The Graveyard of Empires: the Caucasus and why it matters to us

About the Event

This event is part of the FPRI-National Liberty Museum Series for Winter-Spring 2013 and will take place at the National Liberty Museum, 321 Chestnut Street, Phila.

Thomas de Waal is a senior associate in the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment, specializing primarily in the South Caucasus region as well as the wider Black Sea region. He is author of the authoritative book on the Karabakh conflict, Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War (NYU Press, 2003), which has been translated into Armenian, Azeri, and Russian. His latest book is The Caucasus: An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010). He is the co-author (with Carlotta Gall) of the book Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus (NYU Press, 1997), for which the authors were awarded the James Cameron Prize for Distinguished Reporting.

Registration

5:30 Registration, 5:45 Lecture

Free for Members of FPRI and NLM; $20 for Non-Members

FPRI Partners at the Bronze Level invited to Dinner immediately following

Reservations are required. RSVP: events@fpri.org

For more information contact 215 732 3774, ext 303 or events@fpri.org.

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