MILTON WOLF SEMINAR VIENNA, AUSTRIA APRIL 25-27, 2017

THE MARSHALL PLAN AND THE YEARNING

FOR TRANSFORMATIVE VISIONS

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INFORMATION PACKET

Table of Contents

Seminar Overview ............................................................................................................................ 2

Thematic Overview.......................................................................................................................... 3

Suggested Further Reading........................................................................................................... 4

Thank you ........................................................................................................................................... 6

About the Milton Wolf Seminar Series ...................................................................................... 7

About the Organizers ...................................................................................................................... 8

About the Emerging Scholars Program .................................................................................... 9

Panelist Bios .................................................................................................................................... 10

Organizer Bios ................................................................................................................................ 22

Emerging Scholar Bios ................................................................................................................. 26

Participants from the Diplomatic Academy ......................................................................... 30

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SEMINAR OVERVIEW

Launched in 2001, the Milton Wolf Seminar Series deals with developing issues in diplomacy and journalism – both broadly defined. This year, on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the launching of the Marshall Plan, the focal point will be on the creation, critique and execution of “visions” as an instrument of multilateral statecraft.

The University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication, The American Austrian Foundation (AAF), and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna (DA) jointly organize this 2017 seminar, with support from The Wolf Family Foundation, The Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation and The U.S. Embassy, Vienna. Participants include communications scholars, political scientists, and historians who have studied the Marshall Plan and other organizing visions, those working for state and multi-lateral organizations, journalists, media development practitioners, academics, and a select group of highly engaged graduate students whose studies relate to the seminar themes. The Milton Wolf Seminar Series particularly emphasizes the contribution of young and mid-career scholars, including a select group of outstanding graduate students chosen each year to attend the seminar in Vienna as Emerging Scholar fellows.

The Milton Wolf Seminar has been and continues to be a meeting place for media practitioners, diplomats, academics, and students to share their perspectives, formulate new ideas, and identify areas where further research is needed. The seminar incorporates various speakers and panels and is designed as a two-day continuing conversation. All participants are encouraged to engage openly in dialogue and explore potential synergies and future collaborations. To facilitate the open exchange of ideas, seminar attendance is limited only to invited participants and students.

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THEMATIC OVERVIEW

In June of 1947, George C. Marshall unveiled what would become known as the Marshall Plan, a broad sweeping agenda for rebuilding Europe out of the rubble of World War II. Economic recovery was to be the central driver of this vision of a reconstructed Europe. According to Marshall, “the physical loss of life, the visible destruction of cities, factories, mines and railroads… was probably less serious than the dislocation of the entire fabric of European economy.” In the ensuing years, the US Congress poured more than $12.5 billion dollars (approximately $120 billion in current dollars) into the Western European economy. Activities ranged from rebuilding industry, to exchange programs for engineers and industrialists, to setting up trade institutions throughout Western Europe. The sixteen recipient countries formed the Committee of European Economic Cooperation, laying the groundwork for what would later become the European Union. Former Soviet Bloc countries refused participation further chilling the Cold War. In 1953, Marshall received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the contribution of the Marshall Plan to post War recovery. In the ensuing years, “the Marshall Plan” has evolved into a short hand for ambitious reform plans: “a Marshall Plan for ICTs,” “A Marshall Plan for the Middle East,” “a Marshall Plan for inner cities.” Only recently, German Development Minister Gerd Mueller announced an impending a new "Marshall Plan with Africa." Embedded within the original Marshall Plan and these newer iterations are grand visions for how to build and rebuild society. Seventy years following the launch of the Marshall Plan, various competing visions and technical paths towards completing those visions have emerged, some of which may be characterized as fragmenting and highly revisionist. As the UK prepares to make its Brexit and other European countries consider similar legislation, the future of the European Union, the origins of which many historians credit to the Marshall Plan, is in question. Populist movements from the United States to Greece are on the rise, signaling large scale dissatisfaction with the globalization of trade. In the Middle East and parts of Africa, ISIS and other Islamist groups seek to establish new political orders. Moreover, nation states, seeking to reassert sovereignty and/or leverage geopolitical power are increasingly relying upon proxy organizations and actors and new forms of propaganda to promote certain visions and undermine others. Grand visions such as the Marshall Plan are never uniformly accepted, interpreted, or successful. Visions for construction or reconstruction of societies necessarily invite acolytes and enemies. Using the Marshall Plan as a launching point, the 2017 Milton Wolf Seminar will examine how such grand visions--even grand (re)visions independent of and inconsistent with the Marshall Plan model--for society are produced, sustained, and at times defeated. Paying particular attention to the role of the media, panels will explore the historical legacies and lessons of the origin and execution of the Marshall plan as a vision for a new Europe, the role of persuasion and media in shaping that vision, and the evolution of contemporary competing and complementary visions for society. Case studies will examine both reactive visions-ones that seek to rebuild societies and countries such as Syria in the aftermath of physical or economic devastation and proactive visions – ones such as populist movements that seek to transform existing structures.

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SUGGESTED FURTHER READING

In this section, we have included a list of publications authored by our presenters that are related to the seminar themes. We hope you might review some of these materials in advance of the Seminar.

• Antoniades, Andreas, Alister Miskimmon, and Ben O’Loughlin. “Great Power

Politics and Strategic Narratives.” WorkingPaper, 2010.

• Burke-White, William W. (2015) “Power Shifts in International Law: Structural

Realignment and Substantive Pluralism.” SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY:

Social Science Research Network, 2015.

• Ellwood, David. (1989) “‘You Can Too Be like Us’: Selling the Marshall Plan -

ProQuest.” History Today 48, no. 10: 33–39.

• Ellwood, David (1992) Rebuilding Europe: The U.S. and the Reconstruction of

Western Europe. Pearson Longman Publishing.

• Ellwood, David (2006) “The Marshall Plan: A Strategy That Worked.” Foreign

Policy Agenda, April.

• Ellwood, David (2012) The Shock of America: Europe and the Challenge of the

Century. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Fenenko, Alexey. (2016) “Is an armed conflict between Russia and the U.S.

possible?” Russia Direct, October.

• Fenenko, Alexey (2015) “Donbas: A limited war for a total revision of the Cold War

order.” Russia Direct, April.

• Hagh, Ariya & Peyman Majidzadeh (2017) Non-Linear Stratagems in Theory and

Practice: Examples from Iranian Cyber Policies. Iran Media Research Project.

• Kaspersen, Anja (2016) The Global War of Narratives and the Role of Social Media.

World Economic Forum.

• Kurilla, Ivan (2009) “Memory Wars in the Post-Soviet Space.” PONARS Eurasia

Policy Memo No. 63/

• Kurilla, Ivan (2010) “Rethinking the Revolutionary Past: How Color Revolutions

Have Led to New Interpretations of Russian History.” PONARS Eurasia Policy

Memo.

• Lo, Bobo (2017) New Order for Old Triangles? The Russia-China-India Matrix.

Russie.Nei.Visions, No. 100, Ifri, April.

