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[Robert DeLossa <radelo@earthlink.net>]

Title: HURI Conference - Ukrainian Gas Crisis

The Ukrainian Research Institute is pleased to invite the larger academic community and general public to the following event of special interest:


Conference
Ukrainian Research Institute
Harvard University

 

The Ukrainian–Russian Gas Crisis and Its Aftermath

Economic, Political and International Ramifications

Sunday, February 5 and Monday February 6, 2006
 

Program:

Sunday, February 5, 2006
3:00–6:00 p.m.
Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
1583 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Michael S. Flier
Director, Ukrainian Research Institute
Lubomyr Hajda
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute
 
Session 1. Economic Aspects of the Crisis: Players, Agendas, Outcomes
Chair: Margarita M. Balmaceda  (Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and
International Relations, Seton Hall University, and Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute
and Davis Center, Harvard University)
 
"Introductory Remarks: The Background to the Crisis"
Margarita M. Balmaceda
Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations,
            Seton Hall University
Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian
            Studies
 
"Player One at the Table:  Ukraine"
Oles Smolansky
University Professor of International Relations (Emeritus), Lehigh University
 
"Player Two at the Table: Russia"
Marshall Goldman
Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus), Wellesley College
Associate Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

"The Unexpected Guest:  RosUkrEnergo"
 Roman Kupchinsky
Coordinator of Corruption Studies, RFE/RL, Inc., Prague
 
 "The Ukrainian-Russian Gas Agreement: Analysis and Alternatives"
Ferdinand Pavel
Research Associate, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin
Member, German Advisory Group with the Ukrainian Government, Kyiv
 
Commentator
Serhiy Teriokhin
former Minister of Economy of Ukraine
 
Rapporteur
Oleh Havrylyshyn
Deputy Director and Special Advisor, Office of Internal Audit,
            International Monetary Fund
 

 
Monday, February 6, 2006
12:00–2:00 p.m.
Case Study Room, Center for Government and International Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

Session 2. The Political Fallout in Ukraine
 Chair: Oxana Shevel  (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Purdue University, University
and Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute)

"Energy, Interest Groups, and Politics in Ukraine"
Margarita M. Balmaceda
Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations,
            Seton Hall University
Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian
            Studies
 
"The Political Context of the Crisis: The Split in the Orange Coalition, Constitutional Reform, Parliamentary Election"
Gene Fishel
Acting Division Chief, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State
 
"The Governmental Crisis: Kto kogo, or Who Is Getting Whom?"
Taras Kuzio
Visiting Professor,  Institute for European, Russian  and Eurasian Studies, Elliott School      of
            International Affairs, George Washington University
 
Commentator
Serhiy Teriokhin
former Minister of Economy of Ukraine
 
Rapporteur
Oleh Havrylyshyn
Deputy Director and Special Advisor, Office of Internal Audit,
            International Monetary Fund

Monday, February 6, 2006
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Case Study Room, Center for Government and International Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

Session 3. International Dimensions of the Gas Crisis
Chair: Lubomyr Hajda  (Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute)
 
"Ukrainian-Russian Relations: Beyond the Gas"
Paul D'Anieri
Associate Professor of Political Science, and Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and    Sciences, University of Kansas
 
"Europe and the Ukrainian–Russian Gas Crisis: Political Lessons"

John Gillingham
Professor of History, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Senior Visiting Scholar, Ukrainian Research Institute
 
"Europe and the Ukrainian–Russian Gas Crisis: Economic Lessons"
Ferdinand Pavel
Research Associate, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin
Member, German Advisory Group with the Ukrainian Government, Kyiv
 
"The Central Asian Factor"
Carol Saivetz
Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
 
"The View from Washington"
Gene Fishel
Acting Division Chief, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State
 
Commentator
Serhiy Teriokhin
former Minister of Economy of Ukraine
 
Rapporteur
Oleh Havrylyshyn
Deputy Director and Special Advisor, Office of Internal Audit,
            International Monetary Fund
 
Concluding Remarks


PLEASE NOTE:  Registration is required.  Participants may register at the door before the sessions.   Pre-registration is strongly encouraged.  Pre-registration forms may be downloaded from the HURI web site at:   http://www.huri.harvard.edu/pdf/Spring06SympRegForm.pdf