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ANNUAL REPORT2009/2010

The Aspen Institute Germany

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Dr. Kevin Hasset, Senior Fellow, Director of Economic Policy Studies,The American Enterprise Institute

Preface 3

About Aspen 6

Board of Trustees 15

Management Board 25

Benefactors 28

Financial Results 30

Policy Program 34

Leadership Program 54

Aspen Public Program 63

Key staff 90

Tentative Program 2011 94

How You Can support Aspen 96

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Charles King Mallory IV,Executive Director

The Aspen Institute Germany

DEAR FRIEND OF THE AsPEN INsTITUTE,

The following report provides a financial and sub-stantive accounting for the Aspen Institute Ger-many’s activities during 2009-2010; it describeswhat Aspen has achieved thanks to your financialsupport and demonstrates in black, white and tech-nicolor how Aspen creates value for Germany, forthe United States of America and for the interna-tional community.

In March 2011, shortly after the end of the periodcovered in this report, Aspen Germany’s PolicyProgram gained international recognition due to aconfidential, unofficial “Track II” dialogue thatAspen was requested to organize in Germany be-tween official representatives of the People’s Dem-ocratic Republic of Korea (“North Korea”) andformer senior decision makers and policy expertsfrom the United States of America. At these firsttalks that were held at the semi-official level in twoyears, constructive exchanges took place on nu-clear and conventional disarmament, economic co-operation, normalization of DPRK-U.S. relationsand the possibility of concluding a peace treaty toend the Korean War. Thanks to your support, agrant from an anonymous donor and assistancefrom Bayerische Motorenwerke AG, participants inthe Aspen DPRK-USA Dialogue departed with re-newed hope that future military clashes and casu-alties might be avoided on and around the KoreanPeninsula and that positive movement might nowtake place between the DPRK and USA in officialchannels. News of the Aspen meeting was carriedin over 1,600 media outlets in Asia, Europe and theUnited States (for a sample see www.aspeninsti-tute.de/news).

In December 2010, with your help, and fundingprovided by the German Marshall Fund of the

United States and the German Federal Foreign Of-fice, Aspen Germany’s Leadership Program con-vened eight European foreign ministers in Berlin –the third such meeting that the institute has organ-ized in the last three years. German Federal ForeignMinister Dr. Guido Westerwelle and his Austriancounterpart Dr. Michael Spindelegger opened theconference by participating in a panel discussionco-hosted with the Embassy of the Republic ofAustria in Berlin. Over two hundred internationaldiplomats, decision makers and experts partici-pated as the Political Director General of the Ger-man Federal Foreign Office Dr. Emily Habermoderated a public conversation between the min-isters. At a closed-door conference the followingday, the ministers continued their previous informaland off-the-record discussions of prospects for rec-onciliation, integration and integration into NATOand the EU in Southeastern Europe. This event tooreceived considerable media attention. With thesupport of the German Federal Ministry for Econ-omy and Technology, Aspen continued a very suc-cessful series of subcabinet meetings betweenleaders from Southeastern Europe, Germany andthe United States. Your support of Aspen has con-tributed to the stabilization and integration of a re-gion that remains critical to the future oftransatlantic and European security.

In September 2010, the Aspen European StrategyForum, funded by the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung, Eu-ropean Aeronautic Defence and Space Company(EADS) and the Friends of the Aspen Institute con-vened its third annual meeting. Top European,North American and Middle Eastern policy makersand experts met to discuss “The Strategic Implica-tions of the Iranian Nuclear Program”. Participantsanalyzed the way in which a nuclear Iran mightchange the regional and global strategic balance.While such a development is fraught with potential

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danger, experts pointed out that the Islamic Repub-lic of Iran had encountered a number of setbacksto its enrichment program. Consequently, moretime was available for continuing attempts at nego-tiation with Iran than was widely thought at thetime of the event. Throughout 2010, a mountingcrescendo of international media reports had beenpreparing the public for an unleashing of the dogsof war in response to the Iranian nuclear program.Your support of the Aspen European StrategyForum helped clarify that matters were not yet crit-ical – that time remained for last stabs at diplo-macy. The conference report (parts of which areavailable at www.aspeninstitute.de/publication)will soon appear in bookstores via Routledge pub-lishers.

In November 2009, twenty years after the fall ofthe Berlin Wall, Aspen chose to celebrate this his-toric turning point by convening an event of sub-stance that focused on the largest remaining openissue in European security since the fall of the wall.At a conference that took place at the BrandenburgGate premises of Commerzbank AG, former ItalianPrime Minister Giuliano Amato, presented the finalreport of a group of experts that had been at workthroughout the year that was ending. Guided byHorst Teltschik, former Foreign and Security PolicyAdvisor to German Federal Chancellor HelmutKohl, Russian Federation Permanent Representa-tive to the North Atlantic Treaty OrganizationDmitry Olegovich Rogozin, and Minister of Statein the German Federal Chancellery Eckardt vonKlaeden, a series of meetings between Americans,and East and West Europeans in Washington andBerlin produced a report on “Russia and the West:How to Restart a Constructive Relationship”. Thereport, prepared as a product of the 2009 Aspen Eu-ropean Strategy Forum and generously funded bythe Robert-Bosch-Stiftung, provides concrete prac-

tical recommendations to policy makers on bothsides of the Atlantic. Your support of Aspen pro-vided concrete help in better integrating the Russ-ian Federation into a new, post Cold Wartransatlantic security architecture.

In September of 2009, Aspen also wrapped up athree-year series of conferences sponsored by theU.S. Department of State aimed a promotinggreater political participation in the Near and Mid-dle East. In September, June, April and February2009, Aspen convened the last of a series of thir-teen conferences between experts and activistsfrom the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Iranian Di-aspora, the Muslim world, the Middle and NearEast, Europe and the United States. Focusing ondigital media and women’s rights, Aspen organizedsupport networks and practical training for twogroups of activists that subsequently played criticalroles in highlighting the shortcomings of the dis-puted June 2009 Presidential elections in Iran.Aspen also concluded similar programs directed atexpanding the space for democratic participationin the Syrian Arab Republic and Lebanon. Yourcontribution to Aspen helped provide ordinary cit-izens in the Middle East with a greater voice inshaping their own and their children’s future (fur-ther information is available at www.aspeninsti-tute.de/publication).

With your support, and that of the Shepard StoneFoundation, Aspen also organized a series of lec-tures by high-level speakers. Aspen’s Public Pro-gram of Events targets the German public andpotential future members of the Friends of theAspen Institute. Over the last two years, Aspen wel-comed Dr. Josef Ackermann, CEO of DeutscheBank, HSH Prince Hans Adam II, Reigning Princeof Liechtenstein, Yoram Ben-Zeev, Ambassador ofthe State of Israel to the Federal Republic of Ger-

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many, Dr. Bernhard Reutersberg, CEO of E.ONRuhrgas AG, Roland Koch, Premier of the GermanFederal State of Hessen, Lt. General RolandKather, Commander, Allied Land Component Hei-delberg, Dr Manfred Bischoff, Chairman of the Su-pervisory Board of Daimler AG, Bill Schneider ofCNN, Bruce Hoffman of Georgetown University,former German Federal Minister Brigitte Zypries,and former German Bundesbank Board MemberThilo Sarrazin—to name but a few. Members of theFriends of the Aspen Institute and select guestscontinued to be able to mingle and converse exten-sively with these speakers during a series of smallevening lecture events that Aspen organizesthroughout the working year. Such conversationsprovide Aspen’s members with opportunities to ex-change and glean insights from prominent decisionmakers and experts in a manner that is simply notpossible at larger-scale, more impersonal events.

Unlike a significant number of other, larger organ-izations based in Berlin, Aspen Germany’s core op-erating costs are not subsidized by the public pursein any way. Each year, in order to fulfill its mission,the institute has to prove itself again through thequality of its work in order to find funding for proj-ect opportunities of the type described above andbelow. To cover its core operating costs, Aspen re-lies in large part on the private, charitable member-ship contributions of the members of the Friendsof the Aspen Institute. If you find the mission ofthe institute and the activities it undertakes in sup-port of its mission convincing, perhaps you too willconsider becoming a corporate, private or juniormember of the Friends of the Aspen Institute. In-formation on the benefits of membership and howto become one is provided below.

In closing, I would like to take this opportunity tothank all the organizations and individuals un-

named and named throughout this report for theirfinancial and material support of the Aspen Insti-tute Germany over the last two years. Particularthanks go to the members of the Friends of theAspen Institute. I believe that this report demon-strates the value of the work that you support.

Best regards,

Charles King Mallory IV,Executive Director & CEOAspen Institute Deutschland e.V.

THE MIssION OF THE AsPEN INsTITUTE Is

TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LEADERsHIP

THROUGH DIALOG ABOUT THE VALUEs AND

IDEALs EssENTIAL TO MEETING THE

CHALLENGEs FACING ORGANIZATIONs AND

GOVERNMENTs AT ALL LEVELs.

What do you have from the fact that 36,000

participants* from business, politics, diplo-

macy and culture have come together at the

Aspen Institute Germany in the course of the

last 35 years?

* Including 16 Foreign Ministers, 26 U.S. Gover-nors and German State Premiers, 7 Heads of State,19 Ministers and 7 members of the U.S. Senate

The world is safer

The world is more transparent

The Aspen institute brings business, science, poli-tics, diplomacy and culture together—globally, in-tellectually, inter-culturally.

Top leaders in different regions of the world,founded eight independent, but closely cooperat-ing, Aspen institutes in order to advance universalvalues and values-based leadership.

Over 550 leaders from business, science, politics,diplomacy culture and non-governmental organi-zations support Aspen’s activities in over fifty dif-ferent countries.