• Lo, Bobo. (2015) Russia and the New World Disorder. Brookings Institution Press.

• Lo, Bobo, and Liliia Shevtsova. “A 21st Century Myth: Authoritarian

Modernization in Russia and China.” Carnegie Moscow Center, 2012.

• Lo, Bobo. (2009) Axis of Convenience: Moscow, Beijing, and the New Geopolitics.

Brookings Institution Press.

• Miskimmon, Alister, Ben O’Loughlin, and Laura Roselle. (2014) Strategic

Narratives: Communication Power and the New World Order. New York: Routledge.

• Odugbemi, Sina and Taeku Lee, editors (2010) “Accountability Through Public

Opinion: From Inertia to Public Action.”

• Odugbemi, Sina “When Rival Fundamentalisms Contend Within the Community.”

Blog Post

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• Poggiolini, Ilaria (1993) “Italian Revisionism after World War II: Status and

Security Problems 19471-1957″, in R. Ahmann (Editor ) The Quest for Stability.

Problems of Western European Security 1918-1957, Oxford, Oxford University

Press, pp. 327-359.

• Poggiolini, Ilaria (2012) “Reflections on Enlargement and Euroscepticism in

Europe: From “Second Europe” to Post-Cold War Europe” in Europe Twenty Years

After the End of the Cold War The New Europe, New Europes? ed by Bruno

Arcidiacono et. Al. Brussells: Peter Lang: pp. 295-312.

• Poggiolini, Ilaria (2002) “Translating Memories of War and Cobelligerency into

Politics: the Italian Post-War Experience” Müller, Jan-Werner. Memory and Power

in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past. Cambridge University Press,

2002.

• Powers, Shawn, and Ben O’Loughlin. “The Syrian Data Glut: Rethinking the Role of

Information in Conflict.” Media, War & Conflict 8, no. 2 (August 1, 2015): 172–80.

doi:10.1177/1750635215584286.

• Powers, Shawn M., and Michael Jablonski. The Real Cyber War: The Political

Economy of Internet Freedom. University of Illinois Press, 2015.

• Price, Monroe (2015) Free Expression, Globalism, and the New Strategic

Communication. New York: Cambridge University Press.

• Richter, Andrei (2015) “Legal Response to Propaganda Broadcasts Related to

Crisis in and around Ukraine, 2014-2015,” International Journal of

Communication. 9: pp. 3125–3145.

• Rutenberg, Jim (2017) “A Lesson in Moscow About Trump-Style ‘Alternative

Truth.’” New York Times, April 16.

• Rutenberg, Jim (2017) “The Choose-Your-Own-News Adventure.” New York Times,

March 12.

• Rutenberg, Jim (2017) “In Election Hacking, Julian Assange’s Years-Old Vision

Becomes Reality.” New York Times, January 8.

• Shi, Anbin. A Comparative Approach to Redefining Chinese-Ness in the Era of

Globalization. Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.

• Shi, Anbin (2003) “Cultural and Ideological Significance and Global Cyber-

communication.” Journalism and Communication.

• Shi, Anbin (2014) “From Realpolitik to Noopolitik—How to Strengthen Moral

Appeal in the National Strategic Communication.” Journalism and Communication.

• Stelzl-Marx, Barbara (2009) “Marshall Plan Dead Ends and “Anti-USIA”

Campaigns: The Soviet Economic Propaganda Campaign in Austria” in in: Günter

Bischof – Dieter Stiefel (Hg.), Images of the Marshall Plan in Europe. Films, Photographs, Exhibits, Posters. 117–128.

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THANK YOU

We gratefully acknowledge the support provided by The Wolf Family Foundation, The Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, The U.S. Embassy in Vienna, The University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication, The Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy and the Diplomatic Academy Vienna. We appreciate the support given by the academic partner institutions and thank the panelists for donating their time.

CONTACT DETAILS

If you require any assistance during the Seminar please contact:

Deniza Staewa The American Austrian Foundation Office: + 43 1 533 86 58 Cell: + 43 650 530 1236 Email: d.staewa@openmedicalinstitute.org Nadja Wozonig Diplomatic Academy +43 / 680 – 1431138. Office: +43/1/5057272-188. Email: nadja.wozonig@da-vienna.ac.at

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ABOUT THE MILTON WOLF SEMINAR SERIES

Initiated in 2001, the Milton Wolf Seminar represents an effort to explore cutting edge issues facing diplomacy and international relations. Between 2001 and 2016, 380 students have participated in the Milton Wolf Seminar.

About Milton A. Wolf

Milton A. Wolf was an economist, investor and real estate developer who served as President Jimmy Carter's ambassador to Austria in the late 1970s, where he played a key role in arranging details of the meeting between President Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev for the signing of the Salt II Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.

Austria’s dedication to humanitarian efforts – taking in over 200,000 freedom fighters from the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, and Czech refugees from the Prague Spring in 1968 – convinced Ambassador Wolf that the Austrian people supported individuals of any race, religion or culture. This understanding ignited Ambassador Wolf’s determination to reward Austria with his loyalty by strengthening Austro-American relations. In 1984, The American Austrian Foundation, Inc. (AAF) was founded, and Ambassador Wolf served as its Chairman from 1990 until his death in 2005. He initiated and funded the Milton Wolf Fellowships for Young Journalists, (40 Austrian journalists were awarded fellowships to attend Duke University’s Visiting Media Fellowship Program) and the Milton Wolf Seminar for Journalists and Diplomats with the late Ambassador Ernst Sucharipa, then-director of the Diplomatic Academy.

Ambassador Wolf received the Austrian Great Gold Medal of Honor with Sash (Austria’s highest decoration) and the Austrian Cross of Merit for Science/Arts First Class.

Previous Milton Wolf Seminar Topics

2016: “The Paris Effect: Journalism, Diplomacy, and Information Controls”

2015: “Triumphs and Tragedies: Media and Global Events in 2014”

2014: “The Third Man Theme Revisited: Foreign Policies of the Internet in a Time of Surveillance and Disclosure”

2013: “Diplomatic Maneuvers and Journalistic Coverage in a Time of Reset, Pivot and Rebalance”

2012: “Transitions Transformed: Ideas of Information and Democracy post-2011”

2011: “Picking up the Pieces: Fragmented Sovereignties and Emerging Information Flows”

2010: “New Media, New Newsmakers, New Public Diplomacy: The Changing Role of Journalists, NGOs, and Diplomats in a Multi-Modal Media World”

2004: “Challenges for Journalists & Diplomats in the 21st Century”

2003: “The Role of Media & Diplomacy in Ethnic Conflicts”

2002: “Analyzing the Global Security Crisis: Challenges for Media & Diplomacy”

2001: “Technology, Policy & Media”

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ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS

