Power Shifts in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Emerging Strategic Relationship of Israel, Greece, and Cyprus

October 2013

Past Event

Power Shifts in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Emerging Strategic Relationship of Israel, Greece, and Cyprus

Past Event

Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters

October 22, 2013

October 2013

Past Event

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

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Speakers:

Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL)

House Foreign Affairs Committee

H.E. Christos Panagopoulos

Greek Ambassador to the United States

H.E. George Chacalli

Cypriot Ambassador to the United States

Eli Groner

Minister for Economic Affairs, Israeli Embassy to the United States

Hillel Fradkin

Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World

Joshua Walker

Director of Global Programs, APCO Worldwide

Alexandros Petersen

Advisor to the European Energy Security Initiative, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Charles Ellinas

Chairman, National Hydrocarbon Company of Cyprus

Nicholas Karambelas

Legal Counsel, American Hellenic Institute

The discovery of massive quantities of hydrocarbons in both the Israeli and Cypriot exclusive economic zones, and the selection of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline, redraws the Eastern Mediterranean's hydrocarbon map and will significantly impact international energy security policies. This transformation has emerged against a backdrop of major political upheavals still underway throughout the area. To address this development and explore its implications, Hudson Institute convened a major policy conference on October 22, 2013, and welcomed a number of distinguished American and international diplomats, legislators, business leaders, scholars, and legal and military experts as participating guests. The proceedings were divided into three distinct panel discussions: the first on "Political and Security Changes in the Eastern Mediterranean"; the second on "Implications of the Emerging Strategic Relationship of Israel, Greece, and Cyprus, and Turkey's Drift Towards Authoritarianism and Islamism"; and the third on "The Changing Eastern Mediterranean Energy Security Environment."

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