Tuesday 6 March, 2007

Rt Hon Peter Hain MP

Chair: Stephen Twigg

Kindly hosted by:

Hill & Knowlton

20 Soho Square

London W1A 1PR

About the event:

Peter Hain spoke and took questions at a packed Foreign Policy Centre discussion on "The End of Foreign Policy?" kindly hosted at the offices of Hill & Knowlton.

Since the events of September 11th, the barriers between the domestic and the international have further broken down. The old definition of "the national interest" is too narrow a guide to foreign policy in a globalised world, but we are still developing the new rules which should replace it. How can we redefine a multilateral foreign policy to encompass this new dynamic? Today's foreign policy needs to be shaped by ideas, not by events.

You can download a copy of Peter Hain's speech below

Download Peter Hain's speech to the Foreign Policy Centre (50 kilobyte PDF)

Book Launch

A discussion on the future of progressive foreign policy to launch Global Politics After 9/11: The Democratiya Interviews (Edited by Alan Johnson, Preface by Michael Walzer and published by The Foreign Policy Centre / Democratiya)

Date: Monday 21 April, 6-8pm

Venue: Committee Room 3a, The Palace of Westminster (St. Stephen's Entrance), London SW1A 0AA

Speakers:

• Lord Falconer of Thoroton, Chair
• Alan Johnson, Democratiya.com, Editor of Global Politics After 9/11
• Denis Macshane MP, Labour Foreign Office Minister 2001-2005
• Michael Moore MP, Liberal Democrat Spokesman for International Development, tbc
• John Lloyd, Financial Times and Reuters Institute, Oxford
• Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
• Ladan Boroumand, Research Director, The Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation for the promotion of human rights and democracy in Iran

There will be a question and answer period. Copies of Global Politics After 9/11: The Democratiya Interviews will be available at a specially reduced price of 7.99.

RSVP is to Julie Utting Julie.Utting@JohnSmithTrust.org All press enquiries, and questions aside from RSVP related to the launch to Alan Johnson Alanjohnsonlfiq@aol.com. Places are strictly limited and will be allocated on a first to reply basis.

Sponsors: The Foreign Policy Centre, The John Smith Institute, Democratiya.com, The Henry Jackson Society, Progress and Engage.

Transatlantic Trends is a major new multinational poll which asks detailed questions about foreign policy to 8,000 people in the US and several European countries.

On 13th September 2004, at Senate House in the University of London, speakers, organised in conjunction with the German Marshall Fund of the United States, included Timothy Garton-Ash, Clare Short MP, Phillip Bobbitt, Menzies Campbell MP, Philip Stephens from the FT and Lord Howell, Opposition Foreign Affairs Spokesman in the Lords.

Previous German Marshall Fund worldview polls have made interesting and influential reading: The poll released in 2002 showed that the US public was as keen as Europeans on the UN route prior to the war in Iraq, and is credited in Washington as one of the influences on President Bush's decision to pursue that path. This year's poll was full of equally surprising findings.

Download the report (450 kilobyte PDF)

By Andrew Southam.

FPC research associate Andrew Southam explores some of the key issues in US-EU judicial co-operation.

Download FPC Briefing: Where next for EU-US judicial co-operation? (330 kilobyte PDF)

By Andrew Southam.

New FPC Research Associate Andrew Southam gives us his take on the controversial 2003 UK-US extradition treaty, whether criticism is valid and what can be done to improve the situation.

Download FPC Briefing: Do we need to rethink UK-US extradition (390 kilobyte PDF)

By Stephen Minas. Source: ABC.net.ac

On January 25, Egyptians took to Tahrir Square to claim freedom from dictatorship. They were soon followed by former Bush administration officials and conservative commentators, who took to the opinion pages of America's journals of record to claim vindication.

Specifically, vindication for George W Bush's 'freedom agenda' of promoting the spread of democracy. And as the protests in Egypt grew ever larger, and the reign of President Hosni Mubarak looked increasingly doomed, the claims on behalf of the 'freedom agenda' became bolder.

Full text 

Richard Youngs

December 2004

Download the report (190 kilobyte PDF)

Despite a common interest in promoting democracy in the Middle East, the US and EU have so far failed to create a coherent partnership in the region. In this pamphlet, Dr. Richard Youngs maps out a strategy for improving transatlantic cooperation on this vital issue.

Richard C. Eichenberg, Richard J. Stoll

July 2004

Download the report (370 kilobyte PDF)

The Political Fortunes of War provides a preliminary quantative assessment of just how much the Iraq war may be costing President Bush his bid for re-election. It sets out a correlation between a President's approval ratings and his chances of winning re-election, based on data from every President since Roosevelt.

