Arrangement

Forsvarets høgskole og Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt (NUPI)  har gleden av å invitere til det 13. militærmaktseminaret

The Arab Spring – the (F)utility of Military Power?

Militærmaktseminaret er fullbooket. Send en mail til seminar@nupi.no hvis du ønsker å komme på ventelisten.

Programme (09.00 - 15.30)

08:30 Registration. Coffee & Tea

• Welcoming remarks Commodore Håkon Tronstad, Norwegian Defence Command and Staff College 

Introduction:

• Norwegian Middle East Policy: In the Intersection between Politics and Military PowerEspen Barth Eide, Minister of Defence

Session I: (09:40-11:30)

• The Arab Spring as seen from the Middle EastAssistant Professor Tarek Masoud, Kennedy School of Government

• The European Great Powers and the Arab Spring – France’s PerspectiveProfessor Francois Heisbourg,
  Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique
   

• U
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   Foreign Policy before and after Libya
  : Obama
   –
  the President who lost the Middle East?Dr. Kori Schake, Hoover Institute
• Q&A

Lunch (11:30-12:00)

Session II (12:00-13:15)

• NATO’s role in the Middle East – the Libya InterventionProfessor
   
  Julian Lindley-French,
  Netherlands Defence Academy
   

• The (F)utility and Necessity of Military Force – Mandates, Legitimacy and Long-term PeaceProfessor Mary Kaldor, London School of Economics and Political ScienceQ&A

Coffee, Tea & cakes

Session III (In Norwegian Only) (13:35-14:15)

•  
  Militærmakt og norsk utenrikspolitikk sett fra StortingetIne Marie Eriksen Søreide, Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Norwegian Parliament

•  Operational Consequences of the Norwegian Participation in NATO’s Libya Intervention in Comparison with Kosovo (Norwegian)Dr. Dag Henriksen, Royal Norwegian Air
   Force Academy

Paneldebatt (14:15-15:25):
 Militærmaktens rolle i utenrikspolitikken:
Fra Kosovo til Arab Spring
 

• Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide (H)
• Dag Henriksen
• Hallgeir Langeland (SV)
• Nina Græger, seniorforsker, NUPI

Closing remarks 15:25
Iver B. Neumann, Interim Director,
 Norwegian Institute of International Affairs