
On Thursday, 27 October 2016, the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies at the College of Europe celebrated its first ten years.
Please visit as well www.coleurope.eu/10yearsIRD
The Rector of the College of Europe, Prof. Dr. Dr. Jörg MONAR, officially conferred the title of Honorary Professor to Prof. Dr. Dieter MAHNCKE for forty years of teaching in several study programmes. Read more.
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Programme
9:30 | Welcome by Prof. Dr. Sieglinde GSTÖHL, Director, Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies |
9:45 |
Roundtable discussion “EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies: Past, Present, Future” with former student representatives, chaired by Prof. Dr. Simon SCHUNZ
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11:00 | Coffee break |
11:30 | Introduction of the laureate Prof. Dr. Dieter MAHNCKE, Visiting Professor at the College of Europe for 40 years and founding Director of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies, by Prof. Dr. Olivier COSTA, Director, Department of European Political and Administrative Studies |
11:45 | Honorary lecture by Prof. Dr. Dieter MAHNCKE, “What’s Wrong with the European Union?” |
12:30 | Conferral of the title of Honorary Professor to Prof. Dr. Dieter MAHNCKE by the Rector of the College of Europe, Prof. Dr. Dr. Jörg MONAR |
12:45 | Lunch buffet |
About the speaker
Dieter MAHNCKE has been visiting professor at the College of Europe for forty years (1976-2016). During this time, he was also Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Chair for European Foreign Policy and Security Studies (1996-2010), Director of the Department of European Political and Administrative Studies (1996-2008) and founding Director of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies (2006-2010). Among his previous professional affiliations are the University of the Armed Forces in Hamburg, the Office of the German Federal President and the German Federal Ministry of Defence. He holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MA and PhD from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, DC, and a Habilitation from the University of Bonn.
See also the public “EU Diplomacy Lecture” by Dr. Javier SOLANA in the afternoon.