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Alexandros Petersen

Alexandros Petersen was a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center.

He is a scholar of geopolitics with a decade's experience conducting research across Eurasia. Dr. Petersen is the author of The World Island: Eurasian Geopolitics and the Fate of the West, editor of Azerbaijan in Global Politics: Crafting Foreign Policy and co-manager of chinaincentralasia.com. He serves as an Advisor with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Associate Professor at the American University of Central Asia.  In the past, he has been Fellow for Transatlantic Energy Security at the Atlantic Council, a Visiting Fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a Visiting Scholar at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GFSIS) in Tbilisi.

Dr. Petersen regularly provides analysis to publications such as the Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, National Interest and the Atlantic.  He has appeared on the BBC, Sky News, CTV and NPR and has lectured on Eurasian geopolitics at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute and the U.S. National War College, amongst others.  He received a B.A. in War Studies with First Class Honors from King’s College London and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics.

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Two Decades of Transition in Caucasus and Central Asia: Taking Stock and the Road Ahead

On June 19, please join the Eurasia Center for a discussion on the IMF’s recent presentation Two Decades of Transition in Caucasus and Central Asia: Taking Stock and the Road Ahead with Dr. Juha Kähkönen, deputy director of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia department, and the Honorable William Courtney, former US ambassador to Georgia and Kazakhstan and former special assistant to the President and senior director of the National Security Council staff for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia. This event will be streamed LIVE from 10:30 a.m.

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The Chinese Cyber Challenge: How to Address the Growing Threat

On June 24, the Brent Scowcroft Center of the Atlantic Council will host a panel discussion on the most recent claims of Chinese cyber espionage and the implications of this threat for the US-China relationship and China's ties with its neighbors in Asia.

US-Iran Cultural Engagement: A Cost Effective Boon to US National Security

On June 27, the Atlantic Council’s Iran Task Force will launch a new issue brief by Ramin Asgard and Barbara Slavin entitled US-Iran Cultural Engagement: A Cost Effective Boon to US National Security, along with a public briefing on people-to-people exchanges with Iran.

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