Guest list

“THE SOUTH CAUCASUS IN A CHANGING WORLD”

Annual Symposium of International Relations Scholars. Baku, Azerbaijan, 22-23 October 2010

Foreign Experts (Alphabetical Order)

1. Dr. Abbas Maleki – (Iran)Assistant professor of political science at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Director of the International Institute for Caspian Studies, and senior associate of the Harvard University Belfer Center's International Security Program. Iran's deputy foreign minister from 1988–1997
2. Dr. Abdul Basit – (Pakistan)President and Chancellor of Preston University of Pakistan, Assistant Professor of the Quaid-l-Azam University of Islamabad
3. Dr. Abdullah Ahsan – (Malaysia)Professor at International Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) International Islamic University Malaysia
4. Dr. Ahmet Evin – (Turkey)Founding dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabanci University. Director of education of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, a Geneva-based international development foundation.
5. Amb. Alexander Cornelissen – (Holland) Former Head of the OSCE Baku office
6. Dr. Alexander Nikitin – (Russia)Professor of the Department of Political Sciences and Director of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Security at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations / Director of the Center for Political and International Studies / President of the Russian Political Science Association / Executive Board Member of the Russian Academy of Political Sciences
7. Dr. Brian Brivati – (UK)Director of the John Smith Memorial Trust, Visiting Professor of Kingston University
8. Dr. Dale Murphy – (US-UAE) Senior Research Fellow at the Dubai School of Government. Former Director of Entrepreneurial Programs and Research Professor at Georgetown University, where he earlier taught and conducted research for 10 years in the Schools of Foreign Service and Business.
9. Damon Wilson – (US) Vice President and Director of the International Security Program at the Atlantic Council / former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council
10. Dennis Summut – (UK)Executive Director of the London Information Network on Conflicts and State-Building
11. Dragan Bisenic – (Serbia)Editor of “Review of International Affairs”. Professor at Centre for Study of USA at Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade
12. Elisabed Sopromadze – (Georgia)Head of Local Governance Center of Georgian Institute of Public Affairs
13. Dr. Fen Osler Hampson – (Canada)Director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA), Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
14. Dr. Gamal M’awad Mahmoud Shakra – (Egypt)Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Director of Middle East Research Center and Future Studies of Egypt
15. Dr. Hans Koechler – (Austria)Professor and Chair for Political Philosophy of University of Innsbruck, President of International Progress Organization, Co President of International Academy for Philosophy
16. Dr. Ibrahim Kalin – (Turkey)Adviser to Prime Minister of Turkey - the founding-director of the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research.
17. Iulian Chifu – (Romania)Professor at the National School of Political and Administrative Studies Bucharest. Director of the Conflict Prevention and Early Warning Centre
18. Dr. James Dingley – (UK) Sociologist / Chairman of the Francis Hutcheson Institute, Belfast, and Visiting Research Fellow, Queen's University, Belfast
19. John Beyer – (UK)Senior Research Associate / St Antony’s College, Oxford University
20. Dr. Joshua Walker – (US)Assistant Professor at the University of Richmond, postdoctoral fellow at the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University and a fellow at the German Marshall Fund based in Washington, D.C., Founding editor of Yale Journal for International Affairs
21. Kadir Ustun – (Turkey - US) PhD candidate at Columbia University, Research Coordinator at SETA Washington DC, Assistant Editor of Insight Turkey
22. Dr. Karim Makdisi – (Lebanon)Assistant Professor of International Relations and International Environmental Policy in the PSPA Department of the American University of Beirut. FAS coordinator of the Environmental Policy component of AUB's Interfaculty Graduate Environmental Science Program (IGESP), and serves on the Advisory Board of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs.
23. Lord Laird – (UK) Member of Ulster Unionist Party of the House of Lords /  UK
24. Dr. Marcel de Haas – (Holland)Lieutenant-Colonel (Army) Senior Research Fellow on security policy of the Netherlands, NATO, EU, Russia and the CIS, at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael' in the Hague
25. Marine Ioseliani – (Georgia)Dean of School of Government of Georgian Institute of Public Affairs
26. Dr. Oktay Tanrisever – (Turkey)Received his Ph.D. degree from the University of London / Associate Professor and Vice-Chairperson at Middle East Technical University, Turkey
27. Oscar Pardo – (UK)Researcher / University of Birmingham
28. Dr. Peter Schieder – (Austria)former Austrian President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
29. Peter Semneby – EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus
30. Dr. Raja Almarzoqi Albqami – (Saudi Arabia)Director of Asia Research Center of the Institute of Diplomatic Studies of Saudi Arabia
31. Dr. Sergiy Shergin – (Ukraine)Professor of Politics, Head of Global and Regional Systems Department at the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
32. Dr. Seyom Brown – (US)John Goodwin Tower Distinguished Chair in International Politics and National Security in Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Southern Methodist University. Former senior fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a senior adviser in the Security Studies Program at the MIT.
33. Shpak Natalia – (Ukraine)Head of Foreign Languages Department, Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine, MFA of Ukraine
34. Simon Lunn – (UK)Brussels Representative DCAF, Former Secretary General of NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI)
35. Dr. Tamara Dragadze – (Georgia – UK)British Anthropologist
36. Taufiq Rahim – (UAE)Strategy adviser, political analyst and writer based in Dubai. Visiting Scholar at the Dubai School of Government.
37. Dr. Tayyar Ari – (Turkey)Professor of International Relations at Uludag University in Turkey.
38. Dr. Theodore Karasik – (UAE)Director of Research and Development at the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis (INEGMA) in Dubai, UAE and Beirut, Lebanon. Former Director of Research for the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy.
39. Tod Lindberg – (US) Research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University / Editor of Policy Review and contributing editor to the Weekly Standard / Member of the Council on Foreign Relations / Former head of the expert group on international norms and institutions of the Genocide Prevention Task Force
40. Dr. Vanda Felbab Brown – (US)Fellow in Foreign Policy and in the 21^st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution and an expert on international and internal conflict issues / Former research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
41. Dr. Wang Youming – (China)Deputy Director of the Department of Global Strategic Studies, China Institute of International Studies
42. Dr. Yoon-Jae Chung – (Republic of Korea)Director of the Sejong Institute, the Academy of Korean Sciences, Korea
43. Dr. Yossef Bodansky – (US)Director of research for the International Strategic Studies Association / Senior editor for their Defense and Foreign Affairs publications / Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare for the U.S. House of Representatives
44. Dr. Zhao Huirong – (China)Research Fellow of the Central Asia Department at the Institute of East European, Russian, and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
    
