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

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

GEORGIA:
TIME FOR AN EMBARGO ON RESET POLICY

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

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

ESDP OPERATIONS AND THE CHALLENGES OF EVOLVING MULTILATERAL SECURITY

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

THE FOREIGN POLICY OF BARACK OBAMA:
BETWEEN DREAMING AND DOING

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

Why is the foreign policy of Sarkozy disappointing?

MOLDOVA AND RUSSIA
Why is Moscow Meddling?

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

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

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

MONETARY POLICY STRATEGY IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

AMERICAN AMBIVALENCE AND THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT IN LIBYA:-
Veering toward Boots on the Ground?
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WHY FRANCE REJOINS NATO:
WOOING BRITAIN?

Great Debate Seminar Calendar 2012

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
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Charity No. 15003 (Succession Law of 1956, Article 24.4)

Read New Lectures Online:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

GUIDO VANDERSEYPEN
Deputy Head of Unit, Employment Strategy
DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
European Commission, Brussels
The Fight against Undeclared Work:
A New Challenge for an Enlarged Europe?
(ppt)

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)

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

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

MICHELLE DE CORT
Department for Work and Pensions, London
Active Labour Market Policies in the UK
What Lessons Can We Learn from the British Experience?
(ppt)

MARCEL H. VAN HERPEN

A EUROPEAN ROLE FOR FRENCH NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
(doc)

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

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