Democracy and Security International Conference

Democracy & Security International Conference was held in Prague right before the G8 2007 conference. Attendees included George Bush and a who's who of the neocon regime-change industry.

Organizers

• Prague Security Studies Institute
• Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem
• Foundation for Social Analysis and Studies (FAES)

Participants

• Issam Abu Issa -- Chairman, I.A.S. International, Qatar
• Peter Ackerman -- Chairman, Freedom House
• Mudawi Ibrahim Adam -- Chairman, Sudan Social Development Organization
• Sheldon G. Adelson -- Las Vegas Sands Corp.
• Miriam Adelson -- Las Vegas Sands Corp.
• Mithal Al-Alusi -- Iraqi MP
• Ludmilla Alexeeva -- Chair, Helsinki Group
• Leyla Aliyeva -- President, Center for National and International Studies, Azerbaijan
• Jafar Alshayeb -- Managing Director, Bizlink Group, Saudi Arabia
• Zainab Al-Suwaij -- Co-Founder & Executive Director, American Islamic Congress
• Ingrid Amer -- Second Secretary, Embassy of Estonia, Czech Rep.
• Elias Amor Bravo -- Economist, Union Liberal Cubana, Spain
• Sami Angawi -- Director General, Amar Center, Saudi Arabia
• Uzi Arad -- Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy, Israel
• Arie Arazi -- Ambassador of Israel, Czech Rep.
• Ronald D. Asmus -- Executive Director, Transatlantic Center, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Belgium
• Ghassan Atiyyah -- Executive Director, Iraq Foundation for Development and Democracy
• Shlomo Avineri -- Professor of Political Science, The Hebrew University, Israel
• José María Aznar -- President, FAES Foundation, Spain
• Hüseyin Bagci -- Professor of International Relations, Middle East Technical University

