Annex Participants Dr. Leila Alieva Rt. Hon. Stephen Byers, M. P. Born 1959 Born 1953 Founding Member and Acting Chair, Member, United Kingdom Parlia- National Committee on Azerbaijan’s ment, London; Member of Her Integration in Europe, Baku; Founder Majesty the Queen’s Privy Council; and Chair, Center for National and Chairman, Yalta European Strategy International Studies, Baku (Y. E. S.) Former positions: Director, Center for Strategic and Former positions: Secretary of State for Transport, Lo- International Studies, Baku; OSCE Observer, Presi- cal Government and the Regions, United Kingdom dential Elections in Georgia; Editor and National Government; Secretary of State for Trade and Indus- Coordinator, National Human Development Report, try; Chief Secretary to the Treasury; Minister of State Azerbaijan; Advisor to the President of EBRD and for School Standards. to BP, UNOCAL, STATOIL and AIOC; Fellow, NATO Pages: 38, 44, 46, 51, 52, 54, 68, 73, 81, 83, 88, 99, Defense College in Rome, SAIS — Johns Hopkins Uni- 102 versity, UC Berkeley, Woodrow Wilson Center for In- ternational Scholars, Harvard University. Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos Selected writings: Integrative Processes in the South Born 1946 Caucasus Region and their Security Implications Secretary General, Black Sea Eco- (2006). nomic Cooperation (BSEC), Per- Pages: 27, 29, 31, 36, 38, 45, 53, 59, 64, 70, 85, 89, 96 manent International Secretariat, Istanbul Ambassador Dr. Norbert Baas Former positions: Director General, Born 1947 Bilateral Economic Relations and Multilateral Eco- Special Envoy for Eastern Europe, nomic Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Central Asia and Caucasus, Federal the Hellenic Republic, Athens; Director General, Foreign Office, Berlin European Union Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Former positions: Ambassador-at-large, Ambassador, Greek Embassies in Ottawa, Warsaw Federal Foreign Office, Berlin; Head, and Yerevan; Alternate Director General, European Department for Central Europe, Federal Foreign Of- Union Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Director, fice, Berlin; Ambassador, German Embassy, Tbilisi; Directorate for Justice, Home Affairs and Schengen, Political Department, German Embassy, Moscow; Representative of Greece to the K-4 Committee and Private Secretary, Office of State Minister Schaefer, to the Central Group of Schengen, Ministry of For- Federal Foreign Office, Berlin; German Embassy, eign Affairs. Baghdad; OSCE-Mission, Paris. Selected writings: Caucasus Chronicles: Nation-Build- Pages: 41, 63, 92, 95, 99, 100 ing and Diplomacy in Armenia, 1993 –1994 (2002). Pages: 28, 43, 55, 57, 60, 62, 64, 65, 96 106 Nicolaos Couniniotis Deputy Chairman, SPD Parliamentary Group, Ger- Born 1941 man Bundestag, Berlin. Director General for Economic Af- Selected writings: Russland kommt. Putins Staat — Der fairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kampf um Macht und Modernisierung (2005). the Hellenic Republic, Athens Pages: 24, 40, 42, 46, 50, 67, 69, 73, 74, 78, 80, 86, 89, Former positions: Ambassador, Greek 95, 96, 99, 101 Embassy, Stockholm; Representa- tive of Greece to the European Union Political and Dr. Konstantin Gabashvili, MP Security Committee; Permanent Representative of Born 1948 Greece to the Western European Union; Head, Turk- Chairman of the Committee of For- ish Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, eign Relations, Parliament of Geor- Athens; Consul General, Greek General Consulate, gia, Tbilisi Geneva; Deputy Permanent Representative, Greek Former positions: Ambassador, Geor- Permanent Representation at the U. N. gian Embassy to Germany and Po- Pages: 67, 70, 81, 84, 90, 91, 97, 100 land; Mayor of Tbilisi; Minister of Education of Geor- gia; Member of the Parliament of Georgia; Chair- Judy Dempsey man, Committee of Education and Science, Member, Born 1956 State Council; Deputy Minister of the Minister of Central and Eastern Europe Cor- Education; Deputy Dean and Professor, Depart- respondent Europe, International ment of General Linguistics, Tbilisi State Univer- Herald Tribune, Berlin sity. Former positions: Diplomatic Cor- Pages: 26, 28, 32, 34, 39, 44, 46, 50, 51, 64, 79, 82, respondent, Financial Times (FT), 88, 92 Brussels; Correspondent, Financial Times, Jerusa- lem, Bonn and Vienna. Dr. Jörg Himmelreich Selected writings: ESDP, Five Years Later (2004). Born 1959 Pages: 44, 70, 72, 90, 91 Senior Transatlantic Fellow, Ger- man Marshall Fund of the United Gernot Erler, MdB States, Berlin Born 1944 Former positions: Transatlantic Fel- Minister of State, Federal Foreign low, German Marshall Fund of Office, Berlin; Member, Steering the United States, Washington D. C.; Senior Advi- Committee, Petersburg Dialogue; sor, Policy Planning Department, Federal Foreign President, South-Eastern Europe