ABOUT AsPEN

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On August 28, 1949, two thousand guests

celebrated Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s

birthday in Aspen Colorado. One year later,

the German immigrant Walter Paepcke

founded the original Aspen Institute

A U.S. entrepreneur and German immigrant WalterPaepcke (1896-1960) founded The Aspen Institutein 1950 in Aspen, Colorado, after he had been in-spired by Mortimer Adler’s seminar on the classicsof philosophy at the University of Chicago.

Paepcke had visited the collapsing mining town ofAspen in Colorado’s Roaring Fork valley in 1945.Inspired by its natural beauty, Paepcke became con-vinced that Aspen could be converted into a placewhere leaders could meet in retreat from their dailytoil.

To realize this vision, in 1949 Paepcke organized acelebration of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s200th birthday in Aspen, Colorado. Over two thou-sand guests took part. Amongst others, AlbertSchweitzer, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Thornton Wilderand Arthur Rubinstein attended. Paepcke foundedThe Aspen Institute one year later.

Paepcke wanted to created a forum at which “thehuman spirit could blossom” amidst the storms ofmodernization. He hoped that the institute wouldhelp leaders reorient themselves towards eternaltruths and ethical values in the daily managementof their business.

Inspired by Mortimer Adler’s seminar on the clas-sic works of philosophy, Paepcke founded theAspen Executive Seminar. In the 1960s and 1970sthe institute broadened its program with many newprograms.

Twenty four years later, German Federal

Chancellor Willy Brandt, Die Zeit publisher

Countess Marion Dönhoff, German Federal

President Richard von Weizsäcker and

shepard stone founded the Aspen Institute

Germany.

In 1974, German Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt,Die Zeit publisher Countess Marion Dönhoff, Ger-man Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker andShepard Stone founded the Aspen Institute Ger-many—as the first Aspen Institute outside of theUnited States.

Under Stone’s leadership (1974-1988), the institutemade a significant contribution to achieving mu-tual understanding between the East and West blocsduring the Cold War. Aspen was one of the fewplaces where high-ranking East bloc and West blocrepresentatives were willing to meet in a neutral,respectful and confidential atmosphere in order tolook for solutions to the East-West conflict to-gether.

Under Stone’s successors, the institute dedicated it-self to the search for solutions to the Yugoslav con-flict and other foreign and security policy issues.

The Aspen Institute Germany organizes publicevents, and conferences and seminars with the goalof reconciliation, promoting peace, preventing con-flict and advancing mutual understanding in theNear- and Middle-East, Southeastern Europe, theCommonwealth of Independent States and North-east Asia.

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Three programs that regularly publish

academic reports form the core of Aspen’s

current work.

Aspen Leadership Program

Leadership seminars | On the basis of Easternand Western classic and modern texts, participantsdeliberate together on the proper structure of androle of leadership in the “good society”. Theythereby gain knowledge and insight, new perspec-tives and a greater ability to conquer complex chal-lenges.

The Aspen Executive seminar

For over sixty years, the Aspen institutes have beenorganizing multi-day retreats for top leaders inorder to advance values-based leadership.

Content and Organization

Leaders from Germany and the United States meetfor several days and in a Socratic dialogue and in-tensively discuss philosophical texts from Occidentand Orient. The goal is to develop and apply theprinciples necessary for the construction of a “goodsociety” in a manner relevant for internationalpartnership in mastering a number of critical futureinternational challenges such as: • The modern welfare state• Migration• Integration of minorities• Climate change

Participants prepare for the seminar via intensivereading of excerpts from relevant texts and dealwith the following topics in the process:• Human Nature• Natural Law• Freedom• Property and Productivity• Equality and social welfare

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Meetings of Foreign Ministers

Aspen convenes an international meeting of for-eign ministers once a year. In December 2007-2010high-ranking U.S. representatives and top politi-cians and officials met with six Foreign Ministersfrom Southeastern Europe at a closed-door confer-ence. Last year, German Federal Foreign MinisterDr. Guido Westerwelle and his Austrian counter-part Dr. Michael Spindelegger opened the confer-ence.

The Topics:• Reconciliation in the Western Balkans• Regional cooperation• NATO and EU integration• Economic development and energy security• A stable security architecture for Southeast Europe

West Balkan seminars

The Aspen Institute organizes two seminars a year—one in Germany, one in the region— with fourparticipants each from the USA, Germany and theWest Balkans region to discuss current and futurechallenges to the region.

The events are organized in cooperation withSoutheast European governments and are comple-mented by high-level guest speakers from the re-spective host country.

The Goals:• Establishing transatlantic networks that includeSoutheast European leaders;

• Contributing to the political and economic sta-bilization of a region that remains important forfuture European and transatlantic security

Aspen Policy Program

Programs to address current complex policy chal-lenges faced by society.

Conferences and seminars on complex political andsocial developments: these are analyzed together inconfidence and together viable solutions are devel-oped. The institute mediates between conflict par-ties with the aim of using a holistic approach todefuse or solve the most difficult challenges arisingin international relations.

Aspen European strategy Forum

A strategy forum for top international and transat-lantic leaders from business, science, politics,diplomacy and culture, convened to discuss strate-gic challenges openly and in depth behind closeddoors.

• Kickoff presentations by international experts• Feedback and dialogue with policy makers• Search for an international consensus• Development and publication of constructivesuggestions that can be implemented, are rele-vant and are of practical value to policy makers

The Topics:• 2008 — International State Building and Recon-struction Efforts: Experience Gained and Les-sons Learned

• 2009 — Russia and the West: How to Restart aConstructive Relationship

• 2010 — The Strategic Implications of the Iran-ian Nuclear Program

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Aspen DPRK-UsA Dialogue

An unofficial, discreet and confidential Track IImeeting of senior government officials from theDemocratic People’s Republic of Korea and formersenior policy makers and North Korea experts fromthe United States of America

The Goals:• Exploring the envelope of possible solutions tothe North Korean nuclear crisis

• Making a contribution towards renewed DPRK-U.S. contact in official channels

The Topics:• Denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula• Conventional Armaments Reductions• International Economic Cooperation with theDPRK

• Normalization of DPRK-USA relations• Concluding a peace treaty by which to end theKorean War.

strengthening Near-Eastern Civil society

A series of twenty convenings conducted over thecourse of three years designed to build networksand capacity in key sectors of civil society in theIslamic Republic of Iran, the Syrian Arab Republicand Lebanon.

Aspen Public Program

Public presentations by and discussions with high-profile speakers. A platform at which differingopinions can be exchanged and debated and newideas can be introduced.

A selection of speakers from 2009-2011:

• Dr. Josef Ackermann, Deutsche Bank AG • Dr. Manfred Bischoff, Daimler AG • Dr. Klaus-Peter Müller, Commerzbank AG • Dr. Bernd Reutersberg, E.ON Ruhrgas AG • Dr. Dr. Hans-Werner Sinn, ifo-Institut fürWirtschaftsforschung

• Bundesminister des Auswärtigen, Dr. GuidoWesterwelle

• Roland Koch, Ministerpräsident Hessen• Bundesminister des Innern, Dr. WolfgangSchäuble

• Bundesminister Thomas de Maizière • Brigitte Zypries, Bundesminister a.D. • Prof. Dr. Volker Perthes, Stiftung Wissenschaftund Politik

• Dr. Thilo Sarrazin • Paul S. Atkins, U.S. Securities & ExchangeCommission

• U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, C.Boyden Gray

• Elliot Abrams, Deputy U.S. National SecurityAdvisor

• Lt. Gen (ret.) Ricardo S. Sanchez, CoalitionJoint Task Force 7

• Prof. Dr. John L. Esposito, Georgetown Uni-versity

• Dr. Kevin Hasett, American Enterprise Insti-tute

• Prof. Dr. Bruce Hoffman, Georgetown Univer-sity

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Aspen Publications 2009-2010

Krause, Joachim | Mallory, Charles, (eds.),The Strategic Implications of the Iranian NuclearProgram (Aspen Institute Germany: Berlin, 2011)Available at www.aspeninstitute.de

Krause, Joachim | Mallory, Charles, (eds.),International State Building and ReconstructionEfforts: Experience Gained and Lessons Learned(Barbara Budrich: Farmington Hills MI, 2010)Available at www.amazon.com

Böhnke, Olaf | Azimi, Amin | Spanta, Frangis Dad-far | Zillich, Helena | Morton, Allison | Reynolds,Justin | Gottwald, Ramona | Schreer, Benjamin |Mallory, Charles, Iran: Supporting Democratic Re-formers (Aspen Institute Germany: Berlin, 2010)Available at www.aspeninstitute.de

Krause, Joachim | Kuchins, Andrew | Rahr, Alexan-der, Schreer, Benjamin | Mallory, Charles, Russiaand the West: How to Restart a Constructive Re-lationship (Aspen Institute Germany: Berlin, 2009)Available at www.aspeninstitute.de

Over five hundred additional academic reportspublished by the Aspen Institute Germany can beobtained at www.aspeninstitute.de

The Friends of the Aspen Institute Exists

so that the Aspen Institute Germany can

continue to work independently in the future

as well

Representatives of German business, science, pol-itics, diplomacy and culture founded the Friends ofthe Aspen Institute (Verein der Freunde des AspenInstitut e.V.) in 1989 in order to support the missionand goals of the institute.

The institute’s work can be supported via a tax de-ductible membership contribution to the Friends ofthe Aspen Institute, as a Corporate, Private or Jun-ior member. The revenues generated in this mannercover the core operating costs of the Aspen InstituteGermany. This financial support permits the insti-tute’s staff the freedom to execute the institute’smission.

