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Limiting Institutions? The Challenge of Eurasian Security was a conference sponsored by The Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies at Kent State University on September 28 - 29, 2001.  The  program follows:

Limiting Institutions? The Challenge of Eurasian Security Governance 

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FRIDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2001

12:00 - 1:45 p.m.

Luncheon

The European Security Architecture and Eurasia

David Calleo - Johns Hopkins University, SAIS

2:00 - 2:15: Welcoming Remarks

Dr. Joseph Danks - Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Kent State University

2:15 - 5:15

Session I

New Security Agenda: International Institutions and the Challenge of the Eurasian Order

James Sperling - University of Akron

The Security Challenges in Eurasia

Security in Eurasia: Geopolitical Constraints

and the Dynamics of Multilateralism

Sean Kay Ohio - Wesleyan University

Contested National Identities and Weak State Structures

Douglas Blum - Providence College and Watson Institute, Brown University

Ethnic Conflict, Interstate Enmity

Stuart Kaufman - University of Kentucky

7:00 p.m.

Reception and Dinner

U.S. Policy in Eurasia and Beyond

Ambassador Charles Dunbar - Simmons College

SATURDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER

9:00 - 11:45 a.m.

Session II

Energy Security for Whom?

Patrick Clawson - Washington Institute for Near East Studies

Transnational Criminal Organizations and Terrorist Networks

Phil Williams - University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University

The Environment as a Security Problem

Stuart Horsman - Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London

Institutions and the Management of Eurasian Security Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

P. Terrance Hopmann - Brown University and Watson Institute

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Luncheon

Reflections on the Lemnitzer Center's Relevance to the History of the Atlantic Alliance

Lawrence S. Kaplan - Kent State University

1:45 - 4:00 p.m.

Session III

NATO: Paths to Peace for Partnerships in Eurasia

Joshua Spero - Merrimack College

European Union

Simon Serfaty - Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington, DC and Old Dominion University

Commonwealth of Independent States

John P. Willerton - University of Arizona

Black Sea Economic Cooperation Council

Panagiota Manoli - BSEC Secretariat, Istanbul

4:15 - 5:15

Roundtable Discussion

S. Victor Papacosma

Kent State University

Sean Kay

Ohio Wesleyan University

James Sperling

University of Akron

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