Publications

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Research

Muslims in the European Mediascape: Integration and Social Cohesion Dynamics 

Based on interviews in Germany, France and the UK, this research explores both patterns of media consumption amongst European Muslims and the portrayl of Muslims within mainstream European media. Its findings served as the basis for discussions at the 2009 M100 Sanssouci Colloquium.

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Policy Papers

Exploring New Vehicles for a Strategic European Engagement with Russia

Lord Owen, March 2009

This paper by Lord Owen, former UK Foreign Secretary and EU peace negotiator in the former Yugoslavia 1992-95, argues in that dealing with the EU's relationship with the Russian Federation it might be beneficial to to ask ourselves how we might vision that relationship in 2020. 

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Public Policy for European Muslims: Facts and Perceptions

Jytte Klausen, Professor of Comparative Politics at Brandeis University, February 2008

This paper sets out a series of policy questions to decided the usefulness of developing guidelined to be used by EU member states, and perhaps other Western Countries, when they seek to define the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in such a way that Muslims, and other new minorities, feel included rather than excluded.

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Private Collections in the Public Domain

The Art Fund, Allen & Overy and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, October 2007

This paper compares the tax regimes in force in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the US, and looks at the extent to which they facilitate public enjoyment of privately owned collections, with a focus on art collections owned by private individuals.

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The Museum World in the Age of Globalisation: A New Approach to International Cooperation

Dr. Martin Roth, Director General of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, September 2006

This paper analyses the benefits of globalisation and international cooperation for museums. The paper looks at joint European thinking in the field of management and the planning of future structures and in particular focusing on education. 

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America and Europe: Moving Towards 2020

Authors: Sir Stephen Wall and Professor James Goldgeier

Comments: Dr Denis MacShane, MP, Andrew Nagorski, Will Hutton, Professor Charles Kupchan and Professor Christian Hacke

These essays and commentaries were prepared as part of an international conference held in Washington, DC on February 22nd - 24th, 2007, organised by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Institute of Strategic Dialogue, and the Europaeum. The conference was on 'Does the "West" still exist? America and Europe moving towards 2020'. 

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Summary Reports 

The Future of Eurasia: Convergence or Conflict? What Role will the Media Play? 

September 2008

The annual M100 Sanssouci Colloquium conference focused on the media in Eurasia. Participants included journalists and media executives from Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, and several Central Asian republics. 

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East-West Media Bridge: The Middle East

September 2007

In 2007 the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium focused on launching a dialogue between leading members of the Middle Eastern media and their counterparts from Western and Eastern Europe to explore how they affect public perceptions and social harmony amongst their audiences and readerships and interpret their roles and responsibilities vis-à-vis society, politics and the reporting of international affairs.

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