Covering the Caucasus:  The Media and Post-Soviet Conflicts with Thomas de Waal

The USC Center on Public Diplomacy and the USC Dornsife School of International Relations is pleased to host Thomas de Waal. This event will be moderated by School of International Relations Director, Robert English.

Mr. de Waal is a veteran journalist, media analyst, and author.

He is the author of several books (most recently, The Caucasus--Oxford University Press, 2011), and brings unparalleled insight into the causes of conflict, their prospects for resolution, and their perception by local, regional, and international actors. Mr. de Waal, a former Moscow correspondent, is currently a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in Washington, DC.

Thomas de Waal earned his BA at Balliol College, Oxford University. During the 1990s he was Moscow correspondent for the Times of London and The Economist, and has also been a reporter and documentary-maker with the BBC. De Waal has authored (or co-authored) books on Chechnya, on Armenia and Karabakh, and most recently on the entire Caucasus region. He was a senior analyst at the Institute of War and Peace Reporting before joining the Carnegie Endowment. Click here for more information.