Bologna Institute For Policy Research

Ethan Ilzetzki, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Political Science, London School of Economics, UK, discussed "Does Vote Counting Count? Labor Productivity through the Lens of an Electoral Task" at SAIS Europe on Monday, April 4.

Romano Prodi, President, Foundation for Worldwide Cooperation; Chairman, United Nations-African Union Panel for Peacekeeping in Africa; Former President of the European Commission; Former Prime Minister of Italy, had a conversation with the SAIS Europe community on Thursday, March 31.

Nathalie Tocci, Deputy Director of Istituto Affari Internazionali, Editor of The International Spectator and Special Adviser to EU HRVP Federica Mogherini, discussed "Towards an EU Global Strategy" as part of the Europe's Security Challenges Series.

Bill Bowring, Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, discussed "Constitutional Reset in Central Asia in the Context of the Eurasian Economic Union" as part of the Constitutional Development in Central Asia Series.

Stephen Vertigans, Head of the School of Applied Social Studies at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, discussed "Routes In and Out of Jihadism: Locating the Rise and Appeal of Islamic State within a Recent History of Political Violence" as part of the Strategic Studies Series.

Philippe Droz-Vincent, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Sciences-Po Grenoble, France, discussed "The Military Dimension of Arab Politics and Its Changing Faces after 2011" as part of the War and Peace in the Middle East Series.

Mary Vincent, Professor of Modern European History, University of Sheffield, UK, discussed "Spain 40 Years On: The Historical Legacy of Franco's Dictatorship" as part of the Contemporary Mediterranean History and Institutions Series.

Inge Missmahl, Dipl. Analytical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, discussed "Vicious Circles of Violence: The Afghan Conflict and Dynamics of Communal and Domestic Violence" as part of the Issues of Conflict Management Series.

Armen Mazmanyan, Director of the Apella Institute and of its Center for Constitutional Studies, Armenia, and Visiting Professor at Duke University, USA, discussed "Constitutional Courts in Central Asia: Facades, Puppets or Trojan Horses?" as part of the Constitutional Development in Central Asia Series.

Vali R. Nasr, Dean and Professor of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University SAIS, Washington D.C., discussed "Challenges and Opportunities in the Middle East" as part of the War and Peace in the Middle East Series.

Michael Epkenhans, Director of Historical Research at the Centre for Military History and Social Sciences of the German Armed Forces at Potsdam, discussed "German Naval Strategy in the First Half of the 20th Century" as part of the Continental Tradition in International Political Theory Series.

Peter Bruckner, Former Permanent Representative of Denmark to the OECD, UNESCO and to the United Nations; Former Ambassador of Denmark to Japan, South Africa and Madagascar, discussed "The Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union" as part of the Europe's Security Challenges Series.

Guido Ashoff, former senior researcher and head of department at the German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn, Germany, discussed "The Reform of the International Aid Architecture - Achievements and Challenges" as part of the Changing Landscape for Development Cooperation Series.

Reinoud Leenders, Reader in International Politics and Middle East Studies in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, discussed "Humanitarianism, State Sovereignty and Authoritarian Regime Maintenance in the Syrian War" as part of the War and Peace in the Middle East Series.

Staphane Lacroix, Associate Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po, Paris, France, a Researcher at the Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI), and an Associate Researcher at the Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation Economiques, Juridiques et Sociales (CEDEJ) in Cairo, Egypt, discussed "Debating the Saudi-Egyptian Relationship: From Conflict to Alignment?" as part of the War and Peace in the Middle East Series.

Florian Otto, Associate Director for Europe and Central Asia at Verisk Maplecroft, UK, Francesca Panelli, Oxford Analytica, UK and Wolfango Piccoli, Managing Director, Teneo Intelligence, UK, spoke at the "Janika Albers Memorial Roundtable on Political Risk Consulting. Anticipating Global Challenges" as part of the Risk Series and the Risk in International Political Economy Course.

Pasquale Annicchino, Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, discussed "Exporting Religious Freedom. The American Model in the International Arena" as part of the Culture Wars: Religion in International Relations Series.

Catherine L. Mann, OECD Chief Economist, G20 Finance Deputy, and Head of the Economics Department, discussed "Future of Productivity: Recent Work from the OECD" as part of the Emerging Trends in International Commercial Policy Series.

Ana Margheritis, Reader in International Relations and member of the Centre for Citizenship, Globalization and Governance at the University of Southampton, UK, discussed "Courting Diasporas: The Politics of Emigration Policies in Latin America" as part of Development in Latin America Series.

Andrea Segré, professor of Comparative and International Agricultural Policy at the University of Bologna, Italy, discussed "Food Waste and the Circular Economy Package" as part of the Emerging Trends in International Commercial Policy Series.