China,
Russia and India. Local Conflicts and Regional Security
Building in Asia's Northeast. Baden-Baden 2008, 256
S. (Demokratie, Sicherheit, Frieden, 186).
Cheng Jian , Relations between Russia
and Europe from the Perspective of Energy Strategy,
Hamburger Beiträge zur Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik
#150, February 2008.
Luca Trinchieri
, Is the 1998 Code of Conduct on Arms Exports Adequate
to Support the EU’s Promotion of Human Rights?, Hamburger
Beiträge zur Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik
#149, January 2008.
Constanze Quosh
, American Foreign Policy Towards Iran, Hamburger Beiträge
zur Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik #148, December
2007.
13. February
2008
Brief Studies available
online
Two brief studies written by IFSH researchers were recently
published on the website of the Bonn International Center
for Conversion (BICC). They were prepared within the
framework of a project, funded by the Federal Ministry
for Economic Cooperation and Development, on the relationship
between select overlapping security and development
issues. The German-language papers address security
sector reform in the European Union (Download
PDF) and transborder cooperation in Central Asia
(Download
PDF).
06. February
2008
Jürgen Trittin at
the IFSH
Jürgen Trittin, deputy head of the Bundestag faction
Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and former Federal Minister for
Environment, visited the IFSH on 5 February 2008. He
first took part in a two hours discussion round in the
framework of the institute’s research colloquium. Then
he held a lecture on climate change and its effects
on international security for the students of the international
postgraduate programme “Master of Peace and Security
Studies”.
29. Januar 2008
A Strategic Workshop of the Academic
Network Southeast Europe, sponsored by the German Academic
Exchange Service (DAAD), took place at the IFSH from
24 to 27 January 2008. At the invitation by the Project
Chair, Professor Dr Hans J. Gießmann, representatives
from Hamburg and from the Partner Universities and the
Network in Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia
and Bosnia and Herzegovina participated in the workshop.
The participants agreed on detailed steps to improve
academic and research cooperation for the coming years.
The next seminar will take place at the University of
Ljubljana, Slovenia in fall 2008.
23. Januar 2008
Senior Advisor of
the High Commissioner for National Minorities visits
IFSH
The Senior Advisor of the OSCE High Commissioner on
National Minorities (HCNM), Dr Klemens Büscher, visited
the IFSH on 23 January 2008. He gave a talk on the institution
within the OSCE framework and the activities of the
High Commissioner.
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19. Januar 2008
New ESPI/IFSH-Memorandum
on space Security for the European Union
The Institute for Peace Research and Security Studies
at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) and ESPI have prepared
a memorandum on space and security addressed to the
EU CODUN (Council Working Group on Disarmament in the
UN) at its meeting in Brussels on 7 December 2007. This
concise memorandum contains a strategic view on the
need to define rules and actions for the EU as an actor
in space to safeguard its infrastructure. Based on the
principles of the European Security Strategy (ESS) the
memorandum advocates a cooperative, multilateral approach
for Space Security and arms control in space, set down
in a new European Space Security Strategy (E3S). It
is addressed to the EU E-Task Force meeting on space
security, with which the Portuguese EU Presidency continued
a process initiated by the prior German Presidency to
establish a European dialogue on Space Security and
arms control in space. The IFSH/ESPI memorandum shall
initiate and support a process, which aims at developing
a European Space Security Strategy (E3S).
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05 January 2008
German Canadian Workshop on Afghanistan
After six years of engagement by the international community
in Afghanistan the time is ripe for taking stock. In
Canada and Germany the mission is increasingly in dispute.
2007 has been considered a decisive year for the future
development of this conflict-torn country and for Nato
as a prime security provider. Against this background,
the overall objective of the third German-Canadian workshop
that took place in the Bundeswehr’s Führungsakademie
in Hamburg on 13 and 14 December 2007 was to take stock
of Nato’s and the international community’s engagement
in Afghanistan. Is this engagement a lost cause, as
some opponents claim, or is it a long-term endeavour,
the success of which is essential for Afghanistan, the
region and NATO? This key question was tackled in seven
panels:
- First, the current state of Nato’s and the international
community’s engagement as defined by the Afghanistan
Compact was analysed (Panelists: Mihai Carp, NATO
HQ, and Dr. Citha Maass, SWP; Chair: Dr. Margret
Johannsen, IFSH)
- Then, the aspect of civil-military relations was
tackled by examining how the German and Canadian
PRT approaches are functioning (Panelists: LtCol
Simon Hetherington, CAN Armed Forces, and LtCol
Gerhard Klaffus, FüS III.6; Chair: Prof. Dr. Joel
Sokolsky, Royal Military College)
- In the third panel, the German and Canadian approaches
to security sector reform was discussed (Panelists:
David Law, DCAF, and Prof. Dr. Michael Brzoska,
IFSH; Captain Heinz-Dieter Jopp, FüAkBw)
- The participants then turned to the challenges
of peacebuilding seen from the perspective of Afghans
and NGOs (Henning Plate, BMZ, and Andrea Charron,
RMC; Chair: Col Tony Battista, Can. Embassy).
- The fifth panel dealt with the regional dimension
of the problem and the role of Afghanistan’s neighbours
Pakistan and Iran (Michael Lüders, Consultant, and
Janet Kursawe, GIGA; Chair: Florian Kühn, HSU)
- Then the convergence of OEF and ISAF had to be
assessed from the Canadian and the German perspectives
(Prof. Dr. Kim Nossal, QCIR, and Christoph Reuter,
Stern; Chair: Karen E. Johnson, US Consul General
in Hamburg)
- In a concluding panel discussion, challenges and
lessons for Nato as well as for Canada and Germany
were debated (Panelists: Prof. Dr. Joel Sokolsky,
Karen E. Johnson, and Prof. Dr. Peter Schmidt, SWP;
Chair: Prof. Dr. Charles Pentland, QCIR)
The tripartite workshop was organised by Dr. Hans-Georg
Ehrhart from the Institute for Peace Research and Security
Policy at the University of Hamburg, Prof. Charles Pentland
from the Queen’s Centre of International Relations,
Kingston/Ontario, and Col Roland Kaestner from the German
Armed Forces General and Staff Academy. The main findings
based on the participants’ papers and the discussions
during the workshop will be put together in a policy
paper. The contributions to the workshop will be also
published in a conference reader. The organizers are
grateful to NATO’s Public Diplomacy Division for funding
the workshop.
02 January
2008
On 21 November 2007 the study on “Missile Defence
and European Security”, commissioned by the Directorate-General
for External Policies of the European Parliament,
was presented in Brussels by Stephen Pullinger, director
of the International Security Information Service
Europe (ISIS). Götz Neuneck (IFSH/IFAR) contributed
to this publication with chapter I and II. With this
analysis, the longstanding work carried out by IFAR
on missile defence will contribute to the opinion-making
process at EU level.
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