Turkey

• Rafael L. Bardají -- National Security Adviser to President Aznar; Director of International Policy FAES Foundation
• Dana Baschová -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech Rep.
• Anne Bayefsky -- Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
• Pavel Bém -- Lord Mayor of the City of Prague
• Mokhtar Benabdallaoui -- Head of the Philosophy Department, Hassan II University, Morocco
• David Bercuson -- Director of Programs, Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute
• Antonín Berdych -- President, Association for International Affairs
• Rudolf Blažek -- Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Prague, Czech Rep.
• Michael Bohnen -- President, Adelson Family Charitable Foundation
• Roberta Bonazzi -- Executive Director, European Foundation for Democracy, Belgium
• José Brechner -- Political Analyst, Diario di America, Argentina
• Jan Bubeník -- Managing Partner, Bubenik Partners, Czech Rep.
• Fraser Cameron -- Director, EU-Russia Center, Belgium
• Alberto Carnero -- Director of International Department, FAES Foundation
• Oldřich Černý -- Executive Director, Prague Security Studies Institute
• Chin-mo Cheng -- Assistant Professor, Tamkang University, Taiwan
• Irwin Cotler -- Canadian MP, Former Minister of Justice & Attorney General of Canada
• Devon Cross -- Case for Freedom, USA
• Cina Dabestani -- Board Member, Iranian Enterprise Institute, USA
• Priscilla de Callier -- Advisor, Forum 2000 Foundation, Czech Rep.
• Pepper de Callier -- Senior Advisor, Forum 2000 Foundation, Czech Rep.
• Richard Dearlove -- Master, Pembroke College
• Pavol Demeš -- Director for CEE, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Slovakia
• Ron Dermer -- Minister of Economic Affairs, Embassy of Israel, USA
• Barbara Dillon Hillas -- Principal, Dillon Hillas & Dillon, LLC, Poland
• Linda Duffield -- Ambassador of the United Kingdom, Czech Rep.
• Gabriel Eichler -- CEO, Benson Oak, Czech Rep.
• Bassem Eid -- Executive Director, Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group
• Helmut Elfenkämper -- Ambassador of Germany, Czech Rep.
• Mohamed Eljahmi -- Libyan-American Democracy Activist
• Marc S. Ellenbogen -- Chairman of Global Panel Foundation and Special Correspondent, UPI
• David Elliman -- Chairman, Elmrock Capital, Inc., USA
• Amir Abbas Fakhravar -- President, Iranian Freedom Institute, USA
• Oleksandr Feldman -- President, International Tolerance Center, Ukraine
• Javier Fernandéz-Lasquetty -- General Secretary, FAES Foundation
• Charles Fries -- Ambassador of France, Czech Rep.
• Jeffrey Gedmin -- President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Czech Rep.
• Jared Genser -- President, Freedom Now, USA
• Reuel Marc Gerecht -- Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Belgium
• Farid Ghadry -- President, Reform Party of Syria, USA
• John K. Glenn -- Director of Foreign Policy, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
• David Goder -- Case for Freedom, USA
• Vera Golovensky -- Director of International Relations, Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies
• Richard W. Graber -- Ambassador of the United States of America, Czech Rep.
• Colleen Graffy -- Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Diplomacy, State Department
• Karl-Theodor von und zu Guttenberg -- Chairman of the CSU‘s Foreign Committee, German Bundestag
• Václav Havel -- Former President of the Czech Republic, Czech Rep.
• Anna Y. C. Ho -- Assistant to the Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Czech
• Jim Hoft -- Gateway Pundit Blog, USA
• Mamoun Homsy -- Fmr. Member of Syrian Parliament, Lebanon
• Karen P. Hughes -- Under Secretary, Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
• Jana Hybášková -- Member of the European Parliament, Czech Rep.
• Saad Eddin Ibrahim -- Chairman, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, Egypt
• Toomas Hendrik Ilves -- President of Estonia, Estonia
• Bruce P. Jackson -- President, Project on Transitional Democracies, USA
• Vladislav Jandjuk -- Representative, Belorusian Government in Exile, Czech Rep.
• Pavle Janković -- President, International and Security Affairs Center Fund, Serbia
• Josef Janning -- Head of International Relations Program; Member of Management Commitee, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Germany
• Roman Joch -- Director, Občanský institut, Czech Rep.
• Josef Joffe -- Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit, Germany
• Daniel B. Johnson -- Writer and Journalist, New York Sun Commentary, USA
• Jon Juaristi -- Professor, University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain
• Sven Jürgenson -- Foreign Policy Adviser to the President of Estonia
• Cheol Hwan Kang -- Chairman of Commission, Committe for Democratization of North Korea
• Garri Kasparov -- Chessplayer and Politician, United Civil Front, Russia

