The Rose Revolution: Four Years Later - 01

http://www.abkhazia.com Vasili Rukhadze Director of Center for Geopolitical Research
November 30th, 2007 - 9:30am-5pm
Columbia University in the City of New York
School of International and Public Affairs
420 West 118th Street, 15th Floor, Room 1501

Co-Sponsored by
The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
and The Center for Georgian Studies at The Harriman Institute

Advance Registration is Necessary
Please email Name and affiliation to SIWPS PA Molly D'Ambra info@abkhazia.com

Agenda
9:30a Welcome and Introduction
9:45a-11:15a Panel I -Energy and Economic Development
Jonathan Elkind, EastLink Consulting, LLC and The Brookings Institution
Vasil Rukhadze, Visiting Scholar, The Harriman Institute
Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff, Consultant, Business Climate Reform in Georgia

11:20p-12:20p Keynote Address by Richard Miles, Former U.S. Ambassador
to Georgia

12:20p-1:45p Break
1:45p-3:15p Panel II Georgia, Russia and Frozen Conflicts
Irakli Alasania, Georgian Ambassador to the United Nations
Robert Legvold, Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Soviet Foreign
Policy, Columbia University
Ken Yalowitz, Former U.S. Ambassador to Georgia, Director, John Sloan
Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College

3:30p-5:00p Panel III -Democratic Development Since the Rose Revolution
Christopher Walker, Freedom House
Nicholas Gvosdev, Editor, The National Interest
Stephen Jones, Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Mount Holyoke College
Lincoln Mitchell, Arnold A. Saltzman Professor in the Practice of
International Affairs, Columbia University
Alex Sokolowski, Senior Political Process Advisor Bureau for Europe
and Eurasia, USAID

5:00pm-6:00pm Reception

The conference will also include an exhibition of photographs of the
Rose Revolution by Steve Weinberg and campaign posters from
that period from the collection of Lincoln Mitchell, located on the
4th Floor of the International Affairs Building.

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News & Politics

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• Georgia
• Abkhazia
• Revolution
• Rukhadze

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