27 August - 1 September 2006
Europe in the International Security Order: Concepts, Issues, and Trends
In cooperation with the Centre for European Peace and Security Studies (ZEUS)
Sponsored by the Edmund Siemers-Foundation
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Aim and Purpose
The Hanseatic Baltic Summer School (HBSS) is an intensive one week summer programme. This year the summer school focuses on the role of the EU in the international security order. The underlying concern of the summer school is to analyse various models for the EU's international role. The EU has already achieved the status of a great economic power which is able to challenge the economic hegemony of the USA. However, in military terms, it has to be considered as relatively weak lacking any
common political will. Should Europe concentrate its energies to develop strong defence and strategic capabilities independent from the USA and NATO? Or is the strength of Europe rather to be found in the cultural sector, namely to shape international moral and legal standards? Thus, the question of Europe as a economic, military, or normative power represents the major research focus of the lectures and workshops.
The summer school covers the following topics: models for the CFSP, ESDP, transatlantic relations, EU and NATO, OSCE, terrorism, Europe and Middle East peace process, relations with eastern Europe etc.
The Summer School is open to researchers and advanced students who are working in the social sciences (economics and political science) and law. Preference will be given to students at the end of their studies or beginning of their PhD.
In response to an increasing demand for post-graduate training in Europe, HAUS RISSEN HAMBURG and the Centre for European Peace and Security Studies offer a Summer School to promote the Europeanisation of social science teaching and research skills. In particular, it aims to strengthen the co-operation between Western-, Central-, and Eastern European researchers and universities. The HBSS facilitates individual contacts between university departments and other research institutions
to improve student mobility and to share teaching resources.
:: Organisation
The Summer School comprises of five teaching days, each divided into morning and afternoon sessions. The Summer School provides a forum for promising students to discuss their own work and to build up a network with other researchers. The best students will have the opportunity to give a lecture on their topic in the framework of the Hanseatic Baltic Summer School 2007.
The fee of 250 EURO covers the conference organisation and full accommodation (single rooms with bathrooms, meals) for the whole course. Participants have to pay their travel costs. Reimbursement of travel costs is not possible. There are no scholarships available.
The Summer School will be held in Hamburg at the International Institute for Politics and Economics (HAUS RISSEN HAMBURG). The teaching staff includes mainly teachers from various universities and research institutions in Hamburg. The final programme will be available by the end of May. The Summer School is organised so as to maximise opportunity for academic discussion outside the formal periods of class contact. The students are accommodated in HAUS RISSEN HAMBURG and this acts in
favour of a considerable amount of additional academic exchange.
Applications must include a curriculum vitae and a covering letter. The covering letter should describe the own research project and the motivation to participate in the summer school (i.e. a clearly visible research interest in EU matters). This letter of intent should have ca. 500 words.
Closing date: 3 July 2006.
Applications should be sent to:
Dr. Eckard Bolsinger (Summer School Director)
bolsinger@hausrissen.org
Successful candidates will be informed within two weeks after the closing date. If you have not been contacted within this period your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Further information about HAUS RISSEN HAMBURG and ZEUS is available on their web-pages at:
: www.hausrissen.org
: ZEUS / IFSH
Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Best regards
Dr. Patricia Schneider
Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik
an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH)
Falkenstein 1
22587 Hamburg
schneider@ifsh.de
Zur Person: http://www.ifsh.de/zeus/htm_english/mit_sch.htm
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