Nibras Kazimi Visiting Scholar Hudson Institute USA Eli Khoury Chairman and CEO Quantum Communications Lebanon Iain King Director of Programmes Westminster Foundation for Democracy United Kingdom Jakub Klepal Deputy Executive Director Forum 2000 Foundation Czech Rep. Igor Klimeš Desk Officer for the Middle East People In Need Czech Rep. The Prague Security Studies Institute Pohořelec 6, 118 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic Tomáš Klvaňa Professor New York University in Prague Czech Rep. Julian Knapp Political Consultant United Kingdom Bessel Kok Chairman Scarlet Communications Group Czech Rep. Petr Kolář Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States of America USA Jana Košárková Acting Director Prague Security Studies Institute Washington USA Martin Kramer Senior Fellow The Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center Israel Irina Krasovskaya President We Remember Foundation Belarus Veronika Kuchyňová Šmigolová Director Security Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Czech Rep. Ziv Nevo Kulman Deputy Chief of Mission Embassy of Israel Czech Rep. Ieva Kupce Head of Public Diplomacy Ministry of Defence Latvia Ronald S. Lauder Ronald Lauder Foundation USA Joseph Lieberman Senator United States Senate USA Tod Lindberg Research Fellow Hoover Institution USA Junning Liu Professor China Herb London President Hudson Institute USA Jeff Lovitt Executive Director Policy Association for an Open Society Czech Rep. Woon-Ki Lyeo Deputy Chief of Mission Embassy of South Korea Czech Rep. [[Monika MacDonagh-Pajerová]] Chair Ano pro Evropu Czech Rep. Kanan Makiya Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Brandeis University USA Toshio Masuda President Masuda US Research Center, LLC USA Margarita Mathiopoulos Chief Executive Officer EAG European AdvisoryGroup GMBH Germany Clifford D. May President The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies USA Aliaksandr Milinkevich President Political Council of Democratic Forces of Belarus Belarus Jorge Moragas Sanchez Secretary of International Relations Partido Popular Spain Karinna Moskalenko Defense Attorney Russia Cameron Munter Deputy Chief of Mission Embassy of the United States of America Czech Rep. Joshua Muravchik Resident Scholar American Enterprise Institute USA Rami Nasrallah Head of Board of Directors International Peace and Cooperation Center East Jerusalam Fiamma Nirenstein Journalist and Historian Il Giornale Italy Michael Novak Scholar American Enterprise Institute USA Jan Novák Head of the Office of the Government Government of the Czech Republic Czech Rep. John O’Sulivan Senior Fellow Hudson Institute USA Reza Pahlavi Opposition Leader to Clerical Regime of Iran USA www.democracyandsecurity.org www.pssi.cz Zbyněk Pavlačík Director Jagello 2000 Czech Rep. Antonio Pedauyé Ambasador of Spain to the Czech Republic Embassy of Spain Czech Rep. Jiří Pehe Resident Director New York University in Prague Czech Rep. Richard Perle Resident Fellow American Enterprise Institute USA Ross Perrone Ronald Lauder Foundation USA Walid Phares Senior Fellow Foundation for the Defense of Democracies USA Marc F. Plattner Editor, Journal of Democracy National Endowment for Democracy USA Tomáš Pojar Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Czech Rep. Daniel Polisar President The Shalem Center Israel Roman Polonsky Project’s Director of the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center Israel Tomasz Pompowski Foreign and Opinions Editor Polskapresse Poland Andrei Popov Executive Director Foreign Policy Association of Moldova Moldova Shay Porat Vice President for External Affairs The Shalem Center Israel Harold Rhode Office Assesment US Defense Department USA Roger W. Robinson, Jr. Co-Founder Prague Security Studies Institute USA Berel Rodal Vice Chairman Interntional Center on Nonviolent Conflict USA Nina Rosenwald Principal American Securities USA Allen Roth Policy Forum USA Michael Rubin Resident Scholar American Enterprise Institute USA Rafael Rubio President Association for the Transition of Cuba Spain Ivo Samson Head of Security Policy Program Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association Slovakia Andor Šándor Fmr. Head of Czech Military Intelligence Czech Rep. Mohsen Sazegara Visiting Researcher Harvard Law School USA Christian Schmidt Parliamentary State Secretary Federal Ministry of Defence Germany

• Jiří Schneider, Program Director, Prague Security Studies Institute, Czech Rep.
• Steven Schneier, Director, Policy Forum, USA
• Karel Schwarzenberg, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Czech Rep.
• Jiří Šedivý, Deputy Vice Prime Minister for European Affairs, Czech Rep.
• Natan Sharansky Chairman, The Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center, Israel, The Prague Security Studies Institute, Pohořelec 6, 118 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic
• Jamie Shea, Director, Policy Planning, Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO Belgium
• Ssu-tsun Shen, Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Czech Rep.
• Stefano Silvestri President, Institute for International Affairs, Italy
• Jakub Šlosárek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech Rep.
• Eugeniusz Smolar President, Center for International Relations Poland
• Jan Šnaidauf, Project Coordinator, Forum 2000 Foundation, Czech Rep.
• Radek Špicar, External Affairs Director, Škoda Auto, Czech Rep.
• Bret Stephens, Foreign Affairs Columnist and Member of the Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal, USA
• Veton Surroi Head, Reformist Party Kosovo
• C. Holland Taylor Chairman & CEO LibForAll, USA
• Yulia Tymoshenko -- MP Ukraine

Contact

• Website: http://www.democracyandsecurity.org

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