Adam Daniel Rotfeld

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name = Adam Daniel Rotfeld


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order = Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
8^th Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Third Polish Republic
term_start = January 5, 2005
term_end = October 13, 2005
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president = Aleksander Kwaśniewski
primeminister = Marek Belka
predecessor = Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
successor = Stefan Meller
birth_date = birth date and age|1938|3|4
birth_place = Peremyshliany, then Second Polish Republic, now Ukraine
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profession = Diplomat, Academician
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Adam Daniel Rotfeld (born March 4, 1938) 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.

Personal

Rotfeld was born in Przemyślany near Lwów, Poland ("now Lviv, Ukraine"). He is of Jewish origin, but was baptised Christian in his childhood. Rotfeld is married to Barbara Sikorska-Rotfeld and has one daughter, Alicja, born in 1971.

Education

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.