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Benefits of Membership in the Friends of the

Aspen Institute

Aspen offers members of the Friends of the AspenInstitute:

• Exclusive access to recognized national and in-ternational experts and select, top decision mak-ers.

• Participation in confidential conferences, semi-nars, roundtables and lectures that deal with themost important current challenges and issues.

• Detailed, non-partisan analysis of important po-litical, economic and cultural challenges

• nsight into the latest political and economic de-velopments and their impact on your work —well before they become known to a broaderpublic

• Access to an international network of decisionmakers in eight different countries.

• Additional information from books, conferencereports, newsletter and events.

• As a corporate member in the Friends of theAspen Institute (Verein der Freunde des AspenInstituts e.V) you support Aspen many activities,receive access to our international network, aswell as invitations to Conferences, Seminars andpublic events. In addition, you receive copies ofAspen’s publications free of charge.

Would you like to know more?You are more than welcome to attend one of thenext Aspen Public Program events:

[email protected]

The Management Board of the

Friends of the Aspen Institute

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Aspen European Strategy ForumHotel Adlon, BerlinSeptember 2010

Shepard StoneFirst Director The Aspen Institute Germany

Chairman

Leonhard H. FischerCEO, RHJI Swiss Management, LLC

Prof. Dr. Volker BerghahnSeth Low Professor of History, Columbia University

Dr. Hildegard BoucseinStaatssekretärin a. D.

Reinhard ButikoferFormer Federal Chairman, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen

Dr. Gerhard CrommeCairman of the Supervisory Board, Siemens AG & Thyssen Krupp AG

Dr. Mathias DöpfnerChief Executive Officer, Director Newspapers, Axel Springer Verlag AG

Dr. Corinne Michaela FlickFounder and Chief Executive OfficerConvoco Charitable Foundation gGmbH for the Promotion of Science and Education

Mircea GeoanaPresident of the Board, The Aspen Institute Romania

Dr. Roland Hoffmann-TheinertChairman, Friends of the Aspen Institute

Walter IsaacsonPresident & CEO, The Aspen Institute

Josef JoffePublisher-Editor, Die Zeit

Jean-Pierre Jouyet Chairman, The Aspen Institute France

Eckardt von KlaedenMinister of State in the German Federal Chancellery

Yotaro KobayashiChairman, The Aspen Institute Japan

Sue KoffelThe Math Inquiries Project

Helmut F. MeierSenior Advisor, Booz & Company

Prof. Dr. Friedbert PflügerKing’s College, London

Robert K. SteelChairman, The Aspen Institute

Prof. Dr. h.c. Horst TeltschikFormer Foreign and Security Advisor to German Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl

Gautam ThaparChairman, The Aspen Institute India

Prof. Giulio TremontiChairman, The Aspen Institute Italia

Karsten D. VoigtFormer Coordinator of German-North AmericanCooperation, German Federal Foreign Office

BOARD OF TRUsTEEs

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Klaus WowereitThe Governing Mayor of Berlin

Honorary Trustees

Georges Berthoin, Honorary European Chairman, The TrilateralCommission

Prof. Dr. Kurt H. Biedenkopf, Former Premier of Saxony

Prof. Paul Doty, Director Emeritus, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs,JFK School of Government Harvard University

Dr. Alexander A. Kwapong, Chairman, Council of State, Ghana

Prof. David Marquand FBA, Principal, ret., Mansfield College, Oxford

Walter Momper MdA, President of the Berlin State Assembly

Edzard Reuter, Chairman, The Shepard Stone Foundation

Helmut Schmidt, Former German Federal Chancellor

Prof. Dr. h.c. Lothar Späth, Vice Chairman Europe, Merrill Lynch

Prof. Fritz Stern, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Columbia University

Dietrich Stobbe, Former Governing Mayor of Berlin

Dr. Richard von Weizsäcker, Former Federal President of Germany

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Werner Weidenfeld, Ludwig-Maximilian-University

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Volker Berghahn | Prof. VolkerBerghahn is the Seth Low Profes-sor of History at Columbia Uni-versity. He studied at theUniversity of North Carolina,Chapel Hill, where he received his

M.A. before moving to the University of Londonto do his PhD. After two years as a postdoctoral fel-low at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, he completedhis Habilitation and received his venia legendi fromthe University of Mannheim. From 1969 he taughtat the University of East Anglia in England and atWarwick University before accepting a professor-ship at Brown University in 1989 and his currentposition at Columbia in 1998. He has publishedmore than a dozen books on modern German his-tory and European-American business relationsafter 1945. His “America and the Intellectual ColdWars in Europe” appeared in 2001. It deals withthe work of Shepard Stone in early postwar Ger-many and at the Ford Foundation in the 1950s and1960s. Stone later became the first director of theAspen Institute Germany

Hildegard Boucsein | Dr. Hilde-gard Boucsein works as a politicalconsultant in Berlin with a back-ground in different political, exec-utive and legislative positions. Shehas worked as senior consultant infederal and regional election cam-

paigns for the CDU and CSU since the 1980s andhas different executive positions including Perma-nent Undersecretary for Federal and European Af-fairs with the Berlin Senate. In that office shecoordinated Berlin’s external relations with the Eu-ropean Commission in Brussels and the GermanFederal Government from 1991 to 2001. She alsohas a broad background in transatlantic and Euro-pean- American activities. She serves as a consult-

ant to the EU Center of Excellence at Texas A&MUniversity. She is member of the Executive Boardof the Shepard Stone Foundation, Berlin. Boucseingraduated from Düsseldorf University in 1983 (Ed-ucation and American Studies) with a doctorate inPhilosophy. She also studied at Texas ChristianUniversity in Fort Worth, Texas and worked as aVisiting Scholar in 10/2000 and 10/2001 at the In-ternational Center/George Bush Presidential Li-brary in College Station, Texas. Following heracademic education she became head of the Per-sonal Office of the Mayor of Berlin, EberhardDiepgen (1984-1989).

Reinhard Bütikofer | ReinhardBütikofer is a member of the Eu-ropean Parliament and was presi-dent of Alliance 90/The Greensfrom 2002 to 2008. Before that, hehad been the party’s National Ex-

ecutive Director starting December 1998. As oneof the leading national politicians within the GreenParty, Mr. Bütikofer looks back on a long careerwithin the Green movement, including about 20years of experience in public life. Mr. Bütikofer be-came a member of the Greens in 1984 and was alsoelected to the city council of Heidelberg. In 1988,he was elected to the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg and became the Green parliamentarygroup’s speaker on budget issues and European af-fairs. In the course of ten years he contributed tohis party’s platform and became a key campaignerin different national and state elections. In 1997, hewas elected chairman of the state-level party organ-ization of Baden-Württemberg. In 1998, Alliance90/The Greens formed a coalition government withGermany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), holdingthree government ministries including the ministryof foreign affairs.

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Gerhard Cromme | Dr. GerhardCromme, born 1943, studied lawand economics at the universitiesof Münster, Lausanne, Paris andHarvard (PMD), where he gaineda doctorate. From 1971 to 1986

Dr. Cromme worked for the Compagnie de SaintGobain group, ultimately as Deputy Delegate Gen-eral for the Federal Republic of Germany. At thesame time he was also Chairman of the Board ofManagement of VEGLA/Vereinigte GlaswerkeGmbH in Aachen. In 1986 he joined the KruppGroup, where he was Executive Board Chairmanof the group holding company from 1989. In 1999Krupp and Thyssen merged to form ThyssenKrupp.Dr. Cromme was Executive Board chairman of thecompany until 2001. In October 2001 he becameChairman of the Supervisory Board of Thyssen-Krupp AG. Since April 2007 Dr. Cromme has beenChairman of the Supervisory Board of SiemensAG. He is also a member of the supervisory boardsof Allianz SE, Axel Springer AG and Compagniede Saint-Gobain. In addition, he is a member of theEuropean Round Table of Industrialists, which hechaired from 2001-2005. From 2003-2007 Dr.Cromme was Chairman of the Supervisory Boardof the European School of Management and Tech-nology (ESMT) in Berlin. From 2001 to June 2008he was Chairman of the Government Commissionon the German Corporate Governance Code.

Mathias Döpfner | Dr. MathiasDöpfner, born 1963, studied musi-cology, German and theatrical artsin Frankfurt and Boston. Hestarted his career as a journalist atthe Frankfurter Allgemeine

Zeitung in 1982. He was director of a public rela-tions agency from 1988 to 1990. In 1992 he workedfor the Gruner + Jahr publishing company in Paris

and later became assistant to the compny’s CEO.He then held further positions in journalism as ed-itor-in-chief of the Wochenpost in Berlin (1994–1996) and the Hamburger Morgenpost(1996–1998). He has been with Axel Springer AGsince 1998, initially as editor-in-chief of Die Welt.Dr. Döpfner became the member of the manage-ment board responsible for the multimedia divisionin July 2000 and took charge of the newspapers di-vision as well in October 2000. He has been CEOof Axel Springer AG since January 2002.

Leonhard H. Fischer | LeonhardH. Fischer is Chairman of theBoard of Trustees of The AspenInstitute Germany and Chief Exec-utive Officer of RHJ International.Prior to joining RHJI, Mr. Fischer

was Chief Executive Officer of Winterthur Group,an insurance subsidiary of Credit Suisse, from2003 to 2006, and a member of the executive boardof Credit Suisse Group from 2003 to 2007. Mr. Fis-cher joined Credit Suisse Group from Allianz,where he had been a member of the managementboard and head of the corporates and markets di-vision since 2001. Previously, he had been withDresdner Bank AG as a member of the executiveboard since 1998 and with JP Morgan in Frankfurtsince 1987. Mr. Fischer holds an M.A. in Financefrom the University of Georgia.

