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SUMMARY:Prospects and Pitfalls for Security Assistance in Haiti
DESCRIPTION:Center for Strategic & International Studies | Virtual Event \nDescription: Please join the CSIS Americas Program\, in partnership with Haiti Policy House\, for a conversation of prospects and pitfalls for security assistance in Haiti. Since the authorization of a security assistance mission to Haiti by the UN Security Council\, major questions have remained as to how such a deployment would seek to handle the interlocking and entrenched security challenges the country faces. Important questions remain as to how the planned Kenya-led mission will seek to wrest control of territory from criminal groups\, bolster the overwhelmed Haitian National Police\, and ensure accountability and transparency in its own conduct amid a fraught political context. This event will explore options for delivering effective security assistance to Haiti. In particular\, it will focus on the state of security challenges in the country\, especially the disproportionate impacts this situation has on marginalized populations\, and what the role of the United States and like-minded partners should be in supporting the Haitian people and the Kenyan mission. It will also delve into the history of security efforts in Haiti\, and key lessons learned for today’s efforts. \nThe registration link can be found below.
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/prospects-and-pitfalls-for-security-assistance-in-haiti/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Incentivizing Innovation for National Security
DESCRIPTION:Center for Strategic & International Studies| In-Person Event \nDescription: Please join CSIS on Monday\, December 4th at 9:00am for a discussion with Rep. Deborah Ross (D-NC) to examine the role of intellectual property (IP) in innovation and geopolitical competition\, highlighting how the PREVAIL Act may impact U.S. competitiveness and national security. The United States’ economic and national security rests on technological innovation\, which is upheld by a system of secure intellectual property rights. Yet\, the U.S. has not updated this system for the modern age of intense global technological competition. To cultivate an innovation ecosystem which enables the U.S. to “run faster” in this competition\, new proposed legislation like the PREVAIL Act is designed to strengthen IP protections\, thereby boosting innovation. Following the conversation with Rep. Ross\, a panel discussion with Henry Hadad\, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Council at Bristol-Myers Squibb\, and Tom Brown\, Senior Legal Director at Dell\, will examine the context surrounding the PREVAIL Act. This hybrid event will be moderated by Andrei Iancu\, CSIS Senior Adviser and former Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. \nThe registration link can be found below.
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/incentivizing-innovation-for-national-security/
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SUMMARY:Works in Progress on Central Asia: Social and Political Processes in Central Asia amid Internal and External Shocks (hybrid event)
DESCRIPTION:Elliot School of International Affairs | In-Person Event \nDescription: Social and political developments in Central Asia received greater attention following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine\, in particular\, the immediate impacts of new migrant flows\, sanctions\, and Russia’s greater isolation from the West. However\, much of this analysis\, particularly in the media\, has covered the region only insofar as it illustrates reactions to the war in Ukraine\, rather than contextualizing the effects of recent events within a deeper understanding of processes already underway in Central Asia. This panel will showcase new research on grassroots activism\, media use\, and intraregional relations in Central Asia. From Kazakhstan’s quasi-transition of power in 2019 and the rise of the Oyan Kazakhstan movement\, the yearslong impact of the COVID-19 pandemic\, Sadyr Japarov’s dramatic rise to the presidency in Kyrgyzstan in 2020\, unprecedented street violence in several Kazakhstani cities in January 2022 followed by a brief deployment of CSTO forces to the country\, Central Asian societies were already navigating a series of defining events each deserving of their own careful analysis even before February 2022. This panel will track how these developments and others\, including the war\, have shaped societies and states. Drawing on a range of data sources as well as disciplinary and professional perspectives\, this panel will also combine the insights of researchers from or currently living in Central Asia along with those of researchers with extensive field experience in the region. \nPapers and Presenters \n\nCentral Asian Regional Relations in a Changing Geopolitical Context\n\nAizada Nuriddenova is an Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Department at Suleyman Demirel University in Kazakhstan and currently a Visiting Scholar at IERES. She holds a PhD in International Relations\, specializing in Chinese foreign policy\, from the School of International and Public Affairs at Jilin University in China. Her research interests are centered on Chinese foreign policy and regionalism in Central Asia. \n\nMedia Trends and Geopolitics: Changes in Central Asian Views of Outside Powers\n\nEli Adam Feiman\, US Department of State \n\nAttitudes toward Russia’s War on Ukraine in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan\n\nHannah S. Chapman is the Theodore P. Romanoff Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and an Assistant Professor of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her research focus is on comparative political behavior with a substantive focus on public opinion and political communication in non-democracies and a regional focus on Russian and Central Asian politics. \n\nHow Risks for Activists Differ Depending on their Gender: Accounts from Kazakhstan\, Belarus\, Ukraine\, and Russia \n\nKarlygash Kabatova is Program Associate at the Central Asia Program\, IERES\, GWU. Her areas of research and advocacy are sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)\, gender education\, gender-based violence and civil activism. Karlygash founded UyatEmes.kz – an SRHR initiative in Kazakhstan. \nDiscussants \nMarsha McGraw Olive\, Ph.D.\, is a scholar and practitioner of Russian and Eurasian affairs.  She is currently on the faculty of Johns Hopkins SAIS and serves on the advisory boards of the Caspian Policy Center and the Eurasia Foundation\, and as a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. \nCorby Johnson\, National Endowment for Democracy \nChair  \nSebastien Peyrouse is Director of the Central Asia Program and Research Professor\, IERES\, The George Washington University. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia\, economic and social issues\, Islam and religious minorities\, and Central Asia’s geopolitical positioning toward China\, India\, and South Asia. \nThe registration link can be found below. 
