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Recent Speakers
The Center on Global Governance Presents:
Spring 2013 Distinguished Speaker Series
Center Co-Chairs Professors:
Richard Gardner and Michael Doyle
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Columbia University
School of International and Public Affairs, Room 707
Lindsay Rogers Room
4:00 - 6:00 PM
The Center on Global Governance and the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War & Peace Studies at Columbia University are pleased to sponsor:
"A Reordered World? Rising Powers and Global Governance," with Professor Miles Kahler.
Short Biography:
MILES KAHLER is Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) and the Political Science Department, University of California, San Diego. During 2012-2013, he is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D. C., where he is engaged in a project on the emerging economies and global governance. Kahler was Founding Director of the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) at UCSD. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2007-2008) and a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York (1994-1996).
His publications include Integrating Regions: Asia in Comparative Context (co-editor, Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2013), Politics in the New Hard Times (co-editor and contributor, Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2013), and "Asia and the Reform of Global Governance," (Asian Economic Policy Review, December 2010).
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Olena Jennings: omj2101@columbia.edu
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Columbia University
School of International and Public Affairs, Room 1302
1:00 - 2:30 PM
The Alliance Program, the Center on Global Governance, the Department of Political Science, and the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War & Peace Studies at Columbia University are pleased to sponsor:
A book launch with ARIEL COLONOMOS
ARIEL COLONOMOS will be presenting his book, The Gamble of War: Is it Possible to Justify Preventive War?
Introducer: Michael Doyle
Short Biographies:
Ariel Colonomos holds degrees from the University of Paris-Dauphine (business and administration), the University of Paris X (philosophy) and a Ph.D. in political science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP). He joined CERI in 1998. He is co-ordinator (with Laetitia Bucaille) of the “Monde” (International Issues) book series at the Presses de Sciences Po; a member of the editorial boards of International Political Sociology; a regular visiting scholar at Columbia University with the Institute of War and Peace; the author of several publications focusing on the ethics of the international relations of an explanatory and normative point of view, including a recent study on the preventive use of force and its justification. His new research project investigates the role of predictive ideas in international relations.
Michael Doyle is the Harold Brown Professor of U.S. Foreign and Security Policy, which is a three-fold appointment in the School of International and Public Affairs, the Department of Political Science, and the Law School. His research interests include international relations theory, international law, and international history; civil wars and international peace-building; and the United Nations.
Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War & Peace Studies
Fall 2012 Speakers
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 101
12:10 - 1:10 PM
ROBERT WILLIAM FARRAND, the former Deputy High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina, will be speaking on "Reconstruction and Peace Building in the Balkans: The Brčko Experience."
Short Biography:
ROBERT W. "BILL" FARRAND, a 34-year career Foreign Service officer, was Supervisor of Brčko and Deputy High Representative for the northern sector of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1997 to 2000. Before serving as ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, 1990-93, his posts included Malaysia, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia and in the State Department, inter alia, as principal deputy assistant secretary, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs (1987-90). In the U.S. Navy (1957-64), after serving on sea duty, he taught at Annapolis. A 1981 National War College graduate, he holds a B.S. (Mount St. Mary's College) and an M.A. (Georgetown University) and is now a distinguished senior fellow and affiliate professor at the George Mason University School of Public Policy's Peace Operations Policy Program, co-directed by Professor ALLISON FRENDAKBLUME, who collaborated on the book.
In the tense aftermath of the 1992-95 Bosnian War, U.S. diplomat BILL FARRAND was assigned the daunting task of implementing the Dayton Peace Accords in the ethnically divided Balkan city of Brčko in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Serb, Muslim, and Croat political leaders alike had blocked agreement over Brčko's political status and threatened to derail U.S.-brokered peace talks at Dayton, Ohio, in late 1995.
More about the book: http://www.adst.org/books/Farrand.html
This event is also sponsored by the Salzman Institute of War & Peace Studies: http://www.siwps.com
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 103
12:10 - 1:10 PM
STUART EIZENSTAT, former Deputy Secreatry of the Treasury and Undersecretary of State, will be speaking on "How Changing Global Forces Are Impacting Israel and the U.S."
Stu is the author of a provocative new book, The Future of the Jews.
Short Biography:
Ambassador Eizenstat heads the Covington international practice. His work at Covington focuses on resolving international trade problems and business disputes with the US and foreign governments, and international business transactions and regulations on behalf of US companies and others around the world.
During a decade and a half of public service in three US administrations, Ambassador Eizenstat has held a number of key senior positions, including chief White House domestic policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981); U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration (1993-2001).
During the Clinton Administration, he had a prominent role in the development of key international initiatives, including the negotiations of the Transatlantic Agenda with the European Union (establishing what remains of the framework for the US relationship with the EU); the development of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) among European and US CEOs; the negotiation of agreements with the European Union regarding the Helms-Burton Act and the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act; the negotiation of the Japan Port Agreement with the Japanese government; and the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, where he led the US delegation.
