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.”
Power Shifts in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Emerging Strategic Relationship of Israel, Greece, and Cyprus
Kenneth R. Weinstein Opening Remarks
President & CEO, Hudson Institute
Seth Cropsey Moderator
Hudson Senior Fellow and former Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy
Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL) Panel One
House Foreign Affairs Committee
H.E. Christos Panagopoulos Panel One
Greek Ambassador to the United States
H.E. George Chacalli Panel One
Cypriot Ambassador to the United States
Eli Groner Panel One
Minister for Economic Affairs, Israeli Embassy to the United States
Douglas J. Feith Panel Two
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Hillel Fradkin Panel Two
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
David Wurmser Panel Two
Former senior adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney and Undersecretary of State John Bolton
Joshua Walker Panel Two
Director of Global Programs, APCO Worldwide
Alexandros Petersen Panel Two
Advisor to the European Energy Security Initiative, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Charles Ellinas Panel Three
Chairman, National Hydrocarbon Company of Cyprus
Nicholas Karambelas Panel Three
Legal Counsel, American Hellenic Institute
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