Public Speaking

This series of public seminars, organized by the Danish Institute for Internatonal Studies in cooperation with the daily Politiken and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, attracts prominent speakers from the worlds of academia, public policy, diplomacy, business, and civil society to stimulate and generate debate on key issues of strategic foreign policy relevance for Europe.

Selected Events:
Europe as a Great Power?
Helle Thorning Schmidt, Denmark's opposition leader and now Prime Minister
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark

The European Union and Democratization
Robert Cooper, Counsellor, European External Action Service

Values, What Values? The Future of Western Dialogue with Muslim Communities
Farah Pandith, Special Representative to Muslim Communities, United States Department of State

Bouncing Back? EU Foreign Policy in a New World Order
Lene Espersen, then-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark
Alexander Stubb, then-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Culture of Fear: Challenging Europe's Global Role
Dominique Moïsi, Senior Adviser, French Institute for International Relations (IFRI), Paris

Selected Speeches, Lectures, Briefings

9 November 2010: Book discussion at McGill/Montreal University Center of Excellence
21 May 2010: Book discussion at Cambridge University
23 March 2010: Book discussion at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs
25 January 2010: Discussant on regional cooperation in the Black Sea area, Commission on the Black Sea, German Foreign Office, Berlin.
11-14 December 2009: 3 book lectures by invitation to Seoul University, Yonsei University and the Samsung Economic Research Institute, all in Seoul.
22 October 2009: Discussion, Forum on Contemporary Europe, Stanford University.
26 March 2009: Speaker at a Konrad Adenauer Foundation conference on the EU's Eastern Partnership in Kiev, Ukraine.
30 May 2008: Speaker at a conference on European Security Culture organised by the EU Institute for Security Studies and the EU Slovenian Presidency in Vinius.
16 May 2008: Panelist at a seminar on Russia at Johns Hopkins SAIS in Bologna organised by the Italian Foreign Policy in Dialogue
19 September 2007: Testimony before the Committee of the Regions of the European Union on the Commission’s Communication on the Black Sea Synergy, Brussels.
20 November 2006: Speaker at the Conference: European Regionalism: Perspectives from Northern Europe and the Black Sea, at the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens, Greece.