The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, invites you to:

“Parliament and Political Parties in Kazakhstan”

With Anthony Bowyer, International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
5-7 PM
The Rome Auditorium, Rome Building
1619 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036

Kazakhstan's successful bid for the OSCE presidency prompts important questions about the prospects for parliaments, political parties, and democratic rule generally in post-Communist societies, and especially in societies with majority Muslim populations.  Anthony Bowyer of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems has examined the Kazakhstan case and offers a concise monograph on this timely subject, to be published by the Central Asia Institute as a Silk Road Paper.

Mr. Bowyer has managed IFES’ Central Asia activities since 1995.  For a decade his specialty has been designing and managing election assistance and civic education programs. He has reported widely on Central Asian civic affairs for the media and at important venues such as the Helsinki Commission of the US Congress and the National Defense University.    

The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute is a leading center conducting fundamental and applied research on an important world region. It has offices at SAIS (Johns Hopkins University), Washington, and in Stockholm, Sweden, through a Joint Center with the Silk Road Studies Program (Institute for Security and Development Policy). This Joint Center publishes the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst (cacianalyst.org), the China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, and the Silk Road Papers as well as books and monographs. Additional information about the Joint Center is available at www.silkroadstudies.org .