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Program

Monday, May 24, 2010 – Djanogly Hall

10:00–11:45 The Lisbon Treaty – Security and Foreign Relations Aspects

Moderator: Dr. Laurence Weinbaum, Director, The Israel Council on Foreign Relations and Chief Editor of the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Yehezkel Dror, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof. Lèonce Bekemans, University of Padua, Italy

Prof. Ben Tonra, University College Dublin, Ireland

Mrs. Kathrin Brockmann, Bundeswehr Transformation Centre, Germany

11:45–12:30 Israel and the European Union

Chair: Prof. David Newman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Keynote speakers:

Amb. Andrew Standley, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Israel

Mr. Naor Gilon, Deputy Director General for Western Europe, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs

12:30–14:00 Lunch (for lecturers only)

14:00–16:00 Europe and North America

Chair: Dr. Amichai Magen, Shalem Centre, Israel

Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi, Foundation for Defense and Democracies, United States of America

Dr. Harold Rhode, Office of the US Secretary of Defense (ret.), Iranian Affairs, United States of America

Dr. Amichai Magen, Shalem Centre, Israel

Discussant: Amb. Shimon Stein, International Consultant, former Israeli Ambassador to Germany and Senior Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University

16:00–16:15 Coffee Break

16:15–18:00 Europe, the Eastern Partnership and Russia

Chair: Amb. Tzipora Rimon, Director, Department for Multilateral European Institutions, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Prof. Alexey Ivanovich Podberezkin, European Studies Institute, MGIMO, Russia

Mr. Roland Freudenstein, Centre for European Studies, Belgium

Dr. Eugeniusz Smolar, Senior Fellow, The Center for International Relations, Poland

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 – Djanogly Hall

10:00–11:00 Europe and the Middle East

Moderator and Discussant: Prof. Michael Schulz, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Dr. Claire Spencer, Chatham House, England

Dr. Joel Peters, Virginia Tech University, United States of America

Prof. László Csicsmann, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

Dr. Sharon Pardo, Director, The Adenauer Division for the Study of European Politics and Society, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

11:00–11:15 Coffee Break

11:15–13:00 Europe and the Mediterranean

Moderator: Amb. Álvaro Iranzo, Ambassador of Spain to the State of Israel

Amb. Dr. Senén Florensa I Palau, Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània, Spain

Prof. Roberto Aliboni, International Affairs Institute, Rome, Italy

Prof. David Ohana, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Prof. Marc Cogen, University of Gent, Belgium

Conclusions: Amb. Álvaro Iranzo, Ambassador of Spain to the State of Israel

13:00–15:00 Lunch (for lecturers only)

15:00–16:30 Europe and Asia

Chair: Dr. Joel Peters, Virginia Tech University, United States of America

Prof. Rajendra Jain, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Dr. Nicola Casarini, European University Institute, Italy

Prof. Elise Brezis, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

16:30 Conclusions and Recommendations