Corinne Flick | Dr. CorinneMichaela Flick is Founder andChief Executive Officer of theConvoco Charitable FoundationgGmbH for the Promotion of Sci-ence and Education. She was a co-

founder of the Friends of the Bavarian StateLibrary, Munich, is a Member of the Board ofTrustees of the Munich Technical University and a

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Member of the Executive Committee of the TateGallery, London. Dr. Flick was an associate of VivilGmbH und Co. KG, Offenburg and provided legalcousel to Bertelsman Buch AG and amazon.comafter receiving her doctorate in law in 1989. In ad-dition to law, Dr. Flick studied literature and mi-nored in American studies. Dr. Flick lives with herhusband and daughter in London.

Mircea Geoana | Mircea Geoanais President of the Board of TheAspen Institute Romania and hasbeen the Chairman of the Roman-ian Social-Democratic Party(PSD) since 2005. He is also the

Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee ofthe Romanian Senate. In January 2006, he waselected Chairman of the Socialist InternationalCommittee for South-Eastern Europe. Prior to hispolitical career, Mircea Geoana had a successfulcareer as a diplomat. Appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to theUnited States of America at age 37, in February1996, he was the youngest ambassador in the Ro-manian diplomatic corps. From 2000 to 2004,Mircea Geoana served as Minister of Foreign Af-fairs of Romania. In this capacity, he also servedas OSCE Chairman-in-Office in 2001. MirceaGeoana is an expert on transatlantic integration.Author of various books and articles on the subject,he also was a NATO fellow on democratic institu-tions in 1994. He has lectured on foreign policy,transitional economies, and globalization at majorAmerican universities and think tanks. MirceaGeoana has a PhD in world economy from the Eco-nomic Studies Academy of Bucharest.

Roland Hoffmann-Theinert | Dr. Roland Hoff-mann-Theinert is Chairman of the Friends of theAspen Institute and a Partner at Görg-Rechtsan-

wälte. He was a founder of theBerlin offices and a long-timemember of Görg’s management.He leads the company’s companylaw practice, which – with sixty at-torneys – is the company’s

strongest business-line. Hoffmann-Theinert wasborn Bielefeld Westphalia in 1960, where he fin-ished his training as a Banker at the local branchof the Dresdner Bank. He passed the first state barexam at Passau. Before he started his articles, Hoff-mann-Theinert worked for Dresdner Bank in Sin-gapore in 1986. In 1988 he worked for ABDSecurities Inc. in New York. In between these twopostings, he was a research assistant to Prof. Dr.Alexander Hollerbach at the Albert-Ludwigs Uni-versity in Freiburg. He finished his articles at thehigh state court in Cologne while working as As-sistant at the Institute for Banking Law in Cologne.His elective work was at a law firm in Dubai. In1991 he passed the second state bar exam and re-ceived his doctorate from the Albert-Ludwigs Uni-versity summa cum laude and received the GeorgF. Roessler prize for Lawyers at the Supreme Courtfor his dissertation. He began his professional ca-reer as personal assistant to a director of one of theleading German finance houses. He switched in thesame year to the predecessor company Lüer &Görg and opened their Berlin office in 1993.

Walter Isaacson | Walter Isaacsonis the President and CEO of theAspen Institute. He has been theChairman and CEO of CNN andthe editor of Time Magazine. He isthe author of Einstein: His Life

and Universe (2007), Benjamin Franklin: AnAmerican Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography(1992) and is the coauthor of The Wise Men: SixFriends and the World They Made (1986). Isaacson

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was born on May 20, 1952, in New Orleans. He isa graduate of Harvard College and of PembrokeCollege of Oxford University, where he was aRhodes Scholar. He began his career at the SundayTimes (London) and then the New Orleans Times-Picayune/States-Item. He joined Time Magazine in1978 and served as a political correspondent, na-tional editor and editor of new media before be-coming the magazine’s 14th managing editor in1996. He became Chairman and CEO of CNN in2001, and then president and CEO of the Aspen In-stitute in 2003. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, hewas appointed by Governor Kathleen Blanco to bethe vice-chairman of the Louisiana Recovery Au-thority. In December 2007, he was appointed byPresident George W. Bush to be the chairman ofthe U.S.-Palestinian Partnership, a government andprivate sector effort to provide economic and edu-cational opportunities for the Palestinian people.He is the Chairman of the Board of Teach forAmerica, and he is on the boards of United Air-lines, Tulane University, and Science Service. Heis also on the advisory councils of the National In-stitutes of Health, the National Constitution Center,and the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC.

Josef Joffe | Dr. Josef Joffe ispublisher-editor of the Germanweekly Die Zeit. Previously hewas columnist/editorial page edi-tor of Süddeutsche Zeitung (1985-2000). Abroad, his essays and

reviews have appeared in: New York Review ofBooks, New York Times Book Review, Times Lit-erary Supplement, Commentary, New York TimesMagazine, New Republic, Weekly Standard,Prospect (London) and Commentaire (Paris). Hissecond career has been in academia. In 2007, hewas appointed Senior Fellow of Stanford’s Institutefor International Studies (a professorial position),

with which he has been affiliated since 1999. A vis-iting professor of political science at Stanford since2004, he is also a fellow of the university’s HooverInstitution. He has also taught at Harvard, JohnsHopkins and the University of Munich. Visitinglecturer at Princeton and Dartmouth. His most re-cent book is Überpower: America’s Imperial Temp-tation (2006, translated into German and French).His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, TheNational Interest, International Security, The Amer-ican Interest and Foreign Policy as well as in pro-fessional journals in Germany, Britain and France.He obtained his PhD. in Government from Har-vard. Dr. Joffe is married to Dr. Christine BrinckJoffe. They have two daughters.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet | Jean-Pierre Jouyet, is theChairman of the Board of Institut Aspen France.Currently he is Chairman of the French securitiesregulator, the AMF (l’Autorité des Marchés Finan-ciers). He was Minister of State, attached to theMinister of Foreign and European Affairs, respon-sible for European Affairs in the François Fillongovernment from May 2007. Jouyet graduatedfrom the Paris Institute of Political Studies (IEP),he then went on to study at the École Nationaled’Administration (“ENA”). Thereafter he becamea member of the group of Inspecteurs des finances,before holding a series of senior posts such as Prin-cipal at the Service de la legislation fiscale, andPrincipal Private Secretary of the Minister of In-dustry, Foreign Trade and Town and Country Plan-ning until 1991 when he was called to serveinitially as Deputy and then Head of Cabinet of thePresident of the European Commission, JacquesDelors, President of the European Commissionuntil 1995. From 1995 until 1997, Jean-PierreJouyet was a partner in Jeantet & Co, a Frenchbusiness law firm, which he left at the request ofthe Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to become his

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Deputy Principal Private Secretary until 2000, dur-ing which he contributed to France’s entry into theEuro Zone. He then became Head of the FrenchTrésor Directorate from 2000 until 2004, whenNicolas Sarkozy, who had been appointed Ministerof Finance, requested him to become France’s Am-bassador for international economic affairs. Duringhis tenure as Head of the French Trésor Directorate,he was also President of the Club de Paris. He wasbriefly non executive chairman of Barclays BankFrance in 2005, before being designated Head ofthe Service de „l’Inspection générale des finances“within the Ministry of Finance until 2007, beforesubsequently being appointed Minister of State re-sponsible for European Affairs in François Fillon’sgovernment. At the conclusion of this assignment,Jean-Pierre Jouyet was then nominated by Presi-dent Sarkozy on 14 November 2008 to becomeChairman of the French securities regulator, theAMF (l’Autorité des Marchés Financiers)

Eckardt von Klaeden | Dr.Eckardt von Klaeden has beenMinister of State to the FederalChancellor with responsibility forliaison with German federal statessince 2009. He has been treasurer

and member of the praesidium of the GermanChristian Democratic Union since 2006. From2005 to 2009 he was the foreign policy spokesmanof the CDU parliamentary party in the GermanBundestag. He has been a member of the manage-ment board of the CDU since 2005. From 2000-2005 he was Whip of the CDU/CSU Bundestagfaction. He has been admitted to practice law since1996 and has been chairman of the CDU inHildesheim since 1995, after first becoming amember of the German Bundestag in 1994. Dr. von

Klaeden studied law at Göttingen and Würzburg.He is married with three daughters.

Yotaro Kobayashi | Kobayashi isthe Chairman of the Board of TheAspen Institute Japan, and is chiefcorporate advisor, Fuji Xerox Co.,Ltd. He serves on the corporateboards of Callaway Golf Com-

pany, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT), and Sony Corporation, while being aTrustee of Keio University, and Chairman of Inter-national University of Japan. He is also the PacificAsia chairman of the Trilateral Commission and amember of the advisory board of the Council onForeign Relations and Stanford University’s Insti-tute of International Studies. He is a winner of theJapanese government’s Blue Ribbon Medal.

sue Koffel | Sue Koffel is founderof The Math Inquiries Project, aprivately funded research projectcurrently studying the social mar-keting issues of algebra educationin California. She has degrees in

Mathematics and Cybernetic Systems. Sue and herhusband, Martin Koffel, have had a long associa-tion with the transatlantic relationship throughbusiness, government and policy institutions in Eu-rope and the U.S. Sue has studied several Europeanlanguages and has a particular interest in German.She breeds and raises Hanoverian horses in Cali-fornia from an imported dressage line. Her hus-band is Chairman and CEO of the SanFrancisco-based URS Corporation, the largest en-gineering company in the U.S.

