US-Azerbaijan Relations: State of the ‘Strategic Partnership’ Featuring Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski and Amb. Richard Morningstar

Conference Video Part I – Introduction and Panel featuring Senior Fellow Vladimir Socor

Conference Video Part II – Special Presentations by Ambassador Richard Morningstar and Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

10:30 A.M. to 2:20 P.M.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(Root Room – 2nd Floor)
1779 Massachusetts
Washington DC 20036

 
Introduction:

10:30 AM

Glen E. Howard
President
The Jamestown Foundation

The Changing Strategic Environment of the South Caucasus:

10:30 A.M. to 12:15 PM

“Azerbaijan’s Foreign Policy Strategy & Great Power Politics”
Director
Dr. Elkhan Nuriyev
Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

“US-Azerbaijan Partnership: What It Has Delivered and Where It Falters”
Vladimir Socor
Senior Fellow
The Jamestown Foundation

Moderator
Dr. S. Frederick Starr
Chairman
Central-Asia Caucasus Institute, SAIS

Q & A

Keynote Address:

12:30 to 1:30 PM

Luncheon:

Introduction by Dr. S. Frederick Starr
Chairman
Central-Asia Caucasus Institute, SAIS

Ambassador Richard Morningstar
“Azerbaijan & U.S. Energy Policy in the Caspian”
Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy
U. S. State Department

Q & A

Special Presentation:

1:30 to 2:15 PM

Azerbaijan’s Role in the World Today:

A Conversation with Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Counselor and Trustee
Center for Strategic and International Studies

Moderator
Glen E. Howard
President
The Jamestown Foundation

Q & A

Conclusion:

2:20 PM

Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski is the Counselor and Trustee at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and a Professor of American Foreign Policy at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC.  From 1977 to 1981, he served as the National Security Adviser to the President of the United States.  In 1981, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom “for his role in the normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States.”  From 1966 to 1968, Dr. Brzezinski served as a member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State. From 1987 to 1988, he served as member of the NSC-Defense Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy; and from 1987 to 1989, as a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (a Presidential commission to oversee U.S. intelligence activities). He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in1953, and a B.A. and M.A. from McGill University in 1949 and in1950.  

Ambassador Richard L. Morningstar

Ambassador Richard L. Morningstar is the Secretary of State’s Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy.  Appointed by Secretary Clinton, he was sworn in on April 6, 2009. Prior to his appointment, Ambassador Morningstar lectured at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and Stanford Law School.  He has also taught at Brown University and Boston College Law School.  From June 1999 to September 2001, he served as United States Ambassador to the European Union.  Prior to this, Ambassador Morningstar served as Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State for Caspian Basin Energy Diplomacy.  From April 1995 to July 1998, he served as Ambassador and Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Assistance for the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union where he oversaw all U.S. bilateral assistance and trade investment activities in the NIS.  From 1993 to 1995, he served as Senior Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). He is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  Ambassador Morningstar is the author of numerous articles on foreign policy, including “The FSC Challenge”, “The Three-Dimensional Practice of Law in the International Arena,” “Unilateralism, Multilateralism and the National Interest” (co-authored with Coit Blacker), “The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline: A Retrospective and a Look at the Future,” and “The Great Game: An Opportunity for Transatlantic Cooperation.”  He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1967 and J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1970.  

Dr. Elkhan Nuriyev

Dr. Elkhan Nuriyev is the Director of the Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. After a career in government and policy studies, Dr. Elkhan Nuriyev assumed the directorship of the Center for Strategic Studies under the President of Azerbaijan according to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated February 8, 2008. From 1992 to 1994 he held diplomatic positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan. In 1996- 97, Dr. Nuriyev served as a J. William Fulbright Research Fellow at The George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC. He was a Senior Research Associate at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (California, 1998- 99), a Research Fellow at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, DC, 1999), Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Peace Research Institute (Bonn, 2000-2003), a Visiting Research Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Berlin, 2005-2006). From 2001 to 2004, Dr. Nuriyev served as a Co-chairman of the Southern Caucasus Regional Stability Study Group of the Partnership for Peace (PfP) Consortium at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany.

Vladimir Socor

Vladimir Socor is a Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation and a regular contributor to its flagship publication, the Eurasia Daily Monitor. He is one of the foremost experts on NATO enlargement, as well as political, diplomatic and energy affairs in the Baltics, Belarus-Ukraine-Moldova, the South Caucasus and the Caspian. He also covers Russian and Western policies, security and military issues and inter-ethnic conflict in the former Soviet Union. Mr. Socor is a frequent guest lecturer at Harvard University’s National Security Program at the Kennedy School of Government and a member of the Euro-Atlantic Security Study Group, sponsored by NATO PFP’s Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes. For the past five years, he has written a fortnightly op-ed column in the Wall Street Journal Europe. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies (IASPS) in Washington—sole author of the IASPS Policy Briefings: Strategic Perspectives on Eurasia, for international distribution by subscription. He also worked for many years at the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute. Mr. Socor is a U.S. citizen and currently lives in Munich, Germany.

Dr. S. Frederick Starr

Dr. S. Frederick Starr is Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program. He is a Research Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Starr for several years served as Rector Pro Tem of the University of Central Asia, and is a Trustee of the Eurasia Foundation. Prior to founding the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, he served as founding Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies 1974-79; as Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Tulane University in 1979-1982; as Scholar-in-Residence of the Historical New Orleans Foundation in 1982-83. He was appointed President of Oberlin College in 1983, a position he held for eleven years. In 1994-96, he served as President of the Aspen Institute. Dr. Starr served as an advisor on Soviet Affairs to President Reagan in 1985-86 and to President George H.W. Bush in 1990-92. Starr holds a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University, an MA from King’s College, Cambridge University, and a BA from Yale University.