Bologna Institute For Policy Research

Ken Ash, Director, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France, discussed "Where Will Our Food Come From? Medium and Long-term Challenges to Global Agriculture" as part of the Emerging Trends in International Commercial Policy Series.

David Reynolds Chair of the Faculty of History, Professor of International History and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge University, U.K., discussed "Britain and the Special Relationship with the United States" as part of the British Tradition in International Relations Series.

Anne Deighton Professor of European International Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations; Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, U.K., discussed "Defining National Interest in a Century of Global Decline: British Foreign Policy-making in the 20th Century" as part of the British Tradition in International Relations Series.

Fiona Macaulay Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, University of Bradford, U.K., discussed "Policy Transfer in Public Security Policies in Latin America: The Good, the Bad and the Irrelevant" as part of the Latin America and the World Series.

Loukas Tsoukalis Professor of European Integration, University of Athens; President, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece, discussed "Europe in Crisis: Is There a Way Out?" as part of the European and Eurasian Studies Series.

Nathan J. Brown, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University; Nonresident Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C., U.S. and Duncan Pickard, Juris Doctor Candidate, Stanford University Law School, California; Nonresident Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C., U.S. discussed "The Political and Constitutional Transitions in Egypt and Tunisia: a Comparison" as part of the Contemporary Mediterranean History and Institutions Series.

Fawaz A. Gerges Professor of International Relations and Emirates Chair in Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies, The London School of Economics and Political Sciences, U.K., discussed "US Policy in Flux: Withdrawal or Reengagement?" as part of the International Relations of the Middle East Series.

David W. Ellwood, Senior Adjunct Professor of European and Eurasian Studies, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe, Bologna, Italy and Adrian Lyttelton, Associate Fellow, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe, Bologna, Italy, discussed "What have we learned from the Centenary of August 1914?" as part of the World War I Series.

James Sperling Professor of Political Science, University of Akron, Ohio, U.S.; Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy, discussed "NATO's Future in the Shadow of the Ukrainian Crisis: The Beginning of NATO's End or the Surety of NATO's Future?" as part of the European and Eurasian Studies Series.

Fabrizio Coricelli Professor of Economics, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France, discussed "Norwegian Rhapsody: New Estimates of the Economic and Political Benefits from European Integration" as part of the Emerging Trends in International Commercial Policy Series.

Andrew Hurrell Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics and International Relations; Fellow, Balliol College, University of Oxford, U.K., discussed "Brazil, the BRICS and the Changing Global Order" as part of the Latin America and the World Series.

Michael David Rann Australian Ambassador to Italy, San Marino, Libya and Albania; Former Australian High Commissioner to the UK; Former Premier of South Australia; Former Minister for Sustainability and Climate Change and Minister for Social Inclusion, discussed "Australia, Italy and the Rise of Asia" as part of the Emerging Trends in International Commercial Policy Series.

Four students from The Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe, John Arzinos (Greece), Gerta Lezi (Albania), Konstantinos Kanellopoulos (Greece) and Menexenia Tsaroucha (Greece/Bulgaria), discussed "The 2015 Greek Elections" as part of the Contemporary Mediterranean History and Institutions Series.

Ali Ansari Professor of Iranian History and Founding Director, Institute of Iranian Studies, University of St. Andrews; Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute; President, British Institute for Persian Studies, U.K., discussed "The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran" as part of International Relations of the Middle East Series.

Anna Bosco Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Trieste, Italy, discussed "Forty Years-old and in Crisis? Spanish Democracy between the Successes of the Past and the Challenges of the Present" as part of Contemporary Mediterranean History and Institutions Series.

Filippo Taddei Assistant Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe, Bologna, Italy, discussed "The Macroeconomic Reform Agenda in Italy" as part of the Emerging Trends in International Commercial Policy Series.

Elena Esposito Associate Professor, Department of Communications and Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, discussed "Expecting Surprises - Uses of Uncertainty in Financial Markets" as part of the Risk Series.

Ilber Ortayli Turkish Historian; Professor of History, Galatasaray University, Istanbul and Bilkent University, Ankara; Former Director, Topkapi Museum, Turkey, discussed 29 October 1914: Turkish Empire, Belligerent of the First World War as part of World War I Series.

Megan Greene, Chief Economist, Manulife Asset Management/John Hancock, London. U.K., Sarah Naimark, Director, Macro Advisory Partners, London, U.K., Francesca Panelli, Analyst, International Economy, Oxford Analytica, London, U.K. and Wolfango Piccoli, Managing Director, Teneo Intelligence, London, U.K participated in the "Janika Albers Memorial Roundtable on Political Risk: Anticipating Global Challenges" as part of the Risk Series.

Marco Cesa, Professor of Political Science, University of Bologna; Professor of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe, Bologna, Italy and Mark Gilbert, Professor of History and International Studies, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe, Bologna, Italy discussed "Prophets of Realism: E.H. Carr and Herbert Butterfield" as part of the British Tradition in International Relations Series.