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Helmut F. Meier | Helmut Meieris Senior Advisor, Booz & Com-pany (the former Booz AllenHamilton) in Düsseldorf and Vi-enna. In his twenty-six year con-sulting career he served in many

leadership functions, including the lead of theglobal Communications, Media and Technologypractice (CMT) until 2001. He also served on BoozAllen’s Board of Directors twice for a three yearperiod (until 2008). Meier has been with Booz &Company since October 1982. Before joining Booz& Company he gained industrial experience in sev-eral projects dealing with market and technologydevelopment in the communication and informa-tion industry. He started his professional career inproduct and strategic planning at Siemens AG, Mu-nich, and Siemens Corp., Florida, being responsi-ble for the planning of integrated officecommunication systems. Helmut Meier holds a de-gree in Computer Science from the University ofBonn and an MBA from INSEAD (Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires),Fontainebleau, France.

Friedbert Pflüger | Prof. Dr.Friedbert Pflüger is a Senior Lec-turer at Kings College, Lodon.Previously he was a member of theCDU parliamentary group in theBerlin House of Representatives.

Pflüger studied political science, public and con-stitutional law and economics at Göttingen, Bonnand Harvard, earning his MA in 1980 and PhD. in1982. He joined the Christian Democratic Unionin 1971. Federal chairman of the Association ofChristian Democratic Students, 1977 to 78. DeputyChairman of the European Democrat Students(EDS), 1976 to 78. Member of the federal execu-tive committee of the Junge Union, 1977 to 85.

Since 2000 he has been a member of the federal ex-ecutive committee of the CDU. From 1981 to 84Mr. Pflüger was an assistant to the GoverningMayor of Berlin. He served as spokesman for Ger-man President Richard von Weizsäcker from 1984-89. From 1989-91 he was manager of theMatuschka Group, Munich. In 1991 he becamedeputy chairman of the CDU’s federal committeeon foreign policy, ascending to the committee’schairmanship in 1999. From 1990 until 2006 hewas a member of the Bundestag where he servedon the Defense Committee and the Committee onForeign Affairs. Disarmament policy spokesman ofthe CDU/CSU parliamentary group, 1994-98 andforeign policy spokesman 2002-05. Chairman ofthe Bundestag Committee on the Affairs of the Eu-ropean Union, 1998-2002. Parliamentary StateSecretary at the Federal Ministry of Defence 2005-06. Chairman of the CDU parliamentary group inthe Berlin House of Representatives, 2006-08.Since 2006 he has also been a member of the Na-tional Executive Committee of the CDU.

Robert K. steel | Robert K. Steelis the Chairman of the Board ofThe Aspen Institute. He was Un-dersecretary of the Treasury forDomestic Finance from 2006 to2009. In that capacity, he served as

the principal adviser to the Secretary on matters ofdomestic finance and led the department’s activi-ties with respect to the domestic financial system,fiscal policy and operations, governmental assetsand liabilities, and related economic and financialmatters. Steel retired from Goldman Sachs as avice chairman of the firm on February 1, 2004. Hejoined Goldman Sachs in 1976 and served in theChicago office until his transfer to London in 1986.In London he founded the Equity Capital Marketsgroup for Europe and was extensively involved in

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privatization and capital raising efforts for Euro-pean corporations and governments. He later as-sumed the position of head of Equities for Europe.In 1994 he relocated to New York and served ashead of the Equities Division from 1998-2001 untilhis appointment as a vice chairman of the firm. Hebecame a partner in 1988 and joined the Manage-ment Committee in 1999. Upon his retirement fromGoldman Sachs, he assumed the position of advi-sory director for the firm and then senior directorin December 2004. From February 2004 to Sep-tember 2006 Mr. Steel served as a senior fellow atthe Center for Business and Government at theJohn F. Kennedy School of Government at HarvardUniversity. Mr. Steel received his undergraduatedegree from Duke University and his MBA fromthe University of Chicago. He resides in Connecti-cut and Washington, D.C. with his wife and threedaughters.

Horst Teltschik | Prof. Dr. HorstTeltschik was the Foreign and Se-curity Advisor to German FederalCancellor Helmut Kohl. He isChairman of Teltschik AssociatesGmbH. He is also the former pres-

ident of Boeing Germany. Prior to serving in thisposition, he was a member of the Board of Man-agement of the BMW Group specializing in eco-nomic and governmental affairs, and was chairmanof the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt in Mu-nich. Dr. Teltschik also served as chief executiveofficer of the Bertelsmann Foundation in Güter-sloh. In his role as a public servant, he worked asministerial director at the German Federal Chan-cellery; was head of the Directorate General forForeign and Intra-German Relations, DevelopmentPolicy, and External Security; and served as na-tional security advisor to the German Chancellor,Helmut Kohl. Dr. Teltschik is a member of the Uni-

versity Council of the Munich Academy of Arts,and also of the International Advisory Board of theCouncil on Foreign Relations, New York, USA. Heis a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and SocialSciences at the Munich Technical University.

Gautam Thapar | Gautam Thapar is the Chairmanof The Aspen Institute India. He was born in 1960,educated at the Doon School in India, and studiedchemical engineering in the U.S.A. Upon returningto India, he worked as a factory assistant in one ofhis family�owned manufacturing companies. Herose steadily and steered the organization througha strategic turnaround. Gautam became GroupChairman in 2006, and the conglomerate was re-branded as Avantha in 2007. With a global footprintin over ten countries, Avantha today has businessinterests in diverse areas, including pulp & paper,power transmission & distribution equipment andservices, food processing, farm forestry, chemicals,energy, infrastructure, information technology (IT)and IT�enabled services. Gautam passionately pro-motes education, leadership development andsports. He is also President of Thapar University,President of All India Management Association(AIMA), and President of the Professional GolfTour of India. Thapar received the Ernst & YoungEntrepreneur of the Year Award for Manufacturingin 2008.

Giulio Tremonti | Prof. GiulioTremonti is Chairman of AspenInstitute Italia and Minister of Fi-nance of the Italian Republic. Pre-viously, he was Vice President ofthe Italian Chamber of Deputies

and a professor at the University of Pavia’s Facultyof Law as well as co-editor of the Rivista di DirittoFinanziario e Scienza delle Finanze (FinancialLaw and Science Review) and a member of the

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moral science section, of the Istituto Lombardo Ac-cademia di Scienze e Lettere. He has been a SeniorTeaching Fellow at the Institute of European andComparative Law at Oxford University and has hadwork published by Il Mulino, Mondadori, and Lat-erza. Mr. Tremonti has participated in a number ofnational commissions including the Italian-VaticanCommission. He was president of the Commissionfor Currency Exchange Control Reform. In 1994he was elected to the Lower House of Parliament(Chamber of Deputies) for the XII Legislature. Hewas re-elected in the two following legislatures(XIII and XIV). He was Finance Minister in thefirst Berlusconi Government (1994). He was alsoa member of the Joint Parliamentary Commissionfor the Reform of the Italian Constitution as wellas chairman, during the Italian term, of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the G7 andthe Ecofin Council.

Karsten D. Voigt | Karsten D.Voigt was the Coordinator of Ger-man-North American Cooperationat the German Federal Foreign Of-fice from 1999 to 2009. He ma-jored in history and in German and

Scandinavian studies at the Universities of Ham-burg, Copenhagen and Frankfurt. Mr. Voigt becameactively engaged in politics at an early age. He ac-companied witnesses during the Auschwitz trialproceedings and took part in the Anti-Vietnam wardemonstrations. From 1969 until 1973 he served asChairman of the German Young Socialists Organi-zation. From 1984 until 1995 he was a member ofthe Executive Committee of the German SocialDemocratic Party and from 1985 to1994, memberof the Executive Committee of the Party of Euro-pean Socialists. From 1976 to 1998, he served as aMember of the German Federal Parliament (Bun-destag) for the Social Democrats (SPD). From

1977 to 1998 he also served as a Member of theNATO Parliamentary Assembly, of which he wasPresident between 1994 and 1996. Mr. Voigt’s ex-pertise is in the fields of foreign policy and secu-rity. From 1983 to 1998, he was foreign policyspokesman of the SPD parliamentary group.

Klaus Wowereit | Klaus Wowereitis the Governing Mayor of Berlinand Vice Chairman of the GermanSocial Democratic Party. He waselected to office on 16 June 2001and won reelection on 23 Novem-

ber 2006. As Berlin is both Germany’s capital andone of the country’s sixteen federal states, Wow-ereit serves as mayor of the city and head of thefederal state. Since 23 November 2006, he has alsobeen the Senator (State Minister) for Cultural Af-fairs. Wowereit attended the Free University ofBerlin, where he received his law degree in 1981.He served from 1979 to 1984 as an assembly mem-ber in Berlin’s Tempelhof district and worked forthe Senate Department of the Interior from 1981 to1984. At thirty, he became the city’s youngest mu-nicipal council member for the Tempelhof district,and in 1995 he was elected to the city’s parliament.He served as deputy head of the SPD parliamentarygroup in the Berlin House of Representatives from1995 to 1999 and subsequently as their leader fromDecember 1999 to June 2001. On the federal level,he was appointed President of the Bundesrat, theupper house of the German parliament, for a one-year ter from 1 November 2001 to 31 October2002. On 1 January 2007, he started a four-yearterm as Germany’s Commissioner for Franco-Ger-man Cultural Affairs, giving him cabinet status inthe federal government.

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Chairman

Charles King Mallory IVExecutive Director, Aspen Institute Deutschland e.V.

