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Chronicle of the Institute – IIAS, its sections and members

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AuthorMichael Duggett
Published date01 September 2005
Date01 September 2005
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1177/0020852305056830
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Chronicle of the Institute – IIAS, its sections and members
Michael Duggett
Statutory meetings
In the last week of March the Institute held the annual meeting of the Executive
Committee at its headquarters in Brussels under the chairmanship, for the first time,
of Professor Franz Strehl. This meeting was notable for the refinement of our focus
upon what we are describing as Critical Governance Issues which emerge from our
new strategy. The essence of this is that the Institute, guided by its Research Advisory
Council (now led by Professor Akira Nakamura of Meiji University in Tokyo), selects a
small range — between four and ten — of issues that it nominates as critical, that it
keeps under review and that provide a rolling agenda and context for the develop-
ment of our discipline and the improvement of our practice. The Institute, assisted
now by the presence on that Council of Director Guido Bertucci of the UNDESA (in a
personal capacity) intends not only to use the CGIs as a basis for our planning and
context for all our conference and scientific activity but to draw its views to the atten-
tion of the United Nations and its Secretary General. Since we have had consultative
status with the Economic and Social Council of the UN since the 1950s this is our duty
as well as our privilege. During the same week, our IASIA also met in Brussels under
Professor Turgay Ergun of TODAIE and took decisions on holding its future events in
Poland (2006) Dubai (2007 — and see below) and, possibly, Uganda in 2008.
Reporting back
2005 is the 75th year since the IIAS was founded in Madrid in 1930. This makes the
year and our Berlin Conference a pivotal one. It is necessary to close the book on
some elements of the achieved past and open a new era. For the first exercise — and
it is literally a book — Fabio Rugge of Pavia University and some colleagues drawn
from the IIAS Working Group on Administrative History are preparing a celebratory
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