2003-2004

Euro-American Relations One Year after Iraq
Ambassador José Cutileiro

Ambassador José Cutileiro, George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study delivered the lecture “Euro-American Relations One Year after Iraq” on February 25, 2004 in Robertson Hall at the Woodrow Wilson School.

Cutileiro, an Oxford social anthropologist and a Portuguese diplomat, was Coordinator of the European conference on Yugoslavia chaired by Lord Carrington in 1992 and, from 1994 to 1999, Secretary General of the Western European Union, at that time the only European defence organization. From June 2001 to June 2003 he was also Special Representative of the UN Commission on Human Rights for Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro). Ambassador Cutileiro has published two collections of poems (Lisboa, 1959; 1961); an anthropological monograph, A Portuguese Rural Society (London, Oxford University Press, 1971); an historical essay, Vida e Morte dos Outros – A comunidade internacional e o fim da Jugoslávia (Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2003) and numerous articles in newspapers and periodicals. Since the Spring of 2001 he has contributed a column on international affairs to the Portuguese weekly Expresso.

Lecture Transcript 

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