Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 14:41:17 EDT
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From: dcarment@ccs.carleton.ca (David Carment)
Subject: Research Fellowships at SWP, Ebenhausen and IAI, Rome (fwd)
I may get in trouble for posting this. Since the project IS sponsored
by VAG and may be of interest to at least some of you, I post it here. It
is nice to know that the company from whom you buy their products supports
worthwhile research.
Regards - David Carment
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> Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Rome, and
> Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Ebenhausen, near
> Munich
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> are conducting a two-year research project on
> "Preventing Violent Conflict in Europe".
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> The project, which is supported by the Volkswagen
> Foundation, is starting in January 1996 and will be
> directed by Gianni Bonvicini and Ettore Greco from IAI as
> well as Bernard von Plate and Reinhardt Rummel from SWP. A
> small number of experts from both research institutes and
> scholars from various regions of Europe will join to study
> how specific conflicts may turn violent and how to prevent
> such escalation. To enable an intensive exchange of
> knowledge and, in fact, to generate a common expertise in
> the area of conflict prevention, IAI and SWP are inviting
> four young research fellows to come to either Rome or
> Ebenhausen for a year and participate in the project.
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> The working language of the project will be English.
> Interested scholars from former socialist countries of the
> Visegrad group, the Baltics, South Eastern Europe and the
> CIS may apply. Applicants, who should hold a university
> degree (e.g. Masters, Candidate or Doctorate) and should
> have a social science or history background, are kindly
> asked to fill out the attached questionnaire and send it in
> by October 10, 1995.
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> 1.Description of the project
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> The project is designed to serve the following research
> goals
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> - to provide an interdisciplinary research context for the
> study of the potential for violent conflicts in Europe
> and the existing mechanisms to deal with them;
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> - to analyze the evolution of states and regions in which
> unsolved political problems could give rise to violent
> conflicts;
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> - to develop a typology of conflicts and a set of criteria
> with which to assess their dynamics (case studies);
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> - to evaluate the available instruments for the various
> aspects of conflict prevention (early warning,
> preventive diplomacy, humanitarian and economic
> assistance, sanctions, arms control, preventive military
> deployments);
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> - to analyze the actors involved in the process of
> conflict prevention with particular regard to the roles
> of both governmental and non-governmental
> (international) organizations;
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> - to suggest a set of measures for improvement of conflict
> prevention policies in Europe as a whole and some of its
> most critical regions.
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> Further goals of the project are:
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> - to familiarize the scholars-in-residence with the
> relevant theories and experiences in conflict prevention
> and the principles elaborated by Euro-Atlantic
> institutions in the security field;
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> - to promote closer cooperation within the Euro-Atlantic
> research communities specialized in the security field,
> by using the cooperation between SWP and IAI as a
> training field for the scholars-in-residence.
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> 2.Scholars-in-Residence
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> Each of the four scholars-in-residence will be required:
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> - to spend one year in residence with the project group.
> This can be either from January 1996 to December 1996 or
> from January 1997 to December 1997. - This one year can
> be spent either at the Istituto Affari Internazionali in
> Rome or at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in
> Ebenhausen (Germany);
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> - to take on major responsibility for the development of
> the project;
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> - to write research reports and prepare publications;
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> - to participate actively in the international conferences
> and working group meetings which will be held within the
> context of the project;
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> - to participate in the activities of the host institute.
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> The benefits for the scholars-in-residence will include:
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> - familiarization with the instruments for analysis and
> assessment in the security field;
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> - improvement of the skills required to conduct a research
> project;
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> - working in a stimulating environment of policy oriented
> research institutes in Germany and Italy;
>
> - contact with the wider network of the Euro-Atlantic
> study community to which the two institutes belong;
>
> - Each scholar-in-residence will receive a grant of DM
> 2.500 per month during her/his year of stay in
> Ebenhausen or Rome to cover costs of living, insurance
> and housing. One return ticket for the scholar-in-
> residence to Ebenhausen or Rome will be covered by the
> project funds. There is also limited room for research
> trips.
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> 3.Recruitment procedure
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> A limited number of applicants will be invited to a
> recruitment colloquium which will be held in Ebenhausen on
> 17 and 18 November 1995. They will have to work out a short
> contribution for the colloquium on a subject related to the
> research project and present it orally. The working
> language of the colloquium will be English.
