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Boston, Oct. 24-25: Kokkalis Program: Conference on Turkish Foreign Policy

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Originally-From: Dimitris Keridis <dimitris_keridis@Harvard.Edu>

CONFERENCE ON THE FUTURE OF TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, OCTOBER 24-25, 1998

[Preliminary Agenda Included Below]

We are holding a conference on the foreign policy that will drive the Turkish state into the next century. The objective of the conference is to build a conceptual framework for understanding the complex phenomena that generate the interplay between Turkey's domestic and foreign policy and the international relations that impact upon that foreign policy.

The disintegration of the Soviet Union has vastly increased the pivotal significance of Turkey to its multi-regional surroundings. Most of its neighbors are undergoing post-Cold War transition and turmoil, much of which compounds the external threats and economic challenges to Turkey. Transnational threats and potential conflicts involve ethnic, religious and territorial disputes. New relationships with the states of the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East may be pulling Turkey away from its traditional foreign policy gravitation towards western Europe. This is occuring at a time when Turkey remains significant for the East - West transit of energy resources, and has not resolved issues with Greece and the European Union.

We are, therefore, bringing together panels of experts within four issue areas: military security, economic growth and strategic resources, the international dimension of human rights and civil society, and contending visions of Turkey's role in the world.

The conference organizers are Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History and Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koc Professor of Turkish Studies; Lenore Martin, Professor of Political Science, Emmanuel College and Affiliate in Research, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; and Dr. Dimitris Keridis, Coordinator of the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe.


THE FUTURE OF TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY,
TAUBMAN CONFERENCE ROOM (5th FLOOR)
JOHN F. KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT
OCTOBER 24-25, 1998

PRELIMINARY AGENDA AND INVITEES

Saturday, October 24
09:00 amWelcome
09:10 amRetrospective on Turkish Foreign Policy on the 75th Anniversary of the Republic
Feroz Ahmed, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts
Turkish Foreign Policy Challenges - "East"
09:30 amCentral Asia, Caucasus, Balkans, and Russia
Duygu Bazoglu Sezer, Professor, Bilkent University, Ankara

Middle East - Iraq, Iran, Syria and Israel
Hasan Koni, Professor, Ankara University

Discussants: Patrick Seale, Author and Expert on Syria (UK)
Alon Liel, Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

12:00 noonLunch

Speaker: Mumtaz Soysal, Professor, Member of Parliament and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey

Turkish Foreign Policy Challenges (continued) - "West"
02:00 pmGreece, Cyprus and the Aegean
Dr. Thanos Dokos, Ministry of National Defense of Greece and
Dr. Panayiotis Tsakonas, WCFIA Fellow at Harvard

European Union
Atila Eralp, Prof. of International Relations, Middle East Technical Univ., Ankara

Discussants: Kalypso Nicolaidis, Ass. Professor, Kennedy School, Harvard
Tom Niles, former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs and U.S. Ambassador to Greece

06:30 pmCoctails
07:30 pmDinner

Speaker: Muharrem Kayhan, Chairman of the Industrialists and Businessmen's Association of Turkey (TUSIAD)

Sunday, October 25
8:30 amBreakfast

Speaker: Cengiz Candar, Journalist, Sabah

10:00 amEconomic Growth and Strategic Resources

Economic Growth and Trade
Dani Rodrik, Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Water Resources
Ilter Turan, Professor, Bilgi University, Istanbul

Pipelines and Energy Networks
Kevin Brennan, Executive Vice-President, Mobil Eurasia Pipeline Corp.

Discussant: Ishak Alaton, Chair, Alarko Holding, A.S.

12:15 pmLunch

Speaker: Yannis Kartalis, Managing Editor of To Vima Weekly, Athens

02:00 pmInternational Dimensions of Human Rights and Civil Society

An Overview
Sencer Ayata, Professor of Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

The Kurds
Kemal Kirisci, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Bogazici University, Istanbul

Discussants: Henry Steiner, Professor, Harvard Law School
Elizabeth Anderson, Human Rights Watch

4:30 pmConclusions

Professors Roger Owen-CMES,
Cemal Kafadar-CMES,
Lenore Martin CMES and
Dr. Dimitris Keridis-Kokkalis Program


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