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/works-in-progress-on-central-asia-social-and-political-processes-in-central-asia-amid-internal-and-external-shocks-hybrid-event/
LOCATION:1957 E Street\, NW\, Washington\, DC 20052
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SUMMARY:Fireside Chat with Andrew Shearer
DESCRIPTION:Center for Strategic & International Studies| Virtual Event \nDescription: Please join CSIS on Monday\, December 4th from 11:00 to 11:45 am EST for a fireside chat with Andrew Shearer\, Australia’s Director-General of National Intelligence. CSIS’s Emily Harding\, Director of the Intelligence\, National Security\, and Technology (INT) Program\, will join Mr. Shearer to discuss how intelligence agencies can best adapt to today’s geostrategic challenges and how technology is changing intelligence work. Topics of conversation will also include the importance of partnerships and alliances\, the strategic direction of open source intelligence\, and recruiting the next generation of intelligence professionals. \nThe registration link can be found below.
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/fireside-chat-with-andrew-shearer/
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SUMMARY:Armenia-Azerbaijan Relations after the Third Karabakh War
DESCRIPTION:Elliot School of International Affairs | Virtual Event \nDescription: The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict reached a dramatic end on September 19\, 2023\, when the Azerbaijani military ended the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic\, and almost its entire Armenian population fled to Armenia. Meanwhile\, Armenia now faces a humanitarian crisis of refugees from Karabakh\, while Azerbaijan demands the opening of the Zangezur corridor to connect with its Nakhichevan exclave to the southwest of Armenia. Russia\, in turn\, distracted by a war in Ukraine\, has lost its leverage over the South Caucasus\, leaving Armenia to seek new partners in the West. The West\, at this moment\, also concerned about Ukraine and the crises in the Middle East\, has shown little interest in the South Caucasus. In this seminar\, six experts will discuss the current situation in this part of the South Caucasus. They will explore the causes and consequences of the Third Karabakh War\, the region’s future\, and the foreign policy goals of Armenia and Azerbaijan. They will also analyze the interests and roles of prominent international actors\, such as Russia\, the USA\, Iran\, Turkey\, the EU\, and France\, who might have their own particular interest in the South Caucasus. \nIntroductory remarks: Sebastien Peyrouse\, Director of The Central Asia Program. \nSPEAKERS \nNona Shahnazarian is Associate Researcher at the National Academy of Sciences in Yerevan\, Armenia\, and head of the Center for Independent Social Research Armenia\, also in Yerevan. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Russia\, Armenia\, Georgia\, the USA\, and Nagorno-Karabakh\, and has published on the issues of gender\, war\, migration\, memory\, and diaspora in the Caucasus and Russia. She has run the regional office of the Women in War Think Tank in Yerevan since 2015. She is deeply involved in Armenian-Azerbaijani regional and international peacemaking initiatives. \nAhmad Alili is a researcher in international public policy and regional security of the South Caucasus\, the Eastern Partnership countries\, and neighboring regional powers. He is part of several peacebuilding initiatives supported by the EU\, UN\, and Partnership for Peace Consortium. Currently\, he is the director of the Caucasus Policy Analysis Centre (CPAC)\, a Baku-based independent think tank promoting regional integration in the South Caucasus. He is also a lecturer at the Academy of Public Administration on the role of nonstate actors in regional security\, geopolitics\, public management\, and good governance. \nArzu Geybulla is an Azerbaijani columnist and writer with a special focus on digital authoritarianism and its implications on human rights and press freedom. Arzu has written for Al Jazeera\, Eurasianet\, CODA\, Open Democracy\, and Radio Free Europe\, with a byline on CNN International. She is also a regional editor for the South Caucasus and Turkey at Global Voices. In the past\, Arzu has been involved in numerous cross-border confidence-building projects within the scope of the Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation and other projects focusing on peaceful coexistence between Armenia and Azerbaijan. \nAlexander Iskandaryan is a prominent expert on politics\, nationalism\, and the contemporary history of Armenia\, the South Caucasus\, and Eurasia. He is a political scientist and the Director of the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan\, Armenia. He has authored numerous works on these topics\, presented papers\, and has talked at numerous conferences. \nGerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail) is a Political Geographer and Professor at Virginia Tech’s campus in the greater Washington DC area. He is the author of Critical Geopolitics (1996) and coauthor of The Geopolitics Reader (1998\, 2006). He has published widely on geopolitics and territorial conflicts after the collapse of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. He coauthored Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal (2011)\, wrote Near Abroad: Putin\, the West and the Contest for Ukraine and the Caucasus (2017)\, and has just finished Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe (2024)\, all published by Oxford University Press. \nMODERATOR \nMikail Mamedov holds a PhD in History from Georgetown University\, where he is also a Lecturer in History and the Liberal Studies Program of the School of Continuing Studies. His multiethnic Azeri-Armenian family arrived in the US back in 1996\, in the wake of the outbreak of the Karabakh conflict. He holds an MA from The George Washington University and a Diploma in History from Moscow Lomonosov State University. He has authored numerous articles on the history of the Caucasus\, and on contemporary literature and the Karabakh conflict. \nThe registration link can be found below. 
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/armenia-azerbaijan-relations-after-the-third-karabakh-war/
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SUMMARY:Russian Society at War
DESCRIPTION:Elliot School of International Affairs | In-Person Event \nDescription: This panel will present fresh sociological fieldwork research on civilian attitudes towards the war\, share direct experiences of continuing human rights advocacy within Russia\, and explore the adjustments of exiled Russian scholars abroad. \nThe registration link can be found below. 
URL:https://haydencenter.gmu.edu/event/russian-society-at-war/
LOCATION:1957 E Street\, NW\, Washington\, DC 20052
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