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in Crossroads and Conflict: Security and Foreign Policy in the Caucasus and Central
Asia, edited by G. Bertsch, C. Craft, S. A. Jones and M. Beck (Routledge, London, 2000),
and other numerous publications on the Caucasus, Central Asia and the wider Black
Sea-Caspian basin.
Grigoriy Perepelytsia is Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute of the Diplomatic
Academy in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. He holds a PhD in political sciences.
Born on August, 13th, 1953 in Ukraine, he graduated the Senior Navy School in 1976
and the Defense Academy in 1984. From 1992 to 1995, he headed an analytical group
at the Center for Strategic Studies of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In 1995, he became Head of the Military Policy Department at the National Institute for
Strategic Studies. In 2003, he took the post as Deputy Director of the National Institute
for Strategic Studies, and from 2006, as Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
He is also a professor of the Institute of international Relations at the Kyiv National
University. He is known in Ukraine and abroad as an expert on foreign and security
policy, and is the author of over 50 scientific publications and books. Among his most
recent books are The Denuclearized Status and National Security in Ukraine, Military
security of Ukraine, Conflicts in the post-communist Europe ( äiev: Stilos Press, 2003.),
Genesis of conflicts on European post-communist space, Ukraine on a way to NATO
(äiev: Stilos Press, 2004.), Asymmetrical relations; Other publications: ‘The Belarus
Factor in the European policy of Ukraine.’, in the book Independent Belarus: Domestic
Determinants, Regional Dynamics, and Implications for the West( Harvard University
Press: Canada, 2002.), The Black Sea region: cooperation and security building (East-
West Institute: New York 2004), ‘Problems of Ukraine’s Military Integration into European
Security Structures.’, in the book Ukraine and European Security (St. Martin’s Press, Inc:
USA., 1999).
Styopa Safaryan has been elected a Deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic
of Armenia on parliamentary elections of 12 May 2007. He is Secretary of the “Heritage”
faction. Since 2005 Mr. Safaryan has been the Director of Research of the Armenian
Center for National and International Studies. From 2002 to 2005 he has worked as an
Analyst of Political and Legal Affaires of the same Centre. Between 1998 and 2002 Mr.
Safaryan was Deputy Head of “State Principles of Administration” and “Legal Principles
of Administration” Departments. Mr. Styopa Safaryan is an author of 4 monographs,
more than 50 articles and co-author of 4 books. He is a visiting lecturer of the Armenian
Academy for Public Administration, European Regional Academy and Yerevan State
University.
Dimitrios Triantaphyllou is Director General of the International Centre for Black Sea
Studies (ICBSS) and Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of
the Aegean in Rhodes. He holds a BA in Political Science and History from the University
of California, Berkeley and an MA and a PhD in International Relations from the Fletcher
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