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	<description>I live in Rumeli Hisari. It is from here, the very edge of the European landmass, that I observe the world. Some of these observations I will share on this blog  as a  Open Society Fellow.</description>
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		<title>Reflections on Interventions and the EU. Short guide to a big debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slide presentation, discussion and public debate
Friday 26 November Haus der Musik (Vienna), 15:00
The future of liberal imperialism and European foreign policy












Minna Jarvenpaa

Gerald Knaus

Miroslav Lajcak

Rory Stewart












ESI picture story: Liberal imperialism (2003)
In early 2010 Rory Stewart, then professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and myself, a visiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where new ideas are born &#8211; ESI Anniversary Conference Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday 11 July 2009  is a special day in the life of this particular European think tank &#8230;

In summer 1999 a group of friends gathered in Sarajevo and decided to set up  a new  institution to analyse international policy in the Balkans. Thus ESI is born.
Ten years later a much larger group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The spirit of Halki and the meaning of Greece</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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Island of Halki in the Dodecanese 

On my way to this year&#8217;s Halki seminar, organised every year in summer by the Athens-based think tank Eliamep, I took along a few books on Greece (in addition to a new translation of the poems by Sappho). One was a book on ancient Greek culture, The Greek Experience,  by Oxford don C.M. Bowra; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reckoning &#8211; ESI 2008 in numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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Boris Marte, Chairman of Erste Foundation, one of ESI&#8217;s largest donors
This is a time of reckoning.  As one year draws to a close and another one rears its head donors of think tanks want to know what has actually been achieved in the period that has passed.  So the end of the year [...]]]></description>
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