Impromptu Briefing

Russia, Georgia, Moldova, and Beyond

September 19, 2008, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Vladimir Socor

Vladimir Socor id Senior Fellow of The Jamestown Foundation and a regular contributor to Eurasia Daily Monitor. He is one of the foremost experts on NATO enlargement, as well as political, diplomatic and energy affairs in the Baltics, Belarus-Ukraine-Moldova, the South Caucasus and the Caspian.

He also covers Russian and Western policies, security and military issues and inter-ethnic conflict in the former Soviet Union. Mr. Socor is a frequent guest lecturer at Harvard University´s National Security Program at the Kennedy School of Government and a member of the Euro-Atlantic Security Study Group, sponsored by NATO PFP´s Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes.

For the past five years, he has written a fortnightly op-ed column in the Wall Street Journal Europe. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies (IASPS) in Washington. He also worked for many years at the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute. Mr. Socor is a U.S. citizen and currently lives in Munich, Germany.


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