EURO-AMERICAN RELATIONS TOPIC OF TALK AT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY

PRINCETON, N.J. - March 12, 2004 - José Cutileiro, George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, will speak on “The Indispensable Link: Reflecting on Euro-American Relations” on March 31 at 4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus.
 
“The Iraqi War shook transatlantic relations and opened a rift between Europe and the United States,” says Cutileiro. In his talk, he will explore whether those relations are on the mend, whether political leadership has become wiser, and whether differences between Europeans and North Americans were exaggerated or distorted.

Cutileiro, who joined the faculty of the Institute’s School of Historical Studies in 2001, was Secretary-General of the Western European Union from 1994 to 1999. He also served as Special Representative of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights for Bosnia-Herzogovina and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) from 2001-2003, and is on the international advisory council of Conflict Management Group, Cambridge, Mass.

Cutileiro, a native of Portugal, read architecture and medicine in Lisbon before taking a Diploma in Anthropology and a doctorate at Oxford University, where he became a Research Fellow of St. Antony’s College. He was lecturer in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1971 to 1974. 

From 1974 to 1994 he worked for the Portuguese Foreign Service. He was the first Portuguese Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe, Ambassador in Maputo, Head of the Portuguese Delegation to the Stockholm Conference on Disarmament in Europe, Political Director at the Foreign Ministry, Ambassador in Pretoria, Special Adviser to the Foreign Minister, and first President of the Portuguese Diplomatic Institute. 

He negotiated Portugal’s accession to the Western European Union, and led the Portuguese delegation in consultations with the U.S. on the Azores military bases. In 1992, as coordinator of the European Community’s Conference on Yugoslavia, chaired by Lord Carrington, he presided over talks on future constitutional arrangements for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 2000, during the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union, he followed conflict prevention matters, traveling extensively in Central and Eastern Europe. 

Cutileiro is author of A Portuguese Rural Society (1971) and Vida e Morte dos Outros: A comunidada internacional e o fim da Jugoslavia ([Life and Death of Others: The international community and the end of Yugoslavia], 2003). He has also published two collections of poems (1959; 1961), and contributes a column on international affairs to the Portuguese weekly Expresso.

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