09:30 – 10:15 | Opening session
Presentation of the World Policy Conference
Thierry De Montbrial
President and founder of Ifri. President and founder of the WPC
The elaboration of a global capitalist system that is both efficient and fair is at stake.
François Fillon
Prime Minister of the French Republic
But beyond institutional reforms, states must regain a central role in orientation and initiative.
10:15 – 12:30 | Plenary session 1
HRH Prince Turki Al-Faisal
Chairman of King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies
Energy is an important issue between us as the developing countries and other countries that have, as the President of Estonia said, this petro-addiction.
Jaap De Hoop Scheffer
Secretary-General of NATO
If the challenges are multi-dimensional, so must be our institutional response. Civilian and military institutions must work together and complement each other.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
President of the Republic of Estonia
When we want to achieve peace and harmony, the EU has to stand up as a union.
Mario Monti
President of the Bocconi University of Milan
I think that if there has to be more state intervention in the European Union, it’s quite crucial that it happens at the community level rather than at the national level.
Raila Amolo Odinga
Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya
It is a paradox that the continent richest in resources is also the poorest. It is a paradox that must be reversed, for the good of all.
Hans Gert Pöttering
President of the European Parliament
Intercultural Dialogue must become an integral part of our policy-making.
Debates
13:00 – 15:00 | Parallel lunch-debates
15:30 – 17:00 | Parallel Workshops
Workshop #1 – United States: what does the world expect from the “indispensable nation”?
Han Sung-Joo
Chairman of the Asian Institute for Policy Studies. Former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea
At the same time, as different means of communication become more readily available and extensive, public consciousness spreads in conjunction with the expanding horizon of information.
Marshall Goldmann
Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus) at Wellesley College, Former Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University
One of the most attractive aspects of the US is that even after 225 years, the US still encourages economic and social mobility.
Jim Hoagland
Columnist and Senior Foreign Correspondent for The Washington Post
What the world seems to await is better American leadership, not its elimination.
Etienne de Durand
Director of IFRI’s Security Studies Center
As such, America is key to the international security architecture, and continued American engagement is needed in most parts of the world.
Workshop #2 – Japan : what power, what strategies ?
Yukio Satoh
Former Ambassador to the United Nations. Head of the Japan Institute for International Affairs
The center of gravity of the world economy is shifting to Asia, but security conditions in Asia remain unsettled.
Valérie Niquet
Director of the Asia Centre at IFRI
The relationship with China is today undoubtedly the most structuring one for the Japanese foreign strategy in its entirety.
Workshop #3 – Is Europe with 27 and more member sustainable?
Kemal Dervis
Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Europe must be a bridge between the necessary answers to democratic aspirations and the concerns of its citizens.
Yusuf Wanandi
Co-Founder, Member of the Board of Trustees, and Senior Fellow, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) at Jakarta
Due to the financial crisis and the economic downturn in the EU, the process of integration has become more constrained.
Michel Foucher
Former Ambassador to Latvia. Ex-Director of CAP
On a world scale, the EU functions as an economic and monetary center and as a successful laboratory of regional integration.
Hans Stark and Kerry Longhurst
KL: Fellow at IFRI, specialist in European Security issues; HS: General Secretary of the Study Committee for Franco-German Relations (Cerfa) at IFRI
Enlargement fatigue means that there is not a desperate sense of urgency to bring in the states of the western Balkans, to confront the Turkish question more squarely nor to begin discussing the prospect of Ukrainian membership.
Workshop #4 – An arc of crisis from Iraq to Pakistan
Volker Perthes
Director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and Chairman and Director of the Board of SWP
Different approaches are needed for Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Persian Gulf region, and the Arab-Israeli theatre.
Shireen Hunter
Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, Distinguished Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
Problems in this region and most especially in the three countries of Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan have roots both in recent developments, actions of the governments of the countries and key international players and events, and policies going back to decades earlier.
Marc Hecker
Research fellow at IFRI, Department of Security Studies
The arc of crisis from Iraq to Pakistan cannot be stabilized without the involvement of regional powers.
Workshop #5 – Which governance for which stability?