>
> The deadline for the receipt of applications (=3D
> questionnaire) is 10 October 1995. Decisions on the
> applicants selected for the recruitment colloquium will be
> made by 20 October 1995. The discussion paper (5 pages
> max.) for the colloquium will have to be sent in by 10
> November 1995. Final decisions on the appointment of the
> scholars-in-residence will be made immediately after the
> recruitment colloquium.
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> Questionnaire (Application)
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> Please fill out and fax at your earliest convenience (not
> later than October 10, 1995) to:
> Fax: 49-8178-70312
> Helga Schubert
> Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
> D-82067 Ebenhausen, Haus Eggenberg
> Phone: 49-8178-70320
> E-mail: H.Schubert@swp.extern.lrz-muenchen.de
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> Birth date:
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> Married?
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> Children?
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> Will you be accompanied by your family or part of your
> family during your stay in Germany or Italy?
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> Which is your preferred period of stay: 1996 or 1997?
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> Academic education and degree:
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> Professional work experience:
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> English language skills, degree of proficiency:
> oral: excellent good poor
> writing: excellent good poor
> Other languages:
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> Please, specify any of your academic or other work
> experience abroad:
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> Istituto Affari Internazionali
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> The Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) was founded on 11
> October 1965 on the initiative of Altiero Spinelli, its
> first director, with the support of the Fondazione Adriano
> Olivetti, l'Associazione di cultura e politica "Il Mulino",
> Centro Studi "Nord e Sud" and the ford Foundation.
> In 1991 the Institute moved to the Palazzo Rondinini, an
> elegant eighteenth century Baroque building in the heart of
> Rome where the main activities organised by the Institute
> take place.
> A non-profit organization, it is funded by individual and
> corporate members, public and private organizations, major
> international foundations, and by a standing grant from the
> Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
> The main objective of the Institute is to promote
> understanding of the problems of international politics
> through studies, research, meetings and publications, with
> the aim of increasing the opportunities of all countries to
> move in the direction of supranational organization,
> democratic freedom and social justice (IAI Bylaws, Article
> I).
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> RESEARCH
>
> An interdisciplinary approach and policy-oriented
> objectives characterize the Institute's analysis of
> international events. The IAI strives to maintain a global
> perspective, evaluating Italian positions with respect to
> those of other international actors. To this end, the
> Institute has involved an increasing number of foreign
> researchers in its projects, and has strengthened its ties
> with similar institutes abroad through regular bilateral
> and multilateral meetings.
> In addition, the IAI belongs to the following international
> networks of research centres: the Trans European Policy
> Studies Association (TEPSA), the group of Seven Institutes
> (Clingendael, The Netherlands; DGAP, Bonn; IFRI, Paris;
> RIIA, London; SWP, Ebenhausen; WEU Institute for Security
> Studies, Paris), the European Strategy Group (ESG) and the
> European Security Analysis Network (ESAN).
>
> Principal fields of research
>
> - deepening European integration
> - international economic co-operation
> - the Balkans and East-West relations
> - the Mediterranean and areas to the south of Europe
> - international security
> - Italian foreign policy
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> CONFERENCES
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> The conference activities of the IAI are organized broadly
> as follows:
>
> - public meetings and conferences
> - bilateral meetings with other Italian institutes and
> foreign counterparts
> - study groups and seminars related to research topics
> - meetings of the Fora
> - loctures by foreign and Italian guest speakers. All
> these activities are organized with the purpose of
> furthering the understanding of topical issues in
> international relations. The meetings of the various
> Fora are detailed below as worthy of particular mention.
>
> The Fora are groups which further debate and the
> dissemination of information among corporate members and
> which are also open to leading experts on topical issues,
> civil servants, businessmen etc. They are a response to the
> need of their members for a deeper understanding of the
> connections between domestic and foreign policy which are
> of particular relevance in the context of the rapid
> transformations occuring on both the Italian and the
> international scene. They are organized in four main
> subject areas:
> Forum on the Economy, which explores issues relating to
> international economic cooperation and interdependence.
