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Political Economics of Secession : BARCELONA REPORT: BIOGRAPHIES Participant Biographies A | B | C | D | E | J | M | N | O | P | V | S Rezo Adamia is a member of the Georgian Parliament and a Special Envoy of the President on the Coordination Council for Negotiations with Abkhaz Secessionists. He was elected a Member of Parliament in 1992 and currently chairs the Committee on Defense and Security; he also serves as the Deputy Head of the State Commission for Participation of Georgia in NATO's "Partnership for Peace" program. Dr. Adamia began his political career in 1991 as a member of Zurab Zhvania's Georgia Greens, which eventually merged with President Shevardnadze's party in 1994 to become the Citizens' Union of Georgia. Dr. Adamia received his BSc in Biology, Molecular Biology and Microbiology in 1974 from the Tbilisi State University and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Microbiology from the Scientific-Industrial Union "Bacteriophage" in 1986.
John Brademas, President Emeritus of New York University, was NYU President from 1981 to 1992. A U.S. Representative in Congress for 22 years (1959-81), he is presently chairman of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and National Endowment for Democracy and president of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center of New York University Foundation. A graduate of Harvard University and of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, he wrote his Ph.D. on the anarcho-syndicalist movement in Spain. His book Anarcosindicalismo y revolucion en Espana, 1930-37, was published in Barcelona by Ariel in 1974. As NYU President, Dr. Brademas awarded by His Majesty, King Juan Carlos I of Spain an honorary degree in 1983, and established a Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization in the name of His Majesty. In 1997 he was decorated by the Spanish Minister of Education and Culture of Spain with the Grand Cross of Alphonse X the Learned (Gran Cruz de la Orden de Alfonso X el Sabio). Ian Bremmer is Senior Fellow and Director of Eurasia Studies at the World Policy Institute and President of Eurasia Group. Dr. Bremmer received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University and has held positions at the Hoover Institution, the East-West Institute, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. An expert on Eurasia states in transition, he has published widely on nation - and state - building, ethnic conflict, and international relations in the region. Dr. Bremmer's recent writing includes New States, New Politics: Building the Post Soviet Nations, and essays in publications including International Affairs, World Policy Journal, Insight, Journal of Democracy, The New Republic, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. Robin Bhatty is a Fellow in the Program in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto, and a doctoral candidate in Political Science at Columbia University in New York. He has traveled widely in the Caucasus and has written extensively on regional military and political issues. Most recently, Mr. Bhatty authored "Energy Investments and Ethnic Conflict in the Caucasus".
Francesc Cabana I Vancells is currently an Associate Professor at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. He received his Bachelor's degree in Law and is a member of the Association of Lawyers of Barcelona. He worked from 1951 to 1959 for the Barcelona Stock Exchange and for Banca Catalonia and from 1984 to 1992 he was a financial advisor for the World Bank. He is a collaborator on the only Catalan newspaper "Avui". Mr. Cabana is the co-author of the "Histuria Econumica de la Catalunya Contemporania" (Economic History of Contemporary Catalunya) which was edited by Dr. Jordi Nadal. In addition, Mr. Cabana has authored numerous works about Catalonia's economy. James Chace is the Henry Luce Professor in Freedom of Inquiry and Expression at Bard College, Senior Advisor to Eurasia Group and editor of World Policy Journal. Mr. Chace is the author of six books on international affairs, including Solvency, America Invulnerable and The Consequences of Peace, and, most recently, the critically acclaimed Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World. Mr. Chace's previous appointments have included Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs. Viacheslav A. Chirikba has been the representative of the Republic of Abkhazia to Western Europe since 1993. He completed his doctoral dissertation in 1986 at the Moscow Institute of Linguistics, USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1991 to 1996, Dr. Chirikba was a professor and research fellow at Leiden University, The Netherlands, where he authored a Doctoral dissertation on the History of West Caucasian Languages. In 1993-1994, he was a member of the Abkhaz delegation at the Georgian-Abkhaz peace negotiations in Geneva, and since 1993, he has been the Permanent Representative of Abkhazia to UNPO, The Hague. Dr. Chirikba is the author of numerous articles on the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict and has organized and participated in several conferences on the subject worldwide. Jonathan Hershel Cohen is an Oxford-educated, Russian-speaker who for the past six years has traveled extensively in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe, running programs and acting as a consultant on the promotion of civil society, conflict resolution, human rights, democratization and humanitarian initiatives. He is currently a Program Associate at Conciliation Resources in London. Additionally, he is a consultant to Clingendael, The Dutch Institute for International Relations on a study of conflict prevention in the OSCE; the Institute for War and Peace Reporting on media development programs in the former Soviet Union; and a delegate on an Amnesty International mission to Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Among numerous publications on secession, his most recent is "Peace Postponed: The War Continues in Abkhazia".
