Hard Power vs. Soft Power

Dr. Jozef BATORA

Institute for European Integration Research, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna

Office Assistant, Open Society Foundation, Bratislava, Slovakia Program Assistant,Training Center, United States Peace Corps, Bratislava, Slovakia Information Desk Officer, Slovak Academic, Information Agency (SAIA), Bratislava, Slovakia Freelance Correspondent, Radio Deutsche Welle, Slovak edition, Cologne, Germany Research Assistant, Dept. Of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Norway Visiting Scholar, SCANCOR, Stanford University, Stanford, USA Research Fellow / PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway Senior Researcher, ARENA - Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway Research Fellow, Institute for European Integration Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria Lecturer, Institute for European Studies and International Relations, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

1994-1995
1995
1996
1997-1999
2000-2001
2003-2004
2001-2005
2006
since 2006
since 2006

Prof. Joachim BITTERLICH

Ambassador (ret.); Professor, ESCP Europe, Paris; former European, Foreign and Security Policy Advisor to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Paris/Berlin

Studium der Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Politikwissenschaften an der Universität des Saarlandes Juristischer Vorbereitungsdienst, zugleich wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Universität des Saarlandes, Zweite Juristische Staatsprüfung Studium, ENA - Ecole Nationale d'Administration, Paris Eintritt in den deutschen diplomatischen Dienst (Attaché-Ausbildung, Nuklearpolitik, kürzere Verwendungen in Madrid und Cairo); Auslandsverwendungen in Algier und Brüssel (Ständige Mitarbeiter im Ministerbüro des Auswärtigen Amtes unter Bundesminister Hans-Dietrich Genscher (Europapolitik, Wirtschaft, Kultur) Leiter des Europareferates im Bundeskanzleramt; europapolitischer Berater von Bundeskanzler Dr. Helmut Kohl Leiter der Abteilung Auswärtige Beziehungen, Entwicklungs¬politik, äußere Sicherheit im Bundeskanzleramt; Europa-, Außen- und sicherheitspolitischer Berater von Bundeskanzler Dr. Helmut Botschafter, Ständiger Vertreter der Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Nordatlantikrat in Brüssel Botschafter der Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Königreich Spanien und im Fürstentum Andorra Executive Vice President International Affairs Veolia Environnement SA, Paris zugleich Chairman Veolia Environnement Deutschland

1969-1973
1973-1976
1974-1975
	Vertretung bei den Europäischen Gemeinschaften)
1976
1985-1987
1987-1993
	Kohl
1993-1998
1998-1999
1999-2002
2003-2012
2009-2012

Dr. Zalmay Mamozy KHALILZAD

Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, New York

Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs working on policy issues, advising on the Iran-Iraq war and the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Department of State Senior political scientist at RAND and associate professor at the University of California at San Diego Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning, Department of Defense Director of the Strategy, Doctrine and Force Structure program for RAND's Project Air Force, founded the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Islamic Outreach and Southwest Asia Initiatives, National Security Council United States Ambassador to Afghanistan and Special Presidential Envoy to Afghanistan United States Ambassador to Iraq

1979-1986
1985-1989
1989-1991
1991-1992
1993-1999
	Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Southwest Asia, Near East, and North African Affairs, National Security Council
	Special Presidential Envoy at Large for the Free Iraqis
	Headed Bush-Cheney transition team for the Department of Defense Counselor to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
1999-2003
2003-2005
2005-2007

Dr. Thomas MAYR-HARTING

Managing Director for Europe and Central Asia, EEAS - European External Action Service, Brussels

Diploma, Law Studies in Vienna Postgraduate-Studies, College of Europe, Bruges Diploma of The Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague Joined the Austrian Diplomatic Service Austrian Mission to the European Communities, Brussels Austrian Embassy, Moscow Private Office of the Austrian Foreign Minister, Vienna Deputy Head of Cabinet of Foreign Ministers Mock and Schüssel, Vienna Deputy Political Director and Director for Security Policy and Policy Planning, Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna Ambassador of Austria to Belgium and Head of the Austrian Mission to NATO, Brussels Special Representative of the Austrian Foreign Minister for the Western Balkans Representative of the Chancellor in the Reform Commission of the Federal Army, Vienna Political Director (Director General for Political Affairs) of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations, New York Also represented Austria on the United Nations Security Council, New York Vice-President of the 66th General Assembly of the UN, New York Ambassador, (Head of the Delegation) of the European Union to the United Nations, New York

1977
1977-1978
1978
1979
1982-1986
1986-1990
1991-1993
1993-1995
1995-1999
1999-2003
2002-2004
2003-2004
2003-2008
2008-2011
2009-2010
2011
2011-2015
	Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges and Natolin
	Lecturer, Diplomatic Academy, Vienna

Ph.D Daniel MÖCKLI

Senior Researcher, Forschungsstelle für Sicherheitspolitik, ETH Zürich

	Studium der Geschichte und der Politikwissenschaft an der University of Kent at Canterbury und an der Universität Zürich
	Doktorat an der Universität Zürich, Dissertation zu den Anfängen der Europäischen Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik
	Visiting Fellow am EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris
	Seit 2005 Senior Researcher an der Forschungsstelle für Sicherheitspolitik der ETH Zürich. Forschungsgebiete: Gemeinsame Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik der EU; Europa und der Nahe Osten

Mag. Christian ULTSCH

Head, Department Foreign Policy, Die Presse, Vienna

Degree in German Literature and Political Science, University of Vienna Degree in International Law, Macroeconomics, Political Science, University of Vienna Projects, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business Journalist for the Austrian quality newspaper "Die Presse" (foreign desk) Correspondent in Berlin (Germany) Head of the foreign desk, "Die Presse"

1987-1989

1989-1995

1996

since 1996

2003-2004

since 2004