Friday, February 25, 2005 << >>

Caspian at the Crossroads: Energy, Environment, and Security

Michael Klare

Gawdat Bahgat
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Author, Oil and Water: Cooperative Security in the Persian Gulf , "The Caspian Sea Geo-political Game: The United States Versus Iran" and "Oil Security in the New Millennium: Geo-Economy vs. Geo-Strategy"

Gavin Helf
Adviser, Civil Society Support Initiative in Central Asia, U.S. Agency for International Development; former Director, Grant Programs, Eurasia Foundation; Member, U.S. Delegation, OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting

Andrew Hess
Professor of Diplomacy and Director, The Program for Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization, the Contemporary Turkish Studies Program, and the Kuwaiti, Qatari, and Armenian Foreign Service Training Programs, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; former Executive, Arabian American Oil Company, Saudi Arabia; Author, "Cultural and Political Limits on Forward Presence in Southwest Asia"

Michael Klare
Author, Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum

Daene McKinney
Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Texas; Team Leader and Senior Environmental Policy Advisor, Environmental Policy and Institutions for Central Asia (EPIC) Program, International Resources Group, U.S. Agency for International Development; Author, "Transboundary Water Resources Management in Central Asia"; Coeditor, "Optimization of the Use of Water and Energy Resources in the Syrdarya Basin Under Current Conditions"

Everett Peachey
M.A.L.D. Candidate, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; EPIIC Colloquium Member, 2004-05; former English Teacher, U.S. Peace Corps, Russia and Kazakhstan; Author, "The Aral Sea Basin Crisis and Sustainable Water Resource Management in Central Asia"; former Political/Economic Intern, U.S. Embassy, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Roshanak Taghavi
Graduate, Boston College; former Presidential Intern, American University in Cairo, Egypt; former Freelance Writer, Al-Ahram Weekly; Co-author, "Iran's Financial Stake in Caspian Oil" (forthcoming)

Moderators: Walter de Simoni and Kathrine Schmidt, EPIIC Colloqium