New Geopolitics & Role of Diplomacy in the Caucasus
Conference Programme
Date: May 8 and 9, 2010
Organized by
Cimera, Geneva
In collaboration with
The Graduate Institute, Geneva
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Venue: The Graduate Institute, 16 Voie Creuse, 3e, Room: CV342
Day One: Saturday May 8, 2010
Introduction and Welcome - 9:00 – 9:30
Welcoming address: Vicken Cheterian
Address of the Graduate Institute: Mohammad-Reza Djalili
Keynote Speech - 9:30-10:30
Ronald Suny: “The Hegemons Clash: Caucasia in the Context of a Global Struggle”
Coffee Break - 10:30-11:00
Session I - 11:00-12:30): What Kosovo changed in International Politics?
Keiichi Kubo: “Local, Regional, and Global Implications of the Independence of Kosovo”
Mikulas Fabry, “Practice of State Recognition after Kosovo, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia”
Bruno Coppieters, “Conflict Resolution in Georgia after the August War: What could be learned from Kosovo and Taiwan?”
Lunch Break - 12:30-14:00
Session II - 14:00-15:30: After the August 2008 War in Georgia
Ghia Nodia: “The Russian-Georgian War and its Consequences”
Gerard Libaridian: “The New and Newest World Orders: From Kosovo to Karabakh”
Vicken Cheterian: “The Protocols: Diaspora in International Relations”
Coffee Break - 15:30-16:00
Session III - 16:00-17:30: International Role in Caucasus Conflict Resolution
Oksana Antonenko: “Russia’s Policy in the Caucasus after the August War”
Marian Staszewski: “Lessons learned: What Role for Diplomacy?”
Peter Semneby: “EU and Conflict Resolution Efforts in the Caucasus”
Discussion: 17:30-18:30
Day Two: Sunday, May 9
Session IV - 9:30-11:00: International Role in Caucasus Conflict Resolution
Niyazi Mehdi, “Resolution of Conflicts in the Caucasus according to Principle of Semiotic Anomalies”
Syuzanna Vasilian: “A ‘Moral Power’? The EU’s Conflict-Resolution Policy towards the South Caucasus”
Tevan Poghosyan: “The role of Civil Society in the Negotiations Process”
11:00-12:00 Final Discussion and Concluding Remarks
Participants List:
Oksana Antonenko, Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London
Vicken Cheterian, Director, CIMERA, Geneva
Bruno Coppieters, Professor of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Miklaus Farbi, Assistant Professor, The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Keiichi Kubo, Associate Professor, School of Political Science and Economics Waseda University, Tokyo
Gerard Libaridian, Professor of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Niyazi Mehdi, professor of Azerbaijan University of Culture and Arts, Baku
Ghia Nodia, Professor of Political Science at Ilia Chavchavadze State University, Tbilisi
Tevan Poghosyan, Director, International Center for Human Development, Yerevan
Peter Semneby, Ambassador, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus, Brussels
Marian Staszewksi, Diplomat, Deputy Head of Mission,Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia
Ronald Suny, Director of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies and the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as well as Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago,
Syuzanna Vasilian, PhD candidate at Ghent University Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Ghent.
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