International Institute for Strategic Studies Conferences 2003

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Conferences 2003

Russia after the parliamentary elections On 18 December 2003 Dr. Sergei Markov and Iosif Diskin gave a talk on "Russia After the Parliamentary Elections." Dr. Sergei Markov is Director of the Institute of Political Studies, one of the Russia's leading political analysts and the head of association of political consulting centers in Russia. He is also the Head of Russia’s influential Public Forum on International Affairs and a Professor at Moscow State University. Russian Parliamentary Elections have been very...
Policies towards Georgia On 18 December 2003 Prof. Alexander Rondeli, Dr. Sergei Markov, William Boe, Losif Diskin and Vladimir Shkolnikov discussed European, US and Russian Policies towards Georgia: Searching for a Common Strategy at an IISS Eurasia strategy seminar.Prof. Alexander Rondeli, President of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies and Dr. Sergei Markov, Head of Civil Forum on International Affairs, Adviser to the Russian Government will address the topic, “Challenges and...
Georgia after the Revolution On 17 December 2003 Prof. Alexander Rondeli and Ambassador Konstantin Zhgenti gave a talk on "Georgia after the Revolution."Professor Alexander Rondeli, President of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies and Ambassador Konstantin Zhgenti, special envoy of the Foreign Ministry covering regional security issues in the South Caucasus, each gave a 20 minute talk, followed by a 40 minute question and answer session. The recent change of government in the Republic...
Leonid Kravchuk, former Ukrainian President On 24 November 2003 the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Centre for Global Studies hosted a visit by Leonid Kravchuk, the former president of Ukraine.Leonid Kravchuk was the first post-Soviet President of Ukraine (December 1991) and is currently deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Ukrainian parliament). He is the head of the SDPU faction in the Verkhovna Rada and is a member of the Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on Foreign Relations. He is the author of two recent...
US Military Assistance -South Caucasus On 17 October 2003 Dr Jennifer Moroney from the RAND Corporation gave a presentation on military assistance strategies for Central Asia and the South Caucasus by the US and Europe.Dr. Moroney joined the RAND Corporation in Washington, DC as an Associate Political Scientist in June 2003, where she manages and supports projects for the US Departments of Defense, State, Energy, and the National Security Council. Currently, she is leading a project that will assist the NSC in developing its...
Al Qaeda and Chechen Resistance Assessing the Role of Chechnya in the War on Terror On 16 October 2003 Dr Brian Williams, Assistant Professor for the Department of History, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth gave a presentation on Al Qaeda, Transnational Jihadi Warriors, and the Chechen Resistance. Assessing the Role of Chechnya in the War on Terror.In this presentation he critically assessed the validity of claims linking the Chechen resistance to Al Qaeda. He paid particular attention to Arab jihadis fighting for the...
War in Iraq and Black Sea Regional Security On 9 May 2003 the Russia and Eurasia Programme hosted a one-day international conference entitled ‘War in Iraq and Black Sea Regional Security’.The conference was organised with the Harvard University Black Sea Security Programme. Conference participants included senior officials from the Ministries of Defence, National Security Councils, Foreign Ministries and Parliaments as well as representatives of think-tanks and academic institutes from eight countries of the Black Sea Region:...
Civil-Military Interface in Counter-Terrorism 15 January 2003The seminar formed part of the programme for a senior military delegation from Russia hosted by the IISS Russia/Eurasia programme for a week in January. The purpose of their visit was to discuss counter-terrorist operations and for the Russians to learn about the UK experience in Northern Ireland.