ARI MOVEMENT's 10th Annual International Security Conference is going to be in the Bosphorus Swissotel on 11th of September 2008 Istanbul. This year's topic of our conference is "Looking Ahead: Managing Turkey's International Relations in the Coming Decade". The advantages and disadvantages of Turkish Foreign Policy is going to be discussed with experts from the region and world. You can find the program below. To register please contact to: Burak Ulusoy - burak@ari.org. tr T: +90 212 211 9071 F: +90 212 211 9083 www.ari.org. tr
"Looking Ahead: Managing Turkey's International Relations in the Coming Decade"
Bosphorus Swissotel, Istanbul 11-12 September 2008
DRAFT PROGRAM
*Opening speeches will be announced when they are confirmed.
** Please note that the list contains names in the process of being confirmed.
OPENING SPEECHES:
KEYNOTE REMARKS:
11 September 2008, Thursday
08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:45 Welcome & Opening Speeches
09:45-10:45 Session 1: `Turkey's Role within International Organizations'
Moderator: Banu G躒EN (Journalist, NTV, Turkey)
Stefanie BABST (Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO, Belgium)
Hasan G�Ğ�Ş (Ambassador, Director-General for Multilateral Political Affairs Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Faruk LOĞOĞ LU (Rtd. Amb.; Director, Eurasia Strategic Studies Centre
- ASAM, Turkey)
Nirj DEVA (Member of European Parliament for South East England, UK)
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:15 Roundtable Discussion
13:30-14:30 Session 2:
`Turkey's Vision for its Regional Role and the Balancing of Relations with its Neighbours'
Moderator: Soner 茿ĞAPTAY (Director, Turkish Research Program, The Washington Institute, USA)
Altay CENGİZER (Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey)
Nawaf TELL ( Director of Strategic Studies Institute, University of Jordan, Jordan)
Richard GIRAGOSIAN ( Senior Independent Analyst)
Ian O. LESSER (Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund, USA)
Borut GRGIC (Director, Institute for Strategic Studies Ljubljana, Slovenia)
14:30-14:45 Coffee break
14:45-16:00 Roundtable Discussion
16:00-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-17:15 Session 3:
"The Geopolitics of Energy: Security and Survival"
Moderator: Mithat BEREKET (Journalist, Pusula TV, Turkey)
Sergei ALEXANDROVICH MARKOV (the Director of the Institute for Political Studies in Moscow and a Deputy Chairman of the Russian Public Forum on International Affairs, Russia Federation)
Tahir UYSAL (CEO, BP Turkey)
Efraim INBAR (Director of Begin朣adat (BESA) Centre for Strategic Studies, Israel)
David SMITH ( Rtd. Amb.; Director, Georgian Security Analysis Center, Tbilisi)
Asım MOLLAZADE (MP; Chairman, Democratic Reforms Party, Azerbaijan)
Please quote 10 Academic Resources Daily in your application to this opportunity!
If you want to receive academic resources in your e-mail on daily basis, please subscribe to 10resources-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
