Zehra Arat, Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, Purchase College, State University of New York; recent IREX fellowship recipient focusing on human rights in Turkey; Lenore Martin, Professor and Chair of Political Science at Emmanuel College, and Research Associate at Harvard University; coeditor and coauthor of The Future of Turkish Foreign Policy; John Sitilides, Chairman, Board of Advisors, Southeast Europe Project, Woodrow Wilson Center; Mario Zucconi, Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs, Wilson School, Princeton University; Professor of International Relations, University of Urbino, Italy; Scholar at the Ethnobarometer in Rome, Italy; Moderator: John Tirman, Executive Director, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Marwan Kraidy, Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Assistant Professor of International Relations and International Communication,School of International Service, American University

Bijan Khajehpour, Atieh Bahar Consulting, Tehran. Commentator: Siamak Namazi, Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow, The National Endowment for Democracy; former Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar; Atieh Bahar Consulting, Tehran. This event is cosponsored with the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies.

Kayhan Barzegar, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Islamic Azad University (IAU), Science and Research Campus, Tehran; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Law and Politics; Associate Fellow, Center for Middle East Strategic Studies, and Center for Strategic Research (CSR). Commentator: Karim Sadjadpour, Iran Analyst, International Crisis Group.