NZ Institute of International Affairs, Auckland Branch

Mark N. Katz
Professor
George Mason University
USA

6pm-7.30pm, Thursday 4 August
Lecture Theatre 018, ClockTower Building
22 Princes Street, Auckland City

If Russia were fully democratic, what would its foreign policy look like? Would it be greatly different from what it is now? Would it be much more in tune with American foreign policy? Would it share the values that the European Union espouses in dealing with other countries? Or would there still be important differences between Russia on the one hand and the West on the other?

Mark N. Katz is a professor of government and politics at George Mason University. He writes on Russian foreign policy, the international relations of the Middle East, transnational revolutionary movements, and other subjects. Before starting to teach at George Mason University in 1988, he was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, held a temporary appointment as a Soviet affairs analyst at the U.S. Department of State, was a Rockefeller Foundation international relations fellow, and was both a Kennan Institute research scholar and research associate.

Prof Katz is the author of The Third World in Soviet Military Thought (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982), Russia and Arabia: Soviet Foreign Policy toward the Arabian Peninsula (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), Gorbachev’s Military Policy in the Third World (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1989), Revolutions and Revolutionary Waves (St. Martin’s Press, 1997), and Reflections on Revolutions (St. Martin’s Press, 1999). He is also the editor of The USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World (Wilson Center/Cambridge University Press, 1990), Soviet-American Conflict Resolution in the Third World (U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 1991), and Revolution: International Dimensions (CQ Press, 2001).

Atka Reid and Hana Schofield
Authors of Goodbye Sarajevo

6pm-7.30pm, Tuesday 26 July
Lecture Theatre 032, ClockTower Building
22 Princes Street, Auckland City

Atka Reid was born in Sarajevo in 1970. At the outbreak of the Bosnian war, she was a political science student. During the war, she worked as a reporter for a local radio station and as an interpreter for the foreign press. Upon her arrival in New Zealand in 1993 she worked as a journalist in Christchurch. She later gained a Diploma in graphic design and worked as a graphic designer. She and Andrew, the New Zealand photojournalist she met in Sarajevo, live in New Zealand with their two sons.

Hana Schofield was born in Sarajevo in 1979. She spent two years living as a refugee in Croatia during the siege of Sarajevo. In 1994 she arrived in New Zealand with her family speaking no English. In 2002 she graduated from the University of Canterbury with first class honours in Law and a bachelor’s degree in Russian. Since then she has worked as a lawyer for a leading New Zealand law firm, and more recently for a City law firm in London. Hana is also a qualified performance consultant. She lives in New Zealand with her husband James.

Prof Yorizumi Watanabe
Keio University

6pm-7pm, 12 August
Room 325, Level 3, Owen G Glenn Building
Business School, 12 Grafton Road

Refreshments (7pm-7.30pm)
RSVP to nziia@auckland.ac.nz by 9 August

Parking: Pay car park under the building; $5 flat rate after 5.00pm.

Prof Watanabe has been Professor of International Political Economy at Keio University since 2005. Before then, he was Deputy Director-General of Economic Affairs Bureau at Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Chief Negotiator for the Japan-Mexico Economic Partnership Agreement; Chief Negotiator, Working Party on Russia’s Accession to the WTO; Chief Negotiator, Working Party on Trade and Competition Policy; Senior Official for Trade and Investment (SOMTI), ASEM. He was Special Assistant to the Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2004.

Open to the public. Everyone welcome

Frank Schimmelfennig

Chair, Centre for European Politics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich

Thursday 21 July 2011

5.30pm Drinks and nibbles in Foyer 260-088
6.00pm – 7.30pm Seminar in Case Room 3
Level 0, Owen G. Glenn Building
Parking: Pay car park under the building; $5 flat rate after 5.00pm.

Please RSVP to Hilary George (h.george@auckland.ac.nz)

Co-hosted with the Europe Institute

Atka Reid and Hana Schofield
Authors of Goodbye Sarajevo

6pm-7.30pm, Tuesday 26 July
Lecture Theatre 032, ClockTower Building
22 Princes Street, Auckland City

Atka Reid was born in Sarajevo in 1970. At the outbreak of the Bosnian war, she was a political science student. During the war, she worked as a reporter for a local radio station and as an interpreter for the foreign press. Upon her arrival in New Zealand in 1993 she worked as a journalist in Christchurch. She later gained a Diploma in graphic design and worked as a graphic designer. She and Andrew, the New Zealand photojournalist she met in Sarajevo, live in New Zealand with their two sons.

Hana Schofield was born in Sarajevo in 1979. She spent two years living as a refugee in Croatia during the siege of Sarajevo. In 1994 she arrived in New Zealand with her family speaking no English. In 2002 she graduated from the University of Canterbury with first class honours in Law and a bachelor’s degree in Russian. Since then she has worked as a lawyer for a leading New Zealand law firm, and more recently for a City law firm in London. Hana is also a qualified performance consultant. She lives in New Zealand with her husband James.

Daryl Copeland

6pm-7.30pm, Monday 4 July
Lecture Theatre 032, ClockTower Building
22 Princes Street, Auckland City

Daryl Copeland is an analyst, author and educator specializing in diplomacy, international policy, global issues and public management. His first book, Guerrilla Diplomacy: Rethinking International Relations, was released in July 2009 by Lynne Rienner Publishers. Mr. Copeland is a frequent public speaker and he comments frequently for the national media. 

From 1981 to 2009 Mr. Copeland served as a Canadian diplomat with postings in Thailand, Ethiopia, New Zealand and Malaysia. During the 1980s and 1990s, he was elected a record five times to the Executive Committee of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers. From 1996-99 he was National Program Director of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs in Toronto and Editor of Behind the Headlines, Canada’s international affairs magazine. In 2000, he received the Canadian Foreign Service Officer Award for his “tireless dedication and unyielding commitment to advancing the interests of the diplomatic profession.” 

Mr. Copeland is Adjunct Professor and Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, where he has designed and delivers a graduate seminar on Science, Technology, Diplomacy and International Policy. In 2009 he was named as a Research Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Center on Public Diplomacy. In 2011 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia, London (UK).