RECENT SID ACTIVITIES
18 April 2011 at 9:40 | Posted in 1 | Leave a comment14 February 2012 | Jan Kregel ‘Six Lessons from the Euro Crisis for Completing the European Project’
During a lecture, organized by SID and the ISS in the Hague, Jan Kregel (Levy Economics Institute, Bard College) spoke about the lessons the EU can learn from the Euro Crisis and what its global implications are. Kregel argues that Europe needs to look for new ideas to solve the current problems in the long run. The crisis provides lessons about the difficulties involved in dealing with economic imbalances, whether at the regional or the global level. This has implications for international reform proposals, but also for the kind of International Financial System that would provide support for developing countries.
De Volkskrant published an interview with Jan Kregel on Greece and the need for investment. Please click here to read the article (Dutch)
Click here for the invitation. The summary report on this lecture will follow soon.
13 February 2012 | SID Lecture by Ummu Salma Bava ‘Regional Cooperation: The Case of Europe’
Ummu Salma Bava, Professor of European Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, delivered the fourth lecture in the 2011-2012 Lecture Series. In her lecture she focused on the consequences for the role of the national state in Europe, of the crises of the past years. The European Union, once seen as a successful process, appears to be weak, with a lack of supranational power to align economies and welfare arrangements. Will Europe speed up its economic integration, inevitably implying the handing over of more decision-making to Brussels? The summary report on this lecture will follow soon.
The lectures in the 2011-2012 series are organised in cooperation with NCDO and VU University
27 January 2012 | 8th Knowledge for Development Conference ‘New Donors – New Investments – New Development?’
On 27 January 2012, Utrecht University – IDS hosted the 8th Knowledge for Development Conference, which was organized in cooperation with SID Netherlands, FNV Mondiaal, Hivos, IOB-Antwerp and LANDac. Over 200 people visited the conference and listened to interesting speakers like Stephen Ellis (ASC/VU) and Aderanti Adepoju who discussed the contemporary transformations that are shaking up the ‘world of development’, such as the growing importance of new donors (China, India) and new investors, emerging South-South relations, large-scale land acquisition, and migration. Experts on these transformations organised workshops which facilitated lively discussions. Please find the report on all plenary sessions here.
16 January 2012 | SID Lecture by Alcides Costa Vaz ’Multipolarity of States or Regions?
In the first SID-lecture of the new year, Alcides Costa Vaz (Professor International Relations at the University of 
Brasilia) addressed the implications of a multipolar world. He discussed whether it is in the interest of emerging individual countries to seek regional alliances in order to strengthen their position and he talked about the implications of multipolarity for current power relations, for individual states and for global governance. Click here for the powerpoint presentation of Prof. Vaz, the report on the lecture will follow soon.
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