Egli, Arus Zarbabyan

Education

Arus Zarbabyan Egli grew up in the former Soviet Union.  She aquired her first Degree in Russian Literature and Language and English Literature and Language. Later, she has continued and completed her studies and graduate studies in the United States, at Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and later at Harvard Law School, Harvard University.  She pursued part of her research at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Professional Experience

Arus Z. Egli specializes in Russian and US Foreign Policy, International Security Studies, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict.

She has written extensively about these issues in the framework of The Cambridge Conflict Negotiation Group (under the leadership of Professors Abraham and Tony Chase, Former Legal Advisor of the Kennedy Administration, and Under-Secretary of State, Harvard Law School).  Her current research interests continue to focus on NATO and its search of a new vision, and containment of national and ethnic violence. She has conducted extensive research at NATO headquarters and completed a Special Leadership Course with the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) General John R. Galvin.

Arus Z. Egli has served in various diplomatic capacities at the US Embassy in Yerevan, Republic of Armenia, and the US Embassy in Paris, France, - immediately after the end of the Soviet Union ;  where she had first-hand opportunity to observe and analyze the ethnic conflict and the international involvement in the ethnic conflict, and where she worked with political and diplomatic actors such as Mr. Strobe Talbott, Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, late Ambassador Pamela Harriman etc. 

Courses taught

• Russian Foreign Policy
• The Cold War and After: The Comparative Evolution of Russian and American Foreign Policies
• Nationalism in International Relations
• NATO in Search of New Vision

Publications

• The International Involvement in Containing Ethnic Conflict in the Former Soviet Union. Cambridge Conflict Negotiation Group, Working Papers.
• Failed International Involvement in Containmet of Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Cambridge Conflict Negotiation Group, Carnegie Endowment
• Failed International Policies of the OSCE in Containing the International Ethnic Conflicts. Cambridge Conflict Negotiation Group, Media hand-outs Series, Working Papers