Adam Daniel Rotfeld

Adam Daniel Rotfeld (b. March 4, 1938 in Przemyślany near Lwów, Poland (now Ukraine)) is a Polish diplomat and researcher. He was the foreign minister of Poland from January 5, 2005 until October 31, 2005 when a change of government occurred. He was previously the deputy foreign minister. While in that position, he established The Warsaw Reflection Group on the UN Reform and the Transformation of the Euro-Atlantic Security Institutions with participation of leading US and European experts and politicians.From 1991 up to 2002 he served as Director of the Stockholm Institute of Peace Research (SIPRI) and in 1989-1991 project leader on Building a Cooperative Security System in and for Europe at SIPRI. Of Jewish origin, baptised Christian in childhood, Rotfeld is married to Barbara Sikorska-Rotfeld and has one daughter, Alicja, born in 1971. ImageMetadata File history File links Adam_Daniel_Rotfeld. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Adam_Daniel_Rotfeld. ... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Peremyshliany (Ukrainian: ) is a city in Lviv Oblast (province) of Ukraine. ... Motto: Semper fidelis Oblast Lviv Oblast Municipal government City council (Львівська міська рада) Mayor City chairman Lyubomyr Bunyak Area 171,01 km² Population  - city  - urban  - density 808,900 ? 4786/km² Founded City rights 13th century 1353 Latitude Longitude 49°51′ N 24°01′ E Area code +0322 Car plates  ? Twin towns Corning, Freiburg... A minister for foreign affairs, or foreign minister, is a cabinet minister who helps form the governmental foreign policy of a sovereign nation. ... January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article describes some ethnic, historic, and cultural aspects of the Jewish identity; for a consideration of the Jewish religion, refer to the article Judaism. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...

Education

Adam Rotfeld studied international law and diplomacy in Warsaw (1955–1960). Ph. D. dissertation on the right of self-determination of people in modern international law at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków (1969). Habilitation on European Security in Statu Nascendi. He was appointed professor at the Warsaw University by the President of Poland in 2001. Warsaw (Polish: , (?), in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: Miasto StoÅ‚eczne Warszawa) is the capital of Poland and its largest city. ... Jagiellonian University (Polish: Uniwersytet JagielloÅ„ski, often shortened to UJ) is a university in Krakow, Poland. ... Tomb of Kazimierz the Great St. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Warsaw University (Polish Uniwersytet Warszawski) - the biggest and one of the most prestigious universities in Poland. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

Professional activities

Since 1961: researcher at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PIIA). Currently (2006) Member of the UN Secretary General Advisory Committee on Disarmament Matters and Chairman of the International Consultative Committee at the Polish Institute of International Affairs.

Since 1989= Leader of the Project on Building a Co–operative Security System in and for Europe at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Appointed as Director of SIPRI from 1 July 1991 and re–elected in 1996 for a second term (until June 2002). Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) was founded in 1966 to commemorate 150 years of unbroken peace in Sweden. ...

Participated in many multilateral negotiations and conferences on security and arms control.

Publications

Published and edited more than 20 monographs and over 300 articles. Initially focused on the legal and political aspect of relations between Germany and Central and East European states after World War II (recognition of borders, the Munich Agreement and the right of self-determination) and multilateral process of security and cooperation in Europe initiated in Helsinki. Combatants Allied Powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Axis Powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000,000 Total dead... Chamberlain holds the paper containing the resolution to commit to peaceful methods signed by both Hitler and himself on his return from Germany in September 1938. ... Self-determination is a principle in international law that a people ought to be able to determine their own governmental forms and structure free from outside influence. ... World map showing Europe Political map (neighboring countries in Asia and Africa also shown) Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. ... Founded 1550 Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki Area[1] - Of which land - Rank 185. ...

After the end of the cold war co-edited with Walther Stützle the volume Germany and Europe in Transition (OUP 1991). Since then his publications are mainly focused on human rights, cooperative security, CSBMs, multilateral security structures (NATO, EU, OSCE) and political and legal structures of the security system in Europe. Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation[1] (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for collective security established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC, on 4 April 1949. ... The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is an international organization for security. ...

Editor of the SIPRI Yearbook: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security from 1991 to 2002. He has written more than 20 chapters on global and regional security systems and European and transatlantic security structures for the SIPRI Yearbook.

Appointments

In his capacity as Director of SIPRI, appointed in 1992 as Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office to elaborate the settlement of the conflict in the Trans–Dniester region of Moldova; the recommended basic principles for the political solution of the conflict in his report were approved by the OSCE Council of Ministers and conflicting parties. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) was founded in 1966 to commemorate 150 years of unbroken peace in Sweden. ... The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is an international organization for security. ...

Since 2001 member of the President’s National Security Council, Poland.

Became Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA, Warsaw) in November 2001; in June 2003 appointed Secretary of State; Minister of Foreign Affairs between January 2005 and November 2005.

Memberships

Member of different academies and boards: the Royal Swedish Academy of War Studies (appointed in 1996); the Governing Board of the Hamburg Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH, appointed in 1995); Advisory Board of Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF, appointed in 2001); Geneva Security Policy Center (2003), and many other research centers. The University of Hamburg was founded on the 1 April 1919 by Wilhelm Stern and others. ...

Since January 2006 Chairman of the International Consultative Committee at the Polish Institute of Foreign Affairs. Lectured at many universities and academic institutions in Europe, the United States, Russia, China and Japan.

edit	Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Poland
2nd Republic of Poland (1918 - 1939)	Leon Wasilewski | Ignacy Jan Paderewski | Władysław Wróblewski | Stanisław Patek | Eustachy Sapieha | Jan Dąbski | Konstanty Skirmunt | Gabriel Narutowicz | Aleksander Skrzyński | Marian Seyda | Roman Dmowski | Karol Bertoni | Maurycy Zamoyski | Aleksander Skrzyński | Kajetan Dzierżykraj-Morawski | August Zaleski | Józef Beck
Government in Exile (1939 - 1990)	August Zaleski | Edward Raczyński | Tadeusz Romer | Adam Tarnowski
People's Republic of Poland (1944 - 1989)	Edward Osóbka-Morawski | Wincenty Rzymowski | Zygmunt Modzelewski | Stanisław Skrzeszewski | Adam Rapacki | Stefan Jędrychowski | Stefan Olszowski | Emil Wojtaszek | Józef Czyrek | Stefan Olszowski | Marian Orzechowski | Tadeusz Olechowski
3rd Republic of Poland (since 1989)	Krzysztof Skubiszewski | Andrzej Olechowski | Władysław Bartoszewski | Dariusz Rosati | Bronisław Geremek | Władysław Bartoszewski | Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz | Adam Daniel Rotfeld | Stefan Meller | Anna Fotyga

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