The American Austrian Foundation (AAF) The American Austrian Foundation (AAF) was established in 1984, by a group of Americans and Austrians with an interest in promoting a positive relationship between the two countries. The AAF partners with NGOs, governments and individuals to bridge the gap between professionals in developed countries and countries in transition, by providing fellowships to attend post-graduate educational programs in medicine, media and the arts. The American Austrian Foundation is a public non-profit organization incorporated under the laws of Delaware and has 501(c) (3) status with the United States Internal Revenue Service. The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania Founded in 1959 through the generosity and vision of diplomat and philanthropist Walter Annenberg, the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania is devoted to furthering our understanding of the role of communication in public life through research, education, and service. With strengths in health communication, political communication, culture and communication, media institutions, digital media, and global communication, ASC is ranked as the top Communication school in the United States. The Diplomatic Academy of Vienna (DA) The Diplomatic Academy of Vienna (DA) offers post-graduate training for the varied challenges of an international career. The DA equips its students with the academic qualifications, language training, intercultural competences and management skills, which are essential and often decisive prerequisites for many international professions and a subsequent interesting career. Furthermore, the DA offers a Summer Course for German as a foreign language and Austrian Studies. In addition to its study programmes, the DA organizes conferences and a great number of public lectures with well-known political, diplomatic, business and cultural figures. Publications of the DA (“Favorita Papers”) offer substantive contributions from academicians taken from selected conferences in the field of international relations. The Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation The Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation was initiated with a financial allocation from the ERP Fund. The Foundation’s mission is to foster knowledge transfer between the USA and Austria. The Foundation benefits from and supports the co-operation between Austrian and American universities and academics. The activities of the foundation are carried out in the framework of: • (Guest) professorships in the USA and Austria • Conferences, lectures and symposia in the USA and Austria • Post Graduate/Research Fellowships in the USA and Austria • Publications

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MILTON WOLF EMERGING SCHOLARS PROGRAMME

The Milton Wolf Seminar represents a unique opportunity for distinguished diplomats, academics, and media practitioners to interact with graduate students and other emerging scholars in an intimate and intellectually engaging setting. In order to maximize opportunities for students and emerging scholars and to enrich the discussions, this year, the seminar organizers selected seven outstanding PhD students, advanced MA Candidates, emerging scholars or equivalents that are working in areas related to the seminar themes. These delegates were chosen from an elite pool of applicants nominated by their home institutions. Selected student and emerging scholar delegates received full funding to attend the Seminar. These distinguished delegates will not only participate in the seminar discussions but will serve as the seminar blog team. Each delegate will author a reaction piece to the seminar. These posts will follow Aspen rules of attribution (individual thoughts or statements will only be attributed with prior permission from the speaker). The Emerging Scholars Programme was made possible by the support of The American Austrian Foundation.

About the Delegates The ten distinguished delegates include:

1. Marcia Allison, PhD Candidate, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California

2. Zane Cooper, Doctoral Student, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

3. Ariya Hagh, PhD Candidate, Georgetown University 4. Axel Hellman, Graduate Student, St. Antony’s College, Oxford 5. Constanze Jeitler, Graduate Student, Central European University (CEU) in

Budapest 6. Yuval Katz, PhD Student, University of Michigan’s Department of

Communication Studies 7. Kyung Sun (Karen) Lee, PhD Candidate, University of Texas, Austin 8. Mykhailo Shmatov, Master Degree Student, Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine 9. Fabien Théofilakis, Assistant Professor, University of Paris 1 Panthéon

Sorbonne 10. Alisa Valentin, Doctoral Student, Howard University

Full bios are included on pages 26-29

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THE PANELISTS

Akin, Altug

Altug Akin is an associate professor at the Faculty of Communication at Izmir University of Economics in Turkey. His research focus is mainly about broadly defined communication/media practices that extend beyond the national borders and scales. In this context, Turkish media experience – particularly in relation with Europe and the Middle East – constitutes the core of his research activities. Currently he is working on a book on Marshall Plan communication in/about Turkey. Altug Akin completed his doctoral studies in audio-visual communication at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain; and masters’ studies in journalism studies

at the Stockholm University, Sweden. Mr. Akin was a visiting scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication of UPENN, between 2015 and 2016. Parallel to his academic career, Altug Akin has been contributing to several media outlets, including the BBC World Service Turkish Section, where he worked as a journalist. He currently teaches at the Department of Media and Communication at Izmir University of Economics, practices freelance journalism, and translates literature from Spanish to Turkish. Alavi, Seyed Ali

Seyed Ali Alavi is a final year PhD candidate at SOAS, University of London. His research was completed on Iran's Relations with Palestine. He is currently Teaching Assistant at SOAS, University of London on the International Relations of the Middle East. Ali completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in International and Middle East Politics in London. His article on Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria published by Open Democracy and LSE. and his book review on Hizbullah was published by London Middle East

Politics. Ali delivered a number of lectures on Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Arab World, the US/UK and European foreign policy in the Middle East and the Kurdish question for SOAS, the U.K. Department of International Developments and UNICEF Directorate in Iraq. He participates in Media interviews and his comments on the region is published by the World Weekly.

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Burke White, William

William Burke-White, an expert on international law and global governance, served in the Obama Administration from 2009-2011 on Secretary Clinton’s Policy Planning Staff, providing the Secretary direct policy advice on multilateral diplomacy and international institutions. He was principal drafter of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), Secretary Clinton’s hallmark foreign policy and institutional reform effort. Burke-White has written extensively in the fields of international law and institutions, focusing on international criminal and international economic law.

His work has addressed issues of post-conflict justice; the International Criminal Court; international human rights, and international arbitration. His current research explores gaps in the global governance system and the challenges of international legal regulation in a world of rising powers and divergent interests. In 2008 he received the A. Leo Levin Award and in 2007 the Robert A. Gorman award for Excellence in Teaching. Ellwood, David

David Ellwood (GB, 1946) was Associate Professor in International History, University of Bologna (1991-2012), and is currently Senior Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Europe, Bologna, where he teaches a course on ‘Soft Power and Global Politics.’ His first major book was Italy 1943-1945.- The Politics of Liberation, 1985, then Rebuilding Europe. Western Europe, America and Postwar Reconstruction, 1992. The fundamental theme of his research - the function of American power in contemporary European history - has shifted over the years to emphasize cultural power, hence 2 edited

books on the theme Hollywood in Europe (Florence 1991, Amsterdam 1995). His large-scale work on America and the politics of modernization in Europe was published by Oxford University Press in July 2012 as The Shock of America. Europe and the Challenge of the Century (2nd edition, 2016). He was President of the International Association of Media and History 1999-2004. He lives in Turin. Fenenko, Dr. Alexey

Alexey Fenenko is an associate professor at the Faculty of World Politics of the Moscow State University. He was born in 1978 in Voronezh (Russia). Previously, he was a leading researcher at the Institute of International Security Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2004-2013), a project coordinator at the Academic Educational Forum on International Relations and a co-editor for ˝International Trends˝ magazine (2004-2011). He has a Doctorate in History (2003).

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Freund, Michael

Michael Freund is an adjunct faculty member and instructor of the Media Communications department of Webster University in Vienna, Austria. He also teaches at Donau Universität Krems. He was editor of and continues to contribute to the Viennese daily newspaper Der Standard. Freund, a native of Vienna, received his Ph.D. in social sciences at Columbia University, New York. He also works as a moderator, photographer and occasional cartoonist.

