GR:EEN 1st Annual Conference
Milan, Palazzo Clerici, 13-14 February 2012
THE NATURE OF THE EU AS
A GLOBAL ACTOR
Day 1- Project Meetings, Monday February 13th
12.00-13.00
Welcome lunch
Ortona Hall
13.00-14.00
Steering Committee
Specchi Hall
14.15-16.00
Steering Committees to be joined by G16
Specchi Hall
16.00-16.30
Coffee break
Parquet Hall
16.30-18.30
- International Advisory Board Meeting
(IAB members + PMO staff only)
- First Substantive Panel
(all authors and GR:EEN colleagues welcome)
Consiglio Hall
Specchi Hall
PANEL 1
Stuart Croft, Chair
Transnational Networks and Regional Leadership
Christine Overdevest and
Jonathan Zeitlin
Assembling an Experimentalist Regime: EU FLEGT and
Transnational Governance Interactions
André Broome and Leonard
Seabrooke
The Socialization and Translation of Professional
Knowledge in International Organizations’
Mark Beeson and Diane
Stone
A model to avoid? The EU’s declining influence in postcrisis Asia
20.00-close
Evening dinner at Tiepolo’s Hall- with introduction by Patrick LOW and and
Giancarlo ARAGONA ISPI President
Day 2- Conference, Tuesday February 14th
08.15 prompt Transport collection from hotel
08.30-09.00
Registration and welcome coffee
09.00-09.45
Plenary Session: Welcome and introduction to event themes
Keynote paper, Richard Higgott, Vice –Chancellor, Murdoch University
Specchi Hall
09.45-11.45
Substantive Panels 1-2-3 (Parallel sessions, please see below for detail and
location)
11.45-12.15
Coffee Break
12.15-13.15
Plenary Session (with panel chairs) – Specchi Hall
13.15
Lunch
GR:EEN 1st Annual Conference
Milan, Palazzo Clerici, 13-14 February 2012
14.30-15.00
Registration
15.00-17.00
Conference (Open to the Public) Tiepolo Hall
‘Not only money: the EU as a global player’
Welcome and introduction
Giancarlo ARAGONA, President, ISPI (Chairman)
Shaun BRESLIN, GR:EEN Coordinator, The University of Warwick
Keynote Speech
Franco FRATTINI, Former Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Speakers
Erik JONES, Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Patrick LOW, Director Economic Research and Statistics Division, WTO
Alfredo MANTICA, Italian Senator and former Undersecretary of State*
Piero OSTELLINO, Columnist, Corriere della Sera
Ulrike GUEROT, Head of the Berlin Office, European Council of Foreign
Affairs
17.00
Conclusions
Eric PETERS, BEPA, former Diplomatic Adviser of former French Minister
Lagarde, Deputy Head of Cabinet of former Commissioner Mandelson
GR:EEN 1st Annual Conference
Milan, Palazzo Clerici, 13-14 February 2012
Panel Structure
The three panels will run simultaneously from 9.45 to 11.45. Each panel will include a chair
and a rapporteur. Paolo Magri, ISPI Executive Vice President and Director and Professor
Breslin (GR:EEN coordinator) will open the conference. The works will be closed by a
plenary session, introduced by Shaun Breslin with contributions from panel chairs.
PANEL 1
Nina Graeger, Chair
EU Foreign Policy and Energy Strategy
Hall 4
Archana Datta and Sohini
Gupta
Global Environmental Issues: European Union role in leading
the Climate security
Caroline Kuzemko
Ideas, Perceptions and Structural Power: EU Energy Security
and Russia
Elisa Lopez Lucia
EU Security policy after Lisbon: the case of the European
Sahel Strategy
PANEL 2
Regional Leadership: The Role of the EU
Mark Beeson, Chair
Pirelli Hall
Toni Haastrup, Rapporteur
Marieke Zwartjes
Conceptualizing Regional Leadership
Luk Van Langenhove
The EU as a Global-Regional Actor in Peace and Security
Stephen Kingah and Aliya
Salimzhuarova
Can EU Backed Interactions between Regional Development
Banks and the World Bank mitigate Perceived Inequalities of
Representation at the World Bank? (EBRD, ADB, AFDB and
IDB)
PANEL 3
Transnational Governance and Financial Issues
Jonathan Zeitlin, Chair
Guidi Hall
Brigitte Beauzamy, Rapporteur
Li Wei
Eleni Tsingou
Coping with the Dollar Hegemony: the role of EU and Euro
Transnational Veto Players and the Process of Financial
Reform - What Opportunities and Constraints for the EU?