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Engulfed in the Gulf?
On A Search for Europe's Future Role in A Turbulent Region
Presence Conference
04.12.2020
Thema
| The Gulf is a region in turmoil that faces numerous challenges. For Europe this region is crucial. Located in its closer vicinity, all negative developments and trends that the Gulf region sees are felt with only slight delays in Europe. It was often said that Europe is only at the sideline when it comes to the Gulf and that only the big powers such as the United States have a say in the region. However, the nuclear deal with Iran which EU member states helped to negotiate since 2003 onward, shows that Europe could play a positive role in the region and that it has stakes in the game if it only accepts the challenge of thinking and acting strategically in a joint way.
The purpose of this conference is to elaborate on Europe’s future role in the Gulf region and about which policy fields the EU and its member states could address in the upcoming years to contribute to a more stable, peaceful, and prosperous region. You are cordially welcomed to join! Your health is important to us. Therefore please note our hygiene plan during the Corona pandemic on this page under DOWNLOADS. Thank you. |
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Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Program Director International Affairs, Protestant Academy Loccum
HOW MIGHT THE GULF REGION LOOK LIKE IN 2030 WHEN LOOKING UPON ITS…
… SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATE
Eckart WOERTZ, Director, Institute for Middle East Studies, GIGA (German Institute for Global and Area) Hamburg, (confirmed)
… POWER RELATIONS
Dina ESFANDIARY, Fellow, The Century Foundation, Washington D.C./London (confirmed)
… RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STATES AND SOCIETIES
Simon MABON, Professor for Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancester University and author of the recent book “Houses built on Sand: Sovereignty, Violence and Revolution in the Middle East”, Lancester (confirmed)
Moderation: Ali FATHOLLAH-NEJAD, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Afro-Middle East Center (AMEC) and author of the forthcoming book "Iran in an Emerging New World Order: From Ahmadinejad to Rouhani", Berlin (confirmed)
Elisa CATALANO EWERS, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security and former Director for Middle East and North Africa at the National Security Council, Washington D.C. (confirmed)
THE PAST – What Are Key Takeaways from the History of Europe’s Involvement in the Gulf Region?
Anoush EHTESHAMI, Professor of International Relations in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University (confirmed)
INTERESTS & DESIRES – What Are the Goals of Europe’s Current Policy towards the Region?
Gabriel Munuera VINALS, Head of Division Arabian Peninusla and Iraq, European Action Service, Brussels (confirmed)
(MIS)PERCEPTIONS – Walking on Edward Said’s Trail and Exploring Europe’s (Mis)Understandings of the Region
Susanne KOELBL, Journalist, Foreign Correspondent at Der Spiegel and Author of the Book “Behind the Kingdom’s Veil”, Hamburg (confirmed)
Abdulaziz SAGER, Founder and Chairman, Gulf Research Center, Jeddah (confirmed)
Unlike the other parts of the conference, the hybrid roundtable discussion will be held under the CHATHAM HOUSE RULE.
Martin-Pierre CHARLIAT, Disarmament and Nuclear Nonproliferation Division, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Paris (invited)
Fabian HINZ, Research Associate, The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), Montorey/Berlin (confirmed)
Katharina LACK, Head of IAEA and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Unit, German Foreign Office, Berlin (confirmed)
Farzan SABET, Project Researcher, Middle East WMD Free Zone Project, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Geneva (confirmed)
Azadeh ZAMIRIRAD, Deputy Head of the Middle East and Africa Division at the German Institute for International and Security (SWP), Berlin (confirmed)
Moderation: Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Protestant Academy Loccum
Ayad AL-ANI, Professor for Change Management and Consulting at the School of Public Leadership at the University Stellenbosch and the University Basel, Member of the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF), Vienna/Berlin (confirmed)
Fatima ALSEBAIE, Research Fellow, Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies, Riffa (confirmed)
Sandor SZELEKOVSZKY, Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission, Brussels (confirmed)
Nader KABBANI, Director of Research at the Booking Doha Center and Senior Fellow for Global Economy and Development, Doha (confirmed)
Zahraa KAREEM, Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, “The Station”, Baghdad and Mosul (confirmed)
Dalia SAMRA-ROHTE, Delegate of German Industry & Commerce for Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Yemen, German-Saudi Arabian Liasion Office for Economic Affairs (GESALO), Riyadh (confirmed)
Moderation: Tobias ZUMBRÄGEL, Fellow, Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO), Bonn (confirmed)
IMPULSES FROM …
MOSCOW …
Irina ZVIAGELSKAYA, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies at IMEMO and Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Moscow (confirmed)
ANKARA …
Galip DALAY, Richard Weizäcker Fellow at the Bosch Foundation and non-resident fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, Berlin (confirmed)
H.E. Mohamed AL HASSAN, Permanent Representative of the Sultanate of Oman to the United Nations, New York (confirmed)
Cinzia BIANCO, Senior Analyst at the Gulf State Analytics and Visiting Fellow at the Europen Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Berlin (confirmed)
Justin MEYERS, Associate Director, Al Amana Center for Trust and Peace, Muscat (confirmed)
Michael OHNMACHT, Head of Division, Middle East and Arabian Peninsula, German Foreign Office, Berlin (confirmed)
Henry ROME, Senior Analyst, Middle East & North Africa, Eurasia Group, Washington D.C. (confirmed)
Emma SOUBRIER, Visiting Scholar, Arab Gulf States Institute, Washington (preliminary confirmed)
Adnan TABATABAI, Executive Director, Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO), Bonn (confirmed)
Sanam VAKIL, Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House, London (confirmed)
Moderation: Christian KOCH, Director of the Gulf Research Center Foundation, Geneva (confirmed)
Thomas DEMMELHUBER, Professor of Middle East Politics and Society at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (confirmed)
Ali FATHOLLAH-NEJAD, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Afro-Middle East Center (AMEC) and author of the forthcoming book "Iran in an Emerging New World Order: From Ahmadinejad to Rouhani", Berlin (confirmed)
Leopold GRITSCHNEDER, Middle East and Central Asia Department, Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO), European Commission, Brussels (confirmed)
Dunja RAMADAN, Journalist covering the MENA region, Süddeutsche Zeitung, München (invited)
Larbi SADIKI, Professor of Arab Democratization, Department of International Affairs, Qatar University and non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, Doha (confirmed)
Sayed YUSUF, Vice-President of SALAM and former fellow of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (confirmed)
Moderation: Cornelius ADEBAHR, Non-Resident Fellow, Carnegie Europe, Berlin/Brüssel (confirmed)
Shuttle Service to Wunstorf Train Station and Hannover Airport (HAJ)
Hannah NEUMANN, Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA), Chair of the Delegation for the Relations with the Arab Peninsula, Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence Policy, Brussels/Berlin (confirmed)
Dorothée SCHMID, Head, Turkey and Middle East Program, IFRI (French Institute of International Relations), Paris (confirmed)
Niels ANNEN, Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office and Member of the German Parliament (Social Democrats), Berlin/Hamburg (confirmed)
Cornelius ADEBAHR, Non-Resident Fellow, Carnegie Europe, Berlin/Brüssel (confirmed)
Moderation: Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Program Director International Affairs, Protestant Academy Loccum
Tagungsleitung
- Dr. Thomas Müller-Färber
- Telefon: 05766 81-109
- E-Mail: thomas.mueller-faerber@evlka.de
- Sekretariat
- Miriam Kamber
- Telefon: 05766 81-113
- E-Mail: miriam.kamber@evlka.de
- Presseakkreditierung
- Florian Kühl
- Telefon: 05766 81-105
- E-Mail: florian.kuehl@evlka.de
Tagungsgebühren
Standard120€
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