SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2006
10:00 am. - Conference Opening
Prof. Charles King, Georgetown University
A General Overview
SESSION I
10:30-12:00- Foreign Policy and Security Issues
Chair: Prof. Peter Sinnott, Columbia University
Dr. Richard Giragosian, Washington, D.C.
“Repositioning Armenian Security and Foreign Policy within a Region at Risk”
Arman Grigorian, Columbia University/Wesleyan University
“The Karabakh Conflict and Competing Perspectives on Armenia’s Grand Strategy”
Taline Papazian, Ph.D. student, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris
“ Foreign Policy and Political Elites”
SESSION II
1:30-3:00 pm. - Domestic and Political Policy
Chair: Aram Arkun, Armenian Center at Columbia University
Prof. Gerard J. Libaridian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Tracking State, Nation, and Democracy-Building”
Arus Harutyunyan, Ph.D. student, Western Michigan State University
“Dual Citizenship Debates in Armenia: In persuit of National Identity Since Independence”
Dr. Marina Kurkchyan, Wolfson College, Oxford, United Kingdom
“Investing in Human Capital as an Aspect of Security”
SESSION III
3:30-5:00pm. - Economic Policy
Chair: Gerard Libaridian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Hrand Bagratyan, Prime Minster, Republic of Armenia (1993-1996)
“Armenia in Transition: Adaption to the New Economic Values”
Armand Sarian, Economist, Paris, France; Economic Advisor to the Armenian Government (1993-1996)
“Economic Challenges to Armenia’s Independence”
Armen Martirosyan, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Armenia to the United Nations (2004-presenet)
“Economic Performance, Institution-Building, and the State”
Saumya Mitra, Lead Economist, World Bank
“The Road to the South Caucasian Tiger”