Authors Professor Richard C Eichenberg and Richard J Stoll argue that President Bush's ratings have declined by just over one per cent for every 100 deaths of American service personnel. Using this estimate, the war may have cost the President over 10 per cent in his job approval ratings. They argue that without the war effect, Bush would be comfortably heading towards re-election. However, a continuation of the status quo – in which there is a daily death toll of several soldiers – is placing his continued tenure of the White House in increasing doubt.

• Supplementary material

Istanbul Paper 1

Daimler Chrysler, GMF, Parex Banka

July 2004

Download the report (700 kilobyte PDF)

A report by the German Marshall Fund and the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation. Authors include: Urban Ahlin, Member of the Swedish Parliament, Mensur Akgün, Turkish Economic and Social Science Studies Foundation,Gustavo de Aristegui, Member of the Spanish Parliament, Ronald D. Asmus, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Daniel Byman, Georgetown University, Larry Diamond,Hoover Institution, Steven Everts, Centre for European Reform, Ralf Fücks,Heinrich Böll Foundation, Iris Glosemeyer, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Jana Hybaskova, Czech Member of the European Parliament, Thorsten Klassen, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Mark Leonard, Foreign Policy Centre, Michael McFaul, Stanford University, Thomas O.Melia, Georgetown University, Michael Mertes, Dimap Consult, Joshua Muravchik, American Enterprise Institute, Kenneth M. Pollack, The Brookings Institution, Karen Volker, Office of Senator Joe Lieberman, Jennifer Windsor, Freedom House.

Tuesday 6 March, 2007

Rt Hon Peter Hain MP

Chair: Stephen Twigg

Kindly hosted by:

Hill & Knowlton

20 Soho Square

London W1A 1PR

About the event:

Peter Hain spoke and took questions at a packed Foreign Policy Centre discussion on "The End of Foreign Policy?" kindly hosted at the offices of Hill & Knowlton.

Since the events of September 11th, the barriers between the domestic and the international have further broken down. The old definition of "the national interest" is too narrow a guide to foreign policy in a globalised world, but we are still developing the new rules which should replace it. How can we redefine a multilateral foreign policy to encompass this new dynamic? Today's foreign policy needs to be shaped by ideas, not by events.

You can download a copy of Peter Hain's speech below

Download Peter Hain's speech to the Foreign Policy Centre (50 kilobyte PDF)

Book Launch

A discussion on the future of progressive foreign policy to launch Global Politics After 9/11: The Democratiya Interviews (Edited by Alan Johnson, Preface by Michael Walzer and published by The Foreign Policy Centre / Democratiya)

Date: Monday 21 April, 6-8pm

Venue: Committee Room 3a, The Palace of Westminster (St. Stephen's Entrance), London SW1A 0AA

Speakers:

• Lord Falconer of Thoroton, Chair
• Alan Johnson, Democratiya.com, Editor of Global Politics After 9/11
• Denis Macshane MP, Labour Foreign Office Minister 2001-2005
• Michael Moore MP, Liberal Democrat Spokesman for International Development, tbc
• John Lloyd, Financial Times and Reuters Institute, Oxford
• Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
• Ladan Boroumand, Research Director, The Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation for the promotion of human rights and democracy in Iran

There will be a question and answer period. Copies of Global Politics After 9/11: The Democratiya Interviews will be available at a specially reduced price of 7.99.

RSVP is to Julie Utting Julie.Utting@JohnSmithTrust.org All press enquiries, and questions aside from RSVP related to the launch to Alan Johnson Alanjohnsonlfiq@aol.com. Places are strictly limited and will be allocated on a first to reply basis.

Sponsors: The Foreign Policy Centre, The John Smith Institute, Democratiya.com, The Henry Jackson Society, Progress and Engage.

Transatlantic Trends is a major new multinational poll which asks detailed questions about foreign policy to 8,000 people in the US and several European countries.

On 13th September 2004, at Senate House in the University of London, speakers, organised in conjunction with the German Marshall Fund of the United States, included Timothy Garton-Ash, Clare Short MP, Phillip Bobbitt, Menzies Campbell MP, Philip Stephens from the FT and Lord Howell, Opposition Foreign Affairs Spokesman in the Lords.

Previous German Marshall Fund worldview polls have made interesting and influential reading: The poll released in 2002 showed that the US public was as keen as Europeans on the UN route prior to the war in Iraq, and is credited in Washington as one of the influences on President Bush's decision to pursue that path. This year's poll was full of equally surprising findings.

Download the report (450 kilobyte PDF)