Svante E CornellSVANTE E. CORNELL is Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Center whose components are affiliated, respectively, with the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington D.C. and the Institute for Securityand Development Policy in Stockholm. Cornell was educated at the Middle East Technical University and Uppsala University. He previously taught political science and Eurasian affairs at Uppsala and at Johns Hopkins University-SAIS. He focuses on national security, regional politics, and conflict management issues in Central Asia, the Caucasus, as well as Turkey. He is the author or editor of eight books and more than one hundred articles. Read More Read Less