Explaining Czechoslovakia's Dissolution (co-edited and co-translated with Michael Kraus), Foreword by Václav Havel (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).
In 1998 President Václav Havel, the first post-communist President of the Czech Republic, visited Wingrave to mark its Czech connections.
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He also initiated and has produced Amnesty's Ambassador of Conscience Award - an accolade that has been bestowed on such diverse activists as Nelson Mandela, Václav Havel, Aung San Suu Kyi, Peter Gabriel and U2.
They have also played a role in advising foreign governments on their Cuba policy and have met with numerous world leaders, including: Václav Havel, Lech Wałęsa, Ronald Reagan, Boris Yeltsin, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, José María Aznar, Ernesto Zedillo and Felipe González.
The Belarus Free Theatre has attracted the support of notable Western writers such as Tom Stoppard, Edward Bond, Václav Havel, Arthur Kopit and Harold Pinter.
They include Republican Party former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, Forza Italia's former President of the Italian Senate Marcello Pera, former President of Czech Republic Václav Havel, Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo, and billionaire financier, Robert Agostinelli and British Conservative Party peer, former First Minister of Northern Ireland and Nobel Peace Prize winner David Trimble.
Honorary doctorates have been awarded to the pianist Rudolf Firkušný (a native of Brno), the poet Ludvík Kundera, the playwright Václav Havel and the poet and actor Jiří Suchý, with the most recent going to the Czech-born British playwright Tom Stoppard.
Past resident scholars have included Václav Havel, Klaus Larres, Xiang Lanxin, Melvyn P. Leffler, Ambassador Teresita Schaffer, Mort Kondracke, and Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick.
Among the more high-profile visitors to the Byblos Fishing Club were Swedish actress Anita Ekberg, French crooner Johnny Hallyday, Kim Novak, Ginger Rogers, Ann-Margret, the poet Said Akl, Czech President Václav Havel, Mexican President Miguel Alemán Valdés and Lebanese President Camille Chamoun, among numerous other heads of state.
He has also directed television theater productions De Beproeving Die Ik Haar Oplegde by Simon Vestdijk (1986, TV) and Protest by Václav Havel (1987,TV) and the concert film Orlando Quartet Plays Grieg (1993, TV).
Recent recipients of the prize have been human-rights activist and Czech President Václav Havel and Austrian Vice-Chancellor Erhard Busek who served as Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.
Contributors have included Antony Flew, Christie Davies, Enoch Powell, Margaret Thatcher, Václav Havel, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Norman Stone, and Theodore Dalrymple.
Among Holmes' best-known collectors are Nobel prize winners Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter, along with many other international figures such as Václav Havel, Coretta Scott King and Mrs. Anwar Sadat.
A 'Yes' vote was urged by a massive campaign by the main parties and by civil society and the social partners, including campaigning through canvassing and all forms of media by respected pro-European figures like then EP president Pat Cox, former Czech president Václav Havel, former President of Ireland Patrick Hillery and former Taoiseach (prime minister) Dr. Garret Fitzgerald.
Named in honor of Czech dissident playwright and politician Václav Havel, who had died the previous December, the award was founded with the help of his widow, Dagmar Havlová.
His creations were served to many world leaders, including Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Vicente Fox, Václav Havel, Nelson Mandela and Boris Yeltsin.
He met the Czech President Václav Havel, the American President Bill Clinton and the US ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright at U zlatého tygra on 11 January 1994.
The film showed at numerous international film festivals, winning several awards, including the Vaclav Havel Award at the One World Film Festival in Prague.