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Contemporary Security Challenges in Eurasia conference

The UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies is proud to announce our spring conference: Contemporary Security Challenges in Eurasia, April 10-12, 2003, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The conference aims to provide a comprehensive forum to review the multi-faceted realm of "Security" in the vital region of Central Asia, Russia, and the Caucasus. We will feature panels on:

• Resource Competition and Economic Challenges
• Problems of Governance in Central Asia and the Caucasus
• Russian and Beyond, A View of the Future

Among the featured speakers will be:
• Michael Klare, author of Resource Wars, who will be our keynote speaker on the evening of Thursday, April 10
• Martha Brill Olcott, from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Joseph Presel, former U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan and former U.S. Special Envoy to Nagorno-Karabakh
• Georgiy Mirsky, of the Institute of World Economics and International Relations in Moscow

A full list of conference speakers, panels, logistics, and registration can be found at our conference web site – http://www.unc.edu/depts/slavic/events/EurasiaConference.html

Admission to the conference is free and open to the public.

Advance registration is required by April 4 for a complimentary box lunch for either of the Friday or Saturday lunches.

Registration is available at our web site or by contacting CSEEES at (919) 962-0901 or slavic@email.unc.edu.

We would like to thank our sponsors:
U.S. Department of Education
UNC Curriculum in International Studies
North Carolina European, Eurasian, and Slavic Studies Association

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