Office, Berlin; Assistant, DaimlerChrysler Board of Society (Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft), Management, Berlin; Director, Investment Banking Munich for Media and Communications, WestLB, London; Former positions: Coordinator, German-Russian Inter- Director, WestLB, Moscow; Head, Privatization of societal Cooperation, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin; the Construction Industry, Federal German Trust 107 Agency; Junior Professor, Institute for Public Law, thor, forthcoming 2006); Shifting Obsessions. Three Free University of Berlin. Essays on Politics of Anti-Corruption (2004). Pages: 35, 59, 60, 66, 80, 89, 90, 95, 96, 98 Pages: 25, 26, 43, 44, 45, 49, 53, 60, 64, 93, 98 Dr. Charles King Victor Likhachev Born 1967 Senior Counsellor, Embassy of the Chairman of the Faculty, Associate Russian Federation, Kiev Professor and holder of Ion Ratiu Page: 49 Chair of Romanian Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington D. C. Former positions: Research Fellow, New College, Ox- ford; Research Associate, International Institute for VLR I Dr. Hans-Dieter Lucas Strategic Studies, London. Born 1959 Selected writings: The Black Sea: A History (2004). Head, Central-, Southeastern- and Pages: 25, 26, 27, 30, 45, 56 Eastern Europe, Transcaucasus, Central Asia, Federal Chancellery, Dr. Ivan Krastev Berlin Born 1965 Former positions: Head Press and Chairman, Centre for Liberal Communications, German Embassy, Washington Strategies, Sofia; Executive Direc- D. C.; Chief Speech Writer of the Foreign Minister, tor, International Commission Federal Foreign Office, Berlin; Head, Personal Office on the Balkans; Director, Open of Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher (ret.), Century Project of the Central Berlin; Political Division Baltic States, Federal For- European University, Budapest; Research Director, eign Office, Berlin; German Embassy, Moscow. Project “The Politics of Anti-Americanisms” coor- Pages: 43, 90, 92 dinated by the Central European University, Buda- pest; Editor in Chief, Bulgarian Edition of “Foreign Hugues Mingarelli Policy”. Born 1954 Former positions: Visiting Fellow, St. Antony’s College, Director for Eastern Europe, Cau- Oxford; Woodrow Wilson Center for International casus and Central Asia, DG RELEX, Scholars, Washington D. C.; Collegium Budapest; European Commission, Brussels Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin; WEU Institute for Secu- Former positions: Director, Euro- rity Studies, Paris; German Marshall Campus Fellow, pean Agency for Reconstruction Washington D. C.; Institute of Federalism, University (EU Assistance to Kosovo, Serbia Montenegro and of Fribourg, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, FYROM), Thessalonica; Head of Unit, New Independ- and Remarque Institute, N Y U. ent States, DG RELEX, European Commission, Brus- Selected writings: The Anti-American Century, (co-au- sels; Principal Administrator and Country Officer for 108 Nigeria, DG DEV European Commission, Brussels; Ruprecht Polenz, MdB Administrator, Audit of Structural Funds and Euro- Born 1946 pean Development Fund, European Court of Audi- Chairman, Foreign Affairs Com- tors, Luxembourg. mittee, German Bundestag, Berlin; Pages: 36, 40, 47, 69, 73, 75, 76, 80, 85, 86, 87, 94, 95, Christian Democratic Union (CDU); 99, 100, 101 Rapporteur for Iran and Turkey, CDU/CSU-Parliamentary Group, Ger- Sofia Moreira de Sousa man Bundestag, Berlin Born 1973 Former positions: Head, TV Council, ZDF — German Political Advisor to the EUSR for Television; Secretary General, CDU, Berlin. South Caucasus, General Secretar- Selected writings: Eine faire Chance für die Türkei iat of the Council of the European (2004); Das faule Versprechen — Die Türkei gehört in Union, Brussels die EU (2003); Sicher nur mit Amerika: NATO, Ter- Former positions: Primary Council rorismus und eine neue Weltordnung (2002). Secretariat Negotiator European Neighbourhood Pages: 41, 52, 55, 58 Policy Action Plan EU-Ukraine and ENP Instrument; Political Advisor and Administrator responsible for Alexander G. Rahr EU relations with Ukraine, Northern Dimension and Born 1959 Black Sea policy; International Relations Officer at Program Director, Körber Center European Space Agency and Galileo Interim Support Russia/CIS, German Council on For- Structure, Brussels; Course Director, Justice, Home eign Relation (DGAP), Berlin Affairs and Human Rights, Academy of European Former positions: Senior Analyst, Re- Law, Trier. search Institute, Radio Free Europe/ Pages: 36, 75, 77, 88, 91, 92, 100 Radio Liberty, Munich; Project Manager, Federal In- stitute for East European and International Studies, Valeriu Ostalep Cologne; Member, Supervisory Board, Petersburg Born 1976 Dialogue, German Federal Cross of Merit Award. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Selected writings: Vladimir Putin. The German