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Max
Bader is a PhD candidate at the Department of European Studies
of the University of Amsterdam. His research concentrates on the
impact of international factors on political party development in
Georgia and Ukraine.
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Dr. Adil
Baguirov holds degrees in International Relations and Business
Administration from the University of Southern California (USC) and
a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Moscow State Institute of
International Relations.
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Dr. Michael Barry is a assistant professor
of economics and law at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg,
Maryland, USA.
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Bahar Baser is a PhD candidate at the
Department of Social and Political Sciences, European University
Institute, Italy.
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Janusz Bugajski
is holder of the Lavrentis Lavrentiadis Chair and director of the
New European Democracies program at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies in Washington D.C. His most recent book is
entitled Dismantling the West: Russia’s Atlantic Agenda, (Potomac
Books, 2009).
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Luke Chambers is
pursuing graduate studies at the University of Oxford (UK), where
his dissertation concerns the instrumentalization of the post-Soviet
space in Russian foreign policy during the Putin-Medvedev period.
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Dr.
Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy is a geographer and research fellow at the
French CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research), in Paris,
France. He specializes in the study of the geopolitics of illicit
drugs in Asia and produces www.geopium.org.
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Nicola Contessi
is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science, and a
Research Assistant for the Programme on International Peace and
Security at Laval University, Quebec, Canada.
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Amb. Michael W.
Cotter served as U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan from 1995 to
1998. He is the President and Associate Publisher of American
Diplomacy, an online journal devoted to foreign affairs.
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Dr.
Khatchik DerGhoukassian is a Professor
of International Relations at the University of San Andres, Buenos
Aires, Argentina; Visiting Professor at the American University of
Armenia, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.
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Matthew Derrick is a PhD candidate in
Geography at the University of Oregon, USA. Focused mainly on the
Russian Federation, and especially its non-Russian regions, his
scholarly interests include ethno-territoriality, nationalism,
regionalism, and geopolitics. Read
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Sophia
Dimitrakopoulou is an independent analyst, based in Greece,
specializing in Russian security affairs.
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Ondrej Ditrych
is a PhD
candidate in international relations at the Institute of Political
Studies of the Charles University in Prague. The paper for CRIA was
written during his Fulbright research fellowship at Belfer Center
for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, USA.
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Pierre-Emmanuel
Dupont got his LLM from Nantes Law University, France. He works
as an independent researcher in International Law and International
Relations, focusing on disarmament issues. Read
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Dr. Ertan Efegil
is an associate professor at the Department of International
Relations of İstanbul Arel University, Turkey.
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Aaron Elrich
is a Regional Development and Outreach Coordinator at the Caucasus
Research Resource Center in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Prof. Robert O.
Freedman is a professor of political science emeritus at
Baltimore Hebrew University and is Visiting Professor of Political
Science at Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C.
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Dr. Maria Raquel
Freire is assistant professor in International Relations at
the School of Economics, University of Coimbra, Portugal, and
researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the said University.
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Dr. Nicole
Gallina is a research associate at the Interfaculty Center for
Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Fribourg,
Switzerland. The paper for CRIA was prepared in line with a research project on conditions for state building in former Soviet Union countries.
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Dr. Tracey C.
German is a lecturer in Defence Studies at the Defence Studies
Department of the King’s College London and UK
Joint Services Command and Staff College, London,
UK.
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Prof. Georgi
Glonti is a professor of criminology and former Dean of Law at
the Georgia University of Social Sciences, Tbilissi, Georgia.
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Marco Giuli
is a research fellow at the the Madariaga
- College of Europe Foundation in
Brussels.
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Renée Gendron
is an Associate of the Canadian International Institute of Applied
Negotiation (CIIAN), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is a PhD candidate
under the supervision of Dr. Charlotte Hille, University of
Amsterdam. Read
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Geoffrey Gresh
is a PhD candidate
at the Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy,
Tufts University, USA. Read
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Alexi Gugushvili is a PhD candidate at the
Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University
Institute, Florence, Italy.
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Dr. Hans Gutbrod
is a Regional Director at the Caucasus Research Resource Center.
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Ekrem Eddy
Güzeldere is analyst at the European Stability Initiative’s (ESI)
Istanbul office. He completed a master’s degree in political
sciences at the Free University of Berlin and the post-graduate "Euromasters"
degree at universities in Bath, Paris, and Madrid.
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Prof. Hans-Georg
Heinrich is a professor of political science at the University
of Vienna, Austria, and specializes in empirical methodology and
post-Soviet studies. He has worked as mission member for
international organizations including for the OSCE in Georgia.
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Prof. George
Hewitt is a professor at London School
of Oriental & African Studies, UK. He is a
leading scholar of Abkhazian and Georgian languages and culture.
