Publishing Institution: The Carter Center / Political Geography: Russia / Topic: International Cooperation

Publication Date:: 02-2014
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: The Carter Center
Abstract:: This report outlines constitutional and legislative options for a political transition in Syria under the umbrella of the Final Geneva Communiqué, issued by the Action Group on Syria on 30 June 2012, and revived in early May 2013 at a meeting in Moscow between the U.S. and Russia. The Communiqué embodies the greatest degree of consensus that the international community has been able to achieve regarding the Syrian conflict, detailing a potentially viable path to a negotiated end to the civil war. Since May 2013, efforts by UN and Arab League Joint Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and others to host a peace conference on Syria (dubbed "Geneva II"), have reinforced the importance of developing possible constitutional and legislative modalities for a transition.
Topic:: Civil War, Government, International Cooperation, and Armed Struggle
Political Geography:: Russia, United States, Middle East, and Syria

Publication Date:: 09-1994
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: The Carter Center
Abstract:: In September 1994, the Commission on Radio and Television Policy, bringing together the New Independent States, Poland, the Czech Republic, and the United States, met in St. Petersburg, Russia, to discuss the most important policy issue of the electronic media: how to strengthen the independence of radio and television. The members of the Commission represented several different approaches and types of government, but, in the end, there was unanimous agreement on a communiqué urging all parties to defend and extend autonomy of the media.
Topic:: Democratization and International Cooperation
Political Geography:: Russia, United States, Europe, and Asia

Publication Date:: 11-1993
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: The Carter Center
Abstract:: Changing economic relations are among the most important issues in the future of telecommunications throughout the world. Everywhere, governments and private companies are attentive to profound changes introduced by the processes of privatization, democratization, and development and implementation of new technologies. The future is already upon us, with great speed and often unexpected consequences.
Topic:: Ethnic Conflict and International Cooperation
Political Geography:: Russia, United States, Europe, and Asia

Publication Date:: 11-1992
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: The Carter Center
Abstract:: The meeting in Alma Ata of the Commission on Radio and Television Policy marked a new and important stage in the collaboration between the United States and the former Soviet Union. I was proud to serve as co-chairman, together with Eduard Sagalaev. The Commission now has been enlarged to include the major television stations of newly independent republics of the former Soviet Union and the head of an organization of independent stations. It is a unique body.
Topic:: Ethnic Conflict and International Cooperation
Political Geography:: Russia, United States, Europe, and Asia

Publication Date:: 11-1991
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: The Carter Center
Abstract:: The first meeting of the Commission on Television Policy culminated a project that began with basic research on the impact of television on the electoral process in many countries. From this research, a Working Group developed a document presenting a wide range of options and trade-offs in broadcast practice and rules worldwide. With this reference document, Commissioners from the United States and the independent states from the territory of the former Soviet Union began their discussions at The Carter Center on November 15 and 16, 1991.
Topic:: Ethnic Conflict and International Cooperation
Political Geography:: Russia, United States, Europe, and Asia

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