> Forum on Eastern Europe, which follows political
> developments in the Balkans and the Eastern European areas
> of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
> Forum on the Mediterranean, which focuses on developments
> occuring to the south of Europe, particularly in the
> Mediterranean, the Near East and the Gulf.
> Forum on Security, which examines issues regarding
> international security and the role played by Italy in
> these issues.
>
>
> LIBRARY
>
> The library was set up in 1965, the year the Institute was
> founded, and provides a high level of service to Italian
> experts and researchers in the area of international
> issues. It contains more than 15 000 items, including bound
> volumes of periodicals and the "open" collection of
> reference materials. The library's contents are currently
> being catalogued in an on-line data base, which now
> contains more than 6000 entries. The library is a
> participant in the "European Information Network on
> International Relations and Area Studies", an international
> project for libraries and data-banks which was launched by
> the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Ebenhausen.
>
>
> PUBLICATIONS
>
> Yearbook: L'Italia nella Politica Internazionale, 21st
> Edition, 1994 (1992-93), SIPI Editrice, Rome
> Journal (in English): The International Spectator, Vol.
> XXX, Fratelli Palombi Editore, Rome
> Review (in Italian): Maastricht Watch, vol. III, 1994-95,
> quarterly supplement of "Mondo Economic", II Sole 24 Ore
> SpA, Milano
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> Book Series: Lo Spettatore Internazionale, Franco Angeli
> Editore, Milan
> Recent Issues:
> La guerra di Bosnia: una tragedia annunciata, ed. Marco
> Carnovale
> Il Vertice dei Sette. Ruolo e prospective del G-7 nel
> mutato scenario internazionale, eds. Guido Garavoglia and
> Cesare Merlin
> L'Europa senza muri: Le sfide della pace fredda: un anno di
> presidenza italiana della Csce, ed. Ettore Greco
>
> Working Papers: Documenti IAI
>
> DIRECTING STAFF
>
> President: Cesare Merlini
> Director: Gianni Bonvicini
> Vice-President: Stefano Silvestri
> Director of Studies: Roberto Aliboni
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> Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
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> ORIGINS AND ORGANIZATION
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> The Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) is a foundation
> established in 1962 for the purpose of furthering analytic
> research into problems of international politics and
> security. Publicly funded, but politicallly independent,
> the SWP today maintains the largest research institute of
> its kind in the Federal Republic of Germany.
>
> The Stiftung was called into being at a time when the
> Federal Republic of Germany was beginning to broaden its
> role on the international scene. Sensing a need for
> independent academic advice to back the Federal Republic's
> foreign policy efforts, a group of distinguished scholars
> and public officials under the chairmanship of Professor
> Arnold Bergstraesser submitted a proposal for the
> establishment of an interdisciplinary, policy-oriented
> research institute. The authors were convinced that such
> advice could credibly be offered only by an institute
> outside the traditional university system and not under
> direct government control =96 albeit with close ties to both
> the academic and the political worlds. The Stiftung
> Wissenschaft und Politik was set up as a non-profitmaking,
> private foundation in order to provide an appropriate
> institutional framework.
>
> The Federal Government, having previously established
> policy planning staffs in a number of ministries, welcomed
> this private initiative and pledged its support. In January
> 1965, the Federal Republic's parliament, the Bundestag,
> unanimously approved the government's request for official
> funding. Bundestag members shared the conviction that the
> emerging issues of national security and arms control in
> the nuclear age required the intensive and specialized
> analytic approach already being practised in the United
> States, but not hitherto in Germany.
>
> The Forschungsinstitut f=FCr internationale Politik und
> Sicherheit (Research Institute for International Politics
> and Security) under the auspices of the Stiftung
> Wissenschaft und Politik began its work in a former mansion
> in Ebenhausen, south of Munich. The SWP's founders were
> convinced that a location away from the federal capital and
> thus somewhat removed from the immediate pressures of
> politics would best enable the institute to conduct general
> and policy-oriented research. Over the last 25 years, the
> SWP has grown significantly in size and importance. Today,
> the institute is housed in modern office buildings
> clustered around the old mansion. The latest addition, a
> conference center, opened in 1987 and, equipped with all
> necessary technical facilities, enables the SWP to meet the
> growing demand for hosting national and international
> meetings of experts, policymakers and government leaders.