Frey, Eric

Eric Frey is managing editor of the Austrian daily Der Standard, a position he has held since 2002. He has worked as a Vienna correspondent and stringer for the Financial Times for over 20 years and contributes regularly to the Economist. He received a B.A. and a M.P.A. in International Relations from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Vienna. He worked for AP-Dow Jones News Service in Frankfurt and as foreign editor and business editor for Der Standard.

In 2001/2, he held the Marshall Plan Chair in Austrian Studies at the University of New Orleans, where he lectured on European politics and economics. He also teaches international political economy at Webster University in Vienna and is a blogger on economic and political issues. He is the author of six books on international affairs, US politics and the world economy. Hagh, Ariya

Ariya Hagh is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Georgetown University, where he specializes in international relations, formal and quantitative methods, and Middle Eastern politics. His work examines the evolution of autocratic regimes, with a substantive focus on succession dynamics. He has also conducted research on the determinants of nuclear proliferation, non-linear strategies of conflict, and alliance politics. Ariya holds a BA from Harvard University (2013).

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Kaspersen, Anja

Accomplished diplomat. Geo-strategic thought-leader and transdisciplinary practitioner. Since 2016, Head of Strategic Engagement and New Technologies at the International Committee of the Red Cross. Previously with the World Economic Forum as a member of the Executive Committee. Spearheaded the Forum’s work on geopolitics, international security, sustainable industry value networks and the role of new technologies. Current professional affiliations with the Hastings Centre, the World

Policy Institute Council, the IEEE and the Harvard Future Society AI-Initiative. Former positions include a long and varied career, spanning across several continents, with the Norwegian Government and the UN, international organizations, diplomacy, research, academia and business. Published author, blogger, experienced speaker and commentator. Aspiring yogi. Arctic. Mother. Kurilla, Dr. Ivan

Ivan Kurilla is a Professor of History and International Relations, European University at St. Petersburg. Ivan Kurilla’s primary field of interest is the history of US – Russian relations, especially during the antebellum and Civil War periods. He has organized workshops, published articles and edited volumes on the theme of the use of history, historical memory and historical politics in Russia and in the Post-Soviet space. Kurilla has also published articles on the relations between the State and Society in contemporary Russia. He is the author of Partners across the Ocean: The United States and Russia, 1830s–1850s and Enter the Circle of Great Powers: Daniel Webster

and Foreign Policy of the USA in the Middle of the 19th Century. Kurilla’s articles have been published in leading Russian historical journals, as well as in the Journal of American History, Demokratizatsiya, Journal of Cold War Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, and Nationalities Papers. In 2010 he translated a classic monograph by Perry Anderson: Lineages of the Absolutist State into Russian. He is a member of the editorial board of Amerikanskii ezhegodnik (American Yearbook). (Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences), of the council of the Russian Society for the US History Studies and of the council of the Free Historical Society.

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Lo, Bobo

Bobo Lo is an independent analyst. He was previously Director of the China and Russia Programmes at the Centre for European Reform; Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House; and Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy in Moscow. He is an Associate Research Fellow with the Russia/NIS Center at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI). Dr. Lo writes extensively on Russian foreign policy. His most recent book, A Wary Embrace: What the China-Russia Relationship Means for the World, was published by Penguin Random House for the

Lowy Institute in April 2017. Lo’s Russia and the New World Disorder (Brookings and Chatham House, 2015) was short-listed for the 2016 Pushkin House prize, and described by The Economist as ‘the best attempt yet to explain Russia’s unhappy relationship with the rest of the world.’ Other major books include Axis of Convenience: Moscow, Beijing and the New Geopolitics (Brookings and Chatham House, 2008), Vladimir Putin and the Evolution of Russian Foreign Policy (Blackwell and Chatham House, 2003), and Russian Foreign Policy in the Post-Soviet Era: Reality, Illusion and Mythmaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). Majidzadeh, Peyman

Peyman Majidzadeh is a doctoral candidate in International Law, and Global Politics, at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy, and a visiting scholar at Georgetown University. Peyman is conducting research on international sanctions, political cohesion and regime survival for his PhD thesis. Regionally focused, he has extensive research experience on the role of institutions in good governance, including but not limited to anti-corruption initiatives. Peyman has assumed frequent advisory positions with various

international organizations and governmental and non-governmental bodies on international standards and global norms on good governance, with a focus on inclusivity, transparency and accountability.

Manz, Ambassador Hans Peter

Having served as Austria’s Ambassador to the United States (2011 – 2015) and Switzerland (2007-2011), Ambassador Manz currently is the Inspector General of the Foreign Ministry. He joined the Foreign Service in 1979 and was posted to Berne and Tehran before returning to Vienna where he was assigned to the Eastern European desk from 1987 to 1991. After postings as Deputy Head of Mission in Berne and at Austria’s Permanent Mission to the UN in New York he worked as the Diplomatic Adviser to the Federal Chancellor from 2000 to 2007. A second

generation diplomat, he was born in Australia in 1955 and holds a doctorate of law from the University of Vienna.

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Odugbemi, Sina

Sina Odugbemi is a Senior Communication Officer (Policy) in the Operations Communication Unit, External and Corporate Relations Vice- Presidency of the World Bank Group, Washington DC. He works on a variety of policy issues and advises on governance initiatives. In addition, he is the editor of the blog, People, Spaces, Deliberation. Between 2006 and 2011, he was Program Head of the Communication for Governance & Accountability Program (CommGAP). He has over 25 years of experience in journalism, law, and development communication. Before he joined the World Bank

in 2006, he spent seven years in the UK’s development ministry, DFID. His last position was Program Manager and Adviser, Information and Communication for Development. Sina holds a Bachelor’s degree in English (1980) and in Law (1986) from the University of Ibadan, a Master’s degree in Legal and Political Philosophy (1999) from the University College London, and a PhD in Laws (2009) also from University College London on the subject Public Opinion and Direct Accountability between Elections: A Study of the Constitutional Theories of Jeremy Bentham and A.V.Dicey. Sina’s publications include a novel entitled The Chief’s Grand-daughter (Spectrum Books, 1986) and three co-edited volumes: With the Support of Multitudes: Using strategic communication to fight poverty through PRSPs (2005), Governance Reform under Real-World Conditions: Citizens, Stakeholders, and Voice (2008), and Accountability through Public Opinion: From Inertia to Public Action (2010). O'Loughlin, Ben

Ben O’Loughlin is Professor of International Relations and Co-Director of the New Political Communication Unit at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is co-editor of the Sage journal Media, War & Conflict. His latest book is Forging the World: Strategic Narratives and International Relations (2017, University of Michigan Press). He was Specialist Advisor to the UK Parliament’s Select Committee on Soft Power, producing the report Power and Persuasion in the

Modern World. Ben is currently finishing a book explaining the role of narratives in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Follow: @Ben_OLoughlin

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Petschar, Hans

Hans Petschar is a historian and has been the director of the Photo Archives and Graphics Department at the Austrian National Library since 2002. In 2015/16 he served as the Austrian Marshall Plan Chair at the University of New Orleans. He has curated many exhibits at the Austrian National Library, among them, Die junge Republik: Alltagsbilder aus Österreich 1945-1955 (2005), Altösterreich, Menschen, Länder und Völker in der Habsburgermonarchie (2011) and most recently “Der ewige Kaiser. Franz Joseph I. 1830 – 1916” (2016).

