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

“Israel, Turkey and Azerbaijan: Strategic Shifts?”


Featuring

Dr. Alexander Murinson

author of Turkey's Entente with Israel and Azerbaijan: State Identity and Security in the Middle East and Caucasus, Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics, Dec. 2009

Commenting

Mr. Khazar Ibrahim, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Azerbaijan
Mr.  Berkan Pazarci, Counselor, Embassy of Turkey
Participant, Embassy of Israel, TBA

Wednesday, January 20, 2010
5-7 PM
Rome Auditorium, 1st Fl., The Rome Building
SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
1619 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036

Israel has long sought to maintain cordial relations with moderate Muslim countries that have secular systems of government. Specifically, this has resulted in a mutually beneficial collaboration with Azerbaijan and other Turkic states. Are these alignments changing today? If so, why, and with what likely consequences?

The Forum opens with a reception and refreshments at 5 PM. The program will begin promptly at 5:30 PM and conclude at 7 PM. RSVP for this event is mandatory and will not be accepted after 10 AM on the day of the event. To register, please send an email with your name and affiliation to SAISCACIForums@jhu.edu or call 202-663-7723.

The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute is the primary institution in the United States for the study of the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Caspian Region. The Institute, affiliated with Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, forms part of a Joint Center with the Silk Road Studies Program, affiliated with the Stockholm-based Institute for Security and Development Policy. Additional information about the Joint Center, as well as its several publications series, is available at www.silkroadstudies.org.