>
> The Stiftung's affairs are supervised by a 19-member Board
> of Trustees, the Stiftungsrat. This includes
> representatives from the Bundestag, the Chancellor's
> Office, the Foreign Office, and the Ministries of Defense,
> Economics, Finance, and Research and Technology. Other
> members of the Stiftungsrat represent the academic and
> business communities as well as the public at large. The
> Stiftungsrat appoints a four-member Executive Board
> including, as its chairman, the director of the institute.
>
> The SWP receives almost all the operating funds for the
> institute through annual non-project appropriations in the
> Federal budget. These are supplemented by grants for
> specific projects, obtained from private foundations in the
> Federal Republic and abroad.
>
> RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
>
> The research activities of the SWP seek to combine the
> requirements of general research in international affairs
> with the specific needs and interests of policymakers. Its
> research planning reflects this dual purpose. The institute
> develops its own research agenda, giving due regard to
> specific questions raised by Bundestag members or
> government departments. The two-year research program
> submitted by the institute as the result of this process is
> subject to formal approval by the Board of Trustees. The
> institute does not engage in contract research.
>
> On the basis of the two-year program, the institue and its
> staff develop a semi-annual detailed working program. This
> attempts to combine the specific fields of expertise with
> topical issues relating to current and foreseeable
> international developments. Most of the research focuses on
> conceptual problems and international affairs.
>
> Research activities are currently organized in four broadly
> defined areas:
> =96 Western European and transatlantic relations, Eastern
> European affairs, and political developments in the
> successor states of the Soviet Union;
> =96 international security policies (defense, arms control,
> and technological advances);
> =96 international economics (West, East, and Third World)
> and issues involving technological change;
> =96 developments outside Europe and North America (Asia,
> Near and Middle East, Africa, Latin America) relevant to
> the other research areas.
>
> Research in these broad areas is carried out in small
> teams, enabling work to be conducted either individually or
> through project-oriented interdisciplinary cooperation. The
> team leaders form a council, which is consulted by the
> institute's director on all research questions. Special
> subjects outside the institute's normal range of competence
> are occasionally assigned to external researchers on a
> contract basis.
>
> Results are usually disseminated in the form of
> nonclassified studies and position papers. Many of these
> are intended primarily for the attention and specific needs
> of policymakers and, therefore, are not generally
> available. Chief recipients are the Bundestag and its
> committees, the Chancellery, and various Federal
> Ministries. In addition, research results are often shared
> directly between research staff and policymakers.
>
> Increasingly important is dialogue and exchange of
> information with similar institutions at home and abroad.
> SWP staff members are encouraged to participate on the
> national and international level in conferences, expert
> meetings, workshops and major research programs, thus
> widening their contribution to policy-related research and
> helping to foster international discourse and
> understanding.
>
> In most cases, major research is eventually published in
> periodicals and books under the name and responsibility of
> the individual researcher. In 1978, the SWP inaugurated, in
> cooperation with the Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-
> Baden, its own series "Internationale Politik und
> Sicherheit"; since 1983, another series has been added,
> "Aktuelle Materialien zur Internationalen Politik". For a
> listing of SWP publications see
> pp. 11.
>
> The Stiftung's professional staff, some 45 out of a total
> permanent staff of 120, is drawn from a variety of
> disciplines and professional backgrounds (see the listing,
> pp. 8). It is regularly augmented by three general staff
> officers of the Bundeswehr, the Federal Armed Forces,
> assigned to the SWP for a two-year period studying defense
> and arms control issues. The SWP also hosts a number of
> postgraduate students or younger scholars doing work on
> international affairs. In addition, the Stiftung
> occasionally invites senior scholars or policymakers from
> the Federal Republic and abroad to take an active part in
> the institute's research.
>
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> Stephan De Spiegeleire
> Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) Tel. (49) 8178/70-360
> Research Institute for International Affairs Fax (49) 8178/70-312
> D-82067 Ebenhausen/Isar, Federal Republic of Germany
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David Carment
School of International Affairs
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario
K1S 5B6
voice - (613) 788-2600-6662
fax - (613) 788-2889
Email address: dcarment@ccs.carleton.ca
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