Prospects for Regional Integration in Central Asia

12:00-12:30pm Lunch
12:30pm Opening remarks.
DCM Yerkin Akhinzhanov, Kazakhstan Embassy in the United States

Fatema Z. Sumar, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Affairs at the U.S. Department of State

1:00-2:30pm. Session I. Regional Integration Projects, Divergences and Challenges

Moderator: Margarita Assenova (Jamestown Foundation)

Sumona Guha (Policy Planning Staff, U.S. Department of State)
U.S. perspectives on Central Asia’s regional integration

Andrew Kuchins (Senior Fellow and Director of the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program)
Competing and Collaborative Visions of Eurasian Integration

Farrukh Irnazarov (Country Directory and Researcher, Central Asian Development Institute (CADI), Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and Visiting Fellow at the Central Asia and Caucasus Institute, SAIS)
Regional Cooperation in Central Asia: Evidence from the Field

Galymzhan Kirbassov (Columbia University)
An Integrated Approach to Combating International Terrorism in Central Asia

2:30-2:45pm Coffee-break

2:45-4:00pm. Session 2. Regional Integration, a View from Kazakhstan

Moderator: Sergey Gretsky (Catholic University)

Martha Brill Olcott (Visiting Professor, Michigan State University)
2014: The Impact on Kazakh Foreign Policy and Regional Cooperation

Anuar Ayazbekov (Rumsfeld Fellow)
Constructors of the Silk Road Narrative: Kazakhstan’s Voice

Marlene Laruelle (Central Asia Program, George Washington University)
Kazakhstan’s Dilemmas: Eurasian integration, Central Asian integration, or a ‘Kazakh Eli’ path?

The Kazakhstan Initiative at GW
Gratefully funded by the Kazakhstan Embassy in Washington D.C.