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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