CORRUPTION IN EUROPE:
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
N E W: April 2013

DEMOCRACY IN GEORGIA: DA CAPO?
N E W: April 2013

INTERNET GOVERNANCE OR INTERNET CONTROL?
How to Safeguard Internet Freedom
N E W: February 2013

RUSSIA AND SYRIA
Why Putin Supports the Bashar Al-Assad Regime

RUSSIA s EMBRACE OF TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Its Negative Impact on U.S. Proposals for Nuclear Arms Reductions

CRISIS AND THE FUTURE OF EUROPE

THE NORTHERN FOREIGN POLICY OF RUSSIA
What is the Long-Term Strategy of Russia in the Baltic Sea and Arctic Regions?

IMPLICATIONS OF THE ENHANCED REGIONAL ACTIVISM OF TURKEY FOR ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION

THE NEW POLITICAL REGIME IN UKRAINE -
TOWARD SULTANISM YANUKOVYCH-STYLE?

THE PROPOSAL OF RUSSIAN PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV
FOR A PAN-EUROPEAN SECURITY PACT
Its Six Hidden Objectives and How the West
Should Respond

EURASIA VERSUS CENTRAL CAUCASO-ASIA:
ON THE GEOPOLITICS OF CENTRAL CAUCASO-ASIA

UKRAINE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
An Analysis of the Present Situation

THE FOREIGN POLICY OF NICOLAS SARKOZY:
NOT PRINCIPLED, OPPORTUNISTIC, AND AMATEURISH

Why is the foreign policy of Sarkozy disappointing?

THE FOREIGN POLICY OF BARACK OBAMA:
BETWEEN DREAMING AND DOING

THE ROLE OF ESTONIA IN DEVELOPING NATOs CYBER STRATEGY
N E W

MARX AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Analysis of an Ambivalent Relationship

TOWARD A RESOLUTION OF THE CYPRUS DISPUTE AND THE EURO CRISIS:
A GEO-ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE

ESDP OPERATIONS AND THE CHALLENGES OF EVOLVING MULTILATERAL SECURITY

SARKOZY, FRANCE, AND NATO
Will Sarkozy s Rapprochement to NATO Be Sustainable?

Great Debate Seminar Calendar 2013

More than a hundred ministries from over thirty countries already participated in Great Debate seminars.
Great Debate seminars are international seminars for experts on issues connected with European integration and Transatlantic security. They are organised in Paris and in other European capitals. Participants include diplomats, high ranking civil servants, politicians, and representatives of NGOs, business and the military.

The Cicero Foundation is associated with the
International Relations and Security Network (ISN)

The Cicero Foundation is a recognised Dutch charity.
Charity No. 15003 (Succession Law of 1956, Article 24.4)

Read New Lectures Online:

ANDREW GEDDES
Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield
Robert Schuman Fellow in the Migration Policy Centre
European University Institute, Florence
IS BRITAIN LEAVING THE EU?
N E W: April 2013
(pdf)

MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN
Director
The Cicero Foundation
JOSEPH STALIN IS BACK...
N E W: May 2013
(pdf)

JADWIGA KIWERSKA
Institute for Western Affairs
Poznan
OBAMA, MEDVEDEV, AND THE BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE
A Polish View
(pdf)

FRANCOISE THOM
Professor of Modern History
Sorbonne University, Paris
RUSSIA AND EUROPE
The Dangers of a Reset
(pdf)

MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN
Director
The Cicero Foundation
THE FOREIGN POLICY OF FRANCOIS HOLLANDE:
U-TURN OF CONTINUITY?
(pdf)

GERT WEISSKIRCHEN, MP
Foreign Policy Spokesman
SPD Fraction German Bundestag
RISING ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE
How to Respond?
(pdf)

MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN
Director
The Cicero Foundation
RUSSIA, GEORGIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE CREEPING FINLANDIZATION OF EUROPE
(pdf)

HALL GARDNER
Professor, American University
Prospects for the Transatlantic Relationship under the Obama Presidency:
Towards a Transatlantic Strategic Council?
(pdf)

EPHRAIM MARQUER
Director of Employee Savings and
Retirement Schemes AFG, Paris
The Pension Crisis in France:
Causes and Remedies
(ppt)

MIKA VIDLUND
Finnish Centre for Pensions
Pension Reform in the Nordic Countries:
What Can Other EU Member States Learn?
(ppt)

PER ECKEFELDT
DG Economic and Financial Affairs
European Commission, Brussels
Pension Reform in the European Union:
How to Cope with Ageing Populations?
(ppt)

FRANCOIS ATGER
Territorial Director of AGEFIPH
French National Employment Agency
for Disabled People
Opening Up the Labour Market to People
with Disabilities: The French Experience
(ppt)

HENRI STERDYNIAK
French Observatory of Economic Conjunctures
OFCE, Paris
Creating Low-Skilled Jobs:
The French Strategy
(ppt)

MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN
Director
The Cicero Foundation
PARIS MAY 68 AND PROVO AMSTERDAM 65
Trying to Understand Two Postmodern
Youth Revolts
(pdf)

MARIA JEPSEN
Acting Head of Research Department
European Trade Union Institute for Research,
Education, Health and Safety ETUI-REHS
Brussels
Does the European Commission Definition
of Flexicurity Favour Flexibility over Security?
(ppt)

GIDO TEN DOLLE
Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs
and Employment
Part-Time Work in the Netherlands:
Success or Failure?
(ppt)

JEAN-CLAUDE BARBIER
University of Paris1 - Sorbonne
Flexicurity and Transitional Labour Markets:
How to Avoid Rigidities and Better Prepare
New and Old EU Member States
for a Globalizing Economy?
(ppt)

JOERN WESENBERG
Deutsche Rentenversicherung
Berlin
Preparing Our Pension Systems for the Future:
The Case of Germany
(ppt)

MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN

A EUROPEAN ROLE FOR FRENCH NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
(doc)

GIULIANO BONOLI
Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration
IDHEAP, Lausanne
Reforming Pensions in Europe:
The Political Significance of Technicalities
(ppt)

ARNE PAULSSON
Swedish Social Insurance Agency
Pensions Department
Pension Reform in the Nordic Countries:
A Model for Other EU Member States?
(ppt)