    Ph.D. Paper Presenters
     
45. Dr. Alexander Sotnichenko – (Russia)Received his Ph.D. in History from Saint-Petersburg State University / Faculty of International Relations / Analyst at Saint-Petersburg Center for Middle Eastern Studies
46. Dr. Bakhtiyar Aslanbeyli – (Azerbaijan)Received his Ph.D. at Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences/ Institute of Philosophy and Legal Studies /Lecturer of the Chair of Diplomacy and Contemporary Integration Processes at Baku State University
47. Hanna Shelest – (Ukraine) Ph.D. candidate at Odessa National University / Senior Researcher at National Institute for Strategic Studies
48. Inessa Baban – (Moldova-France)Ph.D. candidate at Paris Sorbonne University / Department of Geopolitics
49. Khayala Ismayilova – (Azerbaijan)Ph.D. Candidate at Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences / Institute of Philosophy, Law and Sociology / Assistant Professor at Azerbaijan University of Languages
50. Maria Kolesnichenko – (Russia)Ph.D. candidate at Saint-Petersburg State University / Department of Theory and History of International Relations
51. Nigar Goksel – (Turkey)Editor-in-Chief of Turkish Policy Quarterly and Senior Analyst of European Stability Initiative / Graduate of Skidmore College
52. Prezemyslaw Ozierski – (Poland)Fulbright scholar at Old Dominion University (Norfolk, US) / MA from Warsaw University / Specialized East European Studies
53. Rashad Karimov – (Azerbaijan)Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy Analysis Department of Center for Strategic Studies
54. Dr. Rovshan Ibrahimov – (Azerbaijan) Head of Department of International Relations at Qafqaz University
55. Samuel Lussac – (France)Ph.D. Candidate at the Institute of Political Studies of Bordeaux, France
56. Dr. Sezai Ozcelik – (Turkey)Received his Ph.D. on Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University / Assistant Professor at Cankiri Karatekin University
57. Shehla Ahmedova – (Azerbaijan)Ph.D. Candidate at Baku State University / Department of International Law and International Relations / Polytechnic Institute of Viana o Castelo / Portugal / Assistant Director on Marketing and Public Relations at Azerbaijan Tourism Institute
58. Taleh Ziyadov – (Azerbaijan-UK)Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge / Department of Politics and International Studies
59. Tomasz Sikorski – (Poland) Ph.D. Candidate at Warsaw School of Economics / Socio-Economic College
60. Yana Zabanova – (Russia – Germany)Analyst of European Stability Initiative / Graduate of Hertie School of Governance, Germany and Central European University, Hungary
61. Zaur Shiriyev – (Azerbaijan)Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy Analysis Department of Center for Strategic Research
62. Ziya Gaziyev – (Azerbaijan-Germany)Ph.D. candidate at Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms – Universitat Boon / Faculty of East European Studies

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