A ‘Westphalia’ for the Middle East?
11-12 November 2016
Berlin
Participants of the 163rd Bergedorf Round Table
Prof. Dr. Abdulkhaleq ABDULLA, Professor, Political Science, United Arab Emirates University, Dubai
Ambassador Dr. Philipp ACKERMANN, Regional Director, Near and Middle East and the Maghreb, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
Dr. Mustafa ALANI, Senior Advisor and Director, Security and Defense Studies, Gulf Research Center (GRC), Jeddah
Dr. Samir ALTAQI, General Director, Orient Research Centre, Dubai
Dr. Abdel Aziz ALUWAISHEG, Assistant Secretary General, Negotiations and Strategic Dialogue, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Riyadh
Dr. Michael AXWORTHY, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter
Dr. Thomas BAGGER, Head, Policy Planning Staff, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Meliha BENLİ ALTUNIŞIK, Director, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Ralf BESTE, Commissioner, Strategic Communication, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Malik R. DAHLAN, Principal, Institution Quraysh for Law and Policy (iQ), London
Ambassador James DOBBINS, Distinguished Chair, Diplomacy and Security, RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA
Ambassador Michel DUCLOS, Director General, Académie Diplomatique Internationale, Paris
Ambassador Nabil FAHMY, fmr. Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt; Founding Dean, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, The American University in Cairo
Prof. Dr. Ezzedine Choukri FISHERE, Visiting Professor, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Dr. Mark HELLER, Principal Research Associate, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Tel Aviv
Dr. Rainer HERMANN, Editor, Middle East, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Frankfurt
Prof. Dr. Christoph KAMPMANN, Chair, Early Modern History, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Jamal KHASHOGGI, General Manager and Editor-in-Chief, Al-Arab News Channel, Doha
Dr. Nikolay KOZHANOV, Academy Associate, Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, London
Anton LA GUARDIA, Deputy Foreign Editor, The Economist, London
Kathy LEACH, Joint Head, Policy Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London
Dr. Patrick MILTON, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Area Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin
Ambassador Dr. Seyed Hossein MOUSAVIAN, Research Scholar, Program on Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Nora MÜLLER, Executive Director International Affairs, Körber Foundation, Berlin
Dr. Andreas NICK, MP, Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs, German Bundestag, Berlin
Dr. Thomas PAULSEN, Member of the Executive Board, Körber Foundation, Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Volker PERTHES, Executive Chairman and Director, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin; Temporary Assistant Secretary General and Senior Advisor to the Special Envoy for Syria, United Nations, Geneva
Dr. Abdulaziz SAGER, Chairman, Gulf Research Center (GRC), Jeddah
Dr. Seyed Mohammad Kazem SAJJADPOUR, Deputy Foreign Minister for Education and Research; President, Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tehran
Prof. Dr. Brendan SIMMS, Professor, History of European International Relations, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge
Birgitta TAZELAAR, Director, Middle East and North Africa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague
Dr. Klaus WEHMEIER, Chairman, Advisory Board, Körber Foundation, Hamburg
Dr. Almut WIELAND-KARIMI, Director, Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF), Berlin