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

Thursday 12 May 2016 / 13:00 - 19:00 / Registration from 13.00-13.15

Washinton D.C. Kenney Auditorium Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. 740 Massachusetts Ave, NW,, 20036 Washinton D.C.. Click here for a map

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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