K. Shankar Bajpai
Former India’s Ambassador to Pakistan, China, and the United States, Chairman of the Delhi Policy Group
In such a global situation perhaps the greatest contribution each state can make to the common, continuous search for stability in the international system is to ensure effective governance within itself.
Jean-Marie Guéhenno
Member of the United Nation’s Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on disarmament matters
What is new, and could change the threat is combination of WMD and terrorism.
Marie-Christine Dupuis-Danon
International Consultant, Expert in Criminal Finance, Former Expert, Laundering of criminal money, UN Office for Crime Prevention
Because of the complexity and the diversity of matters, transparency is one of the most important issues.
Laurence Nardon
Research fellow and the manager of the Space Policy Programme at IFRI
The base is for all countries to accept different religions and languages as well as to respect human dignity.
Workshop #6 – The economy of knowledge, or education, still deserves an effort
Bertrand Collomb
Honorary Chairman of Lafarge. Chairman of Board of Directors of Ifri
Successful innovation models also require collaborative work between the public and the private sector, as evidenced by the financing of American universities.
Anatoly Torkunov
Rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Science
Social role of education is strongly linked with sustainable development of nations, especially those who are under transition.
Susanne Nies
Head of IFRI office in Brussels, senior research fellow with the IFRI governance and geopolitics of energy programme
The workshop has been dedicated to the issue how to generate, but exploit as well the new technologies in order to improve the knowledge economy.
Workshop #7 – Credit crisis, financial crisis, economic crisis: what to do?
André Lévy-Lang
Associate Professor Emeritus, Paris-Dauphine University. Member of the Advisory Council of l’Institut de l’entreprise
The first policy change that is needed after this crisis is a revision of the scope of banking regulations in every major country, beginning with the United States.
Gikas A. Hardouvelis
Professor at the Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Greece
The current international financial crisis cannot be blamed on a single underlying cause but on the interaction of many different factors.
Jacques Mistral
Head of Economic Research at IFRI
The recent financial turmoil has also brought into sharp relief the need to rethink many aspects of financial regulation and supervision.
Françoise Nicolas; Eliane Mosse
Economist, Senior researcher at the Centre Asie of IFRI; Economist, advisor at IFRI for the Franco-Austrian Center for european convergence
One can also fear that in a climate of increasing poverty and unemployment, political radicalisation might occur, and jeopardize the way democracies operate.
Workshop #8 – Regulation of migrations, a world issue
Mohammed Bedjaoui
Former Foreign Minister of Algeria
It must be noted however, that despite all its impact, positive or negative, migration largely has so far escaped the influence of international institutions capable of regulating it.
Christophe Bertossi
Head of the “Migrations, Identities, Citizenship” Programme at IFRI
The objective should not be the militarization of borders but a common international effort to control and structure global migration according to the needs of all parties.
Workshop #9 – Is the Gold becoming an arc of hope?
Henry Siegman
President of the “U.S./Middle East Project” (USMEP). Research professor at the Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East Programme of the University of London
Peace initiatives that seek an agreement on the cheap, and refuse to pay the price demanded by these fundamentals cannot succeed.
Khadija Moshen-Finan
Head of the North African Programme at IFRI
The expression “Arc of Hope” is opposed to that of “”Arc of Crisis”” formed by countries like Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
20:00 – 22:30 | Dinner-debate
Pascal Lamy
Director-General of the World Trade Organization
The only way to make sure that emerging economies feel a shared responsibility is to acknowledge the new geo-political balance.
10:00 – 12:30 | Plenary session 2
Abdoulaye Wade
President of the Republic of Senegal
As a liberal-minded individual, I feel that human beings always have what it takes to overcome the difficulties, the outcome will of course depend on how we deal with the crisis, but we, in my view, have what it takes to overcome it.
Juan Manuel Gomez-Robledo
Representative of the President of the United Mexican States
Latin America remains the cultural reservoir of the West. It is not acceptable that the region once again be the object of economic and political envy of the major powers, especially if a form of new Cold War might return.
Nambaryn Enkhbayar
President of the Republic of Mongolia
Geographically we live in different time zones, culturally or according to our religions – in different time ages. However in terms of development and good governance we have to live in one time zone, at the same age, that is in the 21st century.
