THE MOUNTAINS MOVE: RUSSIA, CAUCASIA AND THE WEST

ARMENIAN INSTITUTE

LECTURE

THE MOUNTAINS MOVE: RUSSIA, CAUCASIA AND THE WEST

By Dr Ronald G Suny
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History, University of Chicago

Monday, 30 March 2009, at 7:30 pm
Nevart Gulbenkian Hall, Iverna Gardens, London W8
(Tube: High Street Kensington)




The Republics of the South Caucasus, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, long
considered on the periphery of world affairs, suddenly became the centre of
international attention in August 2008 when Russia and Georgia went to war.
That conflict and its effects must be understood in both regional and global
terms.  Professor Suny will explore the question of Russia's interests, the
new East/West conflict and the consequences for South Caucasia.

Ronald Grigor Suny is the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and
Political History at the University of Michigan and Professor Emeritus of
Political Science and History at the University of Chicago.  He is the
author of Looking Toward Ararat:  Armenia in Modern History (Indiana, 1993)
and the editor of The Cambridge History of Russia, Vol. III:  The Twentieth
Century (Cambridge, 2006). 

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