Patricia Carley
Program Officer
(August 1993-September 1998)

Areas of Specialization
Central Asia; Former Soviet Union; Turkey; OSCE; Human rights

Background
Patricia Carley is a Central Asia specialist in the Institute's Research and Studies Program. Prior to coming to the Institute, Carley was a staff adviser at the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, where she authored numerous reports on the former Soviet republics, including the Central Asia section of Human Rights and Democratization in the Newly Independent States in 1993. She has also worked as a consultant on Central Asian affairs to the World Bank and the RAND Corporation. She has organized meetings for the Institute on the conflicts in Tajikistan and Afghanistan and a conference on Turkey, as well as several seminars on the sources of self-determination movements. She has written several Institute reports, including "Turkey's Role in the Middle East," "Self-Determination: Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity, and the Right to Secession," and "U. S. Responses to Self-Determination Movements: Strategies for Nonviolent Outcomes and Alternatives to Secession," and several articles and book chapters on the politics of the Central Asian countries and Turkey. Carley received an M.A. from George Washington University and did dissertation work on Turkic and Islamic identity in Soviet Central Asia and Turkey at the London School of Economics. She is an adjunct professor of Central Asian studies at Georgetown University.

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