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[Clowes, Edith W]

From: Russian and East European Studies
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 11:08 AM
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Subject: Afghanistan 2014 and Impacts on Global Security Identity, April 25, 2012


The University of Kansas Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies is pleased to report that the “Afghanistan 2014 and Impacts on Global Security Identities” Conference will be streamed live, and will afford viewers the opportunity to comment and ask questions of conference presenters.

The entire conference will be live-streamed and tweeted on the CREES website, with the exception of lunch, 1-2pm (CST). To view the live-streaming video, go to www.crees.ku.edu<http://www.crees.ku.edu/>, and follow the conference link in the announcements section. The URL below will take you directly to the live feed:
crees.ku.edu/~crees/news-events/Afghanistan_conference/conf_0412.shtml

Conference program, with presenters and time of presentations, follows release below, with all times in Central Standard Time.

Third Annual KU-Ft. Leavenworth Security Conference to Focus on “Afghanistan 2014 and Impacts on Global Security Identities”

LAWRENCE — This Wednesday, April 25, 2012 The University of Kansas Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies and the Center for Global and International Studies, together with the Foreign Military Studies Office at Ft. Leavenworth, will host the third annual KU-Ft. Leavenworth Security Conference. Conference presenters from around the world will focus on “Afghanistan 2014 and Impacts on Global Security Identities.” Key points include analysis of complicated issues surrounding the reduction of the United States and international military presence in Afghanistan after 2014 and the resulting changes in the global security environment.

Keynote speakers at the event include Dr. Graeme Herd (Geneva Centre for Security Policy), Dr. Roger Kangas (Academic Dean and Professor of Central Asian Studies at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University in Washington, DC), and Dr. Marlene Laruelle (Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University).

The one-day event will feature two morning panels; ‘Afghanistan and the World: Security Identities after 2014’ and ‘Afghanistan and Central Asia: Security Identities after 2014’. A collaborative roundtable will include all of the presenters in a discussion on “Post-2014 Afghanistan: Stepping into a New Era of Security Challenges” with a concluding discussion by Roger Kangas, Academic Dean and Professor of Central Asian Studies at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies and the National Defense University in D.C.

Tentative Program (Times in CST)
8:30—Welcome: Edith Clowes (Director, CREES) and Thomas Wilhelm (Director, FMSO)
8:45-9:30—Opening keynote address: Marlene Laruelle (Research Professor, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies ([IERES], The Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University), “Reassessing ‘Regional Solutions’ for Post-2014 Afghanistan”
9:30-11:00—Panel I, Afghanistan and the World: Security Identities after 2014
Moderator, Raymond Finch (Senior Analyst, FMSO)
Ahmad Majidyar (Senior Research Associate, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research [AEI]), “An Afghanistan Perspective of Security after ISAF Withdrawal”
Ruoxi Du (MA Candidate, CREES), “Chinese Perceptions toward the post-2014 Afghanistan”
Vadim Kozyulin (Director, Conventional Arms Program, Center for Policy Studies in Moscow), “Russia’s Perception of Afghanistan post-2014: Between Fear and Satisfaction”
11:00—Break
11:15-12:45—Panel II, Afghanistan in Central Asia: Security Identities after 2014
Moderator, Mariya Omelicheva (Associate Director, CREES; Assistant Professor, Political Science)
Matthew Stein (Analyst, FMSO), “Uzbekistan’s Viewpoint of Security in Afghanistan after 2014”
Thomas Wilhelm (Director, FMSO), “Pakistan’s Tribal Areas and Security Perspectives after Withdrawal”
Lewis B. Sckolnick (President, Rector Press Intelligence), “Afghanistan: The Realities of Its Security and Trade in the 21st Century”
1:00-2:00—Lunch (not streamed), with remarks by Leslie Schweitzer (Chair and President of Friends of the American University of Afghanistan, Board of Trustees of the American University of Afghanistan)
2:00-2:45—Graeme Herd (Head of the International Security Program, Geneva Centre for Security Policy [GCSP]), “After Afghanistan: Implications and Emerging Paradigms after Withdrawal”
2:45-3:00—Break
3:00-4:30—Roundtable on “Post-2014 Afghanistan: Stepping into a New Era of Security Challenges”
Mediator, Roger Kangas (Academic Dean and Professor of Central Asian Studies at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University in Washington, DC)
All conference speakers

Edith W. Clowes,
Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
http://www2.ku.edu/~slavic/
Director, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
http://www.crees.ku.edu
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS  66045

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