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10 MEETINGS PROGRAMME Speakers of 32 different nationalities, including six presidents, five foreign ministers and two prime ministers, took part in the 99 meetings during the year. Chatham House was chosen by the Rt Hon Jack Straw MP as the venue for his first major speech outside parliament as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and by the Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP for his first speech on foreign affairs as Leader of the Opposition. Other speakers included the Secretaries-General of both NATO and the Meetings April 2001 - March 2002 2.4.01 The cash nexus: finance, international relations and globalization in long-term perspective Jointly held with the International Economics Programme, RIIA PROFESSOR NIALL FERGUSON Professor of Political & Financial History, Jesus College, Oxford; author, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 2001 2.4.01 Croatia on the road to the EU: Stabilization and Association Agreement (Round-table) NEVEN MIMICA Chief Negotiator for Croatia’s Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU 3.4.01 Macedonia PROFESSOR JAMES PETTIFER Visiting Professor, Institute of Balkan Studies, University of Thessalonika Discussants: RICHARD DAVY Former East European Correspondent, The Times GABRIEL PARTOS BBC World Service South East Europe Analyst 9.4.01 A new stage of Russian development: challenges and constraints PROFESSOR LILIA SHEVTSOVA Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow 11.4.01 One country, two media: how the Hong Kong press has fared since the hand-over JONATHAN FENBY CBE Editor, South China Morning Post and Sunday Morning Post, Hong Kong, 1995-99 30.4.01 American foreign policy: the first 100 days — where next? DR ROBERT McGEEHAN Institute of United States Studies, University of London JAMES P RUBIN Former Assistant Secretary of State and Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright The Royal Institute of International Affairs — Annual Report 2001-2002 Commonwealth and the European Commissioner for Regional Policy. The programme included thematic series of meetings on interrelated issues — notably, after 11 September, on the international response to global terrorism and the management of the transatlantic relationship — as well as a number of lively panel discussion meetings and debates. Contact: Heather Weeks E-mail: meetings@riia.org 2.5.01 Rwanda seven years after the genocide: progress and prospects — how can the international community help? Joint meeting with the Royal African Society BILL GRAY Programme Officer for the Great Lakes Region, Save the Children LINDA MELVERN Investigative journalist; author, A People Betrayed: the Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide HE MRS ROSEMARY MUSEMINALI Ambassador of Rwanda to the Court of St James’s Moderator: MARTIN PLAUT BBC World Service 4.5.01 Palestine and Israel: conflict or peace? DR KHALIL SHIKAKI Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, Ramallah 8.5.01 Ornamentalism: how the British saw their empire PROFESSOR DAVID CANNADINE Director, Institute of Historical Research, and Professor of History, University of London; author, Ornamentalism: How the British Saw their Empire (May 2001) 14.5.01 Globalization and its discontents THE HON JOSEPH S NYE JR Dean, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Chairman, National Intelligence Council, 1993-94; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1994-95 16.5.01 Ten years of transition in the CIS: are the newly independent states on the way to sustainable democracy? AMBASSADOR GERARD STOUDMANN Director, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Warsaw
17.5.01 Russian reform from Yeltsin to Putin: where is it heading? Jointly held with the International Economics Programme, RIIA PROFESSOR PADMA DESAI Director, Center for Transitional Economies, Columbia University, New York; author, incl. Work Without Wages: Russia’s Nonpayment Crisis (2000) 22.5.01 China’s economy and the WTO SUN XIAOYU Vice President of the Development Research Center of the State Council of China 23.5.01 Montenegro: prospects after the election HE MILO DJUKANOVIC President, Republic of Montenegro since 1997 24.5.01 The trauma of war and its legacy: rebuilding civil society in Angola Joint meeting with the Royal African Society and the British – Angola Forum ANNA RICHARDSON Freelance journalist writing about Angola: based in Luanda, 1998-2000; previously Angola correspondent, BBC & Reuters 30.5.01 Still punching above our weight? Non-partisan views of British foreign policy SIMON JENKINS Columnist, former Editor, The Times DAME PAULINE NEVILLE-JONES DCMG A Governor, BBC; former Political Director, FCO PROFESSOR ADAM ROBERTS FBA Montague Burton Professor of International Relations and Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford 31.5.01 Has the US inherited the imperial mantle? Current implications for relationships with the Third World THE HON DAVID NEWSOM Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Department of State, Washington, 1978-81; former Ambassador to Libya, Indonesia and Philippines; Interim Dean, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 1995-96 4.6.01 Estimating the effect of currency unions on trade and output Jointly held with the International Economics Programme, RIIA PROFESSOR JEFFREY FRANKEL Harpel Professor, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 5.6.01 Talking pounds and sense on South Africa TONY LEON Leader, Democratic Alliance official opposition party, Republic of South Africa 11.6.01 European defence: prospects and challenges Joint meeting with the Journal of Common Market Studies THE RT HON LORD ROBERTSON OF PORT ELLEN Secretary-General of NATO since 1999; Secretary of State for Defence, 1997-99 14.6.01 South Africa Meeting jointly hosted with the Rt Hon John Prescott MP, Deputy Prime Minister, and Baroness Amos, Minister of State, FCO HE THABO MBEKI President, Republic of South Africa (Joint chairmen: THE RT HON JOHN PRESCOTT MP & LORD MARSHALL OF KNIGHTSBRIDGE) 20.6.01 What kind of nation is Russia? PROFESSOR GEOFFREY HOSKING Leverhulme Personal Research Professor, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University of London; author, Russia and the Russians: A History, June 2001 21.6.01 Europe and the US: past and future Fourth C Douglas Dillon Lecture on European- American Relations THE HON THOMAS PICKERING Senior Vice President International Affairs, The Boeing Company; previously Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, US Department of State, Permanent Representative to the UN and Ambassador in Moscow 22.6.01 The Zimbabwe crisis — today and tomorrow EDDIE CROSS Secretary for Economic Affairs, Movement for Democratic Change, Zimbabwe 25.6.01 Italy under Berlusconi DR DAVID HINE Fellow in Politics, Christ Church, Oxford; co-author, with Salvatore Vassallo, Italy: The Return of Politics, 2000 28.6.01 Britain and the euro: the case for and the case against Jointly held with the European Programme and the International Economics Programme, RIIA to launch a project on the implications of the UK’s choices on euro membership LORD HASKINS Chairman, Northern Foods plc RUTH LEA Head of Policy Unit, Institute of Directors 4.7.01 Yugoslavia after Milosevic HE DR VLADETA JANKOVIC Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the Court of St James’s 5.7.01 Syria’s foreign policy HE FAROUK AL-SHARA’ Minister of Foreign Affairs, Syrian Arab Republic The Royal Institute of International Affairs — Annual Report 2001-2002 11 ´ ´
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