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Thursday, 12 May 2016

Strategic Pillars of Security for Georgia: Trans-Atlantic Integration, Economy, Democracy

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Levan Mikeladze Foundation for the Caucasus Studies

and 

Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins SAIS 

invite you to participate in the conference

 

Strategic Pillars of Security for Georgia: 

Trans-Atlantic Integration, Economy, Democracy

 Thursday, May 12, 2016

1:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Kenney Auditorium

Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

1740 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 20036

Washington, DC

 

 Conference Program

1:00 – 1:15

Registration / Check-in

1:15 – 1:30

Welcome: Mamuka Tsereteli, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

Tina Mikeladze, Levan Mikeladze Foundation for Caucasus Studies

1:30 – 3:00

Georgia and Strategic Environment in the Black Sea-Caspian Region

Moderator:  S. Enders Wimbush, Founder, Stratevarious/Member of the Advisory Board, LMF

Discussants: Kurt Volker, McCain Institute, Former US Ambassador to NATO

    James MacDougall, Professor, National War College

    Amb. William Courtney, Former US Ambassador to Georgia

    Amb. Archil Gegeshidze, Ambassador of Georgia to the US

    Svante Cornell, Director, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

    Job Henning, Fellow, Truman National Security Project

    Glen Howard, President, Jamestown Foundation

    Brenda Shaffer, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University

3:00 – 3:45

Remarks:  Bridget Brink, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

 David Bakradze, State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration

 David Dondua, Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations, Georgia

3:45 – 4:00  Coffee Break

4:00 – 5:30                 

Internal Factors of Security in Georgia: Conflicts, Economy, Democracy     

Moderator:   Elizabeth Kvitashvili, President, Georgian Association in the USA

Discussants:  Stephen Nix, Director for Eurasia, IRI

     Melissa Muscio, Senior Manager, Caucasus and Central Asia, NDI

     Jeffrey Mankoff, Senior Fellow, CSIS

     George Khelashvili, DCM, Embassy of Georgia

     Danica Starks, Policy Team Director for Eurasia, Dept. of Commerce

     Kenneth Angell, Managing Director, SMEF, OPIC                        

    Eftychis Gregos-Mourginakis, Executive Director, America-Georgia Business Council

    Miriam Lanskoy, Senior Director for Eurasia, National Endowment for Democracy 

    David Soumbadze, Director, Rumsfeld Fellowship Program, CACI/LMF           

5:30 - 5:45     

Closing Remarks: S. Frederick Starr, Chairman, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute                                             

5:45 – 7:00

Closing Reception, sponsored by Georgian Association in the USA

Georgian Association Annual Award Ceremony with Co-chairs of the Georgia Caucus in the House of Representatives:  Congressman Ted Poe, R-Texas, Congressman Gerry Connolly, D-Virginia

 

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