Dr. Christoph AbelnFounder, Abeln Attorneys for Labor Law

August von JoestPartner, Odewald & Compagnie

Prof. Dr. Joachim KrauseProfessor of International Relations, Director, Institute for Security PolicyChristian-Albrechts University, Kiel

Peter LennartzPartner, Ernst & Young

Urs SchwerzmannPartner, SchwerzmannTeam

Christoph Abeln | Dr. ChristophAbeln is founder and attorney forlabor law at the Berlin law officesof Abeln Attorneys for Labor Law.After studying in Freiburg andMunich, Dr. Abeln received his

PhD. From the Ludwig Maximilian University inMunich. His dissertation compared “The LegalStatus of Management Board Members and WorksCouncil Members”. After taking articles in Berlin,he passed the bar in 1994. In addition to his workas an attorney, Dr. Abeln has spoken at the GermanSociety for Personnel Management, the labor pol-icy publishers “Labor and Law” as well as at theForum Institute for Management GmbH.

August von Joest | August vonJoest is a partner at Odewald &Compagnie, Germany’s leadingprivate equity firm. Mr. von Joestwas trained at BMW AG in Mu-nich and Bonn and at Gebr. Wey-

ersberg GmbH in Solingen. After serving abroadin Seoul, Hong Kong, and Vietnam from 1972 to1974, Mr. von Joest worked as a manager at CCCHamburg and at Michael Thomas & Partner inHamburg, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia. Mr. von Joestwas Director, National and International Sales atMBB’s Helicopter Division in Munich from 1980to 1990. After one year as Assistant Director at theTreunhandanstalt in Berlin, Mr. von Joest becameManaging Director, Europe of Price WaterhouseCorporate Finance and Recovery.

Joachim Krause | Prof. Dr.Joachim Krause has been Professorof International Relations and Di-rector of the Institute for SocialSciences at Christian-AlbrechtsUniversity in Kiel since 2001.

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From 1978 to 1993, Krause was a researcher at theresearch institute of the Stiftung Wissenschaft undPolitik. Next, he was deputy director of the GermanCouncil on Foreign Relations (DeutscheGesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik) until 2001 andthen Steve Muller Professor for German Studies atthe Paul Nitze School for Advanced InternationalStudies at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna,Italy from 2002 to 2003. In addition to his profes-sional activities, professor Krause has been a mem-ber of numerous German government delegations,including to the Conference on Disarmament inGeneva 1988-1989 and the UN Special Commis-sion and Observer Mission in Iraq from 1991-1992.

Peter Lennartz | has been a part-ner at Ernst & Young since 2002.His customers include well-knownlocal and international clients inthe solar power and health care in-dustries. In addition to his work

for Ernst & Young, which took him to Boston USAfrom 1992 to 2002, Mr. Lennartz works as an au-ditor and tax advisor. He sponsors the “Entrepre-neur of the Year” campaign and has close ties tonumerous start-up companies in Berlin.

Charles Mallory | Charles KingMallory IV received his educationat Volksschule in Hamburg, atWestminster School London andat Middlebury College, Vermont;he studied for an M.A. in Interna-

tional Relations at Johns Hopkins University and aPhD. At the RAND Graduate School. Mr. Malloryworked at the Stockholm International Peace Re-search Institute and at Stiftung Wissenschaft undPolitik, where he co-wrote the “Role of ChemicalWeapons in Soviet Military Doctrine” with Profes-sor J. Krause of Kiel University. Mr. Mallory was

CEO of Credit Suisse Investment Funds Moscow,before joining Allied Capital Corporation - a pri-vate equity and mezzanine investment fund. For thefive years prior to joining Aspen Germany, he wasSenior Advisor to Assistant Secretary of State forNear Eastern Affairs at the U.S. Department ofState.

Urs schwerzmann | is SeniorPartner of SchwerzmannTeam.The company specializes in corpo-rate design and corporate commu-nications. He received his trainingin graphic design at the industrial

art schools in Luzern and Zurich, which he gradu-ated from in 1973 with a confederal certificate ofcompetency. Mr. Schwerzmann worked as agraphic artist and art director in Vienna, Milan andStuttgart from 1974 to 1978. In 1978 Mr. Schwerz-mann founded his own design bureaus in Zurichand Stuttgart. Urs Schwerzmann’s work has earnedhim numerous national and international prizes.

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Dr. Josef AckermannCEO, Deutsche Bank AG

Trustees and Private Individuals

Carl DouglasHelmut MeierSue & Martin Koffel

Governmental supporters

U.S. Department of State -Middle East Partnership InitiativeBundesministerium für Wirtschaft undTechnologie - European Recovery ProgramKreditanstalt für WiederaufbauSenat von BerlinLandesregierung BrandenburgBotschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Al-banienEmbassy of the United States of America, BerlinBotschaft der Italienischen Republik, BerlinGeneralkonsulat der Bundesrepublik Deutschlandin Istanbul

Companies and Foundations

Shepard-Stone-StiftungRobert Bosch Stiftung GmbHGerman Marshall Fund of the USADaimler AGKPMG Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft AGErnst & Young AG WirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaftGerresheim GmbH

Friends of of the Aspen Institute

Adam Opel AGBaker & McKenzieBoeing International CorporationBooz & Company, Inc.Coca-Cola GmbH

Ceberus Capital Mangement GmbHCommerzbank AGDaimler AGDeutsche Börse AGDeutsche Telekom AGDr. KADE Pharmazeutische Fabrik GmbHErnst & YoungGillette Deutschland GmbH & Co. oHGGörg RechtsanwälteKnick Elektronische Messgeräte GmbH & Co. KGKorn/Ferry DeutschlandLandesbank Berlin AGMayer Brown LLPMSA Auer GmbHPiepenbrock Service GmbH + Co. KGRobert Bosch GmbHSiemens AG

Christoph AbelnVolker AngerJörg BaldaufPeter BassmannKarl H. BehleManfred BockRüdiger BoergenHeinz BreeLeopold Bill von BredowGregor BreitkopfBernhard M. DeppischMarc-Aurel von DewitzDetlef DiederichsSteven DismanMargrit DismanBurkhard DolataMichael DunkelPeter DussmannBritt Sylvia EckelmannRakhamim EmanuilovStefan FeuersteinRalf Fücks

BENEFACTORs

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Bernd GoldmannDiethard GrospitschCarl E. GrossUwe GüntherThomas HaberkammLothar HablerAngela Haegele-WeberMartin HarderTorsten HanuschWolfgang HarmsKlaus E. HerkenrothArno HeuermannIsabella HeuserWolfgang HohenseeOliver HohenstatterKay P. HradilakFlorian JehlePeter von JenaAugust J. P. von JoestMelanie KanzlerAndré KellenersPeter KerscherPaul KieferFritz KropatschekJörg-Guido KutzAndreas LuckowJürgen MäurerUdo von MassenbachClaus-Peter MartensUlrich MisgeldCarola MöschBernhard MüllerWolfram NolteHans Eike von Oppeln-BronikowskiValerie von OppenYounes OuaqasseBrigitte PaechBernd PaechWerner PahlitzschPeter Peters

Wolfgang PoeckJens PollHans-Jürgen RabeHeinrich ReitzJürgen ReuningFrank RödelJobst RöhmelRainer RuffJohannes J. RübergHella de SantarossaSigram SchindlerAbbo-Andreas SchmidtKerstin von SchnakenburgDoris SchneiderOtmar SchusterDieter SchweitzerUrs V. SchwerzmannLeonardo ScimmiFranz Josef SosnowskiRegina Spyra-FrickePatrick Freiherr von StauffenbergJürgen B. SteinkeHans Christian SteinmüllerSandy WeinerKlaus WernerDetlef WilschkeSven WingerterJürgen Schach von WittenauChristine WolffMark Young

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FINANCIAL REsULTs

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BALANCE sHEET

(Euros)

2007 2008 2009 2010Audited Audited Audited Unaudited

Property, Plant & Equipment

Intangible and Tangible Assets 22.524,00 34.903,0 41.211,10 30.148,28 Sub-Total Property, Plant & Equipment 22.524,00 34.903,00 41.211,10 30.148,28

Current Assets

Receivables 50.299,88 143.449,20 233.229,51 271.134,61 Other Short-Term Assets 3.018,94 16.499,18 14.106,68 4.820,38 Cash & Cash Equivalents 280.562,75 313.872,95 555.578,68 259.906,41 Subtotal Current Assets 333.881,57 473.821,33 802.914,87 535.861,40

TOTAL AssETs 356.405,57 508.724,33 844.125,97 566.009,68

shareholders’ Equity

Paid in Capital 20.297,48 20.297,48 20.297,48 20.297,48 Retained Earnings 85.730,66 136.273,31 305.749,35 288.957,03 Sub-Total Equity 106.028,14 156.570,79 326.046,83 309.254,51

Reserves

Liabilities

Liabilities to Financial Institutions 0,00 7.969,31 0,00 2.136,54 Liabilities to Sponsors 155.148,61 69.338,95 292.665,45 179.141,46 Liabilities to Personnel 12.838,47 8.788,50 15.993,54 6.774,97 Other Liabilities 71.998,84 97.686,69 36.039,45 38.802,20Sub-Total Liabilities 239.985,92 183.783,45 344.698,44 226.855,17

TOTAL LIABILITIEs &

sHAREHOLDERs’ EQUITY 356.405,57 508.724,33 844.125,97 566.009,68

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PROFIT & LOss sTATEMENT

(Euros)

2007 2008 2009 2010Audited Audited Audited Unaudited

Income from Ordinary Activities

Donations and Contributions 1.135.652,83 1.646.353,72 1.022.976,46 1.024.688,25 Reimbursements 622,95 10.099,13 0,00 -42,95 Other Operating Income 269,92 12.818,24 2.900,57 24.917,55

