[Discussion] NATO ARW Workshop on Central Eurasia, Sept 8-11, Leiden

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WORKSHOP PROGRAM- NATO ARW Workshop on Central Eurasia, Sept 8-11, Leiden

NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Towards Social Stability and Democratic
Governance in Central Eurasia: Challenges to Regional Security

8-11 September 2004
Leiden, the Netherlands

Please find below the list of presenters and paper titles for the upcoming
NATO ARW Workshop Towards Social Stability and Democratic Governance in
Central Eurasia: Challenges to Regional Security

For more information, please see our contact details below.

For the full programme, please visit our website:
www.iias.nl/iias/agenda/NATO

Presenters and paper titles:

Drs Hrant Abrahamyan
The fight for democracy in Armenia as a factor of regional stability

Prof. Nazim Imanov
Political and economic development: Correlation in the Southern Caucasia

Dr Togrul Juvarly
Contradicting factors in democratic governance building: Based on experience
in Azerbaijan

Prof. Nina Dyulgerova
Georgia: Challenges to internal security in perspective of external
political priorities

Prof. Robert Cutler
Possibilities and constraints for (post)authoritarian democratization in
Central Asia

Prof. Jacques Legrand
Compromise as specifically nomad contributions to description, understanding
and dealing with tensions, conflicts and security threats

Nana Janashia
Transboundary management of nature resources as one of the preconditions for
economical and political stability of the South Causasus region

Dr Otar Kandelaki
The impact of internal conflicts on economic situation in Georgia and
secessions regions

Dr Beate Eschment
Non-democratization in Central Asia: Some observations and explanations

Dr Elena Yurevna Sadovskaya
Demographic processes in Kazakhstan: Do they lead to stability or
destabilization

Prof. Marat Ishankulov
Environment and social security in the Republic of Kazachstan

Prof. Sabit Zhusupov
The dynamics of social-political processes in Kazachstan (1991-2004)

Dr David Lewis
Elites and political transition in Central Asia: Possible scenarios of the
upcoming elections

Dr Nur Omarov
National sustainable development as a key component of international
development in Central Eurasia at the beginning of the 21st Century

Dr Saodat Olimova
Social protests and Islamic movements in Central Eurasia

Dr Irina Morozova
Nation-building in Central Asia: Creating new states' mythologiesr

Dr Mehdi Amineh
Central Asia in new international relations

Kees Homan
The lack of regional cooperation in the field of water management in
Central-Asia as a scource of potential conflict

Prof Touraj Atabaki
Mapping the states in Central Eurasia: Domestic harmony and regional
challenges

Prof. Coby van der Linde
Chairperson

Dr Pinar Akcali
Secularism under threat: Radical Islam in Central Asia

Ms. Tamara Makarenko
Unraveling the Eurasian Security Nexus: The interplay between terrorism,
organised crime and the drug trade

Prof. Michael Kaser
Growth accounting for nine Eurasian economies: Factors differentiating
future prospects from Soviet and transition experience

Dr Greg Austin
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: What answers does it provide for 
soft
security threats in Central Asia

Prof. Martin C. Spechler
Gradual economic reform in Uzbekistan: Two steps forward, one step back

Dr Mehrdad Haghayeghi
Changing dynamics of security in Central Asia

Prof. Martha Brill Olcott
Lessons from state building efforts in Central Asia

Dr Marufa Tokhtakhodjaeva
Uzbekistan: Government vs. civil society

Dr Farkhod F. Tolipov
The gap between de-jure and de-facto democratization in Uzbekistan: Nine
problems of proto-democracy

Dr Alisher Ilkhamov
The Conflict of post-Soviet Nationalist Ideologies in Central Asia: From
statehood mythologies to regional cold wars

Dr. Paul Geiss
Regionalism and statehood in Soviet and independent Central Asia:
Turkmenistan in comparative View

Prof. Catherine Poujol
Islam and globalization in Central Asia : Democracy or justice

Prof. E.J. Zuercher
Discussant

Prof. Asef Bayat
Discussant

Ms Marloes Rozing, MA
Organizing Committee

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relevant, on their interaction with other sciences.

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