Jean Monnet Public Lecture 'Shaping a New International Security System'

Monday 5th October
6pm Public Policy Lecture Theatre
Level 2 234 Queensberry St
University of Melbourne

presented by

Prof Adam Rotfeld

(Ph. D. Professor, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Member of the Polish President's National Security Council)

A copy of the Prof Rotfeld's paper, 'Whither the World? Shaping a New Security System', upon which this lecture was based, is available for download

Biography:

Professor Rotfeld has had a prominent career in academia and politics, with specialisation in international affairs and in particular international security issues. Since 1989 he has been a leader of the Project on Building a Co-operative Security System in and for Europe at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He was appointed as Director of SIPRI from 1 July 1991 and re-elected in 1996 for the second term (up to June 2002). In his academic career he has published and edited more than 20 monographs and over 300 articles. After the end of the cold war he co-edited with Walther Stützle the volume: Germany and Europe in Transition (OUP 1991). Since then his publications have mainly been focused on human rights, cooperative security, CSBMs, multilateral security structures (NATO, EU, OSCE) and political and legal aspects of the security system in Europe.

In his capacity as Director of SIPRI, he was appointed in 1992 as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office to elaborate the settlement of the conflict in the Trans-Dniester region of Moldova; his report recommended basic principles for the political solution of this conflict and they were approved by the OSCE Council of Ministers and the conflicting parties.

In June 2002 he became Under-Secretary of State at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and one year later became the Secretary of State. In January 2005 he became Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Marek Belka. He served there until Belka's government lost office in October of that year.

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