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Dr. George Ivaniashvili-Orbeliani is a
Founder and Chairman of the International Centre for Social Research
and Policy Analysis. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Centre of
International Studies, University of Cambridge; Visiting Fellow at
Merton College, University of Oxford; a Member of the Central
Eurasian Studies Society at Harvard University; M.Phil graduate from
the Victoria University of Manchester, UK.
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Alexander Jackson holds a Bachelors degree
from Warwick University and an MA in War Studies from King's College
London. He currently works for a London-based think tank working on
security issues, and has written extensively on security, politics
and economics in Eurasia.
Nathan Paul Jones is a doctoral
candidate in cultural anthropology at the City University of New
York. The paper for CRIA was prepared from data originating from his dissertation research in northern Kazakhstan, which was carried out in 2008 and 2009.
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Dr. Mykola Kapitonenko is
an associated professor at the Institute of International Relations
of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine; and Executive
Director of the Centre for International Studies (CIS).
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Nino Kemoklidze is a PhD candidate at the
Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES), University of
Birmingham, UK. Her Ph.D. topic concerns problems of nationalism
andethnic violence in Georgia.
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Nurangiz
Khodzharova received her MA in International Relations and
European Studies from Central European University (Hungary). She
currently resides in Moscow and works in the philanthropy sector.
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Kateryna Koehler holds MA degree in
International Relations from Dresden University of Technology
(Dresden, Germany). She also worked
as a Lecturer of Ukrainian at the same university.
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Dr. Heiko Krueger is attorney at law and
commentator on international and European legal affairs in Berlin,
Germany.
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Eda Kuşku is
a PhD candidate at the Sabancı
University, Istanbul, Turkey. She specializes in International
Relations and Comparative Politics with a specific focus on the
European Union and its relations with Turkey.
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Jan Künzl is
an Editorial Assistant of the Caucasian Review of International
Affairs (CRIA). He holds a diploma (MA equiv.) in Political
Science/International Relations. He studied at the University of
Potsdam (Germany) and the Université de Montpellier (France).
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Marcin Łapczyński is an expert on
international security in the Casimir Pulaski Foundation in Warsaw
(Poland). He received his M.A. in International Relations (Strategic
and Security Studies) at the University of Warsaw.
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Dr. Andrew
Liaropoulos earned his Doctorate Diploma at Swansea
University, UK, and is currently an analyst in the Research
Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS) in Athens,
Greece.
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Samuel Lussac
is a PhD
candidate at the Institute of Political Studies (“Sciences-Po”) of
Bordeaux (France). He is working on the impacts of the
implementation of the East-West energy Corridor in the development
of regionalization between Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.
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Dr. Martin Malek
is a researcher and CIS area specialist at the Institute
for Peace Support and Conflict Management of the National Defence
Academy in Vienna, Austria.
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Mushfig Mammadov
is a PhD candidate at the Humboldt University in Berlin,
Germany. He got his BA in International Law from the Baku State
University, Azerbaijan, and Master of European Law (LL.M.) from the
University of Leipzig, Germany.
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Emil Majidov is
a former President of Azerbaijan Export & Investment Promotion
Foundation.
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Dr. Thrassy N.
Marketos is a writer – analyst in Eurasia geopolitics. He works
for the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affair, and is a lecturer in
the Athens branch of the Diplomatic and Strategic Studies Centre (C.E.D.S.
– Paris).
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Dr. Dimitris
Michalopoulos is the Director of the Historical Institute for
Studies on Eleutherios Veniselos and his Era in Athens. Greece. From
1982 to 1994 he was lecturer and then assistant professor in
diplomatic history and Greek foreign policy at the University of
Salonika, Greece. From 1990 to 2000 he was the director of the
Museum of the City of Athens.
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Dr. Irina
Morozova is currently a Humboldt fellow at the Institute of
Middle East Studies, German Institute of Global and Area Studies in
Hamburg. She has been a research fellow and a lecturer at the
International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden University and
Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State
University.
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Anna Nadgrodkiewicz is Program Officer for
Global Programs at the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
in Washington, D.C. She holds a master’s degree in German and
European Studies from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
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Dr. Robert
Nalbandov is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of St.
Andrews, Scotland. Areas of his interests include international
security, conflict resolution, politics of African states and NIS.
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Prof. Virginia
Davis Nordin is an attorney at law and professor of Higher
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Dr. Vladimer
Papava, Former Minister of Economy of Georgia. Senior Fellow at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Alexandros
Petersen is a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics
and Political Science, UK. He is also Dinu Patriciu Fellow for
Transatlantic Energy Security and Associate Director of the Black
Sea Program of the Atlantic Council of the United States.
Previously, he served as an Adjunct Fellow with the Russia and
Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies in Washington, D.C.
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Dr. Irina
Ionela Pop is an Associate Lecturer at the Faculty of History,
Geography and International Relations, University of Oradea,
Romania. She specializes in Russia’s foreign policy in the CIS,
energy security strategies of the great powers, pipelines and
transport corridors, and the European Neighbourhood Policy.