Much of the interest in providing belated justice for victims of the Holocaust and other victims of Nazi tyranny during World War II was the result of his leadership of the Clinton Administration as Special Representative of the President and Secretary of State on Holocaust-Era Issues. He successfully negotiated major agreements with the Swiss, Germans, Austrian and French, and other European countries, covering restitution of property, payment for slave and forced laborers, recovery of looted art, bank accounts, and payment of insurance policies. His book on these events, Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II, has been favorably received in publications like the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Business Week, and Publisher’s Weekly. It has been translated into German, French, Czech and Hebrew.
Ambassador Eizenstat has received seven honorary doctorate degrees from universities and academic institutions. He has been awarded high civilian awards from the governments of France (Legion of Honor), Germany, Austria, and Belgium, as well as from Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers. In 2007, he was named "The Leading Lawyer in International Trade" in Washington, DC by Legal Times. His articles appear in The New York Times, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy magazine, and Foreign Affairs magazine, on a variety of international and domestic topics. Ambassador Eizenstat grew up and was educated in the public schools of Atlanta. He is a Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and of Harvard Law School. He is married to Frances Eizenstat and has two sons and five grandchildren.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 103
12:10 - 1:10 PM
JAN ELIASSON, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, will be speaking on “Strengthening Peace, Development and Human Rights through the Rule of Law.”
Short Biography:
On 2 March 2012, Ambassador JAN ELIASSON was appointed Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He took office as Deputy Secretary-General on 1 July 2012.
Ambassador Eliasson was from 2007-2008 the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Darfur. Prior to this, Jan Eliasson served as President of the 60th session of the UN General Assembly. He was Sweden’s Ambassador to the US from September 2000 until July 2005. In March 2006, Mr. Eliasson was appointed Foreign Minister of Sweden and served in this capacity until the elections in the fall of 2006.
Ambassador Eliasson served from 1994 to 2000 as State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, a key position in formulating and implementing Swedish foreign policy. He was Sweden’s Ambassador to the UN in New York 1988-92, and also served as the Secretary-General’s Personal Representative for Iran/Iraq.
Mr. Eliasson was the first UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and was involved in operations in Africa and the Balkans. He took initiatives on landmines, conflict prevention and humanitarian action. 1980-1986, Mr. Eliasson was part of the UN mediation missions in the war between Iran and Iraq, headed by former Prime Minister Olof Palme. In 1993-94 Mr. Eliasson served as mediator in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). He has been a Visiting Professor at Uppsala University and Gothenburg University in Sweden, lecturing on mediation, conflict resolution and UN reform. Ambassador Eliasson has had diplomatic postings in New York (twice) Paris, Bonn, Washington (twice) and Harare, where he opened the first Swedish Embassy in 1980.
Prior to his appointment as Deputy Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson also served as Chair of Water Aid/Sweden and a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Advocacy Group of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Mr. Eliasson graduated from the Swedish Naval Academy in 1962 and earned a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration in 1965. He was born on 17 September 1940 in Goteborg, Sweden. He is married with 3 children.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 103
12:10 - 1:10 PM
The Prosecutor
SERGE BRAMMERTZ, Prosecutor of the ICTY since 1 January 2008, will be speaking on “Challenges of investigating and prosecuting grave violations of International Humanitarian Law.”
Short Biography:
Born: 1962, Eupen, Belgium
Before his appointment as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Serge Brammertz of Belgium was the Commissioner of United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission into the murder of the former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a post he held from January 2006 until the end of 2007.
Previously, he was Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, in charge of the Investigations Division of the Office of the Prosecutor when the investigations of crimes committed in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Darfur were initiated. Before his election as Deputy Prosecutor, he was the head of the Federal Prosecution of the Kingdom of Belgium where he supervised numerous investigations and trials related to cases of organised crime, terrorism and violations of international humanitarian law.
From 1997 to 2002, as a national magistrate, Serge Brammertz was in charge of coordinating at the national and international level investigations in the fields of international drug trafficking and trafficking of human beings. During this period, he also worked for the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the International Organisation for Migration as an expert on these and related issues.
From 1989 to 1997, he served as Deputy Prosecutor, then Chief Deputy Prosecutor at the Court of First Instance in Eupen (Belgium), before becoming Deputy to the Prosecutor-General at the Liège Court of Appeal.
Mr. Brammertz was a professor of law at the University of Liège and an author on organised crime and international cooperation in criminal matters who has published extensively in European and international academic journals. He holds a law degree from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, a degree in Criminology from the University of Liège and a PhD in international law from the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg, Germany.
Spring 2012 Speakers
Monday, January 30, 2012
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 101
12:10 - 1:10 PM
DAVID SCHEFFER, Professor of Law and director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law will be speaking on "All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals."
America’s first Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues was a leading architect of the modern war crimes tribunals rendering justice for atrocity crimes in the Balkans, Rwanda, Cambodia, and across Africa. This book is his story of eight tumultuous years of mass atrocities, knife-edge negotiations to build international courts, and the pursuit of indicted war criminals. David Scheffer witnessed the carnage and spearheaded the American and global counterattack to defeat evil in our time.
