’Soft Power’ or Defence Union? Military Cooperation in the European Union
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
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in englischer SpracheAs a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the EU favours ‘soft power’. But this is no longer enough to defend the Union. So is a European military and full strategic autonomy the next step for the future of European defence? What role will NATO play and how will European defence look after Brexit?
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Mag. Dr. MAS Johann FRANK
Director for Security Policy, Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence, Vienna
| 1988-1989 | One-year voluntary service with the Austrian Armed Forces (preparatory course for the military academy) |
| 1989-1992 | Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria |
| 1992-1997 | Company Commander and Instructor, NBC- Defense School, Vienna |
| 1996-1997 | Postgraduate, Disaster Management, Austrian Research Center,Seibersdorf |
| 1993-1999 | Magister Philosophiae in Political Science and Philosophy, University of Vienna |
| 1998-1999 | Deputy Head of Division at NBC Defense School, Vienna |
| 1999 | Desk Officer Arms Control, Military Policy Division, Vienna |
| 1999-2001 | Researcher, Institute for International Peace Support , National Defence Academy, Vienna |
| 2002-2007 | Head of Division for Security Political Analysis, Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence, Vienna |
| 2007 | Department for Security Policy, Austrian Federal Chancellery, Vienna |
| 2007-2008 | Postgraduate: Master of Advanced Studies "Security Policy and Crisis Management" ETH Zurich (Zurich, Washington, London) |
| 2008-2014 | Head of Office for Security Policy, Vienna |
| 2013-2014 | Member, Cabinet of the Minister, Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence, Vienna |
| since 2014 | Defence Policy Director, Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence, Vienna |
Sylvia HARTLEIF
Principal Advisor and Head, Foreign Policy Team, EPSC - European Political Strategy Centre, European Commission, Brussels
| Sylvia Hartleif is Principal Advisor and leader of the foreign policy team at the European Political Strategy Centre, the European Commission's in-house think tank. The EPSC provides strategic analysis and policy advice to the President and the College of the Commission. | |
| Prior to joining the EPSC, she was for nine years senior advisor to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag and secretary of the Sub-Committee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. From 2001 to 2003 she served as deputy secretary to the EU Affairs Committee and legal advisor to the Bundestag's delegation in the Convention on the Future of Europe on which she has published articles and co-authored two books. A graduate of Harvard's Kennedy School, USA, and the Law School of Passau University, Germany, her earlier professional commitments also include the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO and the World Bank. |
Ivan KRASTEV
Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia
| Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Board of Trustees of The International Crisis Group and is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. In 2018-2019 Ivan is appointed as the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress. His latest books in English are 'After Europe' (UPenn Press, May 2017) 'Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics on Protest' (UPenn Press, May 2014); 'In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders?' (TED Books, 2013). He is a co-author with Stephen Holmes of a forthcoming book 'The Light that Failed' (with Penguin) on perils of the politics of imitation. |
Dr. Manuel MUNIZ
Dean, School of Global and Public Affairs, Rafael del Pino Professor of Practice of Global Transformation, IE University, Madrid; Senior Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA
| Manuel Muniz is the Dean of the School of Global and Public Affairs at IE University and Rafael del Pino Professor of Practice of Global Transformation. He is also the Founding Director of IE’s Center for the Governance of Change, an institution dedicated to studying the challenges posed by accelerated societal and technological transformation to the public and private sectors. Dr. Muniz’s | |
| research interests fall within the fields of innovation and disruption, political economy, and regional and global governance. | |
| From 2015 to 2017 Dr. Muniz was the Director of the Program on Transatlantic Relations at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Since 2017 he has been a Senior Associate at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs as well as one of the promoters of its Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship. | |
| Throughout his career Dr. Muniz has provided policy advice to governments and international organizations including the United Nations, the G20, the EU Commission and the Spanish National Security Council. He has also published opinion pieces or been interviewed for publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post or Project Syndicate. | |
| Dr. Muniz holds a JD (Law) from the Complutense University in Madrid, an MSc in Financial Markets from the IEB, a Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, and a DPhil (PhD) in International Relations from the University of Oxford. He is a recipient of a number of awards and recognitions including the Trilateral Commission’s David Rockefeller Fellowship and the Atlantic Council’s Millennium Fellowship. | |
| In 2016 he was appointed by Esglobal as one of the 25 intellectuals having the greatest impact on our thinking about Iberoamerica. |
Stephen SACKUR
Journalist and Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, London
| 1985 | Bachelor, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, MA |
| John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | |
| 1986-1990 | Trainee, BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, London |
| 1990-1992 | Foreign Affairs Correspondent, BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, London |
| 1992-1995 | Correspondent in the Middle East, BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, Cairo |
| 1995-1997 | Correspondent in the Middle East, BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, Jerusalem |
| 1997-2002 | Correspondent in Washington, BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, Washington |
| 2002-2004 | Europe Correspondent, BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, Brussels |
| since 2004 | Host, HARDtalk, BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation World News, London |
| since 2017 | Honorary Doctor, International Relations, Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Geneva |