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Dr. Alberto
Priego holds a PhD in International Relations from Complutense
University Madrid. He currently resides at the SOAS, Department of
Near & Middle East, University of London as a Visiting Scholar.
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Alexander Rahr
is a program director of the Russian/Eurasia Centre at the German
Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin, Germany.
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Kevin Ryan
is a former Senior Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of
Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at
the Harvard University.
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Kaweh
Sadegh-Zadeh is a former Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute
of Energy Studies. He has specialised extensively on energy security
and the region of the Former Soviet Union.
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Rovshan
Sadigbayli holds M.A. in International Relations from the
Bilkent University ( Ankara, Turkey). Edmund S. Muskie Graduate
Fellow 2004-2006, University of Massachusetts (Amherst, USA).
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Dr. Houman A. Sadri is an
Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of
Central Florida (UCF). His research focuses on the states of the
Caspian Sea region.
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Sebastian
Schaeffer is an assistant lecturer at the Institute for
Political Science at the University Munich. Additionally, he works
as a researcher at the Centre for Applied Policy Research (CAP) in
Munich in the research group ‘Europe’.
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Prof. Eberhard
Schneider is a
professor of political science at the University of Siegen, Germany
and former Senior Researcher at the German Institute for
International and Security Affairs (SWP), Germany. He is also
Advisory Board Member of the EU-Russia
Centre in Brussels and Editor of the “Russland Intern Aktuell”,
a German weekly analytical publication dedicated to domestic
politics in Russia.
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Fareed Shafee
holds master’s degrees from the School of History, and the School of
Law of Baku State University, Azerbaijan, and Kennedy School of
Government of the Harvard University, USA.
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Rashad Shirinov
is a Political Programs Officer at the National Democratic
Institute’s Azerbaijan branch in Baku. He is also a non-resident
research associate with the Transatlantic Institute, London, UK.
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Dr.
Aleksandr Shkolnikov
is the Director for Policy Reform at the Center for International
Private Enterprise (CIPE) in Washington, D.C. Shkolnikov holds a
Ph.D. in economics, a master’s degree in international commerce and
policy, and a bachelor’s degree in marketing – all from George Mason
University in Fairfax, Virginia, US.
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Licínia Simăo
is a PhD
candidate at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, where the focus of
her thesis has been on the ENP towards the South Caucasus.
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Dr. Christoph H.
Stefes is an assistant professor for Comparative European &
Post-Soviet Studies at the University of Colorado Denver, US.
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Dilyara
Suleymanova is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social and
Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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Prof. Ashok Swain is a professor at the
Department of Peace and conflict Research, Uppsala University, and
the Director of the Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development,
Sweden.
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Henryk Szadziewski is the Manager of the
Uyghur Human Rights Project (www.uhrp.org)
in Washington D.C. He has worked in international development for
fourteen years in Asia, Europe, North America and South America.
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Dr. Lasha
Tchantouridze is a research associate & adjunct professor at the
Centre for Defence and Security Studies, the University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
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Kirill Tanaev is a Moscow-based journalist
(Program Director, “CIS News/Vesti.SNG”, Vesti TV), who specializes
in post-Soviet political systems. He is the General Director of the
Foundation for Effective Politics in Moscow.
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Jesse David Tatum holds an MSc in European
Studies with Translation from Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK,
and a BA in International Studies from Portland State University,
US.
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Dr. Michael
Tokmazishvili is a Senior Researcher of the Foundation CASE-Transcaucasus.
He was the Head of the Department of Macroeconomics of the Budget
Office of the Parliament of Georgia.
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Dominik
Tolksdorf is a PhD candidate at the University of Munich. Since
June 2006, he works as a researcher for the Centre for Applied
Policy Research (CAP) in Munich on EU-Russia-Relationship, South
East Europe and the Black Sea Region.
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Malte Viefhues is
a Research Fellow at the Caucasus Research Resource Center in
Georgia.
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Dr.
Alexander Warkotsch is a Lecturer in
European Studies at the King’s College London, UK.
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Dr. Cory Welt
is an associate director of the Eurasian Strategy Project and an
adjunct assistant professor at the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and
East European Studies (CERES) at Georgetown University's School of
Foreign Service, USA.
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Tom De Waal
is a noted journalist, writer and expert on Russia and the Caucasus.
He is currently a senior associate in the Russia and Eurasia Program
at the Carnegie Endowment, specializing primarily in the South
Caucasus region comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia and
their breakaway territories, as well as the wider Black Sea region.
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Dobrosława
Wiktor-Mach is a PhD Candidate at the Institute of European
Studies, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland.
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Dr. Guli Yuldasheva is an associate
professor of political science at the Tashkent State Institute of
Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan.
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Taleh Ziyadov
is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is
also Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at the Azerbaijan
Diplomatic Academy, Baku, Azerbaijan. He has got his master’s degree
from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown
University (Washington, U.S.A.)
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