Black Sea Security Program Regional Workshop
October 27-28, 2008, Yerevan, Armenia
The primary topic of discussion were Black Sea security concerns, common approaches to Black Sea, Caspian Sea Security, NATO and EU approaches to the region. The event was a follow-up to the annual Harvard Black Sea Security Program, which took place in April, 2008 at the John F. Kennedy School of Government as well as in many ways a continuation of the AIPRG January 2008 conference on the Wider Black Sea Security.
The primary missions of the workshop were: 1) to provide a forum for regional experts to discuss critical security issues pertaining to the Black Sea region, 2) to strengthen and expand the regional network initiated by the Black Sea Security Program's annual April conference, and 3) to involve American general officers and policy makers in dialogue about security in the Black Sea region 4) to explore the ways of cooperation with NATO.
The workshop was sponsored by the US Embassy in Armenia, Ministry of Defence of Armenia, the NATO, Eurasia Partnership Foundation (USAID).
Attached Files: 
Conference Poster 
Conference Program
AIPRG Annual Conference
May 17-18, 2008, Washington, DC
After more than a decade of transition from planned to market-based economy, Armenia undertook important reforms and experienced high rates of economic growth in recent years. In order to sustain this growth and ensure further economic development, the country will need to design and implement second-generation reforms based on lessons learned during this transition and aimed at: (i) solidifying the achievements of the transition period; (ii) ensuring a fair and level playing field for private sector development; (iii) choosing strategic directions for the country’s export-oriented branches of the economy; and (iv) laying foundations for future development by strengthening institutions and modernizing social sectors, especially public education.
The conference was sponsored by Eurasia Partnership Foundation, the World Bank and United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
Attached Files:
Conference Poster
Conference Program
The Wider Black Sea region as a political and strategic whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts and lies in the heart of legitimate geo-strategic interests of the main international and regional players. The major stakeholders of the region lack clear set of objectives and largely shared understanding of the Wider Black Sea, there is no formulated and generally shared long-term political or political-military framework for securing the stability of the region in the face of existing frozen conflicts, differing perceptions of the economic and security challenges, shortage of well-developed regional institutions, civilizational and cultural discrepancies, etc. Thus, the growing debate on the Wider Black Sea region is reasoned by the following major arguments:
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Press Release
Tentative Program
Media Reactions
Short Summary
Article Published in F.A.Z. /in German/
Article Published in "Dnevnik" (in Slovenian)
Turkish Media Reactions
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