Stepan Mesic
President of the Republic of Croatia
After a war everybody is a loser! That is why I have continuously been making the same point: it is better to negotiate for ten years than to wage war for ten days.
SaKong Il
Personal Representative of the President of the Republic of Korea
All countries in the world should make every effort to take full advantage of merits of globalization, while minimizing its downsides. A strengthened international financial architecture suitable to the changed global environment will be critically important as a basis for such efforts.
Debates
13:00 – 15:00 | Parallel lunch-debates
15:30 – 17:00 | Parallels Workshops and a non plenary roundtable
Workshop #1 – Russia: domestic developments and external policies
Marshall Goldman
Professor of Russian Economics, Emeritus at Wellesley College
Unlike what happened during the Bush Administration, the Obama Administration’s policies are likely to be less threatening to Russia, yet the personal chemistry between Obama and Putin, and Medvedev and Obama, will be much cooler. It will be fascinating to see which combination produces the most cooperation between both countries.
Sergey Karaganov
Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy
The habitual politically correct clichés will not help to improve the situation and build a new world. Meanwhile, the time is coming for creation.
Anatoly V. Torkunov
Rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University)
Russia is a fully participating member of the international community. The UN and not NATO is defining the international “rules of the game”. The conflicts along the Russian borders are more or less settled. However, the influence in this region is split between several actors.
Adrian Dellecker
Researcher at IFRI
For Sergei Karaganov, the main issue is clearly the US’s loss of status as sole superpower as fait accompli and the ramification this has for Europe-Russia relations.
Workshop #2 – China: domestic developments and assertion of power
Yusuf Wanandi
Co-founder, vice chairman of the Board of Trustees and senior fellow of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Foundation, Jakarta
The EU, like ASEAN, continues to be an elitist concept and has not become the concern of the general populace. The people feel that they are left out of the process.
Valérie Niquet
Director of the Asia Centre at IFRI
For Tokyo, beyond the vital importance granted to the American defender, and it is a position of foreign policy of which Japan wants to make its mark, multilateral structures, including a reformed UNO in which Japan, with others, would find its full place, must remain a priority.
Workshop #3 – India: regional power and/or world actor?
Jean-Luc Racine
CNRS Senior Fellow at the Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies (CEIAS), at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS Paris)
India is inventing her own way to be a democracy adjusting caste to competitive politics.
Brahma Chellaney
Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research
While we know the world is in transition, we still do not know what the new order will look like.
K. Shankar Bajpai
Chairman of India’s National Security Board and Chairman of the Delhi Policy Group
We are becoming more aware of the world around us, of the challenges and the opportunities our increasing economic and military capabilities as well as our national needs, give rise to.
Olivier Louis
Researcher at IFRI in charge of the India and South Asia Programme, and of the French Presidency of the European Union Programme
As such, India should find its rightful place amongst the others world powers.
Workshop #4 – Sub-Saharan Africa: implosion or takeoff?
William Zartman
Professor at The Johns Hopkins University in Washington
Africa militated for independence—that is, self-government or government of one’s self by one’s self for one’s self— when it shook loose colonial rule beginning half a century ago.
Robert Glasser
Secretary General of CARE International
For every dollar invested in disaster risk reduction and preparedness, roughly seven dollars are saved in disaster response.
Alain Antil
Head of IFRI’s Sub-Saharan Africa program
In the next four decades, African societies will change drastically, massive geographical mobility is expected, and Africans will become predominantly urban.
Workshop #5 – Israel/Palestine, a crucial international issue: what commitments for external actors?
Amine Gemayel
Former President of the libanese republic
Cooperation between the Lebanese State and the Palestinian Authority is not directed against any particular faction, but it is in the interest of all Palestinians and all Lebanese people.
Henry Siegman
President of the “U.S./Middle East Project” (USMEP). Research professor at the Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East Programme of the University of London
Yet, for all that has changed, the Gulf countries cannot do without a U.S. security umbrella, for they have not developed the capacity to provide for their own security.
Shlomo Avineri
Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Recognizing the limits of US power to broker a peace agreement in the Middle East doesn’t mean it is irrelevant.