He has published in the fields of Visual History, Public History, Library History and Contemporary Austrian History and lectured at the Universities of Vienna and New Orleans. Currently he is working on a book on the Austrian Marshall Plan with Günter Bischof, from the University of New Orleans. Poggiolini, Ilaria

Ilaria Poggiolini is Professor of International History and Pro-Rector for International Relations at the University of Pavia. She is a partner of the Machiavelli Centre for Cold War Studies (CIMA) and a member of the teaching staff of the Doctorate Program in History at the University of Pavia. Previously she has been visiting Fulbright Scholar (USA), NATO Fellow, visiting Fellow at the Center of International Studies and the John Foster Dulles Program, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University (USA). In the UK she has been visiting fellow at the London

School of Economics (LSE London) and British Council Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Her early research activities and publications centered on post WWII international strategies of peace making and pacification with a focus on the cases of Italy, Japan and Vietnam and on political and diplomatic relations between Italy and the Allies in the 1940s and ‘50s. More recently her research projects and publications have contributed to the discussion and historiography on the domestic and regional significance of British accession to the EEC and forty years of membership until Brexit, on ‘second Europe’ and Ostpolitik in the 1970s and 1980s, and on Thatcher’s European and East/West policy and opposition to German unification in the 1980s. Powers, Shawn

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Shawn Powers serves as the Executive Director of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, a body authorized by Congress to oversee and promote U.S. Government activities that intend to understand, inform, and influence foreign publics. He has a Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California (USC) and more than a decade of experience working at the nexus of public diplomacy, development, and national security. Since 2010, Shawn has

taught at Georgia State University, where he launched and directed its Center for Global Information Studies and remains an Associate Professor on leave. Richter, Andrei

Andrey Rikhter (Andrei Richter) is Senior Adviser at the OSCE Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media. Richter holds university degrees in law, journalism and foreign languages, a doctorate in Russia and a professorship in media studies from Slovakia. He has authored more than 200 publications on media law

and policy in Russian, English, Armenian, Azeri, Bosnian, Croat, German, French, Serbian, Slovak, Tajik and Ukrainian, including the only standard media law textbook for journalism students in the Russian Federation (2002, 2009, 2016), a textbook on international standards of media regulation (2011), a textbook on online media law (2014), and a book on censorship and freedom of the media in post-Soviet countries, published by UNESCO (2007). Dr Richter sits on the editorial boards of a number of international journals on communications and the media. Andrei Richter was a long-time professor at the School of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he chaired a department in media law and history. He also served as a commissioner at the International Commission of Jurists and the Chair of the Law Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research.

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Rutenberg, Jim

Jim Rutenberg was named media columnist for The New York Times in January 2016. He is also a contributor The New York Times Magazine. Previously, Mr. Rutenberg was a chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine (2014-2016). He served as the national political correspondent for The New York Times (2010-2014), co-leading The Times' daily coverage of the 2012 presidential campaign.

Before that, Mr. Rutenberg had been an investigative correspondent focused on presidential and national politics (2008-2010); a White House correspondent (2006-2008); City Hall bureau chief (2005-2006); a presidential campaign correspondent covering political media (2003- 2004) and a business correspondent covering the media industries (2000-2003). Mr. Rutenberg came to The Times from The New York Observer in 2000. He was a staff reporter (1996-1999) and a stringer from 1994-1996 for the New York Daily News. He was also a general assignment reporter at the New York Post (1993-1994) and began his career as a reporting intern at the Manhattan Spirit in 1992. Mr. Rutenberg attended NYU from 1989-1993. Sajo, Andras

Andras Sajo successfully completed his law degree at the ELTE Law School of Budapest in 1972. Since then he mastered various research fellow positions at the Institute for State and Law, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His PhD and Habilitation at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences followed in 1977 and 1982. Andras Sajo was the founder of the Hungarian League for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, Budapest and contributed also as spokesperson of the Hungarian League from 1988-1994. He was legal Counsellor to the President of Hungary (1991-1992), followed by his position as Chair of Comparative Constitutional Law,

University Professor, Central European University (Budapest), 1993-2007. Furthermore, he was member of the American Law Institute (1996) and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1997). Andras Sajo was recurrent Visiting Professor, Cardozo School of Law, New York since 1990 as well as at the Global Faculty, New York University Law School since 1996. He joined the board of Directors of the Open Society Justice Initiative of New York, 2001-2007 and was Judge of the European Court of Human Rights since February 1, 2008. He was Vice-President of Section from 1 January 2015 to 31 July 2015 as well as President of Section from 1 August 2015 to 31 January 2017. After that he was Vice-President of the Court from 1 November 2015 to 31 January 2017.

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Shi, Anbin

Dr. SHI, Anbin is currently Ministry of Education Endowment Professor of Global Media and Communication Studies, Associate Dean of International Development with School of Journalism and Communication, and Director of Israel Epstein Center for Global Media and Communication, Tsinghua University, China. His research interests include intercultural communication,

global communication, public communication, press and politics. Professor Shi earned his B.A. (1992) and M.A. (1995) in English at Peking University and Ph.D. (2001) in Media/Cultural Studies at Penn State. He has published Crisis Communication and Media Relations in the Era of Omni-Media (in Chinese, 2014, Beijing: China International Press), A Comparative Approach to Redefining Chinese-ness in the Era of Globalization (in English, 2003, Edwin Mellen Press, N.Y.), edited the anthology Mapping Out the Future for Global Communication and Journalism Education (in Chinese, Tsinghua University Press, 2014), co-authored Negotiating Asymmetry: China’s Place in Asia (University of Hawaii Press, 2009), Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contraflow (Routledge, 2006), When East Meets West: Media Research and Practice in U.S. and China. (Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2007), Encyclopedia of Globalization (Routledge, 2006), as well as published six translations of academic books (including those by James Curran, David Morley and Steven W. Littlejohn), and over 100 articles in Chinese and English academic journals, including Chinese Journal of Communication, Social Semiotics, Contemporary Chinese Thoughts, and Global Media and Communication. He was selected as the “Changjiang Scholar” (2016) and “21st Century Outstanding Scholar” (2010) by the Ministry of Education (MOE), and won the “Outstanding Teaching Award in Tsinghua” in 2009. In addition, Professor Shi is now acting as Executive Director and Secretary-General for Chinese Association for History of Journalism and Media Communication, and serving as the special consultant and guest professor for the State Council’s Information Office, and has completed the training of more than 10,000 government spokespersons and press officers at central, municipal and provincial level. He also frequently appears on CCTV-NEWS, New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek and Al Jazeera to comment upon contemporary China’s press and politics.