Alain Dubuc is the Editorial Page Editor of La Presse in Montreal, Canada. La Presse is the main French language daily in Canada with a circulation of 250,000 weekdays and 350,000 weekends. Mr. Dubuc, an economist, has been a business columnist for the same newspaper for many years. He has won many journalism awards, including the Canadian Business Awards and wrote a book on economics. Mr. Dubuc also has a column on Quebec issues in the Toronto Star.
Charles E. Ehrlich is a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Oxford. He is currently researching international legal issues related to sovereignty, globalization, federalism, ethnicity, and human rights at the College of William and Mary School of Law in Virginia. Among his current projects, he is collaborating in mediation on behalf of the Organization of American States concerning the rights of indigenous peoples in Latin America. He received his Doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he was the Norman Hargreaves Mawdsley Scholar in the History of Spain at Wolfson College. His doctoral thesis concerned Catalan regionalism and Spanish constitutional history. He also holds a Master's Degree from the London School of Economics and an undergraduate (BA) degree from Harvard University. He has published widely in such journals as the Journal of Contemporary History, the European History Quarterly and Nations and Nationalism. Pere Esteve is the Secretary General and spokesman for Convergencia Democratica de Catalunya (CDC). He has been affiliated with CDC since 1976 and served as the Town Councilor of the city of Tiana from 1979 to 1983, while acting as the local head of the CDC for Tiana. Mr. Esteve has been a National party Delegate since 1984 and a member of the party's National Executive Board, responsible for Sector Policies from 1988 to 1992. Mr. Esteve was President of the Association of Industrial Engineers of Catalonia from 1989 to 1992 and Founder and Vice president of the Catalan Institute of Technical Testing and Control. Prior to this, Mr. Esteve was a lecturer of Electronics and Automation at the Graduate Technical School of Industrial Engineers of Barcelona from 1965 to 1969, at which point he became Technical Director and Managing Director of an electronics company from 1966 to 1979. He served as a consultant from 1980 to 1992. Mr. Esteve is an Industrial engineer graduate from the Graduate Technical School of Industrial Engineers of Barcelona.
Stephen F. Jones is an Associate Professor of Russian and Eurasia Studies at Mount Holyoke College. He received his Ph.D. in 1984 in Political Science from the London School of Economics and has taught numerous courses in Soviet and Post-Soviet politics at Oxford University, the Polytechnic of North London, the University of California at Santa Cruz and at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Dr. Jones has published numerous books and articles on Georgian-Abkhaz relations and has organized several conferences on the subject. He also served as a political and academic consultant to numerous organizations, including the World Bank, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the US Government and National Geographic Magazine.
Pasqual Maragall Mira is the Presidential candidate of the Catalan Socialist Party (PSC) in Catalonia's upcoming elections. In 1975 he was among the founders of the PSC which, in 1977, entered into a coalition with the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) and carried Catalonia in the first democratic elections after Franco's dictatorship in 1982. He was the Deputy Mayor of Barcelona in 1979 and was elected Mayor in 1982. He was reelected Mayor several times throughout the 80s and 90s. He was also a Member of the Catalonian Parliament from 1988 - 1992. Other posts have included the Presidency of CEMR (Council of European Municipalities and Regions) as well as the Vice-President of the European Union's Committee of regions. Among Dr. Maragall's numerous awards are the Order of the British Empire, the Legion d'Honneur, Olympic Gold Order, and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from John Hopkins University. Troy McGrath is a Visiting Fellow at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. He is also a member of the Association for the Study of Nationalities Executive Board. Dr. McGrath received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1994. Prior appointments have included: Director, Eastern Europe Branch of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Dean of the Law Program at Shkoder University, Assistant Professor of International Relations and European Studies at Central European University and Visiting Professor at Monash University. Jonathan Miller is currently a freelance journalist who regularly contributes to The Guardian, Independent, Independent on Sunday, Miami Herald, Washington Post, MSNBC, Radio 5, Sunday Times and European. From 1986 to 1997 Mr. Miller was with News Corporation in London where he acted as a Media correspondent for The Times, Media Editor for The Sunday Times, Public Affairs director for Sky Television and an Internet developer. Prior to this, Mr. Miller was a Communications journalist in Washington, D.C. Mr. Miller received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Mary Ann Newmans is a translator and student of Catalan literature and culture. In 1998 she received the Josep Carner Award for Literary Theory from the Institute of Catalan Studies and the Creu de St. Jordi (Cross of St. George) from the Generalitat de Catalunya. She is the English language translator of Quim Monzó and Xavier Rubert de Ventós.