Bassma Kodmani
Executive Director of the Arab Reform Initiative
With other challenges building in the Middle East and elsewhere, it is all the more important to reassert the centrality of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Workshop #6 – Energy and climate: what diplomatic challenges?
Thomas Becker
Deputy Permanent Secretary in the department of International Policy and Climate change in the Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy
The world is facing two very interlinked challenges: Climate Change and Energy security.
Bruno Weymuller
Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer of Total
Climate and energy issues represent major challenges. Awareness is growing of the need for international action but we must act intelligently.
William C. Ramsay
Director of the IFRI Energy program. Former Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency
Despite the advantages of a global approach, the divergent interests of too many actors can well lead to a multiplication of compromises and a dilution of objectives.
Workshop #7 – World food crisis
Hervé Gaymard
Member of the French parliament
It is in the South, particularly in Africa, that the question of what to do to make agriculture once again be a priority is being asked, and everyone should unite for this agricultural priority in the South countries.
François Danel
Executive Director of “ACF: Action contre la Faim”
Although many countries are seriously affected by the food crisis, most of the affected children are still not treated.
Aline Leboeuf
Head of the programme “Health and Environment” at IFRI
Hunger is a health issue, and has to be recognized as such. Solutions also are medical, especially regarding the fight against children malnutrition.
Workshop #8 – Non plenary roundtable
Mohammed Bedjaoui
Former Minister of Algeria
Competence and transparency are the two fruitful teats of good governance.
Han Sung-Joo
Chairman of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea
Even as security issues of both conventional and non-traditional nature continues to be relevant, new issues, such as environment, competition for resources, human rights, humanitarian crises, economy, and social well-being become increasingly important and relevant.
Igor S. Ivanov
Professor at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO). Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation
Old pattern of relations are coming to a logical end, we need the new one. We have, all in all, a chance to reinvent the world, comfortable for us all.
Hubert Védrine
Former French Foreign Minister
Westerners are discovering that they are losing, not their power and wealth which remain immense, but their monopoly. And the Western powers are not ready for that.
17:15 – 18:45 | Plenary session 3
Kemal Dervis
Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Six months ago it was thought that despite the financial crisis economic growth would still hold. But now it is clear that we are in the midst of a crisis in which the adverse repercussions on the real economy are even more significant than anticipated.
Jean-Claude Trichet
President of the European Central Bank
What makes the current crisis stand out is its extraordinarily large scale, the fact that it is hitting right at the centre of the international financial system and that it is deeply affecting industrialised countries.
Debates
20:00 – 23:00 | Official dinner
09:00 – 12:00 | Plenary session 4
Christophe De Margerie
Chief executive officer of Total
Yet climate change is being announced everywhere as being the priority, simply because what is at stake is the survival of the planet. Remember that there won’t be any more financial crisis if the planet disappears.
Pascal Couchepin
President of the Swiss Confederation
I think confidence has to be built over time. And I believe that if there is a positive lesson to be learnt from this crisis, there will be just one lesson, that is, that it will force statesmen over the world whatever their colour to be responsible and to act in a sustainable manner, to make promises that they can keep.
Boris Tadic
President of the Republic of Serbia
By working together to solve the UDI crisis, we can restore the trust and reaffirm the legitimacy of the UN Charter and the international legal regime that flows from it. This is a time for strategic thinking and bold ideas.
Thierry De Montbrial
President and founder of IFRI. President and founder of the WPC.
The future rules of the game will only be legitimate if they have been designed with the participation of everybody. One of the drawbacks of the current form of governance is that all its rules have been defined by a very small part of the planet.
12:00 – 13:15 | Closing session
Dmitry Medvedev
President of Russia
Historically, Russia is part of European civilization and for us, as Europeans, it matters a lot what values will shape the future world.
Nicolas Sarkozy
President of the French Republic
Between us, then, we must rebuild trust, the prerequisite for reviving an ambitious European-Russian partnership.
Thierry De Montbrial
President and founder of IFRI. President and founder of the WPC.
One of the drawbacks of the current form of governance is that all its rules have been defined by a very small part of the planet.