José Cutileiro

José Pires Cutileiro
Born (1934-11-20) 20 November 1934
Évora
Nationality Portuguese
Academic background
Alma mater University of Oxford
Academic work
Institutions Institute for Advanced Study

José Cutileiro (born November 20, 1934 Évora, Portugal) is a Portuguese diplomat and writer. He was a representative to the Council of Europe, a Secretary General of the Western European Union (WEU), and an envoy to the UN Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. He was on the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Academic career

Cutileiro studied architecture and medicine at the Technical University of Lisbon and at the Classical University of Lisbon. He then went to Oxford University getting a degree in Anthropology in 1964, his PhD in 1968, and became a Research Fellow of St. Antony's College from 1968 to 1971. From 1971 to 1974 he taught Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[1]

From September 2001 to June 2004 Cutileiro was the George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.[2]

Diplomatic career

From 1974 to 1994 Cutileiro worked for the Portuguese Foreign Service and from 1977 to 1980 was the first permanent Portuguese representative to the Council of Europe. He served as the Portuguese ambassador to Mozambique (1980-1983) and to the Republic of South Africa (1989-1991). He led the Portuguese Delegation to the OSCE Conference on Disarmament in Stockholm from 1984 to 1986.[1]

In 1988 he negotiated the accession of Portugal to the Western European Union. In 1992, as coordinator of the European Community's Conference on Yugoslavia, he presided over talks on future constitutional arrangements for Bosnia and Herzegovina.[3] Several plans were proposed before and during the Bosnian War by the European Community and the United Nations. Cutileiro was co-author of the Carrington–Cutileiro plan, sometimes known as the Lisbon Agreement, in February 1992, an attempt to prevent Bosnia-Herzegovina sliding into war.[4]

From 1994 to 1999 he was Secretary-General of the Western European Union, at that time the only European defense organization. In 1999, it was agreed that the holder of the newly created post of High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union should also be the Secretary-General of the WEU. Thus, Cutileiro was the last independent general secretary of this institution and was succeeded by Javier Solana.

From 2001 to 2003 he served as a Special Envoy of the UN Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia.

Writing career

As a writer, Cutileiro is best known for a fictionalized history written under the pseudonym A. B. Kotter. Kotter is supposedly an elitist expatriate English aristocrat living in Colares with his pro-fascist mother. The stories describe their experiences living in post-revolutionary Portugal. These chronicles were serialized in the British newspaper The Independent between 1993 and 1998 and were collected into the book Bilhetes de Colares in 2004.[5]

Works

  • A Portuguese Rural Society [Ricos e pobres no Alentejo. Uma sociedade portuguesa rural]. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971, ISBN 0198231733
  • Situation of human rights in parts of south-eastern Europe : report of the Special Representative of the Commission on Human Rights on the Situation of Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Geneva : UN, 8 Jan. 2002, OCLC 83338101
  • Life and death of others: the international community and the end of Yugoslavia [Vida e morte dos outros : a comunidade internacional e o fim da Jugoslávia], Lisboa, Portugal : Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2003, ISBN 9726711061
  • Bilhetes de Colares: 1982-1998 [writing as A. B. Kotter], Assírio & Alvim, Lisbon 2007 (in Portuguese), ISBN 972371258X

Awards and honors

References

  1. 1 2 Curriculum vitae of José Cutileiro at Portuguese Institute of International Relations Archived 2016-02-11 at the Wayback Machine., May 2003
  2. ↑ Institute For Advanced Study Appoints Cutileiro To Kennan Professorship
  3. ↑ Albania and Europe in a Political Regard, p. 58, edited by Klodiana Beshku and Orinda Malltezi, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, ISBN 1443847569
  4. ↑ Glaurdić, Josip (2011) The Hour of Europe: Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia. London: Yale University Press, 2011, ISBN 030016629X
  5. ↑ Expresso Decade of books: A. B. Kotter, "Bilhetes de Colares", Independente, 2004, "One of the best Portuguese writers is the chronicler AB Kotter, a pseudonym of José Cutileiro".
  6. ↑ Wook Books blog: Bilhetes de Colares by A. B. Kotter
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