DIIS-seminar: På vej mod en multi-partner verden

TID: Tirsdag den 16. december kl. 13.30-16.30

STED: DIIS Auditorium, Gl. Kalkbrænderi Vej 51 A (ved Nordhavn S-station), Kbn Ø

TILMELDING: Senest den 15. december kl. 12.00 på https://conferencemanager.events/TowardsaMultiPartnerWorld/sign-up.html

TID: Tirsdag den 16. december kl. 13.30-16.30

STED: DIIS Auditorium, Gl. Kalkbrænderi Vej 51 A (ved Nordhavn S-station), Kbn Ø

TILMELDING: Senest den 15. december kl. 12.00 på https://conferencemanager.events/TowardsaMultiPartnerWorld/sign-up.html

Deltagelse er gratis. Seminaret afvikles på engelsk og live-streames på www.diis.dk

Towards a ‘Multi-Partner World’? – Concepts, Prospects and Challenges

Today’s international environment has no precedent – new security challenges appear at a furious rate whilst the traditional multilateral institutional architecture too often seems unable to meet the new challenges.

A new trend is emerging in which states, international organizations, NGOs and other public and private actors increasingly engage in formal and informal partnerships.

The new partnerships can be seen as forums for cooperation and dialogue and may be in the process of becoming an important supplement to the existing multilateral institutions.

This trend was clearly evident in the first Obama Administration, especially when then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed the vision of a ‘multi-partner world’ in which governments and private groups would work collectively on meeting common global challenges.

Although the contours of a ‘multi-partner world’ are still murky – and some partnerships clearly have not succeeded – the on-going and projected changes in the international system seem set to further challenge the existing institutional architecture and to entail a growing need for more pragmatic and flexible forms of statecraft.

Such pragmatism and flexibility seem to be precisely what partnerships may be able to offer.

The seminar brings together some of the foremost scholars working on partnerships. 

The seminar will examine the prospects and challenges in moving towards a ‘multi-partner world’ by looking in some detail at partnership as an important supplement to more traditional forms of statecraft.

In addition the seminar will look at particular examples of partnership such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the emerging partnership between the European Union and the African Union, the EU’s Eastern Partnership and the emergence inter-regional and inter-organizational partnerships.

Speakers

• Thomas Renard, Senior Research Fellow, Egmont Royal Institute
• for International Relations, Brussels
• Annemarie Peen-Rodt, Associate Professor, Roskilde University
• Klaas Dykmann, Associate Professor, Roskilde University
• Mike Smith, Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics, Loughborough University
• Dan Hamilton, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC
• Trine Flockhart, Senior Researcher, DIIS
• Fabrizio Tassinari, Senior Researcher, DIIS

Programme

13.30-13.40

Introduction

Fabrizio Tassinari, Senior Researcher, DIIS

13.40-14.30

Panel 1: Conceptualizing Partnership as Statecraft

Strategic Partnerships as a New Foreign Policy Tool

Thomas Renard, Senior Research Fellow, Egmont Royal Institute

for International Relations, Brussels

Partnership as a Practice of Statecraft

Trine Flockhart, Senior Researcher, DIIS

14.30-15.20

Panel II: Inter-regional and Inter-organizational Partnerships

The African Union and the EU – A Strategic Partnership in the Making?

Annemarie Peen-Rodt, Associate Professor, Roskilde University

Interregional Partnerships in Latin America and World Order

Klaas Dykmann, Associate Professor, Roskilde University

15.20-15.40

Coffee Break

15.40-16.30

Panel III: Utilizing Partnerships as Statecraft

The EU’s Partnership Diplomacy: Strategic, Pragmatic or Chaotic?

Mike Smith, Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics, Loughborough University

The American Way of Partnership

Dan Hamilton, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC