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This issue of Rivista reaches you as we begin the 56th year in the life of the
Bologna Center, a fact that is, as it surely should be, a source of pride for
all of us connected with the Center. As many of you know, we had hoped
in April to conclude our 55th with a rousing celebration, but a volcano in Iceland
dumped ashes on our plans and we had to cancel the formal events. However, as
Meera Shankar reports in these pages, for enthusiastic Bologna alumni a volcanic
eruption is no more than a minor disruption and, canceled or not, an extraordinary
number of you emerged from the dust to make a rather good show of it.
The 55th may not have
ended quite as we had hoped,
but as you will read in this
Rivista, it was an excellent
year with some significant
highlights and some important
accomplishments.
For example, the special
seminar series on European
Politics and Islam provided a
fine beginning for our new
program on Ethnic Conflict
Studies. The Africa Conference,
undertaken as a joint effort
with Romano Prodi and his
Foundation for World Wide
Cooperation, proved to be a
great opportunity for a
number of our students who,
kenneth h. keller
under Erik Jones’ superb direction, produced an impressive set of background
papers that provided the underpinnings to complement the very high level cast of
international leaders who were the conference’s speakers and gave rise to a
thoughtful discussion on Africa’s future. The agreements to undertake joint
degree programs with the University of Bologna, described by Marco Cesa, started
us down a new path of collaboration that promises to help us to deal with the
challenges of the European higher education reform known as the Bologna
Process.
And certainly not least, we ended the year within a gnat’s eyelash of meeting
our fundraising goal for the renovation of the building (that’s 99 percent, if you
prefer a more quantitative measure), so that several alumni class projects already
well underway should help us surge past the goal before the next alumni weekend.
There could not be a more important accomplishment. It demonstrates to the
University at large the loyal support the Center has from its alumni and friends
and it frees us to turn our attention to other initiatives that are key to the Center’s
future: financial support for fellowships that make it possible for the best students
from throughout the world, regardless of their financial resources, to be able to
come to SAIS; the flexibility to undertake new programs not based on their
present popularity, but their long term value; and the resources to ensure that our
faculty can continue to contribute meaningfully to the important global policy
debates of the day.
As you read through this Rivista, you will see examples of where this kind of
support can and does make a difference. Our student body is increasingly
diverse; this year there will be more full-time faculty than we’ve had in recent
years, a boon for both students and resident faculty; visitors like Gary Sick and
Kenneth Waltz will come not for single lectures, but for lecture series; and we will
continue to encourage and support international conferences—all part of a
conscious effort to develop “think-tank-like” activities that give visibility and
vibrancy to the Center, an investment in its future. Your help is important to all
of these efforts and we thank you for it.
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Table of contents
2 of foxes and lions
4 technology and learning
at the bologna center
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alUmni profile
sais in practice
of international affairs
andrés guimón (bc06/dc07)
stUdent profile
breaking barriers:
research seminar
leyla mammadli (bc10)
bologna featUre
bologna and all that Jazz
38 enology & economics
bologna center facUlty
news and recent books
39 ccsdd and electoral management bodies
What’s going on
events and conferences
22 a match made in africa
development section
34 Sans Title
bologna center Journal
36 the national and supranational:
european studies newspaper
37 Waltzing in Wien:
sais at the iaea ball
the bc Wine club
at the bologna center
40 hogwarts in chelsea:
fall 2010
amici di bologna 2010
42 the alumni Weekend 2010
at the bologna center
that wasn’t... and then was again
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africa: 53 countries, one Union
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detangling the “europe and islam”
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and so many of you do
alumni notes
in memoriam

Of foxes
and lions
by Marco Cesa
... Precisely because
we are an American
graduate program in Europe
we are well poised to
remain leaders in our field.
Our main strength, in my
view, lies in our unique
intellectual and organizational
identity. The Bologna Center
is run according to American
academic standards by staff
and faculty who are
overwhelmingly European.
Even more importantly,
American staff and faculty
feel at home in Europe, and
European staff and faculty
deeply appreciate the
American “structure,”
in many ways.
Just like the ideal prince Machiavelli had
in mind, the Bologna Center reflects a
unique blend of traits that merge into a
dual nature. Such a bicephalus profile
derives directly from being an American
graduate school in Europe and from the constraints
and the opportunities that this entails.
The reader will forgive me if I tend to see the
role of the Bologna Center through the lens
of the theoretical perspective that I usually
apply to international politics. Call it, if you
will, professional bias. The fact is that I am
deeply convinced that we live in a
highly competitive environment—just like
Machiavelli’s rulers—and that in order to
flourish in such a context we have developed
(and we are still developing) lion and fox
features.
“The lion is defenseless against traps and
a fox is defenseless against wolves. Therefore
one must be a fox in order to recognize traps,
and a lion to frighten off wolves,”
Machiavelli writes. In other words, we must
be both strong and astute. What are those
“traps”? And who are the “wolves”? And
what is the meaning of “strength” and
“astuteness” here? In order to answer those
questions, we first have to understand the
implications of being an American graduate
school in Europe these days. In the past, not
many continental universities offered M.A.
programs: generally speaking, a solid undergraduate
education was all one needed, especially
in the public sector.
All this has changed over the last two
decades, as more and more European countries
have implemented a comprehensive and
homogeneous reform of their university systems
introducing M.A. programs on an
unprecedented scale across the continent. For
the Bologna Center, this means more and
more competitors—the “wolves.” In addition,
the European countries have adopted a
system of mutual recognition of their academic
credits and degrees, which implies, for
example, that coursework done in Italy will
be accepted in Germany, thereby creating a
powerful incentive for student mobility within
the European circuit.
Traditionally, jobs in the public sector
were open only to those applicants who held
a national academic degree. Now a French
citizen with an Italian degree can easily
obtain recognition in France; but what about
the same French citizen with an American
degree? For the Bologna Center, this means
ever more bureaucratic obstacles—the
“traps.” At first sight, who can deny that the
picture is pretty bleak?
And yet, and yet. I do believe that we are
very well equipped to deal with both
“wolves” and “traps.” “Wolves” and “traps”
are there because we are an American graduate
program in Europe. At the same time,
however, precisely because we are an
American graduate program in Europe we
are well poised to remain leaders in our field.
Our main strength, in my view, lies in our
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unique intellectual and organizational identity.
The Bologna Center is run according to
American academic standards by staff and
faculty who are overwhelmingly European.
Even more importantly, American staff
and faculty feel at home in Europe, and
European staff and faculty deeply appreciate
the American “structure,” in many ways. Not
to mention the student community,
which constitutes one of the best
illustrations ever of what a “melting
pot” is all about.
Every year, in September,
about 200 students arrive. Those
who leave, nine months later, are
different people. Each of them can
tell you his or her personal story.
More modestly, and from a sheer
academic perspective, I cannot
help noticing, year after year, the
beneficial effects exerted by our
unparalleled blend of national cultures
and intellectual traditions.
Take class participation, for
example. Since we are an
American graduate school, we may well say
that the student who takes no part in class
debate has no place in here. Of course,
American (and British) students know this
only too well. Except that many seem to
believe that any comment will do—which is
not exactly the case. Non-American students,
conversely, usually come from a different
experience, and are extremely reluctant
to participate in class discussion.
Thus, at the beginning, some are too
bold, some are too shy. By the end of the
year, however, both groups have by and
large fixed their respective problems: non-
American students have grown braver and
more outspoken; American (and British)
students have become more disciplined in
what they argue.
But the deepest difference—which constitutes
also the most fertile ground for a collective
intellectual growth—has always
been, and still is, in historical perspective.
Forty-five years ago, Henry Kissinger wrote
some memorable pages on Euro-American
relations, in which he made a number of
acute observations that went well beyond the
mid-1960s NATO crisis and that still shed
light on what is at stake in the ongoing dialogue
between the two shores of the Atlantic.
Americans, Kissinger said, live in an
environment characterized by a deep belief
that any problem will be resolved if
approached with a sufficient degree of technical
knowledge, and they hardly appreciate
that a “solution” may mortgage the future.
Europeans, for their part, live in an environment
that constantly reminds them of the
fallibility of human foresight—and in
European history, the recognition of a problem
has often led to a dilemma rather than
suggested a solution. Being exposed to both
perspectives, working, studying and living
in an environment in which faculty and students
alike, year after year, reflect and
embody those deep differences is indeed a
unique experience—our greatest strength
that no competitor can ever hope to match.
Being strong, however, may not be
enough if the rules of the game tend to
penalize you. This is where the “fox” enters
the stage. Over the past few years the
Bologna Center has begun to adjust to the
new strategic landscape with a series of
smart moves that were designed to avoid the
“traps” mentioned above. To begin with, the
University of Bologna has agreed to give
official recognition to our M.A. degrees.
This means that our graduates, upon
request, may now see their M.A. or MAIA
converted into a European graduate degree,
with all the important practical implications
that this entails.
In addition, last year another agreement
was signed with the same University of
Bologna according to which one institution
will recognize the coursework done at the
other institution. In simple terms, a student
who has completed the first year of his graduate
program in International Relations at
the University of Bologna may be admitted
to the second year of the MAIA program; by
the same token, a student who has completed
the first year at the Bologna Center and
does not intend to go to Washington, may be
admitted to the second year of the graduate
program in International Relations at the
University of Bologna.
Again, it is easy to appreciate the relevance
of those links to one of the most prestigious
universities on the European continent.
Thanks to these two agreements, the
Bologna Center is now less insulated in the
European academic landscape and some of
the “traps” along our path have now been
deactivated.
Much work remains to be done, to be
sure. For example, I would like to see more
bilateral deals with other important
European universities in France,
Germany, the United Kingdom,
for this would allow the Bologna
Center to attract students from top
academic institutions and to give
our students (mostly to the
Europeans, but potentially to all
Bologna Center students) the
chance to complete their graduate
education at some excellent
European university. If we did this,
our integration in the European
academic context would be even
deeper.
But the biggest challenge of
all—in financial, intellectual and
organizational terms—is an idea
that has been floating around for some time,
i.e. the creation of a think tank. The Bologna
Center, since its founding, has basically
been a teaching institution. Although this
has never prevented its faculty from engaging
in cutting-edge research (it would be
only too easy to mention names), the
impressive results that many Bologna
Center professors have achieved have been,
by and large, the reflection of individual
efforts.
A think tank associated with the
Bologna Center would bring about a more
congenial context for research, would further
improve the intellectual environment in
which students and faculty operate, would
give us more and more visibility and,
depending on its juridical status, it might
even allow us to compete for the generous
EU funding that is usually reserved for
European research institutes. In a word, we
would gain in strength and flexibility, keeping
“wolves” at bay and turning “traps” into
opportunities.
Marco Cesa is Professor of International
Relations at the SAIS Bologna Center.
Professor Cesa's latest
book Allies Yet Rivals:
International Politics
in 18th Century Europe
was published this
summer by Stanford
University Press and is
available at amazon.com.
Summer/Fall 2010
3

TeChnology
& leaRning
at the bologna center
Are the new tools of Information Technology a sign of progress
in the classroom, or simply weapons of mass distraction?
by Bart R. Drakulich
iam afflicted by email, my child is
addicted to instant messaging, and her
children will probably communicate
with their friends in short, binary bursts
transmitted through the ether with their
brainwaves. The unrelenting pace of the
“Information Technology Revolution” has
dramatically changed the way all of us
receive, process, and transmit information.
Yet we in higher education have
entered this new era with our customary
trepidation, especially when it comes to
using technology as a learning tool.
During the last ten years or so, as technology
has truly begun to permeate our
lives at the Bologna Center, the challenges
of implementing these instruments have
often been overshadowed by the struggle
to manage and adapt to their unintended
consequences, both inside and outside of
the classroom. We bombard our students
with so many “important” email messages
each day that one of the first initiatives of
last year’s student government was the creation
of an email labeling protocol
to filter our emails. The
information overload from the
faculty and administration is
augmented by the sheer number
of messages our students send
each other. Today, as I write
this, eleven emails were sent to
the entire Class of 2010. One at
1:18 am begins,
“Hi, Sorry for the spam. If anyone
needs a flexible, medium
size bag for travel and plans to
go to D.C. next year, I’d love to
lend it out for the summer.”
At 1:00 pm, another student writes this gem,
“Sorry for the spam: Did anybody see
a dark green bag somewhere in his house?
I think I left it at some party, bringing
drinks.”
Setting aside for a moment the cosmic
symmetry of lost and found bags,
one cannot help but wonder how sorry
the senders really are when they share
such minutiae with the rest of us (in fact,
a search of the Johns Hopkins email database
revealed that “sorry for the spam” is
the most frequently used phrase, ever). 1
Yet, emails are actually on the wane, they
are this generation’s snail mail.
My 11-year-old daughter, whose forward-thinking,
early adopter father
reserved Gmail, Hotmail and Skype
addresses for her before she was born, no
longer bothers to read her emails.
1 - That is a fake statistic, I made it up.
Like her, our students now communicate
in real time with video chat, IM
(instant messaging), phone texts, Twitter
and Facebook feeds.
A time traveler from 1975, wandering
into our snack bar today, might wonder
why everyone is playing Battleship—
yet these students are not playing Milton
Bradley’s classic board game (E2? Miss.
B4? Hit!) but rather, are showing the
backs of their MacBook Pro to their lunch
partners while discussing the riots in
Thailand with a chum in the UK, or
exchanging opinions about the latest
financial reform package with their old
boss in New York. But most of what I’ve
described so far arose organically, outside
of the classroom, and has as much to do
with maintaining that “connectivity” this
generation craves as it does with furthering
our teaching mission. There is almost
a default assumption these days that, as
administrators, we are not fully “leveraging”
technology to implement “best practices”
inside of the classroom.
Compared to the business
world, where transformative
technologies have quickened the
pace of innovation and exponentially
improved productivity, we
seem to have only scratched the
surface with our Powerpoint
slides and ”smart classrooms.”
So how should we continue to
play to our strengths at the
Bologna Center, while adapting
to the expectations and learning
styles of future generations?
What, if anything, can technology
add to the experience of
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learning, and what responsibility do we
have to guide the process of implementation
and ensure that the right tools are chosen
and used effectively?
At the Bologna Center, we are fortunate
to have an IT Administrator, Paolo
Forlani, who combines the professional
skills from his corporate background as
an IT professional for one of Italy’s
largest supermarket chains with the
resourcefulness and “soft touch” one
needs to succeed in an academic environment.
Paolo and his able assistant,
Lorenzo Righetti, are continually modernizing
our infrastructure and looking
for ways to deploy the (admittedly limited)
resources at their disposal to provide
our students, faculty and staff with the
tools they need to communicate. We continue
to upgrade the multimedia capabilities
of our classrooms so that professors
can supplement their lectures with audiovisual
aids and, in many spaces, connect
by videoconference with colleagues
overseas.
On the horizon we have the broader
implementation of Blackboard, a course
management system that according to its
manufacturer is “the premier platform for
delivering learning content, engaging
learners, and measuring their performance.”
This web-based system has already
been used successfully at Johns Hopkins
for its language courses and the plan is to
expand its use across the SAIS curriculum.
That said, one cannot help but wonder
how our universities, and the great
professors of the past, managed all of
these years without such a tool—has
graduate school really been such an inferior
experience all along?
Of course it hasn’t. New technologies
have simply provided instruments which,
depending on how they are used, can
enhance the learning experience or, conversely,
degrade it rather significantly. For
example, the use of Powerpoint slides by
professors is controversial. The renowned
statistician Edward R. Tufte has written
extensively on the “relentless sequentiality”
of Powerpoint, its tendencies to “disrupt,
dominate, and trivialize content” and
its elevation of “format over content.”
Notwithstanding, Powerpoint, used adeptly,
can convey visual information in a way
that makes a salient point with great
impact. Unfortunately the skilled use of
Powerpoint seems to be rare, and for now
we do not provide training opportunities
to help employees make more effective
use of this oft-abused format.
The introduction of laptop use inside
the classroom is a fairly recent phenomenon
that has had benefits that are, at best,
mixed. Dr. John Medina, author of Brain
Rules and director of the Brain Center for
Applied Learning Research at Seattle
Pacific University, writes that,
“The more attention the brain pays to a
given stimulus, the more elaborately the
information will be encoded-and
retained. Whether you are an eager preschooler
or a bored-out-of-your-mind
undergrad, better attention always
equals better learning.”
Multitasking murders our attention span
and anyone who has ever watched (as I
have) a student juggle no less than four
separate application windows on their laptop
during a lecture can have little doubt
that this is as much a diversion from learning
as it is an enhancement.
This brings me back to Blackboard.
With its “webinars” and “personalized,
multimodal communication” its maker
claims that,
“Traditional classroom-centered learning
models just don’t apply anymore. Much
more than a course management
system, Blackboard Learn provides a
core set of tools for engaging and assessing
learners of every type—both inside
and beyond the classroom.”
Those of us who studied at the
Bologna Center already knew that traditional
classroom-centered learning models
don’t apply, but for different reasons
perhaps. Anyone with an internet connection
can “attend” online courses at
MIT, Princeton, Stanford or Yale for free,
with an endless choice of subjects (MIT
alone has posted almost 2,000 lectures on
its “Open Courseware” website, which
receives a million visitors per month—60
percent from outside of North America).
The lecture is, of course, the cornerstone
of any education; yet if the transmission
and exchange of information
from the podium were the primary draw
of the graduate experience, why do students
continue to seek out expensive
degrees when they have unlimited opportunities
for self-paced, online “webinars”
from prestigious institutions for free?
Clearly our tuition cannot be justified
solely due to the “piece of paper,” or the
benefits of being part of an exclusive
alumni network; there is an added, tactile
value to “being there” (which also
explains why video-conference lectures
tend to be poorly attended).
This value, I believe, can be gleaned
from another thing Medina wrote:
“Emotionally arousing events tend to be
better remembered.” He argues that the
latest brain science has proven beyond
doubt that when an intellectual experience
is anchored by an emotional experience,
“events persist much longer in our memories
and are recalled with greater accuracy
than neutral memories.”
When we think back
to that class where we had
an “aha!” moment, that
discussion with a professor
who convinced us to rethink
a position, or even that
debate in the bar with our
roommate that led us to
question one of our most
firmly held cultural tenets;
all of these “learning” moments
were probably accompanied
by an emotional response
of some sort which neither
necessitated nor precluded
a technological aid.
The professor that crafted a vivid narrative
that resonated with our own worldview;
our economics professor who used
an example from her personal background
to illustrate an economic principle that had
heretofore eluded us; the classmate from a
country traditionally antagonistic to ours
who explained the perspective of his people
in a fresh way. This kind of learning
has been taking place for fifty-five years
at the Bologna Center, and technology
cannot and should not substantially alter
its basic value. It could certainly enhance
the knowledge sharing experience, and it
may even degrade it if we are not careful,
but ultimately we must apply sound judgment,
and trust in a model of education
that has served its students well for over
half a century.
Bart R. Drakulich (MIPP05, U.S.) is Director
of Finance and Administration at the SAIS
Bologna Center.
Summer/Fall 2010
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Alumni Profile
SaiS
in PRaCTiCe
andRéS
guimón
(BC06/DC07, Spain)
by Odette Boya Resta
between traveling,
playing the trumpet,
and heading up a strategic
competitiveness project
in brazil, andrés guimón
—a bilbao-native—has little
free time. i caught up with
this young alumnus recently
and we discussed his current
projects, the economic crisis,
spanish politics, and even the
fifa World cup.
While at sais bologna,
guimón was a recipient of
the BolognaFiere fellowship.
andrés guimón
a lawyer by training, how did your time at
sais in bologna and later in Washington
influence your career path and your professional
interests?
In 2005 my career path was still rather
undefined. After working as a project analyst
for an NGO in Lima, I became interested
in studying development. When applying
to various M.A. programs, SAIS was at
the top of my list because of its rigorous
training in economics, its superb regional
programs, and the fact that it offered the
opportunity to study on both sides of the
Atlantic.
My time at SAIS was without a doubt a
life changing experience, both socially and
academically. I grew close to brilliant people
from a variety of backgrounds, which
made for a very rich and stimulating environment.
After my first academic year in
Bologna, and through funding from the
Latin American Studies Program, I gained
first-hand public sector experience working
on competitiveness policy issues at the
Inter-American Development Bank in
Bogotá. In Washington, in addition to my
coursework on development, I had the
opportunity to publish my first paper on
microfinance and work for the World Bank
on a short term consulting assignment.
In just two years, my interest in development
had become a passion. Living alongside
people with common interests; learning
from lectures and roundtables where economic,
political and social issues were constructively
debated; and engaging with
accessible staff and alumni—it all motivated
me to navigate the development world to
become a professional in that field. After
SAIS, I felt a lot better trained to do so.
the sais network: is it real and has it made
an impact on your professional development?
We often hear about the importance of networking.
I believe networking is not only
about meeting people, but also about creating
interactive relationships and cultivating
quality contacts proactively. In short, net-
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working requires a lot of effort. SAIS
played a key role in improving my ability to
network. As a student, I was constantly
exposed to practitioners and alumni through
a number of career fairs and social networking
events. I also benefited from seminars
on networking techniques and tools.
I was and still am very impressed with the
great effort that the Latin American Studies
Program puts into providing networking
opportunities for its students and alumni.
Throughout the last couple of years, I have
taken part in several events organized by the
program in New York, Washington, Madrid
and Brazil. These were a great opportunity to
expand my list of contacts and establish relationships
with other alumni working in the
same city and field. Also, by centralizing information
through a special career service unit,
the Latin American Studies Program is constantly
updated on interesting work opportunities
and alumni affairs. This structure helped
me connect with an alumnus who recommended
me for an interview at Competitiveness, the
company I work for today.
I am also looking forward to attending
the Bologna Center Class of 2006 reunion
during Alumni Weekend in Bologna next
year to see my classmates after five years.
microfinance is another field you have
worked and published in. tell me about your
perspective on microfinance? is it truly a
‘movement’ or simply a series of financial
transactions?
I understand microfinance to be a movement
that envisions a world in which low-income
households have permanent access to a range
of financial services to finance their incomeproducing
activities, build assets, stabilize
consumption, and increase their well being.
Apart from its obvious relation with
financial transactions—credit, savings,
insurance, and money transfers—microfinance
needs to be understood from a dimension
that is far broader, by looking at its
non-money aspects too. The core of most
microfinance programs go beyond mere
access and distribution of money, to deeper
issues of how money is utilized and invested
by low-income individuals. They essentially
integrate credit into larger developmental
processes. In this sense, I believe
that microfinance’s contribution towards
certain fundamentals of well being—namely,
community and kinship development;
leadership training; skills development;
trust building; SME management training;
and education and health—should not be
underestimated. This view is known in the
industry as the “credit plus” approach.
currently, you head a strategic project to
improve the competitiveness of furniture
companies in são paulo, brazil with a
spanish company, competitiveness, which
you call “pure sais in practice.” how so?
At Competitiveness, I lead a cluster initiative
that aims to improve the competitive position
of the furniture companies of the metropolitan
region of São Paulo. Through interviews,
workgroups, rigorous strategic analysis,
benchmarking trips, and public presentations,
the initiative intends to establish a long
term strategic road map for the furniture
cluster and to foster change among companies,
institutions, and the government.
At the public level, I work closely with
local partners making sure they fully harness
the power of cluster-based development
at a regional level. In this sense, I
transfer our cluster methodology and use the
conclusions of the strategic analysis to help
public institutions restructure their sectorial
and horizontal policies. At a micro level,
this initiative helps furniture companies
guide their strategic decisions while fostering
change by motivating firms and institutions
to work towards common goals.
At SAIS, I was able to learn and debate
many of the issues I am confronted with in
my daily work. In courses such as Latin
American Political Economy or A Survey of
Brazil, we engaged in in-depth discussions
regarding the competitiveness challenges
faced by the region, the importance of the
business environment, and the dynamics
impeding institutional change in Brazil. In
addition, the Value Chains & SME Growth
course specifically prepared me to lead this
initiative through case studies that helped
me understand the practical implications of
the value chain approach to development.
it is often noted that if greece, portugal and
spain are to become more competitive
within a single currency area, they must
have, among other things, below average
inflation. in your opinion, can spain, in particular,
turn its economy around or is it predestined
to fall prey to speculator attacks?
Macroeconomic stability is a necessary but
not sufficient condition to keep up competitiveness
levels in Spain. With monetary policy
being determined by the European Central
Bank in Frankfurt, Spain should focus on
building a growth model based on strong
local foundations to maintain investor confidence
and avoid speculator attacks.
Current skepticism about the Spanish
economy is precisely due to the fact that the
country’s economic boom during the last
decade was not based primarily on the
strength of the local economy, but was
largely attributable to external factors.
When the crisis erupted in 2008, bringing
huge declines in real estate prices, Spain
lacked other industries to cover for the sharp
decline in construction. Tourism and agriculture,
Spain’s two other main sectors,
have also been hard hit, while industry
makes up only 11.7 percent of GDP (compared
with 26 percent in Germany). To
make matters worse, Spain invests only 1
percent of GDP into research and development
of new technologies. Spain needs to
effect a profound structural transformation
towards a new growth model. With currency
devaluation not an option, it must instead build
a strong real economy. It may do so by eliminating
the distortions that were built up over
more than a decade, restoring its competitiveness,
reducing labor costs and housing prices,
and reallocating resources to high skill manufacturing
sectors. Only in that way will confidence
in the Spanish economy be restored.
some economists maintain that winning the
fifa World cup this year may help to boost
economic growth in spain. is this wishful
thinking? What are your thoughts?
Although it’s evident that economic reforms
are what will get Spain out of the crisis, having
won the World Cup could improve confidence
and optimism, and that could somewhat
raise consumption. Moreover, companies
such as Telecinco or Iberia could see
their shares jump, bringing some short term
happiness to the Spanish stock market.
Having said that, in my opinion, the most
important long lasting dividend for the country
has been the projection of Spain’s brand
name to the world during and after the final
match against the Netherlands. The World
Cup has been a huge free advertising campaign
and definitely Spain’s main marketing
event since the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.
Finally, it is worth mentioning how the
complexity of the country’s identity has
been highlighted in the World Cup’s final. A
day before the match, more than one million
Catalans marched on Barcelona to protest
government moves to curtail the region’s
autonomy. Twenty four hours later, there
were more Spanish flags than ever in places
like Bilbao or Barcelona. Unfortunately,
football alone won’t calm the tensions
between regional and national loyalties in
Spain. Only time will tell us how this issue
is finally put to rest.
Odette Boya Resta (BC99/DC00, U.S.) is
Communications Officer at the SAIS Bologna
Center and Editor of Rivista.
Summer/Fall 2010
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Student Profile
breaking barriers:
leyla mammadli
the first azeri Woman to attend sais bologna
by Rebekah Lipsky
leyla at the forum of azerbaijani students in europe,
brussels, european Union
most students find out they have been
accepted to SAIS after reading a
letter delivered by the post office.
Leyla Mammadli’s was handed to
her by a most unusual postman—Michael G.
Plummer, ENI Professor of International
Economics, who was in Baku to give a lecture
at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy. Leyla
was thrilled to receive the hand delivered
acceptance note. “It meant a lot to me that he
delivered it personally,” says Leyla.
“It showed me the level of individual
attention I would receive if I went to the
Bologna Center.” Leyla’s premonition has
proven correct. After enrolling, Leyla, like
many SAISers, struggled with pre-term economics
courses. Faculty members helped her
understand the material and encouraged her to
develop an appreciation for the discipline.
“Econ was a challenge,” quips Leyla. “I’ll
always be grateful to Dr. Plummer for helping
me to understand, and even learn to enjoy, economics.”
As the first Azeri woman to attend SAIS
Bologna, Leyla’s interest in International
Relations is strongly tied to her childhood in
Azerbaijan. As a four-year-old, Leyla joined
her parents on the streets of Baku to shout
“Azadliq” (freedom) during the months leading
up to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Inspired by the historic events she was witnessing,
Leyla decided to pursue a career as a
politician or a diplomat.
“I aspired to be a servant of the public,
working for the people of this newly independent
Azerbaijan.” Leyla’s career goals haven’t
strayed in the intervening years. After graduation,
the Energy, Resources & Environment
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leyla presenting azerbaijan day in the center’s
penthouse conference room
concentrator will return to Azerbaijan to
work for the State Oil Company of the
Azerbaijani Republic (SOCAR). Having
received a scholarship from SOCAR, she
is contracted to work for them for five
years after graduation. After that, she
hopes to run for political office.
“I am idealistic,” Leyla states with
pride. “I believe that a leader with a
bright intellect, a broad world outlook,
sound morals, and a dedication to public
service can help create a more democratic,
more responsible, and more developed
body politic.”
Leyla realized early on that she needed
to acquire extensive experience abroad
in order to realize her career goals. She
applied for and was accepted to a competitive
program run by the U.S. Department
of State called the Future Leaders
Exchange Program (FLEX). Designed to
increase ties between the U.S. and CIS
(Commonwealth of Independent States)
countries, the program sponsors fifty students
from each post-Soviet country to
spend a year in America.
As part of the program, Leyla completed
her last year of high school in
Cabot, Arkansas, a small town outside of
Little Rock. She lived with a host family
and loved learning about American culture.
“Because of the post-Cold War turmoil
in Azerbaijan, many people thought
of the U.S. as the enemy,” says Leyla.
“For me it was the land of freedom.”
Leyla integrated easily into her U.S. high
school, becoming president of the Key
Club (a U.S. honor society) and singing in
the church choir (even though she is
Muslim). She went to church every
Wednesday and Sunday with her Baptist
host family and enjoyed learning about the
new religion.
A requirement of FLEX is that all students
return to their home country for at
least two years after the program ends and
engage in local development projects.
Leyla attended Baku State University,
majoring in International Relations and
International Law. While at university,
Leyla was selected for a workshop for previous
FLEX students. She traveled to
Washington, D.C. and visited with senators,
diplomats, and other officials. The
trip solidified her interest in International
Relations and inspired her to continue
working toward her goal of becoming a
public servant. To further her understanding
of U.S. culture and politics, Leyla
spent a semester as an exchange student at
Columbia University. “When I saw the
Statue of Liberty I had tears in my eyes,”
reveals Leyla.
Leyla has always been passionate
about peacebuilding and conflict-resolution.
“Many people forget that Azerbaijan
is still nominally at war with its neighbor
Armenia,” states Leyla. “The NGO that I
founded, Azeri Youth Alliance, is dedicated
to helping Azeri youth, including
refugees and internally displaced people,
through education and community
engagement. We have about twenty
employees and over fifty volunteers and
fund our projects through grants and donations.
We teach refugees English and send
them to European and American universities
to improve their language skills and
gain international experience.”
As a student, Leyla interned with
UNDP/UNHCR. She worked on a project
called Peacebuilding in the Caucasus,
which focused on developing programs to
encourage women to actively engage in
peacebuilding and conflict resolution in
Nagorno-Karabakh (a disputed region
between Armenia and Azerbaijan). The
program was a joint effort between
Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, and
taught female leaders about conflict resolution
through conferences with UN and
local experts. Leyla was able to visit
numerous conflict areas, including
Tajikistan, Cyprus, Abkhazia, and South
Ossetia.
After graduating from university,
Leyla took a position as an Information
Officer with OMV Gas and Power, helping
to lobby the Nabucco Gas Pipeline
project in Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and
Kazakhstan. The proposed pipeline would
transport Azerbaijani natural gas from
Erzurum, Turkey to Baumgarten, Austria,
attempting to lessen European dependence
on Russian energy.
Leyla is passionate about her country
and frequently educates her peers about
Azerbaijan during class or over espresso.
In May 2010, Leyla formalized her efforts
by organizing an “Azerbaijan Day” at the
Bologna Center to educate students about
Azerbaijan’s history, culture, and current
challenges. In front of a packed audience
in the Center’s Penthouse, Leyla gave a
presentation about her country and
answered student questions.
After the presentation, students sampled
Azerbaijani desserts while Leyla performed
traditional Azerbaijani dances, one
of which was a group dance that got the
entire crowd on its feet.
“Before Azerbaijan Day, many
SAISers couldn’t find Azerbaijan on a
map,” Leyla says lightheartedly. “Now
they understand the key geopolitical
issues facing the country and its importance
on the world stage.”
Leyla Mammadli has always been a
trailblazer. From being the first Azeri
woman to study at SAIS Bologna, to being
one of few women working in
Azerbaijan’s oil and gas sector, Leyla has
never strayed from her ambitious goals.
This drive comes from an earnest desire to
improve her country. She believes “the
main challenge for Azerbaijan is that, as an
oil-rich, small country, and a bridge
between Europe and Asia, it needs a strong
and balanced foreign policy conducted by
open minded young politicians and diplomats.
I hope to use the skills I have learned
at SAIS to implement positive change for
the people of Azerbaijan.”
Rebekah Lipsky (BC10, U.S.) is a second-year
M.A. student concentrating
in Strategic Studies. A 2005 graduate
of the University of California, Los
Angeles, she previously worked as an
entertainment publicist in Hollywood.
Before coming to SAIS, she interned at
the International Relations Institute of
Cameroon and worked on new media
for Obama for America. This past summer,
she worked for Booz Allen
Hamilton in Tbilisi, Georgia. Currently,
she is interning with the U.S.
Department of State in the Office of
European Security and Political Affairs.
She is interested in U.S. foreign policy
vis-à-vis Russia/Eurasia, intelligence,
and economic development.
Summer/Fall 2010
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Bologna Feature
Bologna and all ThaT jazz
by Nizar Ghanem
“by and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with.”
duke ellington
the twentieth century kicked in with a new swing. It was the
age of jazz! Born in the United States through the fusion of
African and European music, jazz had an innovative relation
to rhythm and permitted an unprecedented degree of spontaneity
and individual expression. It was the music of the marginalized that
took over the mainstream carrying with it the diversity of sounds
that is at the heart of the American experiment, bustling with immigrants
from everywhere.
Italian jazz orchestras were founded during the 1930s by Italian
musicians, and despite the authoritarian regime’s anti-American cultural
views, jazz remained popular. The U.S. marines coming to Old
Europe during World War II added yet another push to the Italian
jazz scene. Jazz was then incorporated into local Mediterranean
rhythms as in the case of Renato Carosone with his famous “Tu vuo’
fa’ ll’americano.” It is no wonder that Bologna with its anti-fascist
past and its leftist swing would pick up this jazzy mood.
With its vibrant student community, a jazz scene quickly developed
in Bologna after the end of World War II. Amateur groups
such as “Hot Club Bologna,” “Circolo del Jazz,” and “Circolo
Goliardico del Jazz” appeared. Bologna became a destination for
lovers of jazz during the decades that followed with the European
jazz festival. One of the most important jazz festivals on the continent,
it attracted important names that performed in city theaters
and squares including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Miles
Davis, Duke Ellington and John Coltrane. In addition mythical figures
of African American music such as B.B. King and Ella
Fitzgerald played in Bologna’s squares and halls.
This year at SAIS Bologna, the Mediterranean Club organized
many a night out to attend Doctor Dixie Jazz Band shows, one of
the few original bolognese bands in town and one of the oldest amateur
bands in the world. The band was founded in 1952 under the
name Superior Magistratus Ragtime Band.
Since its foundation the band has participated in around 700 concerts
all over Italy and Europe and produced many recordings with
the participation of famous jazz artists like Gerry Mulligan and
Paolo Conte. An amateur band, it does not sell tickets and the attendees
are always invited through personal connections or by email
group, which contributes to the charm and authenticity of the experience.
Luigi Mercuri (BC10, Italy), a bolognese himself, and one of
the leaders of the Mediterranean Club says, “I wanted the people in
our program to see another face of Bologna and to interact with it. It
is very easy to get locked in our own circle, but Bologna has much
to offer in terms of artistic, political and musical movements.”
On another note, Nardo Giardina, a founder of the Doctor Dixie
Jazz Band, commented on the reasons for Bologna’s passion for
jazz, “Perhaps it is its strange characteristic of hedonism and
absolute freedom of imagination that has given jazz a long-lasting
fortune in Bologna.”
Bologna is also the home of many famous jazz artists. Often
called “the magic flute of Bologna,” Giorgio Zagnoni is a historical
figure and a local celebrity. An internationally renowned flutist, he
performed in New York, Munich, and Buenos Aires and in 2003 he
received from former Italian President Carlo Ciampi the title of
Great Officer, Merit Order of the Italian Republic for his contributions.
Zagnoni became the artistic director of Musicalmente
Bologna and founder of the Bologna Jazz Festival.
Steve Grossman, a renowned saxophone player, still lives in
Bologna along with other artists from every genre who were attracted
by Bologna’s relaxed and open-minded atmosphere.
The city has hundreds of small traditional osterie that dot the
various piazze and alleys. Jazz has trickled to these places with live
music shows. Osteria dei Poeti, for example, was built in the 16th
century and is also a good place to eat as you listen to jazz or folk
music. On the other hand, the most famous jazz places in Bologna
are Cantina Bentivoglio and Chet Baker’s Jazz Club, which are
known for quality of performances by artists such as James Moody,
Winton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Mike Stern and many others.
Alan J. Kuperman, former assistant professor at the Bologna
Center (and band member of the Bologna Center Fuzz that traditionally
plays during alumni weekends) has fond memories of Bologna’s
music scene, “One of the great things about Bologna’s jazz scene
was the intimacy—it was easy to get to know the musicians, many
of whom were incredible characters,” he reminisces. “Perhaps number
one, was Coco, whose real name is Pasquale Tesoro. He was
already in his eighties, but played a regular schedule. He actually
played with Frank Sinatra in around 1943 in North Africa.”
There are many stories swarming around the old streets of
Bologna and there in the middle of all of these histories lies the
SAIS Bologna Center facing the ancient University of Bologna.
Indeed, the best bolognese stories have not been written yet, and if
jazz is an expression of a staggering plurality, one can understand
why it found a place here.
Sources
Nardo Giardina, “Bologna, la Città del jazz,” ed. CLUEB (2002)
The musical history and tradition of Bologna—Twentieth Century,
www.comune.bologna.it/cittadellamusica/en/storia_tradizione/900.php
Interviews with Luigi Mercuri and Alan J. Kuperman in May 2010.
Nizar Ghanem (BC10, Lebanon) is a SAIS M.A. student who formerly
worked as a researcher at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies and
as a conflict resolution program director in Lebanon and Iraq. He has
also worked as an instructor at the Lebanese American University.
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presenting this year’s
ViSiTing PRoFeSSoRS
by John A. Gans Jr.
the bologna center is proud to welcome back, as full-time visiting professors, four previous adjunct
members of the faculty, professors mahrukh doctor, mark gilbert, richard pomfret, and arthur rachwald.
With their unique perspectives, remarkable scholarship, and excellent relationships with students,
they’ve left their mark at the center, and their respective expertise in latin america, europe,
economics and the transatlantic relationship will surely make their upcoming year at the center a success.
mahrukh
doctor
As a visiting associate
professor at
the Bologna Center
for the 2010-2011
academic year,
Professor Doctor is
once again returning to her bolognese roots
twenty-one years after graduating from SAIS.
Professor Doctor, who has taught at the
Center since 2005 and received the studentvoted
Johns Hopkins University Alumni
Association Excellence in Teaching Award
twice (2006-07 and 2009-10), finds the
Center—aside from the physical plant and
technological improvements—to have
changed little in two decades. “The tightknit
sense of community among the students,
the enthusiasm to learn and the frantic
pre-exam study sessions, accommodation
organized by Salvatore, even many
members of the faculty and staff are the
same as all those years ago,” she says.
As ever more Latin American Studies
concentrators begin their SAIS experience
in Bologna, the robust and growing program
in Bologna is benefiting from Professor
Doctor’s scholarship and insight. “With the
increasing importance of the G20 and therefore
its Latin American members and the
growing prominence of Brazil in many
international organizations, Europeans are
going to have to be more actively engaged
with the region,” she said. “Europeans are
able to relate very well to Latin America’s
strongly multilateral preferences, and both
regions like to emphasize their shared democratic
and cultural values.” For this reason,
Summer/Fall 2010
among others, Professor Doctor believes
gaining a European perspective on Latin
America is to the Center’s students’ benefit,
because it provides an “invaluable alternative
view to the usual available in American
universities.”
“It is no surprise that the students have
twice awarded Marukh our Excellence in
Teaching award because her energy and
teaching style are a wonderful complement
to the passion and intelligence of our students,”
says Bologna Center Director
Kenneth H. Keller. “But as Latin America,
most notably Brazil, continue to rise on the
international stage and the demand for Latin
American and international development
studies grows at SAIS, her unique scholarship
and perspective will make her an even
more valuable part of the Center’s unique
offering.”
Raised in India, Professor Doctor is a
leading scholar on Latin America and political
economy. Her forthcoming publications
range from a book on Brazil’s role in managing
the challenges of globalization to
another on industrial development policy.
Professor Doctor has published widely in
political and economic journals throughout
the United States, Europe and Latin
America. In addition, Professor Doctor
serves as a Contributor on Brazil and
Mercosur issues to Oxford Analytica and as
a Non-Executive Director to BlackRock
Latin American Investment Trust in the UK.
The opportunity to teach at the Bologna
Center provides Professor Doctor, a fulltime
lecturer in political economy at
University of Hull, with a welcome opportunity.
“The highly internationalized body
of students and professors make for a rich,
nuanced and dynamic learning experience
for everybody involved,” says Doctor.
“SAIS Bologna students keep you on your
toes—and that is fun.”
mark
gilbert
Over five semesters
teaching at the
Bologna Center
starting in 1999,
Professor Gilbert,
who is returning
this fall as a visiting associate professor, has
found SAIS students to be “enthusiastic,
hard-working and very keen on class discussion.”
The Center’s students are the
main reasons three of his favorite classes
taught were at the Center and one reason he
is so excited to return to via Belmeloro.
Professor Gilbert is an associate professor
of Contemporary International History
at the University of Trento. He has taught in
Italy for more than a decade, frequently in
Bologna, and understands the Center’s
unique relationship with its host city and
country. “I think the Center means quite a
lot to Italy,” said Professor Gilbert. “It is a
source of pride that a leading American
institution should be based here.”
“Mark has been among our most popular
adjunct professors in European
Studies. His encyclopedic knowledge of
European postwar history and his abiding
interest in covering all of Europe and not
just the larger countries makes him a natural
complement to the wider remit of the program,”
says Erik Jones, the Center’s
Professor of European Studies. “Mark’s
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scholarship, especially his recent history of
post-1960s Europe, which gives significant
weight to states often viewed only as
‘peripheral,’ provides a solid foundation
upon which to build an analysis of the current
economic crisis as it is unfolding.”
Recent concerns about fiscal solvency
and sovereign debt among European Union
member nations “underline the importance
of doing European Studies,” explains
Professor Gilbert. “The current crisis
reminds us of something that should not
have been forgotten, namely that ‘Europe’
is a complex and many faceted place facing
serious economic and political challenges.
Specialists on the different areas of Europe
are likely to be in demand in the future.”
Future specialists studying in Bologna
this fall and the Center’s already strong
European Studies program will benefit
from Professor Gilbert’s perspective.
During his time at the Center, he will concentrate
on the big themes in contemporary
European history: totalitarianism, the
Cold War and imperialism. Professor
Gilbert will also teach a course, Peace and
War, which will look at the ethics of war
with illustrations drawn mostly from contemporary
European history.
This class and the Center’s students will
benefit from Professor Gilbert’s scholarship.
His forthcoming works include a contributed
chapter on contemporary Italian
foreign policy, another chapter on the historiography
of EU-U.S. relations, and a book
on the main developments in European politics
since the 1960s.
The economic crisis provides the
Center’s students and professors alike the
unique opportunity to see how EU member
nations meet new challenges. Professor
Gilbert will be watching and discussing
how Italy, the country he knows best, will
respond to the economic crisis. Despite
concerns, he insists, “Italy has a great
capacity to surprise foreigners.”
Richard
Pomfret
A professor of
economics at the
University of
Adelaide in
Australia, Pomfret
will return to the
Center as visiting professor this fall having
already accomplished a rare trifecta: he has
taught at both of the SAIS campuses—
Bologna and Washington—and at the
Hopkins Nanjing Center in China.
It is no surprise to Professor Pomfret
why he keeps returning to SAIS: the students.
“Most of the students have other
experiences since completing their undergraduate
studies, and that makes the specialized
seminars especially interesting,”
he says. “In addition, we benefit from a
continuous flow of interesting visiting
speakers and from the location advantages
of each campus.”
The Bologna Center, where Professor
Pomfret served as associate professor of
economics from 1979-1988, offers a
unique advantage to these students. He
believes a year in Bologna and another in
D.C. allows students to “see current events
from the front row in both Europe and in
the USA.”
“What makes the Bologna Center
unique is the international student body
studying in a setting where most are foreigners
and forced to adapt,” Professor
Pomfret says, “The results are lifelong
friendships and a sense of community”.
Lastly, students benefit from “Bologna’s
special character as a university town and
as a transport hub,” which make it a “compact
intellectual city” with access to all the
major cities of Europe.
“It is wonderful to have Richard back in
Bologna and back at the Center,” says
Bologna Center Director Kenneth H.
Keller. “At a time of global and European
economic crises, his truly global perspective,
his research interests in economic
development and international economics,
and his ability to help students understand
events outside the classroom are invaluable.”
Professor Pomfret has published over a
hundred papers on international development
and economics as well as seventeen
books, including Investing in China 1979-
89; Ten Years of the Open Door Policy,
Constructing a Market Economy: Diverse
Paths from Central Planning in Asia and
Europe, The Central Asian Economies
since Independence and textbooks on international
trade and development economics.
In addition to writing and teaching in the
United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific
region throughout his career, Professor
Pomfret has been an economic consultant
to the UNDP, the OECD, and the ADB,
among other organizations.
This scholarship and his professional
profile will inform Professor Pomfret’s
classes at the Center, including a new
class on the economies of Central Asia.
His experience with Central Asia began as
a UN economic advisor on market-based
economics to former Soviet states. He
recently returned to Kyrgyz Republic as a
conference speaker just weeks after the
revolution there, which Pomfret believes
was a result of the “failure of the country
to establishsatisfactory political and economic
institutions in the two decades
since independence.” Despite this,
Professor Pomfret believes Kyrgyz
Republic is the “trading entrepot of
Central Asia” and its recently passed June
referendum a key step in moving the
nation beyond the “super-presidential
regimes of the region.”
arthur
Rachwald
Rachwald, Professor
of Political Science
at the U.S. Naval
Academy, believes
his stints as visiting
professor at
the Center are an “intellectually enhancing
experience.” A native of Poland, he
will return to the Center this fall for the
third time, as a visiting professor. The
previous visits to Bologna were in 2003
and during the 1996-1997 academic year.
Professor Rachwald, author and editor
of several books, including Enlarging
NATO: The National Debates and
Transatlantic Relations: The View from
Europe, considers SAIS, and particularly
the Bologna experience, a “microcosm of
the transatlantic relationship” and the
teaching-learning experience at the
Center a “comparative experiment in
international affairs.” On the fact that the
Center’s transatlantic immersion takes
place on the footsteps of the Roman
empire, Professor Rachwald asks, “Could
you ask for more?”
The timing of this visit to the Center
is propitious given the recent economic
crisis. Professor Rachwald believes the
recent Greek economic crisis was more
than just an economic matter, it was a
“transatlantic event and a manifestation
of the economic and political proximity
between two sides of the West.” As with
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ologna center facUlty - Recent Books
other events in the relationship’s long
history, the causes, the fallout and the
fixes will provide remarkable opportunities
to learn and think.
“It will be very nice to have Arthur
back teaching again as he knows both his
subject and the Bologna Center extremely
well,” says John Harper, Professor of
American Foreign Policy and European
Studies at the Center.
This year at the Center, Professor
Rachwald will focus on the transatlantic
relationship and continued Cold War tensions
through a class titled Problems of
Transatlantic Relations, classes on
Central European, Soviet and Eastern
European politics and a research seminar
on NATO. According to him, The NATO
seminar will help students to “analyze
the ongoing evolution of the Alliance and
assess its prospects in terms of either
drifting toward oblivion or becoming a
global security organization” while the
class on Comparative Central and East
European Politics will “focus on the difficult
legacy of the nineteenth century
rule by imperial powers, the impact of
fascism and communism and the development
of new Central Europe within the
framework of EU and NATO.”
Some might suggest that the Bologna
Center could not be more different than
the U.S. Naval Academy, but Professor
Rachwald disagrees. He explains, “Both
academic institutions are guided by a
well defined sense of mission, commitment
to excellence, and both prepare
graduates for international service.
Moreover, both take teaching and
research very seriously, and the pedagogical
underpinnings of both institutions
are rooted in the diversity of students and
faculty as well as in healthy balancing
between conceptual and applied aspects
of knowledge.” According to Professor
Rachwald, the opportunity to visit and
teach at the Center can benefit both him
and the Academy by providing “a professionally
enriching and stimulating opportunity
to gain new perspectives and to
share them with students and faculty in
Annapolis.”
Politica in italia 2010:
i fatti dell'anno e le
interpretazioni
Erik Jones, co-editor
Il Mulino - 2010
i Fratelli musulmani
nel mondo
contemporaneo
Karim Mezran, co-editor
UTET Libreria - 2010
PanoRama 2010
su scenari internazionali
e di crisi
Karim Mezran, co-author
Gan Editions - 2009
una splendida
cinquantenne.
la Quinta Repubblica
francese
Gianfranco Pasquino,
co-editor
Il Mulino - 2010
Cooperative
enterprise:
facing the challenge
of globalization
By Stefano and Vera
Zamagni
Elgar - 2010
dizionario
di economia civile
Stefano Zamagni,
co-author
Città Nuova - 2009
action and Reaction:
women and Politics
in the islamic
Republic of iran
By Sanam Vakil
Continuum Press
(Forthcoming 2011)
Regionalism in east
asia: why has it
flourished since 2000
and how far will it go?
By Richard Pomfret
World Scientific Publishing
Company, Singapore - 2010
Challenging acts
of international
organizations Before
national Courts
August Reinisch, editor
Oxford University Press
2010
oPeC and
international law
August Reinisch, editor
Boom Eleven International
2010
The emergency
State/how to end
america’s obsessive
Quest for national
Security and Reclaim
our democracy
By David C. Unger
Penguin Press
(Forthcoming 2011)
John A. Gans Jr. (BC08/DC09, U.S.)
received his M.A. from SAIS in 2009. He
began his Ph.D. in Strategic Studies at
the SAIS Washington campus in August
2010.
le parole della politica
By Gianfranco Pasquino
Il Mulino
Bologna - 2010
l’industria chimica
italiana e l’imi
By Vera Zamagni
Il Mulino - 2010
Summer/Fall 2010
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ologna center facUlty - News
a laSTing legaCy
Building at university of minnesota to be named
in honor of SaiS Bologna Center
director and Professor kenneth h. keller
mahrukh doctor, visiting associate
professor at the Bologna Center, was
awarded the Johns Hopkins University
Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching
Award during the Commencement ceremony
for the Class of 2010 on May 28.
One SAIS Bologna student described
Doctor as “a caring professor who knows
how to challenge students.” Another commented
on her “wealth of knowledge, talent
for teaching, dynamism in the classroom,
and ability to inspire the class.”
Doctor also received the Excellence in
Teaching Award in 2007, attesting to students’
ongoing appreciation of her teaching.
the University of Minnesota Board of Regents has approved naming the Electrical
Engineering/Computer Science building in honor of Kenneth H. Keller, former university
president and chemical engineering professor. Keller served as the University of
Minnesota’s 12th president, from 1985-1988.
The building was completed during Keller’s presidency and is located next to his departmental
home of Amundson Hall. After he resigned, Keller spent two years at Princeton
University and seven years at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He returned
to the University of Minnesota in 1996 as a professor in the Humphrey Institute of Public
Affairs. Keller was designated President Emeritus by the University in 2006.
The naming will be effective July 1, and the formal dedication will take place in the fall.
winrich kühne Receives Bundesverdienstkreuz
order of merit from german government
in May German President Horst Köhler awarded Winrich Kühne, the Steven Muller Professor
in German Studies, the Bundesverdienstkreuz for his outstanding contribution to improving
German and international conflict prevention and management capabilities. This Order of Merit
of the Federal Republic of Germany is the highest tribute the country can pay to individuals for
services to the nation. It was instituted in 1951 by Federal President Theodor Heuss.
Professor Horst Siebert (1938-2009), who formerly held the Heinz Nixdorf Chair in
European Integration and Economic Policy at the Bologna Center, also received the
Bundesverdienstkreuz.
Stephen white, adjunct professor
of European Studies at the Bologna
Center, was elected a Fellow of the British
Academy in July. This is the highest distinction
that is available in the United
Kingdom in the humanities and social sciences.
White is already a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh, which is the
Scottish equivalent, and holds the James
Bryce Chair in Politics at the University of
Glasgow. A specialist on post-Soviet politics,
his new book, Understanding
Russian Politics, will be published next
year by Cambridge University Press.
matthias m. matthijs, visiting
assistant professor at the Bologna Center
in 2009-2010, was selected as the winner
of the 2010 Samuel H. Beer Prize for the
best dissertation on British politics. The
selection committee described Matthijs’
dissertation, “The Political Economy of
Crisis Making: The United Kingdom from
Attlee to Blair,” as “a sweeping study of
the changes—some significant, some less
so—in British electoral politics in the
post-war period. In August Matthijs’ book,
Ideas and Economic Crises in Britain
from Attlee to Blair (1945-2005), was
published by Routledge.
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What’s Going On
What’s Going On
at the Bologna Center
Upcoming Conferences and Lectures Fall 2010
highlights...
planning to travel to italy soon?
stop by to take part in our conferences and lectures.
www.jhubc.it/events
September 22- September 23, kenneth n. waltz,
Ford Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of
California, Berkeley and adjunct senior research scholar at
Columbia University, will visit the Bologna Center as a special
lecturer and deliver a two-part lecture. The first is titled The
Making and Testing of Theories and what Scientists and
Philosophers of Science say about Theory, and the second
Rational Deterrence Theory: Is it Rational? Is it a Theory?
october 6, amb. Thomas Stelzer (BC83, Austria) assistant
Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency
Affairs in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the
United Nations will speak at the Bologna Center on The United
Nations After Copenhagen: Challenges and Opportunities.
october 14, lloyd B. minor, provost and senior vice president
of Academic Affairs at Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore will deliver a lecture titled Bismarck to Beveridge to the
Blues. Minor is the 13th provost and senior vice president for academic
affairs of The Johns Hopkins University.
october 21, 28 - november 4, 11, gary Sick, adjunct professor
of International and Public Affairs and senior research scholar at
the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University,
will visit the Bologna Center as a special lecturer and deliver four
lectures titled The United States in the Persian Gulf.
october 21, amb. wolfgang ischinger, Chairman of
Munich Security Conference, Head of Government Relations at
Allianz SE, and former German Ambassador to the United States
will speak at the Bologna Center.
november 6, the Bologna Center will host the author’s workshop
for Politica in italia / italian Politics, the annual review
of political life in Italy organized by the istituto Cattaneo.
november 8, the Bologna Center will join the istituto per
affari internazionale (iai) in hosting an international conference
on European Security and the Future of the Transatlantic
Relationship in Rome.
november 11, amb. Roberto Toscano (BC67/DC68,
Italy), former Italian Ambassador to India and Iran, will deliver a
lecture, Iran and Democracy, as part of the Robert & maria
evans lecture Series in italian Studies.
The ethnic Conflict Studies Program is an ongoing program
at the Bologna Center that investigates the causes and consequences
for ethnic conflict, illuminates the impact that governments,
non-governmental organizations, and individuals have had
or may have on the initiation of ethnic conflict, and consider
means of preventing and halting ethnic conflict (including thirdparty
intervention). The program is supported by Jack and Carol
Wasserman and the Wendy’s Arby’s Group Foundation.
Schedule is subject to change.
See www.jhubc.it/events for more details, a program
of other events happening at the Center, and to subscribe
to our events RSS feed.
enzo gRilli memoRial leCTuRe
February 21, 2011, The enzo grilli memorial
lecture will be delivered by mario draghi, governor of
the Bank of Italy, chairman of the Financial Stability Board
and former vice chairman and managing director of Goldman
Sachs International. For information on the Friends of Enzo
Grilli initiatives please visit www.jhubc.it/grilli.
Summer/Fall 2010
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EVENTS and
conferences
at the bologna center
march 2010
islamic ethics and liberation in europe
Tariq Ramadan
professor of islamic studies,
oriental institute,
University of oxford,
senior research fellow,
doshisha University (kyoto, Japan)
and lokahi foundation (london),
president of the
european think tank
european muslim
network (emn)
in brussels
february 2010
the continuing relevance of keynes
lord Robert Skidelsky
emeritus professor of political economy, department of economics, Warwick University,
former sais bologna center faculty (1974-1976)
april 2010
islam in britain:
difficult conversations,
Unexpected resilience
Catherine Fieschi
director of counterpoint,
the british council’s cultural
relations think tank, london
and erik jones,
professor of european studies
and co/organizer of the
Islam and European Politics series of
the Ethnic Conflict Studies Program
which is supported by Jack and carol Wasserman
and the Wendy’s arby’s group foundation
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may 2010
new perspectives
in nuclear disarmament
and non-proliferation.
the npt review conference
ambassador Carlo Trezza
chairman of the advisory board
of the Un secretary general
for disarmament matters,
former president of
the conference
on disarmament (2003),
alumnus of the
bologna center,
1969
may 2010
how to Waste your life
in six bold moves:
bologna center class of 2010
commencement
and closing ceremony
Beppe Severgnini
Journalist for the
Corriere della Sera
author of Italians.
Il giro del mondo in 80 pizze
and Un italiano in America
June-July 2010
ipsi academic co-coordinators, i. william zartman,
professor emeritus, the Johns hopkins University sais
and P. Terrence hopmann, professor of international relations and director of the
conflict management program, the Johns hopkins University sais, address participants.
the international peace and security institute (ipsi) organized a program this summer
at the sais bologna campus in cooperation with sais Washington.
January 2010
bush’s Wars, obama’s choices
eliot a. Cohen
robert e. osgood professor of strategic studies, director of strategic studies program, director of philip merrill center for strategic studies,
the Johns hopkins University sais, and kenneth h. keller, director of the sais bologna center and professor of science and technology policy, moderator
Summer/Fall 2010
17

aFRiCa
53 CounTRieS, one union
Bologna CenTeR STudenTS ConTRiBuTe
BRieFing Book To high-leVel aFRiCa SummiT
“There is still no peace for many
African people, ” remarked Romano Prodi,
chair of the U.N.-African Union Peacekeeping Panel, to a hall of African dignitaries,
international officials, representatives from top multilateral and regional organizations, and
SAIS Bologna Center students. This reflection set the tone for Africa: 53 Countries, One Union,
the high-level conference that took place on May 21 at Palazzo Re Enzo, facing Bologna’s Fountain
of Neptune. The Foundation for World Wide Cooperation, together with the Center, organized the
conference, which was sponsored by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, African Union
and European Commission. Its aim was to highlight the need for continental unity in Africa as a prerequisite
for political, social and economic development. Issues debated by panelists ranged from African regional
integration to conflict prevention to issues of national sovereignty. Among the distinguished participants were
Abdoulaye Wade, president of Senegal; Thabo Mbeki, former president of South Africa; and Asha Rose Migiro,
U.N. deputy secretary-general. The Foundation for World Wide Cooperation was founded by Prodi, former prime
minister of Italy, former president of the European Commission, and convener of the conference. Bologna Center faculty
members Winrich Kühne, the Steven Muller Professor in German Studies, and Michael G. Plummer, ENI Professor of International
Economics, were on the panel. The main deliverable for the conference will be a road map document on African integration as a means
for peace and development. This event was the first of a series of three conferences; the others will take place in 2011 in Washington, D.C.,
and in 2012 in Addis Abeba. Over on via Belmeloro, this event generated great enthusiasm, representing an opportunity for students to
apply what they have learned at SAIS in a “real world” situation. The conference program materials included a briefing book on
political, economic and social issues prepared by several of the Center’s students who appreciated this chance to write professional
quality briefings on issues they are passionate about. Ravi Singh (BC10, U.S.) was project manager of the editorial team,
assisting Erik Jones, professor of European Studies, who coordinated the writing,
editing, and production of the briefing book. “The process of writing, editing,
and publishing the briefing book was truly a collaborative effort that brought
together students from across concentrations and from many academic
and professional backgrounds,” says Singh, an Energy Resources &
Environment concentrator, now beginning his second year at SAIS
in Washington. “Only by working as such a diverse group of
students were we able to cover the breadth and depth of the
issues discussed in the book. We brought together not only
African Studies and International Development concentrators
but also students from areas such as European Studies and
Strategic Studies. We all believed that only through such a
collaborative approach would we be able to add new perspective
and solutions to the on-going challenges facing the continent.”
“A large number of extremely capable young graduate
students, many of whom with considerable experience in
Africa, and all of whom believe passionately in the future
of that continent, have contributed to the research,”
noted Director Kenneth H. Keller. This conference,
along with various other experiences throughout
the academic year, demonstrates how policy
and research can come full circle for SAIS
Bologna Center students. Please visit
www.fondazionepopoli.org
to view video of the
conference sessions.
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View
the SAIS
Bologna students’
briefing
book at www.
jhubc.it/
policyand
research.
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detangling
the “euRoPe
and iSlam”
debate
by Saskia van Genugten
director keller attending a european politics and islam lecture
What preoccupies contemporary
society? A glimpse at the
section “New Titles” in any
mainstream bookstore often
reveals an awful lot. In Europe, be it in Paris,
London or Amsterdam, bookstores speak with
one voice: there is an obsessive concern with
“identity,” “religion,” and especially with the
“rise of Islam.” Opinions on integrating
Muslim migrants or on the (in)compatibility
of Islam with so-called western values, have
become part of the daily discourse at all levels
of society. More than with other issues, the
exchange of opinions translates into a cacophony
of visions, often based on partial information
and expressed through simple one-liners.
The SAIS Bologna Center took up detangling
the issues at stake. It did so with the
SAIS Year of Religion (2009-2010) in mind,
and in the framework of the Ethnic Conflict
Studies program of the Bologna Center. With
the generous aid of the Jack and Carol
Wasserman Fund and the Wendy’s/Arby’s
group foundation, via Belmeloro witnessed a
semester-long seminar on European Politics
and Islam. The series consisted of a total of
eleven public lectures, related to eleven academic
papers. Over the summer, these papers
will be bundled and published as a special
issue of the academic Journal West European
Politics. The contributors make for an interesting
cast of characters—nationally, religiously
and politically diverse. Professor of
European Studies Erik Jones acted as weekly
moderator (while also being one of the contributors).
Judging from the size and loyalty
of the audience, the overall exercise has been
a successful one.
In general, the focus was as much on
single country cases (France, Britain,
Germany, Italy and the Netherlands) as on
thematic issues. Central questions ranged
from “What place for Islamist actors in EU
foreign policy making” and “How to incorporate
Islam into the European legal system
and the welfare system?” to “What identity
for a second and third generation of Muslim
immigrants?” and “What can Muslim immigration
add to western society?
thus, the seminar brought up
many big questions, generating
many viewpoints, many points
of discussion and many points
of disagreement.
the simple one-liners quickly
broke down in tatters.
the different angles of analysis
created a positively confusing
—and therefore stimulating—
arena of debate.
While informed views of western pundits
such as Olivier Roy were enough to
make one reconsider established ideas,
Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan simply
baffled and bemused the audience. As a
well-spoken Muslim advocate of Muslim
integration in Europe, his views differed
drastically from those heard at the level of
European politics. Ramadan dared to put
emphasis on what Islam could add to the
European space, instead of on what the
European space should take away from the
Muslim. With his reasoning, a solution for
financial and economic crises seemed in
sight. Inscia’allah.
But what where the big answers? As
many SAIS graduates would put it: “It
depends.” Certainly, cross-country patterns
emerged. Islam has become a permanent
feature of the European landscape, interactions
between “Europe” and “Islam” transform
the whole as well as the parts. Clearly,
the existence of a form of terrorism using
Islam as its justification has led to a “securitization”
of Islam, to the detriment of a more
reasonable debate on immigration and integration.
At the political level, the situation
has contributed to the rise of more nationalistic
and xenophobic forms of politics in
which cultural statements are no longer considered
taboo. And, in all nationally diverse
contexts, the ones suffering most from the
situation seem to be those individuals of a
second or third generation in search of an
identity which includes both Europe and
Islam. According to others, those afflicted
just as badly are the segments of European
society who lose out from globalization and
immigration and those who find shelter in a
clear and unquestioned national identity.
Below these broader patterns, more idiosyncratic
situations are playing out at the level
of political reactions. Some countries’ policy
makers have taken permanence as a starting
point, whilst elsewhere Islam is (still) denied
existence. Some countries’ state structures are
aimed at accommodating whatever religion or
belief, elsewhere the rationale is to meet the
needs of no religion whatsoever. Differing
histories play a role, some are colonial, some
are not. Differing ethnic cultures make for
unalike external influences. And on top of
that, much of the moving forward or backward
seems highly dependent on political
wills—of the Muslim communities, the non-
Muslim majority, as well as of the political
elites. In sum, in good post-modern fashion,
the debate has to include the many Islams and
the many Europes that exist. More than ever,
the debate cannot take place through an
exchange of simple one-liners. Though there
is no guarantee against the cacophony. The
“European Politics and Islam” seminar series
at the SAIS Bologna Center proved this once
again, in a positive and motivating way.
Saskia van Genugten (BC07/DC08, the
Netherlands) is a Ph.D. candidate in
European Studies. Her research is on
Italian and British relations to Libya. She
co-organized the seminar series with
Professor Erik Jones, co-edits the special
issue of West European Politics, and lectured
in the series itself on “Islam in The
Netherlands.”
Summer/Fall 2010
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Back to Berlin
by Monika Noniewicz
after the exam rush finally
drew to a close and the
uplifting commencement
ceremony had ended, a group
of Bologna Center students set
off to visit Berlin—a trip that
was once a tradition here
has been brought back this year
by Professor Winrich Kühne,
the Steven Muller Professor
in German Studies.
With Bologna still on our minds, we traveled
to a city whose richness engulfed us at
once. Berlin is a place where history, politics
and culture come together to form a vibrant
combination that we were able to explore
and enjoy for the next couple of days. Since
most of us had never been to Berlin before,
the trip started off with a tour around the
city, but instead of taking a walk, we
hopped on a boat that took us down the
Spree River along some of city’s most picturesque
sights. Our hosts—Professor
Kühne and our fellow student Sebastian
Fuchs (BC10, Germany)—were ready to
answer the questions that were piling up and
provided a personal and lively alternative to
the standard guidebook entries.
We continued our exploration of the
city’s sights the following morning, this
time on foot, and the route we took eventually
led us to the impressive building of the
Bundestag—the seat of the lower legislative
chamber. In a lively debate, SAIS students
grilled one of the party leaders,
Wolfgang Gehrcke and his colleagues on
issues such as the viability of the party’s
agenda, measures to be taken in the current
crisis, the impact of multinational corporations
on the economy, and many more.
A meeting in an equally impressive
setting took place at a Command Center of
the German Army in Geltow, Potsdam.
During the formal presentation and casual
lunch that followed, Lt. General Glatz and
his colleagues gladly answered our questions
about German military involvement
around the world and how such a tremendous
effort is planned and coordinated.
What many of us valued most, however,
was the chance to take a closer look at the
stained glass memorial at sachsenhausen concentration camp
military—an environment most of us were
all but familiar with.
“I was impressed by the students
and how interested they were in
different dimensions of Berlin, how
they engaged in interaction with
speakers and lecturers. I think the
students got really involved with
what they saw here, with the
historical perspective on Berlin.”
Winrich Kühne, Steven Muller Professor
in German Studies
For those interested in the civilian component
of peacebuilding operations, the
meeting at the German Center for
International Peace Operations (ZIF) provided
an opportunity to get a closer look at
jobs in the field. Tips and advice were followed
by a first-hand account by one of the
staff members who recently came back
from a two-year assignment in Sudan,
where she served as a special assistant of
the Special Representative of the Secretary
General with the UNMIS mission.
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Meetings were the most prominent, but by
no means the only highlight of the agenda.
Being in Berlin, a city loaded with history, after
a year of trying to unravel the events of the Cold
War in classrooms, the historical dimension of
the trip made a powerful impression on us.
While walking along the remains of what used
to be a wall dividing the city for decades, we
wondered what life was like back then and realized
how challenging Germany’s passage to
reunification was. Having two residents of
Berlin among us was naturally an added benefit
and we took advantage of this by asking
Professor Kühne and Sebastian a multitude of
questions. Their accounts let us see events we
were studying not so long ago from a different,
more personal angle.
“As a former resident of Berlin, it was
very special for me to show the city to my
fellow international students and see their
reactions. The Berlin Wall, I felt, and the
feeling of formerly being imprisoned
struck people a lot. The sense of surprise
about positions of the German left,
especially with the American students,
and the level of critical questions with
Die Linke were very remarkable.”
Sebastian Fuchs (BC10, Germany),
Trip Co-ordinator
The feeling of almost being able to touch history
continued with day trips to Oranienburg and
Potsdam. In the former we walked in awe around
the premises of KZ Sachsenhausen, a Nazi concentration
camp later used by the NKVD. Potsdam
offered us a glimpse into the history of Prussia
against the setting of the Sanssouci Castle, whereas
at the Cecilienhof residence we heard the story
of the famous conference that took place there and
sanctioned Germany’s partition for years to come.
There was ample discussion on the way back to
Berlin as we sought to come to terms with what we
witnessed during both trips.
“It’s wonderful that the students had a
chance to come to Berlin and explore the
city. This trip used to be a tradition at the
Bologna Center and the Berlin alumni are
really glad that it has been revived.”
Mark Maskow (BC99, Germany),
Head of the Berlin Alumni Chapter
Despite such an impressive schedule, we were
still able to get a taste of the city’s cultural richness
at the Museum Island, as well as sample
some traditional cuisine at quaint restaurants in
Potsdam’s Dutch District and during lunch at the
StändigeVertetung in Berlin. The restaurant
which once was the permanent representation of
the West German government in the German
Democratic Republic, hence its name, is as
much an eatery, as it is a political storybook. The
walls are filled with photos of figures from the
Bonn government and the menu offers a broad
selection of food from the region.
“As students of international relations,
we need more than what we learn in
the classroom or read in the newspaper
to appreciate the dynamics at work in
any country’s actions. This trip represents
just the kind of experiential learning
that can help create a more informed
and nuanced understanding.
By including not only visits with political
and military leaders but also infusing
the trip with history and culture,
we begin to appreciate the contexts
in which policy is made as well as
what shapes those making the policy.”
Allison Hart (BC10, U.S.)
No SAIS trip would be quite complete without a
get-together with alumni. The Berlin Alumni
Chapter held a dinner for us at the stately premises
of the German Council on Foreign Affairs
(DGAP).We were extremely impressed with the
hospitality of our hosts and the exquisite traditional
meal we enjoyed. Time flew as we discussed
career paths ranging from journalism to
political consulting and the importance of the
SAIS experience. Above all, we saw how the
community that forms at SAIS can stand the test
of time—something we look forward to experiencing
for years to come.
highlights from the berlin trip, photos by allison hart (bc10)
Monika Noniewicz (BC10, Poland) is a second
year M.A. student concentrating in Conflict
Management. Prior to her studies at SAIS, she
worked as a freelance reporter for the Polish
Radio and volunteered at the Helsinki
Commission for Human Rights in Warsaw.
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a maTCh
made in aFRiCa
Theodros Serge Roux (BC10, Côte d’Ivoire/France)
and melissa Basque (BC10, Côte d’Ivoire/France)
teddy and mel just before the start
of the côte d’ivoire vs. portugal
match in port elizabeth,
south africa, fifa World cup 2010
sais never ceases to amaze me—no
other institution seems to attract the
kinds of students it does. in the spring i
sat down for a chat with melissa ‘mel’ basque
(bc10, côte d’ivoire/france) and theodros
‘teddy’ roux (bc10, côte d’ivoire/france),
two fiancés who have been dating for more
than ten years and who arrived together to
study at the sais bologna center.
in a way i was reminiscing. as half of a
sais couple myself—one that has made its
way around the world together before ending
up in bologna—i find it interesting how
two life paths intertwine in this field of international
relations which can very easily pull
people in opposite geographical directions.
talking to this dynamic duo confirmed to
me that you really can have it all: the best
degree, meaningful career experiences, and a
unique academic identity. and like many
bolognese couples will agree, you can do it
all in due.
Bound for Bologna
A world citizen whose origins are a mix of Italian, Eritrean, French and Ivorian,
Teddy grew up in Côte d’Ivoire, where he witnessed firsthand the impact of political
unrest. Africa is simply his passion, and he continues to analyze and try to understand
the continent’s dynamics. He brings to SAIS a sound footing in the business
world. As a financial analyst, he worked for Nestlé in China and for Ericsson and
the health industry in Canada.
Mel, a self-described chameleon, has roots in Côte d’Ivoire, La Réunion, Mali
and France and also grew up in Abidjan. She benefited from a multinational education
which sparked her enthusiasm for environmental issues in developing
countries. A Six Sigma Analyst (Green Belt), Mel was a consultancy intern at
Ecosecurities in Oxford where she conducted research on carbon emissions and
climate change mitigation. In Montréal she worked at Bombardier Aerospace as
a business analyst and later at Accenture.
The two met at lycée in Abidjan and have been together ever since. Both Mel
and Teddy obtained Bachelor in Administration degrees from the University of
Montreal-HEC, majoring in Finance and Economics, and speak a handful of languages
between the two of them. Their joint decision to study at SAIS was made
“after meeting an alumnus whose experience,” they say, “stayed with us.”
Teddy
Teddy is interested in post-conflict economics, capacity building and private equity
and is a Conflict Management and International Finance concentrator at SAIS.
His short-term goal is to work in private equity or management consulting. “I
want to contribute to attracting capital in African markets and to help African
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) move up the value-chain,” he says. For
the long term, he envisions creating his own consulting firm help develop a
stronger African private sector, increase the employment rate, and transform the
continent’s vast natural and human potential into better living conditions.
“Promoting the private sector in Africa cannot be excluded from related issues
such as political stability, education, healthcare and a sound understanding of the
global mechanisms affecting the world economy. That is why a degree from SAIS
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is so attractive to me. It will arm me for the
battle I look forward to fighting.”
Calling himself an “Afro-optimist,”
Teddy believes strongly in the future of the
continent. “I am determined to make a difference
in the life of thousands and, if possible,
millions of people, old and young,
theodros serge roux
across Africa,” he says. Teddy held an
internship this summer in Sierra Leone with
the country’s Investment and Export
Promotion Agency—a good start for what
appears to be an ambitious agenda.
On the Bologna Center experience,
Teddy reflects, “We benefit from other students’
interests across fields—we learn a lot
from one another.” In addition, he was
impressed with the range of speakers in the
Seminar Series. “The lectures were an
important part of the learning process and
we often got the opportunity to meet with
speakers. Lord Skidelsky and Tariq
Ramadan were particularly memorable.”
mel
Mel’s SAIS concentration is Energy,
Resources & Environment (ERE) and the
ability to complete this specialization is one
of the reasons she chose SAIS. “The possibility
to combine Economics with ERE
holds the promise of new perspectives and
solutions. This is why an MBA degree
would not have been sufficient to meet my
goals,” she says.
Studying at a U.S. institution in Europe
is an asset for Mel. “It’s great to have two
perspectives—a European one, and a U.S.
one—from here you can build your own
point of view.”
She seeks to gain fieldwork experience in
African countries other than her own as well
as in the U.S. before returning home one day,
and has already gotten started this past summer
by interning with UNDP’s Environment
and Energy Unit in Burkina Faso.
“In Bologna, as a class, we were able to
connect with students from different backgrounds
and experiences who share similar
interests and goals,” says Mel.
Wherever she goes Mel is active in her
community. Over the past few years she has
been a volunteer at UNICEF in Montréal
and has taken part in fundraising activities
as part of the Accenture Corporate
Citizenship Council whose mission is to
“make a difference” through local initiatives—in
this case in the city of Montréal.
Some of the projects she took part in were a
tree planting initiative; the Ferrari Dream
Drive to benefit terminally ill children at the
Montreal Children’s Hospital; and Centraid
that helps individuals escape economic,
social and cultural poverty through a variety
of fundraising programs.
extracurricular
Love of travel is practically a prerequisite
for SAISers. Mel and Teddy enjoyed
Bologna but also managed to fit in some
leisure travel with visits to Florence, Siena,
Chianti, and the Dolomites during the year.
They celebrated the close of their academic
year with a stop in South Africa to attend
some of the FIFA World Cup soccer matches
before beginning their internships. “We
would not have missed the opportunity to
attend this historic tournament, hosted for
the first time ever on the African continent,”
says Mel.
Another accomplishment of this can-do
couple was the founding of an African Club
at the Bologna Center. The aim of the club
was to put a spotlight on the positive aspects
of the continent, as opposed to what Mel
and Teddy refer to as “the mantra of conflict
and poverty.”
The club boasted over thirty members,
only four of whom hailed from the African
continent. Some of the African Club activities
during the year included organized discussions
with Assistant Professor Matthijs
on Trade issues and Challenges in Sub-
Saharan Africa; with Professor Luciani on
Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa; and a lunch
discussion with Professor Kühne on the
Outlook on Peacekeeping Operations
around the World. There were also informal
talks organized among African Club members.
Mel presented a book review of
Dambisa Moyo’s Dead Aid; Karen Miller
(BC10, U.S.) discussed her experience
working in microfinance in Ghana; and Mia
Warner (BC10, U.S.) delivered a presentation
on piracy in Somalia.
Other events and activities included a
trip to attend London Business School’s
Africa Day 2010 whose theme was “Africa
melissa basque
Evolves: Next steps for Development;” A
viewing of the documentary film The
Assassination of Patrice Lumumba: an
African Nationalist Caught in the Cold War
introduced by Professor Harper. Club members
attended the 4th edition of
CinemAfrica organized by The Centro Studi
G. Donati of Bologna to view the film Izulu
Lami (My Secret Sky).
A word of advice from Mel and Teddy
for other IR couples out there: keep the
separations (and distances) as brief as possible
and be proactive in job searches. This
is the best way to keep two busy academic
and professional lives moving along the
same path.
OBR
as Rivista goes to print, the sais community
is still reeling from a terrible
accident in which mel and another second
year ma student, Julia bachleitner
(bc10, austria), were struck by a car in
Washington d.c. teddy and moran stern
(bc10, israel), were with mel and Julia,
but thankfully were not injured. all four
students completed their first year of
the ma program at the sais bologna
center. mel recovered quickly and is
doing well. our thoughts and prayers are
with Julia, her family and friends.
Summer/Fall 2010
23

Ciao a tutti!
as we begin a new academic year at the Center, let me
take a moment to thank you all for the generous support
you provided to the Bologna Center during the past
academic year which ended in June 2010. I am pleased to report
that alumni constituted 80 percent of our donor pool: a great
achievement for the Bologna Center showing how engaged our
alumni are and how much they care about the life of the Center.
In addition to supporting the building campaign, the funds raised
have provided vital support for student fellowships and program
activities. There is no question that these contributions make an
enormous difference in the quality of the Bologna experience. On
behalf of the development team, let me say Grazie mille!
Although we can all celebrate this past year’s fundraising
successes, it’s still the case that only 10 percent of our alumni make
the Bologna Center a recipient of their philanthropy. Yet we know
from the activities of our chapters, from the letters we receive,
from the participation in alumni events, from the interest in Rivista
and our other publications, that alumni continue to feel connected
to the Center many years after they leave, enthusiastic about it
and grateful for the impact that their year in Bologna had on their
lives. Their support—your support—can allow others to benefit
from that experience as well. During the course of the year, we
will offer you several opportunities to join our community of
donors: Rivista will reach you again in the spring and our Annual
Fund appeals will reach you twice this year in the fall and spring.
Bologna
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CenTeR
Our website makes online donations very easy, and our team in
Bologna is always available if you want to learn more about giving.
We have also recently entered a network of European
foundations, Transnational Giving Europe, which facilitates tax
deductibility of donations to the Bologna Center from several
European countries. In the following pages, please check to see if
your country is listed. If it is not, contact us to find out whether
other agreements are in the works.
As Director Keller indicates in his message, the Bologna Center
is developing plans to strengthen its role as an academic and
policy research center in international relations.
Our fundraising priorities for the coming year will be precisely
in that direction, notably: fellowships, program support and the
annual fund. And, as he also notes, our building campaign has
successfully reached 99 percent of its target. With ongoing class
initiatives, we anticipate the successful completion of the campaign
and, even more than that, with several attractive naming
opportunities still available we may have the opportunity to
exceed our goal! Join us for a major building campaign celebration
during Alumni Weekend 2011 (April 29-May 1, 2011).
Philanthropy plays a fundamental role in the operation of the
Bologna Center as well as its future and through it you can
participate in shaping the future world of international relations.
Most of all, remember: every gift makes a difference.
Grazie,
Gabriella Chiappini
Director of Development
on these two pages, images of academic life at the bologna center
Summer/Fall 2010
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how To make
to the Bolog
online:
Visit www.jhubc.it/onlinedonations
By Check:
Make your check payable to
“Johns Hopkins University
Bologna Center.” Attach a note
to indicate your gift designation
(for instance Annual Fund)
or, if applicable, indicate your
gift designation in the “note”
section of your check.
Mail it to the Development Office
in Bologna.
By wire transfer:
Contact development@jhubc.it
Tax deductible donations to the
Bologna Center can be made
from the following countries:
For donors in Belgium
Through an agreement with the
King Baudouin Foundation
(KBF), donors in Belgium can support
the Bologna Center and benefit
from a tax-deduction in accordance with
Belgian Income Tax Code, art.104.
Donations can be made by wire transfer to:
Account holder: King Baudouin Foundation
Bank: Banque de la poste
Bank address: rue des colonies (P28)
1000 Bruxelles
IBAN: BE10 0000 0000 0404
BIC: BPOTBEB1
Designation: “TGE-Bologna Center-IT-JHU“
Online donations will be available soon on
www.kbs.frb.be
new!
Please also send an email to
development@jhubc.it specifying the
amount and the designation of your gift for
proper tracking of your donation.
For donors in Canada
The Johns Hopkins University is an approved
charity in Canada fully recognized by the
Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency.
Therefore, contributions to the Bologna
Center are tax deductible. An official gift
receipt valid for tax purposes in Canada will
be issued by the Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore.
Fill out the giving card and send it with your
donation in Canadian dollars to:
Elaine Dorsey
Director of Data Administration
Development and Alumni Relations
The Johns Hopkins University
Suite 2500 - 201 N. Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21201 U.S.A
Ph: (410) 625-8370, Fax: (410) 625-7445
Email: elaine@jhu.edu
Please also send an email to
development@jhubc.it specifying the
amount and the designation of your gift for
proper tracking of your donation.
For donors in FRanCe
Through an agreement with the Fondation de
France, donors in France can support all divisions
of Johns Hopkins University, including
the Bologna Center, and benefit from a tax
deduction in France.
Donations can be made by:
check to:
Fondation de France
Ghislaine Rumin, 40 avenue Hoche
75008 Paris
Beneficiary of your cheque must be:
Fondation de France
Please write on the check OR in an accompanying
note: “Fondation de
France/500477/Johns Hopkins University
(USA) Foundation”.
Wire transfer to:
Caisse des Depots et Consignations
56, rue de Lille, 75356 Paris 07 SP
IBAN: FR67 4003 1000 0100 0010 0222 L76
Adresse Swift:CDCGFRPP
Code banquet: 40031 - Code guichet: 00001 -
Clé RIB: 76
N° de compte: 0000100222L
Titulaire du compte: Fondation de France
Reference: “500477/ Johns Hopkins
University (USA) Foundation”
either way, also send an email to
development@jhubc.it specifying the
amount and the designation of your gift for
proper tracking of your donation.
For donors in geRmany
Tax-deductible contributions to the Bologna
Center can be made through the Verein der
Freunde des Bologna Center at the following
coordinates:
Sparkasse Essen Konto 274 001
BLZ 360 501 05
Verwendungszweck:
“Bologna Center General Purpose”.
Please also send an email to
development@jhubc.it specifying the
amount and the designation of your gift for
proper tracking of your donation.
For donors in iReland
Now tax-deductible contributions
to the Bologna Center can
be made through The Community
Foundation for Ireland.
Donations can be made by wire transfer on
the Foundation’s account at the following
coordinates:
Account Name:
The Community Foundation for Ireland Ltd
Bank account: 23538655
Bank Name: Bank of Ireland
Sort Code: 90-14-90
Bank Address: Lower Baggot
Street,Dublin 2,Ireland
IBAN Code: IE94 BOFI 9014 9023 5386 55
Swift Code: BOFIIE2D
Designation: Bologna Center
new!
Please also send an email to
development@jhubc.it specifying the
amount and the designation of your gift for
proper tracking of your donation.
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a giFT
na CenTeR
For donors in iTaly
Alumni in Italy can make their tax deductible
contributions to the Bologna Center through
the Associazione Italo-Americana “Luciano
Finelli” / Friends of the Johns Hopkins
University. Please visit:
www.italo-americana.org/donors.
Contributions may be made by:
bank transfer to:
Unicredit Banca, Filiale Bologna 3307 -
Piazza Aldrovandi 12/A - Bologna
IBAN code: IT04R0200802457000003630627
SWIFT code: UNCRIT2B
Beneficiary: Associazione Friends of the
Johns Hopkins University
Gift designation/causale: Bologna Center
credit card: Download the donation form
from the Association website,
www.italo-americana.org/donors and mail it
to the addresses indicated on the form for
processing.
either way, also send an email to Lisa
Gelhaus at lgelhaus@jhubc.it and
development@jhubc.it specifying the
amount and the designation of your gift for
proper tracking of your donation.
For donors in the neTheRlandS
Tax-deductible contributions can be made
through the Stichting Johns Hopkins
University - Bologna Center: S’Gravenhage,
Postbank - Girorekening 5659006.
Please also send an email to
development@jhubc.it specifying the
amount and the designation of your gift for
proper tracking of your donation.
For donors in Poland
Now tax-deductible contributions
to the Bologna Center can be
made through The Foundation for
Poland. Donations can be made by
wire transfer on the Foundation’s
account at the following coordinates:
Fundacja dla Polski
ul. Narbutta 20/33
02-541 Warszawa
BRE Bank SA
45 1140 1010 0000 5294 4600 1001
new!
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Designation: Bologna Center - Italy
Please send also an email to
development@jhubc.it specifying the
amount and the designation of your gift for
proper tracking of your donation.
For donors
in SwiTzeRland
Tax-deductible contributions can
be made through the Swiss
Philanthropy Foundation for
donation by wire transfer. For the
Swiss Philanthropy Foundation bank coordinates,
send an email to contact@swissphilanthropy.ch
specifying your name, preferred
mailing address and the beneficiary of your
donation (Bologna Center).
new!
Please also send an email to
development@jhubc.it specifying the
amount and the designation of your gift for
proper tracking of your donation.
For donors in the uk
Gifts to the Bologna Center can be made in a
tax efficient manner through The Bologna
Center of the Johns Hopkins University UK
Charitable Trust. This allows donors to take
advantage of the Inland Revenue’s Gift Aid
Scheme in which UK tax payers are able to
augment their gift to charity. Inland Revenue
gives the charity the basic rate tax the donor
had paid. In addition, higher rate tax payers can
reclaim the difference between the basic rate
and the higher rate on their annual tax reclaim.
Download the forms from:
www.jhubc.it/SUPPORT-THE-BC/uk.cfm
Or request the forms from Eileen Flood at
eileen_flood@blueyonder.co.uk
Please also send an email to
development@jhubc.it specifying the
amount and the designation of your gift for
proper tracking of your donation.
For donors in the uSa
Contributions to the Johns Hopkins
University SAIS Bologna Center, are taxdeductible
in the USA. An official gift receipt
valid for tax purposes in the USA will be
issued by the Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore.
Contributions can be made:
online visiting the website
www.jhubc.it/onlinedonations
by check
Make your check payable to “Johns Hopkins
University Bologna Center.” Attach a note to
indicate your gift designation or, if applicable,
indicate your gift designation in the
“note” section of your check.
Mail it to the Development Office in Bologna
(see address below) or, if you prefer, to:
Elaine Dorsey
Director of Data Administration
Development and Alumni Relations
The Johns Hopkins University
Suite 2500 – 201 N. Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21201 USA
Phone: (410) 625-8370, Fax: (410) 625-7445
Email: elaine@jhu.edu
if your country is not
on this list or for more
information on how to give
to the bologna center,
please contact:
Clarissa Ronchi
Development Coordinator
Johns Hopkins University
SAIS Bologna Center
Development Office
Via Belmeloro 11
40126 Bologna - Italy
Tel. +39 051 2917821
Email: cronchi@jhubc.it
www.jhubc.it/giving
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CLASS OF 1968
FELLOWSHIP
on the occasion of their
40th anniversary in 2008,
the Bologna Class of 1968
decided to celebrate this special
reunion by establishing a
fellowship to benefit a Bologna
Center student every academic
year starting in 2009-2010.
The first Class of 1968
Fellowship recipient was
Essakkati Hayat (BC10, the
Netherlands), born in the
Netherlands from Moroccan
parents. She is determined to
dedicate her knowledge and
expertise to the service of those
who are unable to take
advantage of opportunities
due to lack of education,
independence and financial
means. For this reason, she
Fellow
concentrated in Conflict
Management at the Bologna
Center.
“The Bologna Center has
immensely contributed to my
academic skills for which I am
deeply grateful. I had the honor
to meet with the Class of 1968
leader, Helmut Dorn.
His kindness and genuine
curiosity about my life here in
Bologna and my ambitions
made an impression.
This fellowship encouraged
me to make an attempt to join
the ranks of future studious
SAISers as a future alumna,”
says Hayat.
FONDAzIONE DELLA CASSA
DI RISPARMIO IN BOLOGNA
FELLOWSHIP AND
BOLOGNAFIERE FELLOWSHIP
the relationship between
Fondazione della Cassa di
Risparmio in Bologna and the
Bologna Center has been a long
and productive one spanning
almost thirty years and providing
support for conferences,
academic programs and fellowships
for Italian and Eastern
European students. The last two
fellowship recipients were Elia
Cusimano (BC10, Italy) from
Palermo and Daniel Palazov
(BC10, Bulgaria) from Burgas.
Elia obtained a B.A. degree
in International and Diplomatic
Sciences from the University of
Trieste. His academic interests
focus on Justice and Economics
and his future career plans
include broadening the legal
aspect of international
investments. Daniel graduated
from Sewanee: The University
of the South with a B.A. degree
in Political Science and
Economics. From an early age
he was fascinated by the impact
of globalization on international
relations and after graduation he
moved to Washington, D.C. to
participate in the Europe
Program at the Center for
Strategic and International
Studies (CSIS). At the Bologna
Center he concentrated in
International Law and
Organizations.
“The Fondazione Cassa di
Risparmio in Bologna
Fellowship was instrumental in
realizing my dreams at the
Bologna Center. Without the
generous support of the
Foundation and Roversi Monaco,
I would not have been able to
learn so much in the fields of
study I have always found fascinating.
I was able to participate
in a meeting meant to express
my gratitude to Fondazione
Cassa di Risparmio and to Mr.
Monaco personally, and the
encounter left me thoroughly
inspired. I am now more than
ever motivated to bring my
studies at SAIS to a successful
conclusion and hopefully one
day I will be able to help others
the way Mr. Monaco and
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio
have helped me fulfill my
dreams,” says Daniel.
The relationship between
BolognaFiere and the Bologna
Center started in 1995 on the
occasion of our 40th
anniversary, and ever since that
celebration the Bolognese
exhibition center has been
providing support for
fellowships. The eleventh
BolognaFiere Fellowship recipient
was Andrea Iorio (BC10,
Italy), who came to the Center
with a Bachelor in International
Economics and Management
from Bocconi University in
Milan. ln recent years, Andrea
has traveled around the world,
in particular to the Middle East
and Asia, and has developed a
great interest in international
relations and development.
HENRY TESLUK
FELLOWSHIP
in 1997 Thomas Tesluk
(BC81/DC82, U.S.),
Chairman of the Bologna
Center Advisory Council, and
his wife Kathleen (DC83, U.S.)
established a fellowship at the
Bologna Center to support a
student from Ukraine in memory
of Tom’s father, Henry
Tesluk. The twelfth Henry
Tesluk Fellowship recipient
was Gunta Niparte (BC10,
Latvia) who obtained her B.A.
degree in Politics and
International Relations from
Hull University, in England.
At the Bologna Center her
concentration was in Russian
and Eurasian Studies and her
career aspiration in the short
run is to work for the Latvian
Foreign service.
“My Bologna Center
fellowship which was supported
through Henry Tesluk
Fellowship funds meant a lot
both to me and my family. It
was a real pleasure to meet
Thomas Tesluk in person and
learn more about the great
work his father Henry Tesluk
had begun in supporting
graduate students. During our
meeting I received some useful
practical advice for my future
career and for life in general.
The meeting gave me a boost of
energy and confidence to
continue to “think big,” as well
as reaffirmed my passion for
international relations,”
says Gunta.
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MARIO
POSSATI
FELLOWSHIP
MULLER AND
MCGOVERN
FELLOWSHIP
ROBERT AND
MARIA EVANS
FELLOWSHIP
UNICREDIT
BANCA
FELLOWSHIP
in 1996, the Mario Possati
Fellowship was established by
the Industrialists’ Association of
Bologna in conjunction with
Marposs Spa. Since then, every
year the fellowship has been
awarded to a Bologna Center
student from Eastern Europe.
The fourteenth Mario Possati
Fellowship recipient was Danica
Hanz (BC10, Serbia) who
obtained a B.A. degree in
International Relations from the
University of Geneva. Danica’s
academic interests focus on
human rights, in particular in
Central Europe and the Western
Balkans. Since 2007, Danica has
been actively involved in the
activities of numerous NGOs in
ships
the human rights field. At the
Bologna Center she concentrated
in Russian and Eurasian Studies.
“The Mario Possati
Memorial Fellowship has
allowed me to undertake exceptional
studies in a cosmopolitan
and high quality university such
as Johns Hopkins SAIS. In my
study of the troubled history of
the former Yugoslavia, I seek to
promote and enable bridges to
be built between war-torn peoples
and foster constructive dialogues
among all stakeholders in
Eastern Europe and beyond. At
SAIS, I’m learning and acquiring
the knowledge and tools that will
be necessary throughout my
career to achieve that goal.
Moreover, discovering Italian
culture and traditions in Bologna
is a valuable asset and a unique
experience,” says Danica.
in 2008 Steven Muller, Johns
Hopkins University president
emeritus, and his wife, Jill
McGovern, established a fellowship
at the Bologna Center
to support a student for the
two-year SAIS Master’s program.
The second McGovern-
Muller fellow was Alexis
Below (BC10, Germany) with a
degree in International
Relations from the Dresden
University of Technology.
Before coming to the Bologna
Center, Alexis spent a semester
at Peking University and also
worked at the Directorate for
Crisis Prevention and Peace
building in the German Federal
Foreign Office in Berlin. At the
Bologna Center he concentrated
in Conflict Management.
“Thanks to Dr. Muller and
Dr. McGovern, I could spend a
fabulous year at the Bologna
Center. Receiving the Steven
Muller and Jill McGovern
Fellowship was crucial in my
decision to pursue a master´s
degree at SAIS. I was therefore
quite excited to talk to my
donors via videoconference. I
was able to extend a heartfelt
thanks for their support and tell
them about my time at SAIS
thus far. Dr. McGovern was
very warm and welcoming,
and we had a lively talk that
extended far beyond my
academic life,” says Alexis.
the Robert and Maria Evans
Fellowship honors two
people whose dedication and
commitment to the Bologna
Center leave an indelible mark.
Bob Evans’ eleven years as the
director of the Bologna Center
was the longest tenure except
for the founder, C. Grove
Haines. As director, he helped
make SAIS better known
throughout Europe, secured the
Center’s finances, enhanced its
ties to the community and
increased the endowment threefold.
His wife Maria is still one
of the most devoted and everpresent
supporters of the
Bologna Center.
The ninth Robert and Maria
Evans Fellowship recipient was
Araz Aminnaseri (BC10, Iran)
with a degree in Electrical
Engineering from the Iran
University of Science and
Technology and an M.A. in
Public Policy from the
University of Teheran. Araz is
particularly interested in the
transition to democracy in the
Middle East.
Through his studies he
plans to build a proper
framework for his future
research and academic
profession in politics which
will be aimed at producing a
more indigenous literature on
democratization for the Middle
East and on contributing to the
evolution of a practical political
reform agenda in this region.
the relationship between
UniCredit Banca and the
Bologna Center has been a long
and productive one spanning
almost thirty years providing
support for conferences,
facilities, and fellowships. The
fourteenth UniCredit Banca
Fellowship recipient was Patrick
Flanagan (BC10, Ireland). He
attended the University College
of Dublin for his undergraduate
degree then he took a position in
Capital Markets for the Allied
Irish Banks and worked as an
analyst at Accenture. He traveled
to North Africa, Sub-
Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia,
Eastern and Western Europe.
Continuing his obligations to
social justice and global poverty
alleviation, he has selected
International Development as
his concentration at SAIS and
will continue to focus on
African issues.
“The UniCredit Banca
Fellowship has afforded me the
opportunity to be part of this
grouping. I have gained
substantially from the
inter-disciplinary approach to
education at SAIS—to be able to
analyze policy and subsequently
write policies, one must be able
to recognize and understand
different views. This certainly
seems to be a quality that
President Canosani, President
of UniCredit Banca, appreciates.
His depth of knowledge is
indicative to what the Bologna
Center seeks to instill in its
students,” says Patrick.
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Monica Gruder Drake
Alice G. Kelley
Douglas W. Lister
David S. Mason
Sharon W. Mason
Jurgen H. Ranzmayer
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Ralph V. Eickhoff
Douglas R. Norell
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Geert E. Van Brandt
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Karen S. Brown
Theresa M. Chen
John T. Garrity Jr.
Bianca Lattuada
Edouard Maciejewski
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Eric O. Fisher
Alain L. Grisay
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Jennifer Innes
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Labro Clades
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Harlan M. Sender
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Eric R. Biel
Peggy A. Clarke
Janet G. Francisco
Thomas K. Hanshaw
Jennifer Johnson-Calari
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Geraldine P. Kelly
Margaret J. Mottaz
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Robert J. Quartell
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Anne W. Erni
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Roderick Pace
Matthew C. Sola
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Peter A. Burbank
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Catherine M. Farry
Suzanne Justus
Ryan N. Krueger
Maria D. Mitchell, Ph.D.
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Dennis L. Richards
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Rhys H. Williams
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Joachim Fels
Jan H. Keppler, Ph.D.
Rosa Kim
Reinhold Knapp
Elizabeth D. Phoenix
Gary Portuesi
Caroline Straathof-Nordholt
Richard M. Strean, Ph.D.
Lawrence J. Wippman
class of 1988
Arthur D. Boyd Jr.
Margaretha A. Dehandschutter
Jeannine E. Johnson-Maia
Helene J. Rekkers
Henric J. Van Weelden
Anthony M. Zamparutti
class of 1989
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Gretchen A. Birkle
Kevin D. Brownawell
Michael H. Brush
Capucine Carrier
Andrew S. Cohen
Pietro del Bono
Leanne D. Galati
Ajay Kaisth
Daniela Z. Kaisth
Norbert Knittlmayer
Susan E. Matteucci
Anneliese L. Monden
Robert E. Patterson III
Brenda L. Pearson, Ph.D.
Adrian D. Trevisan
Bertram R. Ulrich
Judith M. van Walsum Panzar,
Ph.D.
class of 1990
Robert G. Angevine, Ph.D.
Mimi Burke
Jeanine T. Corvetto
David E. Earling
Nina M. Gafni
Martina M. Ganzera-Veraszto
Liam P. Harvey
Eric L. Johnson
Asiye D. Jones
Nathaniel I. Land
Tanya H. Lolonis
Tanya Mazin
Kristin O. McKissick
Kimberly M. Murphy
Beth M. O’Laughlin
Michaela Sulke-Trezek
Salman Zaheer
Audrey A. Zuck
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Laia Castello Tarrida
Jonathan A. Golnik
Simone Mesner
Michael F. Molloy
Marcelle F. O’Connell
Jennifer L. Reingold
Joseph J. Roevens Ph.D.
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Gudmundur Audunsson
Janet D. Balakian
Julia G. Baumgarten-Rozek
Katherine F. Di Pietro
Mary P. Fenu
Charles O. Gnaedinger
Elizabeth J. Goldstein
Christopher J. Goncalves
Anthony J. Harper
Ilaya R. Hopkins
Catherine C. Jarmain
Kimberly D. Mahling-Clark
Jonathan S. Mandel
Cynthia Marshall
James B. Mathias
Terry A. Pratt
Mark A. Quinn
Peter A. Thornton
Laura R. Weir
Helga L. Ying
class of 1993
Sharon F. Grewal
Benjamin E. Hein
Jan H. Panek
Richard P. Price
Steven G. Shafer
Abby R. Turk
class of 1994
Carl E. Garrett
Monica N. Hertzman
Carrie C. Hitt
Julia H. Messitte
Zachariah P. Messitte
class of 1995
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Lorna Brough
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Katherine F. Buckley
Phillip N. de Assis
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Michela B. Hartl
Elisabeth J. King
Stephen T. Loynd
Dennis J. McAuliffe, Jr.
Karaca Mestci
Marc L. Mezey
Eavan O’Halloran
Pia Pialorsi
Andrei Popov
Andrew G. Sandor
Benjamin P. Sessions
Meera L. Shankar
Oliver Sitar
Catherine M. Valega
Marc R. Young
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Cory V. Gnazzo
Laurie M. Guzzinati
Karissa T. Kovner
Thomas R. Palumbo
Charles L. Park
Dana Rysankova
Jeffrey D. Sigal
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Cynthia L. Greene
Elizabeth M. Jost
Susan B. Leavitt
Kathleen B. MacDonald
David W. Schupak
Juergen P. Stein
Stephen F. Vogel
class of 1998
Leslie M. Hand
Guusje Korthals Altes
Ugo Solinas
Justin C. Tyson
Florian Von Oppenheim
class of 1999
Anne E. Andreassen
Christina V. Balis, Ph.D.
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Rachele Gianfranchi
Daniel P. Marino
Olga- Yu Marino, Ph.D.
Alexander C. Ruck Keene
Jason Simpson
Luke A. Tougas
Wolfgang Wagner
Silvia Zucchini
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Beverly F. Barrett
Vanessa Friedman
Kristin Greene
Nils C. Junge
Janice M. Starzyk
Jonathan Starzyk
Jakob Szucsich
Christopher J. Wild
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Christa Clapp
Samantha P. Davis Goldstone
Daniel E. Ingber, J.D.
Tom Ro
Ana Carolina San Martin
Paul M. Yeung
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Joshua E. Brann
Gatis Eglitis
Robert F. Jenney
David A. Landes
Afsheen Lebastchi
Jolanda Profos
Christine M. Salerno
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Jennifer C. Arnold
Goetz Bechtolsheimer
L. Headley Butler
Charles C. Carter
Pavlo Chernyshenko
Ashley S. Ching
Sander K. Cohan
Jacquelyn M. Dille
Gregor C. Feige
Filippo J. Gamba
Blair Glencorse
Johan Gott
Julie D. Hackett
Jessica M. Holzer
Caitlin Hughes
Eleanor T. Keppelman
Mary E. Kissel
Sarah K. Leddy
Jennifer D. Linker
Mary Morrison
Fumiko Nagano
Andrew T. Natenshon
Peter F. O’Brien
Grant E. Rissler
Thomas Stenvoll
Sheila R. Ward
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Kristof A. Abbeloos
Benjamin S. Bain
Joanna Buckley
Alastair Coutts
Yoshino Funaki
Benjamin P. Gardner
Joost Gorter
Saverio Grazioli Venier
Eirin Kallestad
Lucy Payton
Steven L. Rust
Marc Schleifer
Daniel P. Sullivan
Dario Zuddu
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Hester M. DeCasper
Ruben-Erik Diaz-Plaja
Jonathan S. Dunn
Eva Fernandez
Kirsten J. Harlow
Dusan Kovacevic
Juan Nunez-Gallego
Alp K. Usar
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Jane E. Bloom
Andrew W. Duff
Matthias R. Feldmann
Reza Haidari
Susan Kaur
Makiko Nishimura
Christopher E. Powell
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Gisela Spreitzhofer
Liam L. Sullivan
Holger P. Wilms
class of 2007
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Michelle L. Battat
Karen M. Goldfarb
Michael Heydt
Robert A. Isaacs
Murali M. Krishnan
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class of 2008
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Michael W. Casey Jr.
Filippo Chiesa
Ryan Handy
Harald Langer
Arash A. Massoudi
Megan P. Sheehan
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Alexander D. Albertine
Jared Katz
Selsah S. Pasali
class of 2010
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Updates
stavros niarchos
foundation funds
student aid
the Stavros Niarchos
Foundation has committed
to a grant of US$500,000
over two years to fund student
fellowships and internships.
The grant will create a
pool of talented young candidates,
specifically from Greece,
and also from the European
Union, with ties to the
Bologna and Washington D.C.
campuses. This brings the
school closer to its “Leaders
for the future” initiative goal
and complements the significant
increase in the number of
alumni who are giving back to
SAIS. To assist in Niarchos
Fellowship recruiting efforts,
contact Gabriella Chiappini at
gchiappini@jhubc.it or Ashley
Rogers at arogers@jhu.edu
the bologna center
class of 1965
initiative
Purpose:To name a room in
the Center’s renovated building.
Goal: US$25,000
Raised to date: US$11,638
the bologna center
class of 1985
and 1990 initiative
Purpose: To name the Reading
Room on the mezzanine floor
of the Robert H. Evans library.
Goal: US$300,000
Raised to date: US$88,994
the bologna center
class of 1992
initiative in memory
of sonja valtasaari
mchugh
Purpose: To launch a “Sonja
Valtasaari McHugh Seminar
and Scholarship Program” to
allow students from various
countries in Central and
Eastern Europe to attend the
CCSDD Summer School in
Montenegro as well as to
increase Bologna Center
students awareness about
former Yugoslavia.
Goal: Unlimited
Raised to date: US$15,215
the bologna center
class of 1995
initiative
Purpose: To name a room
in memory of Professor
Patrick McCarthy
Goal: US$30,000
Raised to date: US$11,625
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Sans Title
Sans Title
Sans Title
the Spring 2010 volume of the
Bologna Center Journal of
International Affairs (BCJIA) is
deliberately untitled. This is not to imply
that the 2009-2010 Journal team is short on
ideas. Their assembly of articles and book
reviews is anything but bland. The same
goes for their fundraising methods. With
creativity, the team raised enough funds
this year to distribute copies free of charge.
According to editor-in-chief Analisa
Ribeiro Bala (BC10, South Africa), the
decision to go sans title was made to
reflect the quality and diversity of submissions
received. She explains, “The Journal
tries to bring in outside authors but draws
heavily on the strengths and interests of
students. We felt the quality of the submissions
should be the defining consideration,
instead of selections designed to
advance a theme.”
Title or no title, the BCJIA speaks for
itself. Now in its 13th year of production,
it is an internationally recognized Journal
that attracts submissions from wellregarded
academics and practitioners from
around Europe and North America. The
beauty (and the beast) of it is that it is an
entirely student-run operation, from the
CFP to the typeface.
One of the ways this year’s team left
its signature was by commissioning a new
trademark logo to give the Journal a
facelift and inspire future teams.
Distribution is key to the success of any
Analisa Ribeiro Bala (BC10, South Africa), Editor-in-Chief
publication and this year students focused
on universities and think tanks in Europe.
The Crux of it
Form aside for a moment, the substance of
the BCJIA this year was impressive:
Florian weiler (BC08/DC09, Austria)
on the global response to climate change
and the dynamics of reaching a consensus
in a divided world; david Calleo and
mark gilbert on American decline and
the inadequacy of “old assumptions that
lay behind America’s unipolar role and
identity;” Samuel adamson (BC10,
UK) on the failure of post-war Britain to
adapt to a changing world order; david
ellwood on the American question in
Britain’s identity debate; mahrukh
doctor on the extent to which big business
contributed to the rise of Brazil;
Robbert Van eerd (BC10,
Netherlands) on the impact of the discovery
of natural gas in the 1960s on the
political economy of the Netherlands; and
Bastiaan Verink (BC10, Netherlands),
Thilo Schroder (BC10, Germany) and
matthew Sollenberger (DC10, U.S.)
on China’s evolving defense technologies
and their implications for U.S. hegemony.
Finally, lara loewenstein (BC10,
U.S.) extrapolates lessons from the rise of
the political Islamic movement Al-Ittihad
Al-Islamiyya in Somalia, and allison
hart (BC10, U.S.) reflects on the “Islam
problem” in Europe.
In remembrance of the tragic death of
Poland’s president Lech Kaczynski and
other political and military leaders in a
plane crash, this year’s edition of the
Journal also includes an interview with
agnieszka Łada, the Head of the
European Program at the Institute of
Public Affairs in Warsaw.
material matters
The Mr. and Ms. SAIS competition/BC
Auction may have raised a few eyebrows,
but it also raised funds to support the operating
costs of the Journal. Class of 2010 T-
shirt sales and various happy hours helped
too. At one fundraising event the editor-inchief
herself put her money where her
mouth is, singing along with the BC rock
band (who are also sans title).
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2010 BCjia Staff
Back row: John Probyn (Editor, Canada); George Fleeson (Editor, U.S.); Andrew Whitworth (Copy-editor, UK);
Bartley Higgins (Finance Director and Design and Layout, U.S.); Anthony Halley (Editor, Canada);
Edward Slavis (Web Editor, U.S.); Ravi Singh (Executive Editor, U.S.); Chris Morrill (Editor, U.S.);
Mitko Grigorov (Editor, Bulgaria); Niraj Patel (Editor, U.S.)
Front row: Sarah Hexter (Copy-editor, U.S.); Mia Warner (Copy-editor, U.S.); Allison Hart (Editor, U.S.);
Analisa Bala (Editor-in-Chief, South Africa); Anthony Mansell (Editor, UK); Emily Rose McRae (Head of Copy Editing, U.S.);
Michael Riley Smith (Managing Editor, U.S.); Karen Miller (Editor, U.S.)
abstract
Edmond B. Saran (MIPP10, U.S.)
“We performed some oldies but most
of the songs we played are quite recent. I
mostly sang backup, but led on Sweet
Home Alabama and Rehab (Amy
Winehouse),” Analisa says. All told the
Class of 2010 raised €8,000 for the
Journal. The bulk of the funds went
toward layout, design and printing costs,
but a portion of funds were also donated to
the Summer Internship Fund.
The success of this year’s fundraising
efforts was partly made possible by
Edmond Saran (MIPP10, U.S.) who
matched the funds raised from the auction.
“I decided to contribute given the great
sense of community I felt at SAIS and
wanted to give back,” says Edmond, “In
addition, the BC Journal is another way
for SAIS Bologna to strengthen its name
brand in Europe!”
OBR
The collapse of the Wall Street banking industry in
September 2008 precipitated a global financial crisis economists
believed was analogous to the Great Depression.
Heralded by some as the end of capitalism, the crisis provoked
calls for change around the world, including those of
(former) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French
President Nicolas Sarkozy for a “new Bretton Woods.” But
after two years, and billions of dollars worth of bailouts, capitalism
remains and the world order is much the same as it
had been. The United States may initially have lost some credibility,
but it quickly helped to orchestrate a decisive response and remains the world’s
hegemon, albeit in an increasingly multipolar world. China and other emerging powers
continue to win more seats at the head of major international institutions and global
decision-making forums, but they have joined, not displaced the established order. And
while the crisis inspired efforts to overhaul financial regulatory regimes, it seems that in
many ways it’s back to politics as usual.
As a consequence, the change that has occurred has been more moderate than
revolutionary—the system is not being overhauled, but rather adapted. With this in
mind, the editorial team has decided to dedicate this edition of the Journal to examining
the on-going process of change.
to place an order for a copy of the Journal please contact the editor at:
abala10@johnshopkins.it.
for more information, visit the Journal’s website at www.bcjournal.org
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The naTional
and SuPRanaTional
european studies newspaper research seminar
by Lindsay La Forge
the tradition of a voluntary
European Studies Newspaper
Research Seminar continues at the
Bologna Center. In academic year 2009-
2010 this seminar met once a week to
bring students a perspective of Europe
outside the Bologna Center, an awareness
of the issues that face the continent.
Buttressed by the belief in a Europe
which is dynamic and relevant to world
affairs, the seminar aims to explore individual
nations of Europe and how domestic
affairs possess implications, discrete or
considerable, for European unity. The topics
and nations discussed were chosen by
the students themselves and those with
interest in a particular critical issue or
region were invited to bring their research,
experience, and opinions to seminar. The
group then discussed a larger issue facing
Europe, such as transatlantic divergence
or electoral systems, bringing in their specific
research interests and applying them
to politically important themes.
Saskia van Genugten (BC07/DC08,
the Netherlands), a SAIS Ph.D. student
interested in the relationship between
Europe and North Africa, moderated the
discussion, organized the seminar, and
distributed crucial news information to
student participants. The filtering and
moderating that she provided to the group
allowed for the most relevant country
issues to come forward and intertwine
commentaries and case studies of larger
European relevance.
The shared responsibilities of the
Newspaper Seminar allowed students to
follow issues they may otherwise not have
had the time to concentrate on while taking
advantage of students’ strengths in different
areas. The seminar started as a departmental
initiative at SAIS in Washington which
Saskia brought with her when she began
her first year of doctoral study at the
Bologna Center. She sees the value of the
seminar as broadening the view of students
to a Europe outside of the classroom.
“We deal academically with economics
and politics, but the paradox is if you do
nothing but study this you forget to follow
the real issues... This is a way to do this collectively
and also to prepare for the possibility
of a stringent oral exam where discussing
current events is essential.” The
group is, furthermore, intended to foster a
collective identity for students interested in
European issues through the interconnection
of nation-specific interests to form a
cohesive account of current events in the
larger continent for all members.
George Kalantzakis (BC10, U.S.), a
first generation Greek-American finds the
seminar extremely motivating. Having
focused on Greek politics for some time,
he was pleased to bring an essential perspective
to the table this semester, with the
economic crisis looming large: “When
something of this magnitude occurs with
the EU, national leaders really show who
they are and that can be very revealing.
Certainly, the current crisis has made
many within and outside the EU question
the soundness of the Eurozone and
how capable the EU as a whole is when
dealing with severe economic crisis.”
These links between the EU and individual
states are important aspects of each
student’s weekly tasks.
European Studies concentrator Katie
Weber (BC10, U.S.) chose to follow the
British general elections of 2010. The fight
for “middle England” has commenced and,
with no predictable outcome as of yet, the
hypothetical policies based on possible
coalition results are fascinating to her. She
sees the issue as critical for both Britain and
the larger EU. Katie enjoyed the way in
which the setting contributed to her
research interests: “The informal nature of
the group allows for discussion of a number
of different issues and a forum to explore
current issues in a collaborative environment,
feedback on intellectual arguments
produces well-argued research.” The discussion
provides insight which can be useful
in forming academic arguments and a
depth of knowledge essential to research
involving EU issues.
The combined issues facing the
nations of Europe and the European Union
as an institution constitute a vast area of
knowledge which is best mastered collectively.
Inside the classroom and through
more informal gatherings like the seminar,
SAIS students are using political, economic,
and practical policy tools to
enhance their knowledge of international
relations. Sharing individual passions and
skills for a greater collective benefit is in
the spirit of the greater European Union
initiative, and in this case, has enabled students
to gain invaluable knowledge.
Lindsay La Forge (BC10, U.S.) is a SAIS
M.A. student concentrating in
International Law and Organizations. A
recent graduate of Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, she has held
positions with U.S. Senator Ken Salazar,
the U.S. Helsinki Commission, and
Lockheed Martin Readiness and
Stability Operations. Her research interests
focus on modernization in the
Middle East and organizational involvement
in Eastern Europe.
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Waltzing in Wien
sais at the iaea ball
students from the class of 2010 waltzing at the iaea ball
this winter, Vienna, bastion of
ball culture, hosted SAIS students.
Despite arriving on tight
time tables from Sarajevo, Brussels,
Washington, and Istanbul, somehow
SAIS students managed to arrive in
Vienna looking relaxed and glamorous
in time for the 53rd annual IAEA ball.
The Mayor of Vienna invited students
to the city hall for a reception prior to
the event, where they mingled with
local politicians, IAEA staff, and debutantes.
Students then proceeded to the
Hoffburg Palace, lit up with pastel colored
spotlights as if delicately constructed
from confections, for the main
event. The opening ceremony featured
the Austrian debutantes waltzing in
white and a traditional Korean folk percussion
group as the President of the
IAEA staff council welcomed SAIS
students as esteemed guests.
While many students had meticulously
practiced their waltzing for
months and chose to twirl delicately
beneath sparkling chandeliers all night,
other students opted for the neon ballrooms
featuring Latin, disco, Celtic,
and classic rock selections. American
Foreign Policy concentrator Kristen
Handley (BC10, U.S.) commented, “As
an American student the experience
was so surreal. I had to keep reminding
myself that this was reality. Waltzing in
palaces is really something out of fairy
tales. It was a spectacular night and a
thrill to experience a unique aspect of
Austrian culture through such an
extraordinary avenue.”
Austrian student Stephanie
Dirnbacher (BC10, Austria) was part of
the committee tasked with the organization
and fundraising for the event; “I
enjoyed introducing our unique culture
to my fellow students and it was touching
how well it was perceived by foreign
students. I think that the beauty of
SAIS is that it really offers a great
opportunity to get a deep insight into
different cultural experiences.” The
cultural experience offered by the city
of Vienna and the glamour of the event
truly made for a night to remember for
SAIS students.
LL
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enology & economics
The BC wine CluB
the European Union area
constitutes more than half of
global wine production. The
administrative and financial burdens
of the CAP and French growers’ outrage
over the use of champagne designation
demonstrate the relevant
issues Europe faces in setting quality
standards for agricultural exports.
Environment, trade balance, tourism,
and supranational cooperation—true
international relations issues—are
deeply affected by agriculture. At the
heart of European agriculture is wine.
A truly European educational experience
is not complete without an education
of the ins and outs of enology.
A recent BC wine club trip to
Rioja Spain was vastly successful.
Amid the buzz of Logroño’s Easter
flagellant processions and the salty
taste of Jamón Serrano, the group
explored wineries and museums
reflecting the past, present, and future
of the region’s unique appellations.
The centuries old Marques de Riscal
winery with its Ghery designed facilities
reflected the traditional methods
of the vine to bottle process. The
young and experimental Bodega
Classica winery described their
process of lobbying the region for
new appellations and efforts to differentiate
themselves on the lucrative
export market. Regulated quality levels
at the regional, national, and
supranational level indicated to the
group the exceptional nature of wine
vis-à-vis other export goods and the
cultural, political, and economic relevance
of the product in European
society.
Tastings of Valpolicella and
Sangiovese accompanied by historical
presentations on root stock and
soil, and engagement with the local
sustainable movements of Emilia
Romagna, compliment classroom
learning and show the true benefits of
studying at such a unique campus.
Reminiscing about the 1984 Lopez de
Heredia she tried while on the trip,
club founder Sarah Hexter (BC10,
U.S.) commented on the learning
opportunities of the club’s activities,
“There is so much at our fingertips,
unusual ways to experience culture
here in Europe…agriculture is at the
heart of politics, law, and economics
and wine is a uniquely European
venue for expanding our view of foreign
politics.”
LL
photos by byan vasek (bc10)
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CCSdd
and Electoral Management Bodies
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT…
by Sara Pennicino and Francesco Biagi
justin o. Frosini, director of the
center for constitutional studies and
democratic development (ccsdd), a
partnership between the sais bologna
center and the faculty of law of the
University of bologna, was awarded the
university of Victoria’s eu Centre
of excellent Visiting Scholar grant
for summer 2010. frosini, who also teaches
at bocconi University in milan, taught a
course at Uvic in comparative constitutional
law that focused on theoretical and
methodological matters, the nature and
challenges of jurisdictional analysis, and
select topics in comparative constitutional
law, as well as delivered a public lecture.
over the past few years the
Center for Constitutional
Studies and Democratic
Development (CCSDD) staff meetings
always ended with same ongoing issue:
the quest for funding to support a longterm
research project. In academic year
2008-2009 the tune finally changed.
Thanks to the support of the George
Lawrence Abernethy Endowment the
CCSDD was indeed able to begin a threeyear
project on Election Management
Bodies in Comparative Perspective.
Electoral Management Bodies
(EMBs) are the organizations that handle
one or more of the elements that are
essential for conducting elections (eligibility
to vote; receiving and validating
the nomination of candidates; conducting
balloting; counting and tallying
votes from polling locations; and solving electoral disputes).
Inspiration for this project came from the election of Barack
Obama, which saw the active participation of a multitude of citizens,
especially young voters. It was an event—rarely experienced
in America over the last two decades—that seemed to represent the
beginning of a renaissance in consolidated democracies with regard
to political participation in elections and consequently legitimacy
and level of trust individuals invest in the electoral process.
At the same time we realized that this was not the case elsewhere.
From Zimbabwe to Thailand, from Mexico to the Ukraine,
the last five years have seen numerous electoral disputes of varying
degrees. After spending AY 2008-2009 carrying out preliminary
research and deciding on the general framework of the project, in
September 2009 we posted a call for Bologna Center students to fill
a series of research assistant positions. After interviewing dozens of
students we chose the following: Kristin Beyard (BC10, U.S.),
Danica Hanz (BC10, Serbia and Montenegro), Vassileva Ivanova
(BC10, Bulgaria), Keti Nozadze (BC10, Georgia), Lena Diesing
(BC10, Germany) and Sheena Cheong (BC10, Singapore).
This CCSDD research team (a true example of girl power!)
immediately began carrying out research on a series of countries
included in the project proposal drawn up by CCSDD Director
commencement 2010: the research team in front of the ccsdd
Justin Frosini and approved by
Bologna Center Director and Professor
Kenneth H. Keller. The research team
also produced a series of special
national reports on countries of particular
interest, such as Bosnia-
Herzegovina and Georgia. Vassi and
Sheena focused on Northern Europe
and South East Asia while Danica and
Keti respectively took care of the two
country reports. Kristin did a great job
drafting a list of relevant cases of electoral
disputes while Lena focused on
German speaking countries.
It was obvious from the very first
meeting that this field of research truly
matched the expertise of the researchers
at the CCSDD and the interests of SAIS
students thus creating probably the best
internship experience that the CCSDD
has ever had. It was fun and hard work at the same time, it was challenging
and creative and at one point it even got tricky… Lena had
an exchange of emails with the Bundestag in Germany while trying
to obtain information on the role German representatives played during
the process of Constitution-building in Eastern Europe. At a certain
point a worried Bundestag official required that Lena present an
official letter signed by the CCSDD director before authorizing further
exchange of material. We are certain this is just the beginning of
an exciting story: we will keep you posted!
Once research on the selected countries was finished, each intern
was assigned another country report. Kristin covered Afghanistan
and Mia Warner (BC10, U.S.), a new intern, wrote about the
Election Commission in Iraq.
Although Commencement has come and gone and the academic
year has ended, most of the students have decided to keep working
on their research during the summer. As a result, by September
we will have a collection of essays we intend to publish. But that is
the beginning of another story (hopefully with a happy ending) that
we will share with you in our next article on the CCSDD!
Sara Pennicino is CCSDD project coordinator.
Francesco Biagi is CCSDD’s EMB main researcher.
Summer/Fall 2010
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hogwarts in chelsea
Amici di Bologna
June 5, 2010, New York City
by Thomas Tesluk
photos by steve brickles
on a warm June evening at
the start of the summer,
over 150 bolognesi and
their guests sat down to dinner
in a New York setting that might
have left some wondering when
the “sorting hat ceremony”
would begin. Something about
the dramatic gothic dining hall
with its dark wood paneling,
high timbered ceiling and
portraits of past rectors peering
down from the walls produced a
kind of Hogwarts déjà vu feeling
for the guests—at least for
those familiar with the Harry
Potter series. The setting was
not Hogwarts’ dining room
however, but rather the Hoffman
Refectory of New York’s
General Theological Seminary.
The “GST,” as it is known, is
the oldest Episcopal seminary in
the United States. Founded in
1817, it occupies an entire city
block in New York’s Chelsea
neighborhood. Surprisingly, it
is little known to most New
Yorkers. Perhaps this has something
to do with the way the
Seminary’s gothic buildings all
face inward toward a grassy
commons—an architectural
style that borrows heavily from
“Oxbridge” traditions.
Into this august setting,
bolognesi representing classes
from 1960 to the newest class of
2010, gathered on a Saturday
afternoon and evening and, for a
few hours at least, the Bologna
Center seemed a lot closer to
New York than time and space
would normally allow.
The guests came from across
the country and across the
Atlantic. In addition to alumni
living in the tri-state area of
New York, Connecticut and
New Jersey, guests came from
California, Texas, Ohio, Florida,
Massachusetts, Washington
D.C., Maryland and Virginia.
Bolognesi also came from the
UK, Spain, Austria and
Germany. The classes of 1990
and 2003 registered an impressive
fourteen classmates each.
Many classes seem to use the
Amici event to help organize
their members for important
reunions the following year.
Alumni volunteers, working
under the banner Amici di
Bologna, organized this event
with support from the Center’s
staff. Amici, which is governed
by a steering committee made
up of alumni from various class
years, is an informal association
of U.S.-based bolognesi who
want to find a way to support the
Bologna Center and provide our
alumni with an opportunity to
reconnect with their classmates.
For many U.S.-based alumni,
it’s not easy to find the time to
return to Bologna for a visit.
Amici’s goal is to bring the
Center a little closer to its alumni.
Not surprisingly, this event
has quickly become the largest
single annual gathering of
bolognesi to take place anywhere
outside of centro storico.
Back at the seminary, the
afternoon’s program kicked off
at 4:30pm with welcoming
remarks from Director Ken
Keller who brought everyone up
to date on the tremendous
progress made toward paying
off the recent renovations to the
Bologna Center. Some 90 percent
of the US$6 million raised
came directly from Bologna
Center alumni—a remarkable
achievement, that demonstrates
the vital role our alumni play in
the success of the Center.
This was followed by the
academic panel, one of the most
popular parts of this annual
gathering. Each year, a panel
featuring three of the Center’s
faculty members examines an
important topic and invites the
audience to participate in the
discussion. According to Meera
Shankar (BC95/DC96, U.S.),
director of Alumni Relations,
“A key part of the Bologna
experience is the close relationships
that students develop with
faculty members. The opportunity
to reconnect with their former
professors is a big hit with
our alumni.”
A common theme for the
panel is determined each year
and panelists are given an
opportunity to present their take
on the issue of the day. At this
year’s Amici event, the panel
focused on “Islam in Europe”
and featured Bologna Center
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professors Erik Jones, Tom Row
and Karim Mezran.
The reception followed the
panel discussion. Old friends got
caught up as waiters passed through
the crowd offering hot and cold
hors d’oeuvres. As the wine began
to flow, the conversation built to a
dull roar and time seemed to slip by
far too quickly. It is only with some
persistence that guests were convinced
to leave the reception area
and make their way up the grand
staircase to the dining hall.
Upon entering the grand hall,
the guests took a moment to check
out the many items offered in this
year’s silent auction. Thanks to
Steering Committee member
Daniela Kaisth (BC89, U.S.), this
year’s event offered a variety of fun
and attractive items were offered
for auction including several weeks
at two UK properties owned by
Advisory Council member and
alumnus, Martin Fraenkel
(BC83/DC84, UK). In addition,
items of jewelry, a hand crafted
quilted wall hanging depicting le
due torri, tickets to Mamma Mia, a
hand painted majolica tile and other
unique items were offered to benefit
the Bologna Center.
Each table also featured a beautiful
gift basket consisting of both
red and white Italian wines plus
imported Italian foodstuffs. Special
thanks to Steering Committee
member Anne Erni (BC85, U.S.),
who organized the donation of the
wine from the Sunbelt Charmer
Group. All told, the various silent
auction items raised over US$5,000
for the Center.
In his remarks over dinner,
Director Keller told the guests just
how important such events are to
the life of the Bologna Center. He
pointed out that alumni are, by far,
the most important contributors to
the voluntary support of the Center
and the building campaign, which
is about to reach its ambitious goal,
has been successful because of
them. But Keller emphasized that
alumni contribute to the life of the
Center in many other ways as well,
recruiting prospective students,
offering career guidance and opportunities,
and giving visibility to the
Center all over the world. He urged
guests to find time to return to
Bologna for Alumni weekends or
private visits, to see the building
changes, to experience the city, and
to share their life stories.
Of course, all good things must
come to an end, and before long,
the evening was over. As fast as you
could say buona notte, plans for a
series of post-event parties at various
Chelsea night spots were circulated
throughout the hall.
Thomas Tesluk (BC81/DC82, U.S.)
is Chairman of the Bologna Center
Advisory Council. He established
Amici di Bologna in 2007 together
with other U.S.-based alumni.
amici di Bologna is a
volunteer-based organization. In
addition to its annual signature
dinner and reception, Amici
organizes lectures by visiting
faculty members throughout
the year and other social events.
If you would like to receive the
Amici newsletter, please forward
your email address to Tom
Tesluk at ttesluk@gmail.com. If
you would like to join the
Steering Committee and help
organize Amici events in New
York or in your part of the
country, please contact Tom
Tesluk at the address above.
and don’T FoRgeT To
SaVe The daTe!
Saturday, june 4, 2011
will be the date of the next Amici dinner,
reception and academic panel in New York.
A presto!
Summer/Fall 2010

alumni weekend 2010
The Alumni Weekend
that wasn’t… and then was again
by Meera Shankar
plans were set, arrangements made,
flowers ordered and banners hung.
The Bologna Center was ready to
welcome Johns Hopkins University
President Ronald J. Daniels, Università di
Bologna Rector Ivano Dionigi and some
200 alumni back to the Center for its 55th
anniversary celebration over the weekend
of April 23-25, 2010. What no one counted
on was a Finnish volcano named
Eyjafjallajokull.
In the early morning hours of
Wednesday, April 14, the volcano, which
had remained dormant for nearly 190 years,
began spewing ash across one of the
busiest air travel corridors in the world. By
Thursday afternoon, the UK and several
other northern European countries were
completely engulfed in a cloud of ash, precipitating
an unprecedented pan-European
closure of airports and grounded flights
such as had not been seen since September
11th. Predictions as to how long it would
last were futile since the last time the volcano
erupted, it did so for two years.
So what about Alumni Weekend?
True to form, Bologna Center alumni
were dispersed around the globe for work
and vacation. People began to call in and
send messages from airports everywhere to
find out if they should try to get home or
get to Bologna. Director Keller, who himself
was blocked in Doha, Qatar, decided
that the best course of action was to cancel
the celebrations and refund all registration
fees. “At a certain point we had to make a
judgment call about what to do, and as difficult
as it was to opt to cancel, we did so
believing it was the best thing to do for our
alumni who were stranded in airports
around the world,” said Keller. “The staff
and I were all conflicted over the decision
because it is an event we look forward to
each year.”
Yet as the best laid plans were being
un-made, the capricious volcano’s eruptions
began to abate into fits and starts that
gave travelers and airlines a glimmer of
hope that European travel restrictions could
be eased. Indeed, alumni began to write in
to say that airlines were indicating that they
might be able to reach their desired destinations
after all – and if they could make it to
Bologna, they would!
The travel-weary alumni who arrived at
the Center on that wet Friday evening –
alumnus Timothy Shumaker (BC 2005)
coming all the way from Baghdad – had a
chance to attend an ad-hoc discussion with
Bologna Center professors and an informal
cocktail to thank everyone for their efforts
to get to town. “When alumni told us they
wanted to come to Bologna to re-connect
with their old classmates and the Center
despite the fact that there were no formal
events going on, we wanted to be sure to
welcome them properly,” said Keller.
The Center remained open over the
weekend as a few alumni met students to
offer career advice and others wandered
around the renovated building that many
were seeing for the first time. All told,
about 100 alumni came to the Center, so
“the Alumni Weekend that wasn’t” somehow
“was” in the end. As Director Keller
put it, “We must be one of the few places
that cancels an event and still has our alumni
show up for it. That speaks volumes for
how special a place this is for our students
past and present.”
The dates for the next alumni
weekend have already been set
for april 29-may 1, 2011.
Please note, all alumni will be asked to
provide the correct spelling and pronunciation
of the volcano that caused all this confusion
in the first place.
Meera Shankar (BC95/DC96, U.S.) is
Director of Alumni Relations and Career
Services.
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There are lots of ways to help,
and so many of you do!
the Bologna Center is fortunate to have many alumni who help advance the work of the school and make the SAIS
network so vibrant. In the Development section of Rivista, we recognize alumni who made financial contributions
to the Center; here we want to thank alumni who contribute in other ways equally essential to the success of our
work. These efforts raise the visibility of the school, attract new students to the program, provide job opportunities for
students and alumni, and demonstrate a level of commitment that we are truly honored to have. Many alumni help in
multiple ways, and those individuals are noted with a diamond since, for reasons of space, names are listed here just once.
If, despite our best efforts to mention everyone, we have inadvertently made an error, please send a note to
alumni@jhubc.it. We will make corrections in the next issue of Rivista.
...Thank you.
CaReeR TRiPS
Dana Allin ♦ (BC85/DC85/Ph.D.90, U.S.)
Christopher Beauman (BC63, UK)
Mark Bousfield (BC07/DC08, UK)
Amelia Branczik ♦ (BC01/DC03, UK)
D. Alan Cameron (BC07/DC08, Canada)
John Paul Cook ♦ (BC83/ DC84/Ph.D.98, U.S.)
Michael Delia (BC83/DC84, U.S.)
Victoria Elles (BC06/DC07, UK)
Faysal Itani (BC07/DC08, Lebanon)
Geraldine Kelly ♦ (BC80/DC81, Ireland/U.S.)
David Klingensmith (DC74, UK)
Jennifer Linker (BC02/DC03, U.S.)
Antonio Missiroli ♦ (BC93, Italy)
John Raines ♦ (BC05/DC06, U.S.)
Ramses Ruziev (BC07/DC08, Tajikistan)
Rachel Shoemaker (DC/X08, U.S.)
Susan Smith (DC, U.S.)
Alex Tiersky (DC04, U.S.)
Sebastian Vos ♦ (DC03, Netherlands)
alumni weekend 2010
CaReeR CounSeling
Kristof Abbeloos (BC04, Belgium)
Rima al-Azar (BC05/DC07, Lebanon)
Raymond Arnaudo (BC70/DC71, U.S)
Geoffrey August (BC05/DC06, U.S)
Justin Bozzino (BC05, UK)
John Brubaker (BC05/DC06, U.S)
Nathaniel Bullard (BC05/DC06, U.S)
Arianna Checchi (BC05/DC06, Italy)
Filippo Chiesa (BC08/DC09, Italy)
Laura Demetris (BC05/DC08, UK)
Ruben Diaz-Plaja (BC05/DC06, Spain)
Wijnand Donkers (BC85, Netherlands)
Martin Eichtinger (BC85, Austria)
Onur Erdem (BC05/DC06, Turkey)
Andras Fehervary (BC85/KSAS86, U.S)
Jonathan Gould (BC85/DC86, U.S)
Fabrizio Jacobellis (BC02/DC03, Italy)
Alp Kerem Usar (BC05/DC06, Turkey)
Ruby Khan (BC00/DC01, U.S)
Cecile LeClercq (BC85, Belgium)
Andreas Mailath-Pokorny (BC85, Austria)
Daniel McCartney (BC05/DC06, U.S)
Hugh Naylor (BC05/DC06, U.S)
Eavan O’Halloran (BC95/DC96, Ireland)
Elena Panaritis (BC90/DC91, Greece)
Stephen Pickard (BC80, UK)
Lars Rosdahl (BC80/DC81, Sweden)
Giorgio Rosso Cicogna (BC70, Italy)
Silvia Runge Dannenbring (BC95, Germany)
Axel Ruyter (BC90, Germany)
Alberto Schepisi (BC65/DC66, Italy)
Alex Schratz (BC07/DC08, Germany)
Oliver Sitar (BC95, Austria)
Peter van de Vijver (BC85/DC86, Belgium)
Katja Wittwer Kammerer (BC00, Germany)
emPloymenT
oPPoRTuniTieS & adViCe
Nelli Bodrenko (BC09/DC10, U.S)
Ykaterina Chertova (BC09/DC10, U.S)
Lauren Consky (BC09/DC10, U.S)
Adrien De Bassompierre (BC06/DC07,
Belgium)
Robin Flemming (BC09/DC10, U.S)
Federica Genovese (BC09/DC10, Italy)
Risa Grais-Targow (BC09/DC10, U.S)
Wenche Gronbrekk (BC06/DC07, Norway)
Mike Gujda (BC07/DC08, U.S)
Astrid Haas (BC09/DC10, Austria)
Reza Haidari (BC06, U.S)
Ulla Heher (BC09/DC10, Austria)
Larina Helm (BC09/DC10, U.S)
Leigh Hendrix (BC09/DC10, U.S)
Michael Heydt (BC07/DC08, U.S)
Elisabeth Horwitz (BC09/DC10, U.S)
Clint Hougen (BC09/DC10, U.S)
Emily Howard (BC09/DC10, U.S)
Hannah Kaplan (BC07/DC08, U.S)
Suna Karakas (BC09/DC10, Germany)
Florian Kern (BC09/DC10, Germany)
John Lathers (BC09/DC10, U.S)
Joe Lee (BC09/DC10, U.S)
Tanja Luibrand (BC06/DC07, Germany)
Laura Lombard (BC09/DC10, U.S)
Michael Manetta (BC09/DC10, U.S)
Caroline Meledo (BC09/DC10, France)
Dan Moger (BC07/DC08, U.S)
John Moyer (BC07/DC08, U.S)
Martin Oswald (BC06/DC07, Austria)
Daniel Pajank (BC09/DC10, Austria)
Selsah Pasali (BC09/DC10, Turkey)
Anna Pigazzini (BC09/DC10, Italy)
Jean Rose (BC09/DC10, U.S)
Andres Salazar (BC07/DC08, U.S)
Kristen Schubert (BC09/DC10, U.S)
Manuel Seiffe (BC07/DC08, Germany)
Eric Seilo (BC09/DC10, U.S)
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Sarah Underwood (BC07/DC08, U.S)
Jeremy Whipp (BC08/DC09, UK)
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Timo Behr (BC02/DC03, Germany)
Michael Berger (BC84, Austria)
Sarah Bignami ♦ (BC06/DC07, Italy)
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Erik Jones (BC89/DC90/ Ph.D.96, U.S)
Matthias M. Matthijs (BC02/DC08, Belgium)
Karim Mezran (Ph.D.02, Italy)
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amiCi di Bologna
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Vanessa Friedman (BC00/DC01, U.S)
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Charles Park (BC96/DC98, U.S.)
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Thomas Stelzer (BC83, Austria)
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Alumni notes
European Commission to Japan; counselor-ASEM
(Asia-Europe Meeting),
European Commission, minister-counselor
(industrial, commercial affairs), permanent
Representative of Austria to the
EU/Brussels; member of the European
Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
of the EU; and co-chair (trade) of the
OECD – Joint Session of Trade and
Environment Experts as well as deputy
director general, Department for European
Integration and Trade Policy of the
Austrian Federal Economic Chamber.
Bill grueskin (BC80/dC81, u.S.)
is dean of Academic Affairs and professor
of Professional Practice at Columbia
University. He began his long journalism
career in 1975 as a reporter and editor at
the Daily American in Rome, Italy. After
completing graduate school, he worked
for the Baltimore News American, the
Tampa Tribune, and the Miami Herald.
Grueskin joined The Wall Street Journal
in 1995 as an editor on Page One and in
June 2001, was named managing editor of
The Wall Street Journal Online, the largest
subscription news site on the Web.
Grueskin has served on various community
boards, and as a Pulitzer Prize
juror in the public-service and features
categories.
leonardo baroncelli
amb. leonardo Baroncelli (BC69,
italy) is former Italian Ambassador to the
Democratic Republic of Congo and currently
the coordinator of the framework
for the Transatlantic Dialogue at the
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He
previously served as alternate director
general of the Executive Secretariat of
Central European Initiative (CEI) in
Trieste, Italy; consul general in Shanghai,
China; head of the Multilateral
Division at the Department for
Development Assistance; first counselor
of Political Affairs at the Permanent
Mission to the UN in New York; consul
general in Chicago, U.S.; head of the Asia
section at the Emigration Department of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; political
counselor in Warsaw, Poland; commercial
counselor in Baghdad, Iraq; and second
secretary in Bonn, West Germany.
Baroncelli was awarded the titles of
Knight Officer and of High Officer of
Merit of the Italian Republic and the
Medal of Honour of the Central European
Initiative.
Since 2007 amb. michael g.k.
Reiterer (BC79, austria) has been
Ambassador and head of the Delegation of
the European Union to Switzerland and
the Principality of Liechtenstein. His previous
assignments include minister and
deputy head of the Delegation of the
michael g.k. reiterer
Pursuing in parallel with his diplomatic
career his academic interests by lecturing
at numerous European and Asian universities,
in 2005 Reiterer became adjunct
professor of International Politics at the
University of Innsbruck. He is the author
of about one hundred publications in international
and Austrian journals on international
law and international relations,
trade and environment, the Asia-Europe
relationship, EU foreign and trade policy,
and inter-regionalism.
bill grueskin
boldizsár nagy
Boldizsár nagy (BC85, hungary)
is associate professor at Central European
University (CEU) in the Department of
International Relations and European
Studies. He studied law and philosophy at
the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest
before attending the Bologna Center. He
served several times as expert for the
Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the
Council of Europe and the UNHCR.
Nagy is a co-founder and board member
of the European Society of
International Law and member of the editorial
board of the International Journal of
Refugee Law and of the European Journal
of Migration and Law.
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on February 16, 2010 in Washington, D.C.
(see photo of Charles, future SAIS
Bologna hopeful). As is fitting for a SAIS
European Studies grad, Saint-André has
focused on Europe for her entire 11-year
career at the U.S. State Department. Last
year, she was promoted to Unit Chief in
the Office of Central Europe, responsible
for bilateral relations with Austria,
Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
patricia van nispen tot sevenaer
Patricia van nispen tot Sevenaer
(BC90, netherlands), lawyer and
legal activist, is head of
International Legal Alliances, ILA
Microjustice for All. She set up ILA
Microjustice for All in 1996 after working
for the United Nations in Rwanda and former
Yugoslavia. Microjustice is legal aid
for the poor structurally inspired by
micro finance. In 2007 she moved to La
Paz to open Microjustice Bolivia,
launched in 2008 as the first branch of the
global Microjustice network. With
branches now open in Peru, Argentina,
Spain and Uganda van Nispen tot
Sevenaer is looking toward the future, creating
a worldwide network of
Microjustice organizations in the north
and south, mutually supporting each other.
Where she can’t go, others are welcome:
ILA Microjustice for All recently developed
an open-source handbook designed to help
other projects get off the ground. See
www.microjustice4all.org
martí grau (BC00, Spain) is a visiting
scholar at SPEA-Indiana University
and former Member of the European
Parliament, where he served in the
Foreign Affairs and Internal Market
Committees, as well as in several parliamentary
delegations for relations with foreign
countries (including Canada, Japan,
and the South Caucasus countries). He
martí grau
also was Member of the Euro-
Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.
Grau has worked at the European Institute
for the Mediterranean in Barcelona and
taught European Politics at the
Autonomous University of Barcelona.
yvette irène Saint-andré
(BC98/dC99, u.S.) and her husband
Neven Filip Stipanovic welcomed to the
world their son, Charles André Stipanovic,
giovanni Faleg
(BC09, italy) is a
Ph.D. student at the
European Institute of
the London School
of Economics and
Political Science.
This year he published
his first book
on NATO-EU relations
(in French) titled L’OTAN et
l’Europe with B. Wassenberg and M.
Mlodecki. Faleg is a doctoral student in
European Studies at the London School
of Economics and Political Science. He
is founder and former president of
RETE-IHEE, an association that aims to
strengthen relationships between alumni
and students of the Institut des Hautes
Études Européennes and acts as an academic
network to promote research and
reflection on Europe-related topics.
Faleg manages the FASE project
(Academic Forum on Security in
Europe). Faleg was the Carlo Maria
Santoro Fellow at the Bologna Center
for academic year 2008-09.
To update your contact
information and submit
professional or personal
news to share in this
Alumni Notes section
of Rivista, visit
www.jhubc.it/keepintouch
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update@jhubc.it
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In Memoriam
cesare curti
4 March 1931
18 February 2010
enzo zacchiroli
December 1919
8 March 2010
After obtaining his Juris Doctor from the
University of Bologna, Cesare Curti (BC56,
Italy) attended the first year of the Bologna
Center program in academic year 1955-
1956. Shortly afterwards he moved to North
America—Canada and later New York
state—as manager of the Italian Company
SAE Power Lines of Milan (which later
merged with ABB Group), a worldwide
leader in power transmission and distribution.
Quickly he was given more responsibilities,
becoming executive and president of
the U.S. branch of the Italian company. He
spent forty years in the U.S., mainly living in
Manhattan.
“He was attached to nature. After buying
a house with land in the countryside he
became a passionate hunter, enjoying ever
more the landscapes and the walks in the
woods than the actual sport,” remembers
Claudio Pezzi, a dear friend of Curti and a
lawyer in Bologna, “Boating and fishing
became his hobbies.”
When Curti retired in 1995 he returned
to Bologna with his beloved wife Maria
Grazia. He was a generous man, always fond
of the Bologna Center, “his university in
Bologna.” He had a wealth of close friends
and always kept in touch with them, even
though many lived on different continents.
He passed away in Bologna in February
surrounded by his loving wife Maria Grazia
and two daughters, Livia and Sabina.
In March the renowned architect Enzo
Zacchiroli died at the age of 91. Zacchiroli
began his work in Florence, but left his most
tangible mark on the architecture of
Bologna, his work visible all around the city
and ranging from residential centers, to
banks and shops, to hospitals, to renovated
industrial complexes.
Zacchiroli’s modern style, often praised
for avoiding the eclectic or overstated,
ensures his place among the top Italian
architects of his time.
One of his most characteristic works is
certainly our own Bologna Center building
on via Belmeloro, completed in 1960.
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the Johns hopkins University sais bologna center, circa 1960
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