The Autumn to Come

As vacations approach, I have finalized a number of initiatives that will hopefully be in full swing by the time I come back in early Fall. The initiatives are all aimed at presenting and discussing my forthcoming book Why Europe Fears Its Neighbors. As it turns out, it will be two mini-tours: one, more extended across time and space, in Europe and the other, shorter one in the U.S.

For Europe, I have two, possibly three, events in schedule for now: a book launch in Stockholm on October 5-6, at the Baltic Development Forum, a Davos-like organization for Northern Europe which this year will feature the Swedish, Finnish and Latvian Prime Ministers, Jeremy Rifkin, Lilia Shevtsova, and... HRH Pricess Victoria of Sweden (wonder what she will have to say about Europe's neighbors..). Beginning of November, I will then launch the book in Copenhagen, at my home institution the Danish Institute for International Studies with my former CEPS colleague Michael Emerson and--hopefully--the former Ukranian foreign Minister Borys Tarasjuk as discussants. Later in the spring, I will be at the University of Cambridge and hope to arrange a small event there as well.

In the U.S. the main book-launch event in late October will be in Washington D.C., kindly hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars and co-sponsored by the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins' SAIS. Other two initiatives, also during that U.S. trip in late October, are still in the making but look quite promising so far. I should present an academic paper based on the book at the Forum for Contemporary Europe at Stanford University as well as at at the Center for European Studies at Harvard.

And now, Inshallah, holidays!