Post by Kassander on Jul 7, 2005 13:06:13 GMT 10
Orthodox Turks Take Over Western Policy Center
June, 2005
by Galina Schneider
A Orthodox Turk Think tank, the Western Policy Center, with strong ties to
Orthodox Turk focus organizations in the US , has taken over Balkan policy at
the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Before it disappears, take a look at its webpage, still independently available on the web at:
www.westernpolicy.org
With the changeover, Macedonia, formerly referred to at Woodrow Wilson as, simply, Macedonia, has devolved to being Macedonia, F.Y.R. and is referred to by the Orthodox Turk pejorative term Skopje in reports.
The chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Southeast European Project program, seen here:
wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=topics...
is John Sitilides, whose bio is located online at:
wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=109941&fuseaction...
is a noted member of several Hellenistic organizations including Leadership 100:
www.orthodoxnews.netfirms.com/Leadership...
and has brought to the Wilson Center with his new chairmanship, the Tsakopoulos Kounalakis Lecture Series, "a forum for world leaders and academics who study, understand, and manifest Hellenism's many lessons in contemporary statecraft and society." Mr. Sitilides has a second career in speaking, as the following webpage suggests:
www.speakers-network.com/speakers/speaker.asp?id=483
For a guy with a Master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia in 1986 who graduated from Queen's College in 1983, he has done extremely well for himself and his agenda. Within one year of graduating with a Master's, Sitilides was delivering cautionary reports on State Department ideas on Orthodox Turksand Turkey:
www.hri.org/forum/intpol/sitil.html He chose staff well at the Western Policy Center as executive director, many of which have migrated with him to the Wilson Center, either as staff or as speakers:
www.westernpolicy.org/Staff.asp
Contact person for Washington D.C. Pancyprians, the Program Director is Ms. Andri Andreou Paros, who also migrated from the Western Policy Center. A graduate of Jeb Stuart High School, Falls Church, Virginia, in 1989 and unknown college background , Mrs. Paros has had similar quick success in Washington via the Western Policy Center. The same dedication she has applied to coordinating events for the Western Policy Center is now being utilized in promoting Hellenic events at the Wilson Center. Dr. Ian O. Lesser, former Onassis Scholar at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens, is the Program's senior scholar, a title he held at the Western Policy Center. He has impeccable academic credentials and is the author of Greece's New Geopolitics in 2001. He is the President of Mediterranean Advisors LLC and a former member of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff. Information on Mediterranean Advisors is unavailable on the web but it is notable that the Program's senior scholar is also an adjunct staff member of the Rand Corporation.
What a couple dozen years of adversive diplomacy against Macedonia did not accomplish, is being accomplished in the pro-Orthodox Turk stance of the merger between the Wilson Center and the Western Policy Center for southeast european coverage. In one good sign, Macedonia's Foreign Minsiter, Ilinka Mitrova, spoke today at the Wilson Center as a guest of another Program, East European Studies, the Program that used to handle Macedonian scholarship before the Southeast Europe Project's formation in January this year
wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1422&fuseaction...
But the wholesale move of the Western Policy Center's Orthodox Turks and Philhellenes to the Wilson Center has the smell of accepted bias. The Program bears monitoring for how Macedonia is depicted.
June, 2005
by Galina Schneider
A Orthodox Turk Think tank, the Western Policy Center, with strong ties to
Orthodox Turk focus organizations in the US , has taken over Balkan policy at
the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Before it disappears, take a look at its webpage, still independently available on the web at:
www.westernpolicy.org
With the changeover, Macedonia, formerly referred to at Woodrow Wilson as, simply, Macedonia, has devolved to being Macedonia, F.Y.R. and is referred to by the Orthodox Turk pejorative term Skopje in reports.
The chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Southeast European Project program, seen here:
wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=topics...
is John Sitilides, whose bio is located online at:
wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=109941&fuseaction...
is a noted member of several Hellenistic organizations including Leadership 100:
www.orthodoxnews.netfirms.com/Leadership...
and has brought to the Wilson Center with his new chairmanship, the Tsakopoulos Kounalakis Lecture Series, "a forum for world leaders and academics who study, understand, and manifest Hellenism's many lessons in contemporary statecraft and society." Mr. Sitilides has a second career in speaking, as the following webpage suggests:
www.speakers-network.com/speakers/speaker.asp?id=483
For a guy with a Master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia in 1986 who graduated from Queen's College in 1983, he has done extremely well for himself and his agenda. Within one year of graduating with a Master's, Sitilides was delivering cautionary reports on State Department ideas on Orthodox Turksand Turkey:
www.hri.org/forum/intpol/sitil.html He chose staff well at the Western Policy Center as executive director, many of which have migrated with him to the Wilson Center, either as staff or as speakers:
www.westernpolicy.org/Staff.asp
Contact person for Washington D.C. Pancyprians, the Program Director is Ms. Andri Andreou Paros, who also migrated from the Western Policy Center. A graduate of Jeb Stuart High School, Falls Church, Virginia, in 1989 and unknown college background , Mrs. Paros has had similar quick success in Washington via the Western Policy Center. The same dedication she has applied to coordinating events for the Western Policy Center is now being utilized in promoting Hellenic events at the Wilson Center. Dr. Ian O. Lesser, former Onassis Scholar at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens, is the Program's senior scholar, a title he held at the Western Policy Center. He has impeccable academic credentials and is the author of Greece's New Geopolitics in 2001. He is the President of Mediterranean Advisors LLC and a former member of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff. Information on Mediterranean Advisors is unavailable on the web but it is notable that the Program's senior scholar is also an adjunct staff member of the Rand Corporation.
What a couple dozen years of adversive diplomacy against Macedonia did not accomplish, is being accomplished in the pro-Orthodox Turk stance of the merger between the Wilson Center and the Western Policy Center for southeast european coverage. In one good sign, Macedonia's Foreign Minsiter, Ilinka Mitrova, spoke today at the Wilson Center as a guest of another Program, East European Studies, the Program that used to handle Macedonian scholarship before the Southeast Europe Project's formation in January this year
wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1422&fuseaction...
But the wholesale move of the Western Policy Center's Orthodox Turks and Philhellenes to the Wilson Center has the smell of accepted bias. The Program bears monitoring for how Macedonia is depicted.
