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Bogdan Aurescu: National interest and the actuality of sovereignty. Romania's foreign policy and the paradigm of the winner
Sunday, April 21, at 11.00, at the NTB's Small Hall, Mr. State Secretary Bogdan Aurescu will hold a conference on National interest and the actuality of sovereignty. Romania's foreign policy and the paradigm of the winner. Ticket price: 16 lei.
About the conference
Is the concept of national interest still current in a world which is profoundly globalized and acutely interdependent? What is national interest? Is the state sovereignty still necessary and, if so, how does it look like nowadays? What is national interest for Romania in terms of foreign policy? What are the means by which Romania's national interest, from the point of view of foreign policy, can be done better, more efficiently? Can we use the lessons learned so far from major foreign policy files that Romania has done well? Can we talk about - or build - a "paradigm of the winner" in Romania's foreign policy?
The conference on National interest and the actuality of sovereignty. Romania's foreign policy and the paradigm of the winner will try to answer, with arguments, these questions. Bogdan Aurescu
About Bogdan Aurescu
With a career in diplomacy, Bogdan Aurescu works in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1996, starting his work in the Legal and Treaties Division, as a diplomatic relations referent. Between 1998 and 2003 he was successively Minister Counsellor in the Cabinet, Deputy Director of Legal and Treaties, Director of Cabinet, Director of Legal and Treaties / International Law and Treaties, General Director of the General Directorate of Legal Affairs. During 2003-2004 he held in the Foreign Ministry, the office of Secretary of State - Government Agent for the European Court of Human Rights, and between 2004-2005, the office of Secretary of State for European Affairs.
Starting in September 2004, Bogdan Aurescu was Romania's Agent for the International Court of Justice, coordinating - throughout the proceedings - the activity of the team representing Romania in the trial with Ukraine at the International Court of Justice, concerning the Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea, finalized on February 3, 2009.
Bogdan Aurescu was appointed Secretary of State for Strategic Affairs in the Foreign Ministry on February 4, 2009. During august 2010 - February 2012 he was the Secretary of State for European Affairs, coordinating also the Security Policy Department. In the period March-June 2012 he was the Secretary of State for Global Affairs. Since June 2012, he is the Secretary of State for Strategic Affairs. He currently has the diplomatic rank of minister-plenipotentiary.
He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration from The Hague, substitute member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the Venice Commission) of the Council of Europe, substitute representative of Romania in the Danube Commission and Referee appointed by Romania in accordance with Article 2 of Annex VII at the ONU Convention on the Law of the Sea. He is president of the International Law Association's Section of International Law and International Relations of the Romanian Branch of the "International Law Association" (London), editor of the magazine Revista Română de Drept Internaţional and member of the Editorial Board of the magazine Curierul Judiciar.
Bogdan Aurescu is, since 2012, an associate professor in the Faculty of Law, at the University of Bucharest (where he taught and teaches Public International Law, Diplomatic and Consular Law, Organizations and International Relations, International Jurisdictions, Law of Treaties and International Law and Practice of Negotiations for the Protection of Minorities). He debuted in teaching in 1998 (assistant professor 2002-2004, lecturer 2004-2012). He taught and still teaches Public International Law and the Law of Treaties and in other academic institutions such as the Diplomatic Academy / Romanian Diplomatic Institute, the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, respectively, from 2004, the course on International Jurisdictions at the Masters Program of International and European Law at the University "Nicolae Titulescu" from Bucharest. In July 2006 he was visiting professor at the Faculty of Law, from the University of Hamburg, in the ERASMUS Teaching Staff Mobility.
Bogdan Aurescu has received the title of Doctor of Laws, specializing in law, with the score "very good" and the distinction "summa cum laude", for the thesis the Concept of Sovereignty and the Supremacy of International Law (2003). He graduated from the National College "St. Sava" (1992), the Faculty of Law (1996, Diploma of Merit) and History (1998) of the University of Bucharest, the Franco-Romanian Institute of Business Law and International Cooperation "Nicolae Titulescu - Henri Capitant" (1996) and the National Defence College from Bucharest (2000).
In 2002 he received the MFA's "Certificate of Merit for outstanding contribution to Romania's diplomatic activity." He was awarded the National Order of Faithful Service in the rank of Knight (2002), the Order of Diplomatic Merit in the rank of Knight (2007), the National Order Star of Romania in the rank of Knight (2009), the Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2009) and the National Order of the Star of Romania in the rank of Officer (2013).
He is the author, co-author or coordinator of a total of 13 volumes in international law, 26 chapters and studies published in books and volumes of specialized international conferences and over 80 articles, studies, commentaries, reviews published in Romanian and foreign magazines, such as Revista Română de Drept Internaţional, Analele Universităţii din Bucureşti-Seria Drept, Curierul Judiciar, Annuaire Français de Droit International, The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, Helsinki Monitor, Security and Human Rights, European Yearbook of Minority Issues, Revue Hellenique de Droit International, Chinese Journal of International Law. As a substitute member (independent expert) of the Venice Commission, he was a reporter or co-reporter for 20 reports, opinions or studies of this institution.
Translated by: Izabella Feher