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Soltanieh, Ambassador Ali Asghar

His Excellency Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh is nuclear scientist and professional international diplomat. He has served as Iran's Permanent Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna all together for 12 years. His term as ambassador to the United Nations and other International Organizations including the IAEA ended on 1 September 2013. He has a long academic experience reaching and doing research on nuclear physics as well as international disarmament, particularly nuclear safeguards, nuclear safety, and nuclear security in various

universities, inside and outside of Iran. He is a Fellow with the Project on managing the Atom of Harvard University since June 2016. He has served as Senior Evaluation Consultant on Quality Management & Performance Monitoring of Verification of the CTBTO in 2016 and Evaluation Consultant of the UNODC since January 30, 2017. For the last 35 years he has been involved, as a nuclear physicist and senior diplomat, in the capacity of special envoy, delegate, chief negotiator, and invited speaker in numerous international events on disarmament and international security, such as NPT, CWC, BWC, CTBT, CCW, and has worked closely with the relevant international scientific and technical organizations such as the UN, IAEA, OPCW, CTBTO, and other specialized international organizations such as the WHO, ILO, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), QIC, WMO, TWAS and ICDO. He has published several papers in the aforementioned areas. Since retirement in February 2017, after 40 years, he has been invited as international consultant to the CTBTO and the UNODC. Stelzl-Marx, Barbara

Doz. Dr. Barbara Stelzl-Marx, born in Graz, Austria, in 1971, deputy director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research into Consequences of War (BIK), Graz – Vienna – Raabs, Austria, and vice-president of the Austrian UNESCO Commission, Vienna. She studied history, Russian and English/American studies in Graz, Oxford, Volgograd and the Stanford University, CA. In 2010 she finished her prize-winning habilitation in contemporary history. She is director of research of the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Network Children Born of War – Past Present Future.

Fields of research: children of occupation after World War II; Soviet occupation of Austria 1945–1955; Cold War; Prisoners of War and forced labourers in the „Third Reich“ and in the USSR; Vienna Summit 1961 and others. Numerous publications, among them the monography Stalins Soldaten in Österreich. Die Innensicht der sowjetischen Besatzung (Böhlau 2012) and Besatzungskinder. Die Nachkommen alliierter Soldaten in Österreich und Deutschland (Böhlau 2015), that she edited together with Silke Satjukow.

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Strohal, Ambassador Christian

Ambassador Christian Strohal is an Austrian diplomat with a long career in multilateral work: Currently he is serving as Special Representative for the Chairmanship of Austria of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna. Previously, he represented Austria as Ambassador at the OSCE and at the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva. From 2003 to 2008, he was on leave from the Austrian foreign ministry to serve as Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the OSCE. Previous functions include i.a. Ambassador to Luxemburg, director for human rights at the

Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and Ambassador for the 1993 Vienna World Conference on Human Rights. Christian Strohal has conducted numerous negotiation processes in a broad range of international organizations. He has been educated in Vienna, London and Geneva and holds a Dr.iur. from the University of Vienna. He has been teaching at different institutions, published a number of articles and is member of the International Institute of Human Rights.

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THE ORGANIZERS Arsenault, Amelia

Amelia Arsenault is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Georgia State University. Her scholarly interests center on how different international and domestic actors have attempted to leverage the changing dynamics of communications systems, and the ramifications of those activities for international relations, political and social power relationships, and north/south inequality. In this capacity, she has conducted research on global media ownership, the impact of international donors in southern

African communications development, network theory, new media, and public diplomacy. Her co-edited book The Connective Mindshift (with Rhonda Zaharna and Ali Fischer) on the subject of collaborative and networked public diplomacy will be released in May 2013. Her scholarly work has appeared in the International Journal of Communication, International Sociology, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Information, Communication, and Society. She holds a B.A. in Film and History from Dartmouth College and an MSc in Global Media and Communication from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD from the University of Southern California Annenberg School. Prior to her academic career, she spent several years as the film coordinator for the Zimbabwe International Film Festival Trust, a non-profit visual literacy organization in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Eltz-Aulitzky, Katharine

Katharine Eltz-Aulitzky is the Executive Director of The American Austrian Foundation (AAF). The AAF has offices in New York, Vienna and Salzburg.

She oversees the AAF’s programs in medicine, media and the arts, and is responsible for fundraising and program content.

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Kornprobst, Markus

Professor Markus Kornprobst holds the Chair in International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. He previously taught at the School of Public Policy at University College London and Magdalen College at Oxford University. He held research fellowships at the Mershon Center at the Ohio State University, and the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University. His research appears in leading journals in the discipline such as International Organization, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, Review of

International Studies, and Millennium. He is the author of Irredentism in European Politics (Cambridge University Press) and co-editor of Metaphors of Globalization (Palgrave).

Kornprobst's research interests encompass International Peace and Security; International Relations Theory; Political Agency and Practical Reason; Governance and Diplomacy; Nuclear Non-proliferation; Crisis Management; European Politics; African Politics; Methodology. He is currently pursuing five research projects: (a) The EU's Management of International Crises. (b) The EU and Grand Strategy. (c) The Governance of Nuclear Non-proliferation (with Martin Senn). (d) Scholarly Citizenship (e) Understanding International Diplomacy (with Corneliu Bjola).

Petritsch, Ambassador Wolfgang

Wolfgang Petritsch is the President of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation and Chair of the Herbert Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Resolution. He graduated from the University of Vienna and spent a post-doc Fulbright year at USC, Los Angeles. Mr Petritsch was press secretary and deputy chief of cabinet, respectively, to Austrian Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky whose bestselling biography he published in 2010.

Mr. Petritsch was Ambassador to Yugoslavia, the European Union’s Special Envoy and Chief Negotiator at the Kosovo peace talks at

Rambouillet and Paris. He chaired the International Succession Commission in charge of the distribution of the public assets and liabilities among the successor states to the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Between 1999 and 2002 Mr. Petritsch was the International Community's High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Following his tenure in Bosnia, he was appointed Austria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, the WTO and the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. As President of the UN Mine Ban Treaty, Mr. Petritsch chaired the Nairobi Summit for a Mine Free World in 2005. From 2008 to 2013 Mr. Petritsch represented Austria at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In 2013/14 he was the Schumpeter Fellow at Harvard University; he is guest professor at the universities of Vienna and Berkeley and member of the the European Leadership Network, London.

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Mr Petritsch is the author and editor of more than a dozen books and numerous articles, op-eds and contributions to academic publications. He holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Klagenfurt and Pristina. Mr. Petritsch is the 2006 recipient of the European Award for Human Rights, Strasbourg.

