Dr. Gerald Robbins, Associate Fellow, Foreign Policy Research InstituteDr. Kemal Silay, Chairman, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Program, Indiana UniversityDr. Omer Taspinar, Director, Turkey Project, The Brookings Institution

co-sponsored by EES and the Open Society Institute's International Policy Fellowships program and includes a public seminar featuring authors of the recently published IPF book Policy Perspectives. The discussion will begin with a presentation by OSI International Policy Fellow Ekaterina Sokirianskaia (Russian human rights organization Memorial; university professor) on Muslim communities and political Islam in the Caucasus, followed by comments from fellow Syed Tauqir Hussain Shah (ILO-Islamabad) who recently completed field research on the roots of political Islam in Pakistani madrassas. A second presentation by fellow Ihsan Dagi (Middle East Technical University, Ankara) will focus on Turkey's political reorientation toward the West and westernization, followed by comments from fellows Simeon Evstatiev (Sofia University and the Center for Intercultural Studies and Partnership, Bulgaria) and Ahmed Idrees Rahmani (Stanford University; formerly with USAID in Afghanistan). In addition to the presenters and discussants, the seminar will be attended by many of the policy fellows from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Turkey who contributed to the recently published OSI International Policy Fellowships book Policy Perspectives: Islam and Tolerance in Wider Europe. The seminar will end with a reception hosted by OSI-DC in celebration of the book.

with Malcom Evans, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, and Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol, School of Law

Sabrina Ramet, Professor of Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology-Trodheim, Research Associate at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo and currently Visiting Professor, Georgetown University and WWICS Public Policy Fellow