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George Mason University's Terrorism Transnational Crime and Corruption Center and the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution host:
Thomas de Waal
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Who will give a lecture entitled:
"Understanding the Caucasus"
Opening remarks given by Susan Allen Nan, Assistant Professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and Louise Shelley, Director of TraCCC and Professor at the School of Public Policy
*Refreshments will be served. No RSVP necessary*
Thomas de Waal is a writer and analyst on the Caucasus, Russia and the Black Sea region and a Senior Associate with the Russia and Eurasia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. He is the author of The Caucasus: An Introduction, published by Oxford University Press in August 2010. From 2002-8 he worked as Caucasus Editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in London. In the 1990s he was a journalist in Moscow for the Moscow Times, The Times of London, and the Economist, specializing in Russian politics and events in Chechnya. Tom is co-author with Carlotta Gall of Chechnya of A Small Victorious War, (Pan, 1997 and NYU Press, 1998) and sole author of the widely respected book on the Karabakh conflict, Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War (NYU Press, 2003), which has been translated into Russian, Armenian and Azeri.