Price, Monroe

Monroe E. Price is an Adjunct Full Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law and Director of the Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society at the Cardozo School of Law. He directs the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research in London, and is the Chair of the Center for Media and Communication Studies of the Central European University in Budapest. As the founder and former director of Center for Global Communication Studies, Price has worked with a wide transnational

network of regulators, scholars, and practitioners in Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia as well as in the United States. Under his direction, CGCS engaged in public opinion research in Sudan, providing technical assistance in Jordan and Thailand, encouraging the intelligent development of media policies and new information technologies in a wide variety of settings including Thailand and Somaliland. Price founded the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University and remains a Research Fellow there. CGCS also fostered the Stanhope Center for Communications Policy Research, located at the London School of Economics. Smith, Briar

Briar Smith is the former Associate Director at the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication. She directed the Iran Media Program from 2010-2017 and is the co-author of the Iran Media Program’s ‘Finding a Way: How Iranians reach for News and Information,’ ‘Will Politics be Tweeted? New Media Use by Iranian Youth in 2011’ (in New Media and Society), and other CGCS/partner publications. She has presented on research conducted under the auspices of the Iran

Media Program, as well as on research methodologies in complex political environments at Central European University’s Summer Program on Online Civil Society, Annenberg-Oxford’s Media Policy Summer Institute, as well as Annenberg’s Milton Wolf Seminar Series. Briar has a Master’s degree in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Chinese Language and Literature and Psychology from Swarthmore College.

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Winkler, Hans

Hans Winkler is Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and a former Austrian diplomat and Secretary of State.

Upon graduation from the University of Vienna (Dr. Juris) and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Hans Winkler began his career in the Austrian foreign ministry in 1970. He held various positions in Austrian missions, was the permanent representative of Austria at the Council of Europe in 1990s and in 1996 he became head of the Department for North and South America in the Federal Ministry for

Foreign Affairs. Between 1999 and 2005 he was head of the Office of International Law and, additionally, from 2002 Deputy Secretary General. On 4 July 2005, Winkler was appointed Secretary of State in the Ministry for European and International Affairs, a position that he also held in the Gusenbauer government until December 2008. On 1 April 2009 Winkler was appointed Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.

Wozonig, Nadja

Nadja Wozonig is the Assistant to the Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. She is also in charge of press and publications there.

She studied Political Science and Communication Science at the University of Vienna. Prior to her current position she worked on an EU Enlargement project, for the Austrian Parliament, ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) Enterprise, and some other projects. She joined the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna in September 2009.

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EMERGING SCHOLAR DELEGATES

Allison, Marcia

Marcia Allison is a British PhD candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California. Her research intersects cognition, semiotics and social phenomenon in STS, feminist and environmental communication throughout the U.S. and Europe. Marcia’s PhD dissertation examines the reformation of Europe after the Cold War through the lens of European climate mitigation strategies, and the resulting bio-political governance of people and land within the different biogeographical regions in Europe. Her case study focuses on the

human-nature relations of the European Green Belt: the pan-European biodiversity project built out of the former Iron Curtain. Marcia is currently a 2017 COMPASS fellow in environmental policy, a research fellow at the Centre for Environmental Humanities at Aarhus University, Denmark and a research assistant to G. T. Goodnight. She was also a researcher at USC Annenberg’s Earth Sciences Climate Initiative until the end of its tenure in 2016. Cooper, Zane

Zane Cooper is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania who studies the political economy of media infrastructures, with a focus on the materiality of digital networks, specifically raw material supply chains. His current research investigates how rare earth supply and the structure of the permanent magnet industry has influenced the development of the hard disk drive industry. This line of inquiry seeks a more comprehensive and holistic understanding of how rare earth metals move and function within the greater ecology of

information networks, and how these relationships will come to shape social, political, and technological futures. Zane holds an M.A. in History from California State University San Marcos, and a B.F.A. in Film Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Hagh, Ariya

Ariya Hagh is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Georgetown University, where he specializes in international relations, formal and quantitative methods, and Middle Eastern politics. His work examines the evolution of autocratic regimes, with a substantive focus on succession dynamics. He has also conducted research on the determinants of nuclear proliferation, non-linear strategies of conflict, and alliance politics. Ariya holds a BA from Harvard University (2013).

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Hellman, Axel

Axel Hellman is a graduate student in Global Governance and Diplomacy at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Prior to Oxford, he studied International Relations at King’s College London and Georgetown University, with a distinct focus on U.S. and Russian foreign policy. Axel has previously worked with the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), the Hudson Institute, and Freedom House, all based in Washington, DC. Axel’s primary research interests include economic statecraft and the way in which profound changes in global energy markets are

influencing international relations, and is completing his master’s thesis on the processes by which post-sanctioned jurisdictions seek to reintegrate with the global economy. He spent this summer as a visiting student at MGIMO-University in Moscow, where his research focused on how sanctions have affected Russia’s oil production. Axel is an active writer on foreign policy, and a member of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Jeitler, Constanze

Constanze Jeitler is a graduate student in Comparative History at the History Department of Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. Previously, she earned a Diploma in Theater, Film and Media Studies from the University of Vienna magna cum laude. Her MA thesis at CEU focuses on the dynamics of remembering and forgetting in postwar Austrian memory culture. As a historian and media scholar, her further research interests include memory and nostalgia in their social and cultural contexts and entanglements

with politics and digital communications on a global level. Before attending CEU, she interned with Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Performing Arts Festival), the French-German TV station ARTE and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw. Recently she contributed to a research project on media representation of the refugee crisis of the summer 2015 at the Center for Media Data and Society at the School of Public Policy at CEU. Katz, Yuval

Yuval Katz is a PhD student at University of Michigan’s Department of Communication Studies. He is interested in the formulation of meaning and its role in different processes of communication. His research inspects how politically active Jews and Arabs use social media to conceptualize peace in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is also interested in instances in which meanings fail by looking at nonsense in digital memes. He holds a B.A. in International Relations and Communication Studies and an M.A. in Communication and New Media Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Currently he is also working on a poetry

book entitled "Sous Chef Sushi Samurai".

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Lee, Karen

Kyung Sun (Karen) Lee is a PhD candidate with the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Kyung Sun’s research interest lies in understanding the relationship between public diplomacy, foreign aid, and the media, informed by critical political economy. Her dissertation project looks at South Korea’s government-sponsored international volunteer program, seeking to understand public diplomacy as a multiple-actor communicative process. For the dissertation project, she received a Doctoral Dissertation Award from University of Southern California (USC) Center on Public Diplomacy’s (CPD).