Short Biography:
David Scheffer is the Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law and director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law. He served as the first U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues (1997-2001) and led American initiatives on war crimes tribunals during the 1990s. He has published widely on international law and politics.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 101
12:15 - 1:10 PM
SEAN HAGAN, General Counsel and Director of the Legal Department at the International Monetary Fund, will be speaking on "The IMF in an uncertain world.”
Short Biography:
Sean Hagan is General Counsel and Director of the Legal Department at the International Monetary Fund. In this capacity, Mr. Hagan advises the Fund’s management, Executive Board and membership on all legal aspects of the Fund’s operations, including its regulatory, advisory and lending functions. Mr. Hagan has published extensively on the both the law of the Fund and a broad range of legal issues relating to the prevention and resolution of financial crisis, with a particular emphasis on insolvency and the restructuring of debt, including sovereign debt.
Prior to beginning work at the IMF, Mr. Hagan was in private practice, first in New York and subsequently in Tokyo. Mr. Hagan received his Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center and also received a Masters of Science in International Economic Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 101
12:15 - 1:10 PM
PATRICIA O' BRIEN, the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and UN Legal Counsel will be speaking on "Current legal issues facing the United Nations."
Short Biography:
Patricia O’ Brien was appointed the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and UN Legal Counsel in August 2008. She oversees the Office of Legal Affairs, the overall objectives of which are to provide a unified central legal service for the United Nations. The Office of Legal Affairs, which is based at the UN Headquarters in New York, employs approximately 200 staff of more than 60 different nationalities.
Ms. O’Brien has extensive experience of legal and international affairs. Prior to her appointment she held a number of senior legal positions in and out of Ireland. Immediately before taking up her position at the UN she served for five years as Legal Adviser to the Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland where she advised on legal issues arising in Irish foreign policy, in particular public international law, human rights law and European Union law. She also served as a Senior Legal Adviser to the Attorney General of Ireland and as Legal Counsellor at the Irish Permanent Representation to the European Union in Brussels.
Earlier in her career Ms. O’Brien practiced law at the Irish Bar (1979-1988) and for one year at the Bar of British Columbia, Canada. Between 1989 and 1992 she held academic positions at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Ms. O’Brien earned a Bachelor of Arts (Mod) in legal science in 1978 and a Master of Arts in 1987 from Trinity College, Dublin; a Barrister-at-Law (BL) from Kings Inns, Dublin, in 1978 and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Ottawa, Canada, in 1990. She is a member of the Irish Bar (1978) and of the Bar of England and Wales (1986). She is a Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, Vice-President of the Dublin University Law Society, and an Honorary Bencher of the Kings Inns, Dublin, and a Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple, London.
Ms. O’Brien has three children.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 101
12:15 - 1:10 PM
DAVID WRIGHT, Professor of Foreign Affairs at Victoria College, University of Toronto will be speaking on "Humanitarian Crises: When is Military Intervention Appropriate?"
Short Biography:
David Wright is the Kenneth and Patricia Taylor Distinguished Professor of Foreign Affairs at Victoria College, University of Toronto. He was Canadian Ambassador to NATO for six years - during the conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq - and was the NATO Council’s Dean. Previously, he was Canadian Ambassador to Spain at the time of the Canada-Spain fisheries dispute. As Assistant Deputy Minister for Europe in the Department of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Wright helped to manage Canadian policy during the years prior to and following the collapse of the Soviet Union. He also served in Rome, at the United Nations in New York, in Tokyo and as Deputy Head of Mission in Paris. He is Special Adviser to the Toronto law firm of Dale & Lessmann and is on the boards of directors of organizations in both the private and non-profit sectors.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 101
12:15 - 1:10 PM
JEREMIAH S. PAM, Treasury Attaché, U.S. Embassy Baghdad, 2006-7; Governance Policy Chief, U.S. Embassy Kabul, 2010-12; and Columbia Law School Teaching Program Fellow, 2012-13 will be speaking on “Assessing the U.S. Experience in Iraq and Afghanistan: An Inside View.”
Short Biography:
Jeremiah S. Pam '00 J.D. just returned from Kabul as the U.S. Embassy governance policy chief. In 2006-7, he worked in Baghdad as the U.S. Treasury financial attaché for Iraq at the U.S. Embassy. From 2007-10, he was a guest scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace and participated in strategic assessments of U.S. government policy in the Middle East and Central Asia. Previously, Pam was an international finance lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb in New York, where for more than five years he specialized in advising governments on sovereign debt restructuring during financial crises. In 2005, Pam was also a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School and co-taught the course on international business transactions. Early in his career, Pam served for four years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, followed by three months on the U.S. National Security Council staff as part of a graduate internship program. Pam holds a J.D. degree and a certificate in international and comparative law from Columbia Law School, an M.A. degree in political science from Columbia University and an A.B. degree in social studies from Harvard College.
Please send all general inquiries to: cabber@law.columbia.edu
Carmen Abber
Program Coordinator
Center on Global Governance
Columbia Law School
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