Bologna Institute For Policy Research

Soren Jessen-Petersen, Adjunct Professor of International Relations at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe, Bologna, Italy, discussed "Syria, the Worst Humanitarian Crisis in our Generation" as part of the War and Peace in the Middle East Series.

Arntraud Hartmann, Adjunct Professor of International Development, SAIS Europe, Member of Accountability Mechanisms of AFDB and ADB and former Senior Manager of the World Bank, discussed "Accountability of Multilateral Financial Institutions. Accountability Mechanisms. What Are They, Do They Work?" as part of the Changing Landscape for Development Cooperation Series.

Wen-guang Shao, Senior Consulting Fellow for China and International Affairs at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London, UK, discussed "Territorial Issues in China's Foreign Policy" as part of the Strategic Studies Series.

Kent Calder, Director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University SAIS, Washington, D.C., discussed "The New Continentalism: Eurasia's Changing Configuration in Global Political-Economic Context" as part of the Europe's Security Challenges Series.

Raffaella Del Sarto, Associate Professor of Middle East Studies, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe, Bologna; Professor, Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute and Director of the BORDERLANDS Project (ERC), Fiesole, Italy, discussed "Normative Empire Europe: The European Union and the MENA Region" as part of the Europe's Security Challenges Series.

Ronan McCrea, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University College London and Jean Monnet Fellow at Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence, Italy, discussed "I Don't Know What I Am But I Know What I Am Not: Otherness and the Emergence of Pan-European Secularism" as part of the Culture Wars: Religion in International Relations Series.

Gary Sick, senior research scholar at SIPA's Middle East Institute, and an adjunct professor of International and Public Affairs at the Columbia University, discussed Strategic Realities and Options in the Persian Gulf Today as Part IV of a Four-part Series entitled "The United States in the Persian Gulf. From Outlier to Empire".

Ruth Maria Hanau Santini, Università L'Orientale, Napoli, Italy and Associate Fellow, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe, Bologna, Italy, discussed "Citizenship as a Battlefield between State and Society. The Case of Post-2011 Tunisia" as part of the Contemporary Mediterranean History and Institutions Series.

Gary Sick, senior research scholar at SIPA's Middle East Institute, and an adjunct professor of International and Public Affairs at the Columbia University, discussed "The War Decades" as Part III of a Four-part Series entitled "The United States in the Persian Gulf. From Outlier to Empire".

Andrea Locatelli, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Catholic University of Milan Italy, discussed "Right and Might in Cyberspace: The Limits and Prospects of the Law of War in the Cyber Domain" as part of the Strategic Studies Series.

Gary Sick, senior research scholar at SIPA's Middle East Institute, and an adjunct professor of International and Public Affairs at the Columbia University, discussed "The Iranian Revolution and Hostage Crisis" as Part II of a Four-part Series entitled "The United States in the Persian Gulf. From Outlier to Empire".

Nicolas Stockhammer, senior post-doc researcher of the Department of Legal Philosophy, Law of Religion and Culture of the University of Vienna, discussed "In the Name of the State: The Raison d'Etat Paradigm" as part of the Continental Tradition in International Political Theory Series.

Gary Sick, senior research scholar at SIPA's Middle East Institute, and an adjunct professor of International and Public Affairs at the Columbia University, discussed "America over the Horizon" as Part I of a Four-part Series entitled "The United States in the Persian Gulf. From Outlier to Empire".

Virginia Comolli, Research Fellow for Security and Development at The International Institute for Strategic Studies, UK, discussed "Europe's Southern Challenges: Insecurity in West Africa and the Sahel" as part of the Europe's Security Challenges Series.

Jennifer M. Welsh, Professor and Chair in International Relations and Director of Graduate Studies at the European University Institute and a Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford, UK discussed "The Responsibility to Protect and Conflict in the Middle East" as part of the War and Peace in the Middle East Series.

Cian O'Driscoll, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Glasgow, UK, discussed "Just War and Victory" as part of the Strategic Studies Series.

Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan, Jean Monnet Professor of Economic Integration at the Kemmy Business School of the University of Limerick, Ireland discussed "Chinese FDI in the EU: Effect of the Euro Crisis" as part of the Emerging Trends in International Commercial Policy Series.

Matthias Matthijs, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University SAIS, Washington D.C., U.S. presented his new book "The Future of the Euro" as part of the Faculty Authors Series.

Maxine Molyneux Professor of Sociology, University College London, U.K., discussed "Gender Perspectives on Latin American Social Policy: Do International Frameworks Matter?" as part of the Latin America and the World Series.

Piotr Bajda, Assistant Professor, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland, Peter Brückner, Former Permanent Representative of Denmark to the OECD, UNESCO and to the United Nations; Former Ambassador of Denmark to Japan, South Africa and Madagascar and David H. Thorne, Senior Advisor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of State; Former U.S. Ambassador to Italy, spoke at a Roundtable on the Future of European Security as part of the European and Eurasian Studies Series.