Kyung Sun is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where she is conducting comparative research on Korean and European digital public diplomacy. Kyung Sun holds a B.A. from Korea University, and M.S. in Journalism and Mass Communication from Iowa State University. Her works have appeared in Computers in Human Behavior, International Journal of Communication, Journalism Studies, and in book chapters. Shmatov, Mykhailo

Mykhailo Shamtov was born in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine. In high school he took part in the exchange program "The history for the sake of Future" under which he visited Osnabrück, Germany, where he learned about the life of Crimean prisoners (Ostarbeiter) in concentrations camps during World War II. After leaving school in 2009 he won a scholarship and entered the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Kharkiv. During his studies, he worked in different organizations and governmental organs such as the bank "Finance and Credit", the district

executive office of Simferopol’s Department of Justice and the Law Department of the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine. In May, 2014 he completed the full course of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University and obtained his degree in higher education in the specialty “Jurisprudence”. At present he is a second year Master degree student of the magistracy of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine and legal counsel in the law department of the public joint stock company “Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine". E

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Théofilakis, Fabien

Fabien Théofilakis is an Assistant Professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne where he teaches Western European History in 20th Century. In 2010 he presented a thesis on the German prisoners of war in France and their repatriation to Germany (1944–1949), undertaken jointly at the universities of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense and of Augsburg. Rewarded by the Franco-German University and the Chancellery of the Universities of Paris, it was published by Éditions Fayard in early 2013. He has published several articles on the subject and co-directed the proceedings of a Franco-German conference on the camp at Dachau (2005). He worked on the exhibition ‘The

Eichmann case, Jerusalem, 1961’, organized at the memorial to the Shoah (Paris 2001) and has continued since then with research on the notes taken by the Nazi criminal during his prosecution. Valentin, Alisa

Alisa Valentin is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Communication, Culture and Media Studies program at Howard University. She received her B.S. in Telecommunications from the University of Florida and her M.S. in Journalism from the Medill of School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She is currently a teaching associate in Howard University’s Principles of Speech program, a graduate assistant for the Howard Journal of Communications, and a member of the Howard Media Group, a faculty-student research collaborative focused on

communication policy. In 2016, Alisa was also selected as a participant in the University of Southern California-Annenberg Summer Doctoral Institute on Diversity in Media & Culture, the National Communication Association Doctoral Honors Seminar, and as a guest scholar at the Aspen Institute’s Annual Conference on Communications Policy. Her research interests include the intersections of race, class, and gender with communication policy. Alisa’s dissertation is a study that uses the political economy approach to examine cities’ efforts to shape the behavior of major telecommunications companies that provide broadband services to benefit low-income and minority customers, through communication activism. Alisa has accepted an offer to intern at the Federal Communications Commission in the Office of Commissioner Mignon Clyburn this summer. Additionally, she plans to graduate with her Ph.D. from Howard University in May 2018 and continue her communication policy research that will advocate for marginalized populations.

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PARTICIPANTS FROM THE DIPLOMATIC ACADEMY OF VIENNA Bereuter, Natalie

Natalie Bereuter is a first-year postgraduate student at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. Coming from Austria, she chose to study in Scotland and now holds an MA (Hons) in Politics from the University of Glasgow. During her undergraduate studies, she also went on exchange to Canada for a year and studied International Relations at McGill University. She has previously interned at the Austrian Embassy in Brussels as well as at the European Parliament Information Office in Vienna. Her research interests include European politics and security studies and, since studying at the DA, she has also taken great interest in international law and its interplay with politics.

Dalla Mora, Maddalena

Maddalena Dalla Mora is an Italian first-year postgraduate student in Advanced International Studies at the Diplomatic Academy. As an undergraduate student, she studied International Relations and Diplomatic Affaires at the University of Bologna and in Germany. Aside of her BA, she has worked as a campaign manager for Planet Whale – a British NGO. Later, she was working during two months at the Central State Library in Moscow, organizing activities of cultural diplomacy on the European Union. Maddalena is currently doing an internship for the Embassy of Malta, in the European delegation to the UN and to the OSCE; and she was selected for the

exchange program of the Diplomatic Academy at MGIMO in Moscow, starting in August. In academia, her interests lie in conflict resolution, especially in the security aspect of multilateral peacekeeping missions.

Diegoli, Francesco

Francesco Diegoli is an Italian first year student enrolled in the Master of Advanced International Studies at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. As an undergrounded student, he studied International relations and Diplomacy at the University of Bologna. Having studied in Czech Republic and in Australia he experienced the European and Global perspective of International Relations. Francesco in academy is currently focusing on Easter European studies and he has a particular interest in in the Italian foreign policy towards these countries.

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English, Elizabeth Anne

Elizabeth English was born in Britain but spent her early years in the United States. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford and is currently studying the Diploma Programme at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. Having studied abroad in France, Romania and now in Austria, she is particularly interested in cultural identity and the role language can play in international relations. Her other research interests lie in the foreign policy of the EU and its transparency, which she has most recently looked at in a research paper considering the implications of Brexit for Scottish fish exports.

Feix, Adrien

Adrien Feix is a postgraduate student at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and in the last stages of completing his PhD in physics at the University of Vienna, where he has also studied philosophy. He is interested in the European integration process, international economics, and the role of identity in international relations.

Heinesen, Rósa

Rósa Heinesen is a first-year student of Advanced International Studies at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, with a BA in International Relations and Languages from the University of Portsmouth, UK. With a special interest in cultural exchange, she pursued practical experience through volunteering, interning, and taking courses in Tanzania, Argentina, and Peru among other places, before entering academia. Building on these experiences, her research focus areas as a student are political culture dynamics and alternative approaches to political economy.

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Krstevski, Vladimir

Vladimir Krstevski is a second-year master’s student of Advanced International Studies at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, currently writing a thesis about methods used in the Global War on Terror. His academic background is in Political Science and International Relations at the University in Belgrade. He has also lived in the United States, studying for a year at the University of Utah, as a part of the Global UGRAD Scholarship program. During this period, he focused on communication studies and intercultural skills. His particular interests are in public relations, political communication, media and the ways in which media discourse is

shaped. Marcucci, Stefania

Stefania Marcucci is half Austrian and half Italian, but grew up and studied in Vienna. After her undergraduate studies in International Business Administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and Singapore Management University, she started her Master’s Degree in Advanced International Studies at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. Moreover, besides her studies at the DA she works as a Financial Consultant in Restructuring & Refinancing at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Her academic as well as her professional background clearly shaped her interest in European Economics and Development Economics. Furthermore,

her experience abroad such as in London, Singapore, Istanbul and Kigali showed the importance and influence of geopolitics, diplomacy and journalism in today’s society and political events.

Spötta, Raphael J.

Raphael J. Spoetta is a post-graduate student at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and master’s student at the University of Vienna of which he holds a BA in political science. He started his career as a journalist working for different news outlets but has since been working for different companies, governmental institutions, and organisations. Having initially dealt with every kind of political topics from a broad range of perspectives, he eventually started to immerse in Middle Eastern affairs; if he has learned one thing about the Middle East, it is that it will never let anyone go any more. As a consequence, he may now focus on the United Nations and

multilateral diplomacy, his master’s thesis will certainly, once again, deal with a Middle Eastern topic. @rjspoetta

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Tolstrup, Casper Niels

Casper Tolstrup is a Danish-American postgraduate student studying Advanced International Studies at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. Presently, he is working at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation after having just finished a traineeship at the global consulting firm Arthur D. Little. With education and career experiences on two continents and several different sectors, his perspective has always been multi – multinational, multicultural, multi-sectional. He is deeply interested in European security issues, especially the potential of grand structures and visions of global politics to mitigate or

exacerbate tensions among nations. He is currently working on his Master’s thesis on the OSCE and the practice of its international civil servants.