TOTAL INCOME 1.136.545,70 1.669.271,09 1.025.877,03 1.049.562,85

Expenses

Personnel Expense -391.474,70 -495.086,75 -371.548,32 -459.414,59Event & Travel Costs -431.978,96 -768.535,52 -244.221,41 -347.836,04

Other Operating Expenses

Premises -134.941,80 -200.635,85 -112.951,48 -110.966,67Vehicles -1.900,66 -19.804,89 -6.542,43 -11.588,10Other -105.156,93 -155.863,05 -114.322,49 -123.875,78

Subtotal other Operating Expense -241.999,39 -376.303,79 -233.816,40 -246.430,55

Depreciation & Amortization -8.589,84 -16.746,88 -7.238,80 -12.287,52Interest & Bank Charges 4.118,77 -452,92 423,94 -386,47

TOTAL EXPENsEs -1.069.924,12 -1.657.125,86 -856.400,9 -1.066.355,17

sURPLUs / (DEFICIT 66.621,58 12.145,23 169.476,04 -16.792,32

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Dr. Michael Spindelegger, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Austria (left)andDr. Guido WesterwelleMinister of Foreign AffairsFederal Republic of Germany (right)

Aspen Institute policy programs seek to developsolutions for complex policy issues confrontingcontemporary society. They convene leaders andexperts with the goal of reaching constructive so-lutions to critical problems. They serve as an im-partial forum for proven leaders in a given field,bringing diverse perspectives together in pursuit ofinformed dialogue and effective action. Aspen Ger-many’s policy programs are dedicated to seekinginternational understanding and identifying com-mon ground by examining complex and controver-sial policy issues in depth. Aspen achieves this byconvening decision makers, policy makers and ex-perts in small, inter-disciplinary groups for off-the-record conferences, workshops and seminars last-ing from one to three days.

Aspen Germany’s policy 2009-2010 programs in-cluded:

• The Aspen European Strategy Forum• Aspen Iran Civil Society Program• Aspen Syria Civil Society Program• Aspen Lebanon Civil Society Program

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The Aspen European strategy ForumAcademic Director: Prof. Dr. Joachim Krause

The objective of the Aspen European StrategyForum (AESF) is to organize dialogue between keystakeholders on the toughest policy challenges andto build lasting ties for a constructive exchange be-tween leaders in North America, Europe and theMiddle East. AESF brings together interdiscipli-nary groups of decision makers and experts frombusiness, academia, politics and international or-ganizations – who would otherwise rarely meet –for a respectful, non-partisan, in-depth dialogue,exchange of ideas and a search for solutions andcommon ground.

Aspen wishes to express its sincere gratitude to theRobert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, Aspen Italia, Euro-pean Aeronautic Defense & Space Company andthe American Institute for Contemporary GermanStudies for supporting the 2010 and 2009 AspenEuropean Strategy Forum

The strategic Implications

of the Iranian Nuclear Program

september 22-24, 2010

The Iranian uranium enrichment program has pre-occupied the international community for the lasteight years, ever since the existence of clandestineenrichment facilities established in 1998 at Nantazand Arak was revealed in 2002.While concerteddiplomatic efforts have been made to dissuade theIslamic Republic of Iran (IRI) from continuing onits current course, the world has watched Iran moveinexorably closer to the points at which it would ei-ther be capable of producing or actually possessone or more nuclear weapons. Because the impli-cations of the ongoing Iranian nuclear program andof a nuclear-armed Iran for the global strategic bal-ance are far-reaching, the 2010 Aspen EuropeanStrategy Forum (AESF) met from September 22-24 at the “Haus der Commerzbank” next to theBrandenburg Gate in Berlin to consider the “Impli-cations of the Iranian Nuclear Program” in depth.

The forum was divided into six one and a half hoursessions. The first panel, was presided over byAspen Institute Germany trustee and AESF co-chair Karsten D. Voigt, the former Coordinator ofTransatlantic Relations at the German Federal For-eign Office; it examined the question of how muchtime is left for diplomacy with Iran concerning itsnuclear program. The second session, chaired byHorst Teltschik, former Foreign and Security PolicyAdvisor to German Federal Chancellor HelmutKohl, asked whether the international communityhas been pursuing the correct diplomatic approachto resolving the nuclear crisis. Richard Dalton, ofthe Royal Institute for International Affairs, formerambassador of the United Kingdom to the IslamicRepublic of Iran, led the next panel, devoted to theintentions, capabilities, strengths and weaknesses

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of the Iranian government. Michael Stürmer, ChiefCorrespondent of the German national daily news-paper Die Welt, chaired the pre-penultimate sessionthat was devoted to examining military options fordealing with the Iranian nuclear program. ProfessorHüseyin Bağcı of Ankara Technical Universitypresided over a discussion of the strategic conse-quences of a nuclear Iran. And François Heisbourg,Chairman of the Council of the International Insti-tute for Strategic Studies closed the 2010 forum bychairing a wrap-up panel on the strategic implica-tions of the Iranian nuclear program.

In addition, two outstanding after-dinner speakersaddressed participants in the forum and providedfurther food for thought. Eckardt von Klaeden,Minister of State to the German Federal ChancellorAngela Merkel spoke on the topic of “The IranianNuclear Program – How Much of a Global Chal-lenge?” and Najmuddin A. Sheikh, former ForeignSecretary of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan pro-vided insights on “How the Dispute Over the Iran-ian Nuclear Program is Viewed in the MuslimWorld and Within the Non-Aligned Movement”.

The great variance in current estimates of the timerequired for Iran to produce nuclear weapons canbe traced back to the state of the IRI’s enrichmentprogram. Existing centrifuge designs are flawed,forcing Iran to spend anywhere up to four years toproduce a new centrifuge for which it lacks the crit-ical raw materials. The short-term military threatposed by the Iranian nuclear program may, there-fore, be overstated. At best, a hiatus of one year willbe involved before Iran can start to move beyondthis obstacle. However, Iran might thereafter be ina position to surge to the nuclear threshold.

There are alternative diplomatic approaches avail-able to the Iranian nuclear problem and there is,

therefore, room for further negotiation. Although adifferent set of Iranian actors is at the helm thanduring previous talks and a very different negoti-ating process is being employed, the negotiatingrecord with the IRI is not devoid of success. Fur-thermore the international cohesion needed for suc-cessful talks is currently stronger than it was inquite some time. However, internal rivalry andcompetition within the Iranian regime is significantand may even preclude reaching a diplomatic set-tlement.

While the jury is out on the effectiveness of eco-nomic sanctions, they do send an important signalof international resolve; they also provide a legaljustification for the extension of export controls,and permit more effective counter-proliferation ef-forts.

A narrative of oppression by the West causes thestandoff over the nuclear program to strengthen theIRI government’s internal legitimacy, rather thanweaken it. Counterintuitively, greater internationalengagement with Iran might actually weaken theincumbent government.

Failing revelations of egregious IRI behavior or anIranian attack on Israel, the international commu-nity must demonstrate that it has exhausted all pos-sible other options, before taking military actionagainst Iran’s nuclear program, if it wishes to main-tain legitimacy. However, states’ appetite for mili-tary action is low and go-it-alone coalitions of thewilling will erode the cohesion of existing al-liances. A number of non-kinetic, escalating mili-tary measures short of war can reinforce diplomaticsignals. In the event that a military attack shouldbe mounted, a short and sharp action has distinctadvantages. However, significant Iranian retaliationwill follow, whichever option is chosen.

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The past behavior of the Iranian government, theperceived nature of the current political regime inIran and its perceived intentions are causes for con-cerns regarding the consequences of Iran attainingthe nuclear threshold. Greater aggressiveness onbehalf of an Iran (or its proxies) that perceives itselfas inoculated against retaliation may be expected.Declaratory policies aimed at containing Iran’sbreakout are unlikely to provide the necessary com-fort to states in the region. A regional nuclear armsrace may ensue. Nor can a future acute nuclear cri-sis in southern Lebanon be totally discounted. Fail-ing military action before the IRI reaches breakout,proliferation, enhanced counter-proliferation ef-forts and greater reliance on ballistic missile de-fenses will likely characterize the internationalcommunity’s response.

A copy of the full conference report can be obtained at

www.aspeninstitute.de/en/publication

Russia & the West:

How to Restart a Constructive Relationship

November 05, 2009

The Aspen Institute Germany chose to celebratetwentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wallby organizing a series of substantive meetings toexamine one of the largest unresolved strategicquestions since the fall of the wall: “Russia and theWest: How to Restart a Constructive Relation-ship?” The 2009 forum was organized in coopera-tion with Aspen Italia under the aegis of fiveadditional, outstanding international statesmen or“principals”: Aleksander Kwasniewski, the formerPresident of the Republic of Poland, Prof. GiulianoAmato, the former Prime Minister of the Republicof Italy, Gary Hart former U.S. Senator from theState of Colorado, Dr. Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin,Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the NorthAtlantic Treaty Organization, and Eckart von Klae-den, at the time Foreign Policy Spokesman of theparliamentary party of the German CDU/CSU. Thegoals of the exercise were to answer three basicquestions:

• What were the sources of friction that caused therelationship between Russia and the “West” togo off track?

• What common national interests do Russia andthe West share?

• How can a new Euro-Atlantic security order bebuilt where Russia believes that it can advanceits interests by acting within the system and fromwhich both Russia and its neighbors do not per-ceive a threat to their security or national inter-ests?

