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This event is supported in part by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan . Pulat Shozimov is Head of the Department of the Western Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of Tajikistan’s Academy of Sciences and served as a Fulbright Scholar at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at the Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in 2005. He is author of the book: Tajik Identity and State Building in Tajikistan and the editor of a several books on such problems as identity, state and religion, and secularism and Islam in the context of Central Asia.. S. Frederick Starr is founding chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and a Research Professor at SAIS. He began work in the Turkic world as an archaeologist in Turkey and went on to found the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, which opened U.S. research contact with Central Asia. He served as vice president of Tulane University and president of Oberlin College and the Aspen Institute, and has advised three U.S. presidents on Russian/Eurasian affairs and chaired an external advisory panel on U.S. government-sponsored research on the region. He organized and co-authored the first comprehensive strategic assessment of Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Afghanistan for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1999, and has followed up by close involvement in the drafting of recent U.S. legislation affecting the region. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University and is the author or editor of twenty books and more than two hundred articles on Russian and Eurasian affairs.
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