Brendan O'Leary is Professor of Political Science and Head of the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, he is the author, co-author, and editor of eleven books, including The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation (Routledge, 1993) and Explaining Northern Ireland (1995), and of numerous articles in learned journals, books, magazines and newspapers. He has just finished a book with John McGarry, entitled Policing Northern Ireland: A Fresh Start - it will be published in spring 1999. His fields of research and expertise are: nationalism, national self-determination, national and ethnic conflict-regulation, electoral systems, federal and devolutionary governments, and theories of the state. For ten years he has been a political and constitutional consultant to Irish, British, and American politicians and public officials working on the Irish peace process, and he has worked for the European Union and the United Nations on conflict-regulation initiatives in Somalia.
Tunde Puskas is a Fellow at the National Studies Program at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. She is presently completing her Masters of Philosophy thesis entitled Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Group Contact in Slovakia and Finland. Included among the many conferences that Ms. Puskas has participated is Towards Europe or Eurasia, where she gave a presentation on "The Changing Position of the Hungarian Minority in the Ever More Nationalistic Slovak State". She has also held positions at the Foundation for Inter-Ethnic Relations at The Hague.
Xavier Rubert de Ventos is a Professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Barcelona. He has been a visiting professor at the Harvard University, University of California - Berkley and New York University. He is the founder of the Barcelona-New York doctoral studies at New York University and he participated in the foundation of the New York Institute of Humanities. Translated into English are his books Self Defected Man (Harper and Row), Heresies in Modern Art (Columbia University Press) and The Hispanic Labyrinth (Rutgers).
Stephen Schlesinger was appointed director of the World Policy Institute and publisher of the World Policy Journal in May 1997. Over the past 25 years, in both journalism and government service, he has been a keen observer of domestic and international affairs, with a special focus on issues affecting the United States. He is the author of The New Reformers: Forces for Change in American Politics, and co-author of Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the U.S. Coup in Guatemala. As a journalist, Schlesinger has been a staff writer, reporter and columnist for publications including Time, The Village Voice, Boston Globe, New York Post, and The Nation. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Harper's, Newsday, and the Washington Post. He holds a law degree from Harvard Law School; his B.A. is also from Harvard University. He earned a Certificate of Study in European History at Cambridge University and has lectured at The New School and New York University. Jonathan Stein is a Research Associate at the East-West Institute, Prague Centre, where he has co-authored The Czech Republic, 1989-1997. In addition to his responsibilities at the Center, Mr. Stein is currently a Czech and Slovak Affairs Analyst for Romanian National Television. He has published extensively about the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and his work has appeared in Country Forecast - Slovakia, The Prague Post, The New York Times, The Nation as well as many others. Mr. Stein completed his Masters degree in Philosophy and Political Science at Yale University in 1992 and received his Bachelors degree in 1987 from Rutgers College. Mr. Stein has held the position of Editor at Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities and lectured at the Central European University and Charles University. Gia Tarkhan-Mouravi has been President of the International Center for Geopolitical and Regional Studies in Tbilisi since December 1995, and President, Georgian Association for Innovative Technologies since June 1996. Mr. Tarkhan-Mouravi is also Head of the preparatory team for the Social Science Support Program at the Open Society - Georgia Foundation (Soros Foundation). Prior to this, he was the National Coordinator of the Human Development Report on Georgia for the Yearbooks dated 1995, 1996 and 1997, which were jointly prepared by the UN Development Programme and the Georgian Government. Mr. Tarkhan-Mouravi was a member of the Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment for Transcaucasus Team, carried out by the British Red Cross Society and IFRC, from December 1995 to August 1996, and Director General of the French-Georgian joint venture company "ULEVI Ltd." from 1994 to 1995. He is also a Co-founder and Member of the Executive Board of the "Open Society - Georgia" Foundation (Soros Foundation).
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