A first workshop was convened in Washington DC

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in June 2009 in cooperation with the American In-stitute for Contemporary Germany Studies andAspen Italia; it was designed to solicit U.S. inputon these issues and involved meetings with keyU.S. policy makers and strategists in the areas offoreign policy, security policy, energy policy, non-proliferation and arms control. A second workshopwas convened in Berlin in cooperation with AspenItalia in August 2009; it was designed to solicitRussian and Central and East European views onthe same questions and involved leading expertsfrom the Russian Federation and governmental rep-resentatives from Central and East Europe. A listof participants and an agenda for each set of meet-ings are available in the conference report.

Under the guidance of the statesmen listed above,Professor Joachim Krause (University of Kiel, Ac-ademic Director of AESF), Andrew Kuchins, PhD(Center for Strategic and International Studies),Alexander Rahr (German Council on Foreign Re-lations), Dr. Benjamin Schreer (Deputy Director,Aspen Institute Germany) and Charles King Mal-lory IV (Executive Director, Aspen Institute Ger-many) wrote a report in an attempt to provideconsensus answers to the three questions outlinedabove and to identify enduring areas where viewsdiverge and consensus cannot be reached. The re-port was presented at a conference on November05, 2009 at the “Haus der Commerzbank”, rightnext to the Brandenberg Gate, by the former primeminister of the Italian Republic Prof. GiulianoAmato; its key findings are summarized below.

Any attempt to restart a constructive relationshipwith Russia requires new approaches in the inter-twined areas of strategic nuclear arms reductions,nuclear non-proliferation, and ballistic missile de-fense. Recommendations to move forward in thisarea include:

• Negotiations between the United States and Rus-sia on a follow-on treaty to the START I treaty.

• Discussion of the role of nuclear weapons in re-spective military doctrines. Future deep cuts inU.S. and Russian strategic arsenals depend onfinding consensus on a new concept of strategicstability, which moves beyond the Cold Warlogic of mutually assured destruction. In thelonger-term, “virtual nuclear arsenals” couldform the basis for a new concept of deterrenceand strategic stability.

• Bilateral negotiations on further strategic armsreductions should be complemented by interna-tional initiatives involving the other nuclearweapons states. Possible initiatives include: afreeze on existing nuclear arsenals; a freeze onfurther production of weapons-grade fissile ma-terial, which should be followed by an interna-tional convention banning the production offissile material for weapons purposes; a globalINF-treaty, i.e. a treaty banning possession, pro-duction and employment of intermediate-rangenuclear forces; and a political process by whichthe Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (“CTBT”)gradually enters into full force.

• Ballistic missile defense will play a crucial rolein any new concept of strategic stability betweenRussia and the West. Both sides should reach anagreement on the future mixture of offensive anddefensive systems (i.e. a new concept of strate-gic stability), which will become increasingly in-tertwined as warhead levels decrease. This, inturn, should redound to the benefit of Russia’simmediate Central and East European neighbors(“CEE”) who have strong reservations aboutRussia’s current levels of nuclear armament.

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• Without more extensive cooperation on the Iran-ian nuclear program, efforts to restart the rela-tionship between Russia and the West will behobbled. Moscow should revise its “relaxed” at-titude to the Iranian nuclear program and jointhe West in applying the logic of collective se-curity to this case. Much could be gained if theRussian government were unequivocally to jointhe West in confronting the Iranian leadershipwith the threat of serious consequences (such asa ban on the sale of refined products and otherimportant items) if Iran is not ready to halt itsenrichment programs, disclose the full extent ofits nuclear program and resume implementationof the additional protocol of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Confronting Islamic extremism and drug traffick-ing, particularly in Afghanistan, and increasing co-operation in maritime security and the Arctic Seaform additional fields of potential security cooper-ation.

• Containing Islamist extremism constitutes avery promising area of cooperation betweenRussia and the West given their overlapping in-terests. This cooperation should be expanded soas to end Russia’s policy of ambivalence be-tween interest in avoiding NATO’s failure inAfghanistan and uneasiness about Western trooppresence in Central Asia. Afghanistan will be thelitmus test in this regard. Agreements reachedduring the first half of 2009 included U.S. rightsfor the overflight of lethal materials over Russianterritory; Russia was also very forthcoming con-cerning overland ground transport of non-lethalgoods to Afghanistan in the context of theemerging Northern Distribution Network(“NDN”).

• Cooperation in the struggle against drug traf-ficking in Afghanistan should be scaled up, par-ticularly with regards to training Afghanpolicemen and law enforcement officers.

• Cooperation in the area of maritime securitycould be expanded to include joint exercises andtraining missions. A joint NATO-Russian initia-tive to establish an international court special-ized in dealing with cases of maritime piracycould also be envisaged. Beyond that, NATOand Russia might even ponder cooperating on along-term solution for Somalia, since the lack offunctioning state structures in that country feedsnot just piracy but also terrorism and migration.A new start is urgently needed in the area of en-ergy security.

• Further negotiations on the basic elements of theEnergy Charter Treaty (“ECT”) are unavoidable.The treaty needs provisions that enable and pro-tect international commercial investments inboth the upstream and the downstream sectorand its existing dispute resolution mechanismshould be revised. The treaty should also estab-lish more specific rules for the transit of naturalgas and crude oil through pipeline networks.

• The EU, Russia and the United States couldjointly develop a plan for the modernization ofSiberia as a practical tool by which to achievethe goals of an energy alliance and to achievethe diversification of the Russian economy – amatter of long-term, common, strategic interestto both Russia and the West.

• Europe and the United States could take part inRussia’s program to improve energy efficiency,with a particular emphasis on natural gas.

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• The European Union could be tasked with de-vising a “European Energy Solidarity Pact”, bywhich Western European countries are able toassist Central and East European states, whichare heavily dependent upon Russian gas and oildeliveries, in times of crisis.

• Russia, the EU and the United States shouldconsider further expanding joint projects includ-ing: dismantling visa barriers; expanding aca-demic exchanges; and establishing a free tradezone, short of full Russian EU membership.

• Russia, the European Union and the UnitedStates might also consider taking joint steps inthe area of climate control and environmentalprotection.

• Europe and the United States may want to con-sider whether the opening of their end marketsto the Russian commercial aviation industrymight result in more efficient U.S. and Europeanaircraft industries, diversification of the Russianeconomy and a true incentive with which to keepMoscow interested in further cooperation.

• The European Union may want to consider cre-ating a mechanism for economic negotiationswith Russia that is not dependent upon achiev-ing consensus among all twenty-seven member-states.

• Investment in Russia could be advanced by aproject by the EU commission, the U.S. Depart-ment of Justice and Russian authorities to im-plement a streamlined Russian commercialdispute resolution mechanism. Increased ex-changes between senior- and mid-level regula-tory staff could also be helpful. Further, effortsto achieve minimum, mutually recognized list-

ing standards, designed to reduce the cost of ac-cess to capital by Russian companies and to pro-mote Moscow as an international source ofcapital could also be initiated.

A copy of the full conference report can be obtained at

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Aspen Iran Civil society ProgramSenior Program Officer: Olaf Böhnke

Aspen’s Iran Civil Society Program invited leadersof civil society, policy makers, business people andmedia representatives to discuss issues such as eco-nomic prospects, human rights, democratic devel-opment and free media at small informal meetingsin Europe, America and the region on a regularbasis. Aspen aimed to improve mutual understand-ing, educate one another on current developments,and ensure continuing communication despite in-ternational political tensions. By bringing togetherpolicy makers with representatives of civil societyand the private sector Aspen also aimed to learnabout social and political developments in the re-gion and promote open dialogue between the Mid-dle East, Europe and America.

The Aspen Institute Germany wishes to express itssincere gratitude to the U.S. Department of State,the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the American Jew-ish Committee, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation,and Harvard University’s Berkman Center for In-ternet and Society for their support of this initia-tive.

Iranian Civil society

After the Presidential Elections

september 8-10, 2009

The thirteenth meeting of Aspen’s Iranian civil so-ciety program focused on the topic “Iranian CivilSociety after the Presidential Elections”. The par-ticipants of the conference included civil societyactivists, academics, journalists, and bloggers, allinterested in furthering the dialogue about the cur-rent situation in Iran. More than half of the grouphad participated in previous Aspen conferences,enabling established themes to be developed fur-ther, new issues to be raised and previous dialogueto be continued. Past Iranian civil society confer-ences focused on women’s rights and the role oftechnology, bloggers and cyber activists in the Iran-ian reform movement. The series spanned two anda half years and focused on bringing activists andintellectuals from all realms of study and practicefrom inside and outside of Iran into the same roomfor an active discussion on the future direction ofIranian civil society. In the final conference of theseries, Aspen continued to facilitate and promotethe exchange and dissemination of informationamongst members of the Iranian Diaspora andthose living and working in Iran.

The overall message of this concluding meetingwas that even in times when Iran is not a front pagetopic, it is important to maintain a dialogue aboutthe main issues facing Iran on a national and inter-national level. While there is currently a majorfocus on the nuclear issue, matters regarding Iran-ian civil society have fallen out of regular discus-sion. The primary focuses of the conference were:What is actually happening within Iran with respectto activist groups, human rights issues and the de-velopment of civil society and what is the future ofthe reform movement? In which manners are the

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different civil society movements, such as thewomen’s rights movement and the student’s move-ment connected? What are the assets and what arethe weaknesses of these movements? What poten-tial political scenarios lie ahead in the future of thereform movement and at what stage of develop-ment is the current civil rights movement? Whatare the capabilities of Iranians inside the countryand how can activists living outside of Iran supportthe Green Movement? What are the true charactersand agendas of the former presidential candidates,Mr. Mir-Hossein Moussavi and Mr. Mehdi Kar-roubi, and what are the public’s expecta

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