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Öffentliche Vorträge von Fellows des Max-Weber-Programms
an der Humboldt-Universität vom 31. Mai bis 3. Juni 2010
- Dr. Autumn Lockwood Payton, US policies towards the
International Criminal Court: Evaluating country responses to the
Bilateral Immunity Agreement campaign
In response to the entry into force of the Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court in 2002, the United States which stood in
opposition to the Court, asked every country to sign an agreement that
would exempt US citizens from prosecution by the International Criminal
Court. In order to gain the cooperation with these so-called Bilateral
Immunity Agreements (BIAs) the US government threatened to sanction
countries that did not conclude a BIA by revoking military and economic
aid. Some countries, like Colombia, Macedonia and Uganda, chose to
conclude BIAs, while others, such as Croatia, Mali and Brazil, chose
sanctions over signing these agreements. Why did some countries respond
to US threats while others did not? In this talk I will review the Bush
administration’s policy towards the International Criminal Court and
propose an answer to the question of why some countries responded
affirmatively to US demands while other countries chose to be
sanctioned.
Montag, 31. Mai, 16 Uhr c.t., DOR 24, 3020
- Dr. Elaine Fahey, Jagged-edged jigsaw: The boundaries of
constitutional differentiation and Irish-British-Euro relations after
the Treaty of Lisbon
Key objectives of the Stockholm Programme are judicial cooperation and
the unity of EU law. However, constitutional differentiation has been
far from a constitutional success and the Court of Justice has not
given its imprimatur to the operation of the Schengen Protocol
Irish-British “special arrangements.” Such “special arrangements” are
no longer afforded to new accession States. Yet a fragile outsider
stance of “opt-out/opt-in” now characterises the Irish and British
relationship with the entire Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, in
the form of Protocols and Declarations as contained in the Treaty of
Lisbon.
Ostensibly, water borders and the Common Travel Area shared between
Ireland and the UK have had a far-reaching influence on
Irish-British-European affairs but do not provide a unified or complete
explanation for the Irish position reached after the Treaty of Lisbon.
It is argued here that increased constitutional flexibility appears
legally disproportionate to its effectiveness as a matter of EU law
because of its potential for incoherence. From an Irish perspective,
major complexities surround the operation of the Protocols and
Declarations obtained and the simplicity of relevant domestic
constitutional law provisions remains problematic, as does the absence
of mention of the Common Travel Area in Irish law.
1. Juni 2010, 18 Uhr c.t., Unter den Linden 11, 101 (Bibliothek
des Walter Hallstein-Institutes)
- Dr. Sara Konoe, International Finance, Politics, and Global
Governance
As financial market integration progressed after the collapse of the
Bretton Woods System in the 1970s, capital market expansion and the
global competitiveness of domestic financial sectors became major
economic policy goals for the industrial economies. However, in
combination with global macroeconomic imbalances, financial
liberalization that was pursued without adequate knowledge of its risk
either on the side of the market or the state increased financial
volatility, and eventually led to the 2007-09 financial crisis. In
addition, the lack of cross-national cooperation in financial
supervision created regulatory pitfalls, thus contributing to the
current financial crisis. Based on the analysis of political economy
factors that drove 2007-09 financial crisis, I will discuss a new
financial institutional architecture and international policy
cooperation in order to enhance global financial market
stability.
2. Juni 2010, 10-12 Uhr, Universitätsstr. 3, 003
- Dr. Richard Kirwan, Scholarly Reputation, Academic
Community and the Fashioning of Institutional Public Image in Early
Modern Germany: The Case of the University of Helmstedt,
1576-1680.
The reputations of universities had always been built upon the profiles
of their more famous scholars. Men of renown acted as bright lights to
which eager students were drawn and served a means by which the
magnificence of a university’s patrons could best be illuminated. The
pressures of competition brought about by the growth in the number of
universities operating within the Empire in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries meant that the projection of institutional public
image became ever more important. The corporate celebration of
exemplary scholars occupied a central place in fashionings of
institutional standing and prestige. Over the course of the sixteenth
century, as competition between institutions became more intense,
celebrations of the individual began to extend with greater frequency
to the lesser men of a university, offering a broader characterisation
of the academic cohort and thus providing a more complete indication of
institutional worth.
In this lecture I will examine the representational enterprises of
scholars at the University of Helmstedt in the first century of its
existence. I will explore the motivations behind such activities and
investigate their purposes and effects. In particular I will seek to
investigate their role in fostering community within universities and
in inscribing academic social agency more generally. The manner in
which such practices facilitated the fashioning of institutional
reputation and assisted in the competition for standing within various
prestige economies will also be explored.
2. Juni 2010, 18 Uhr, Dorotheenstr. 65, 358
- Dr. Alexia Katsanidou, The Greek Political System and why
all went wrong
Greece is a third wave Democracy that was re-established after the fall
of the dictatorship in 1974. It had the opportunity to re-invent itself
and its institutions within a democratic European environment. The
country though did not start its political existence in 1974. Political
forces that pre-existed left their mark both on democratization and on
political practices that followed. This lecture will present an
overview of the Greek political system providing an insight on the
structures of power, the institutions and the mentality that govern
Greek politics. We will try to pinpoint the weaknesses of the system
and its pathogenies that potentially lead the country close to
bankruptcy.
By the end of this lecture one will have a good knowledge of the
political system in Greece and will be able to evaluate other European
systems and their contingency to similar crises.
3. Juni 2010, 18 Uhr, Universitätsstr. 3b, 003