The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD) at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Liechtenstein Institute in Vienna, Austria (LIVA) convened the colloquium, “Iran’s Role and Power in the Region and the International System,” March 5-8, 2009 in Triesenberg, Liechtenstein. This colloquium was funded in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, by the SIBIL Foundation, Vaduz, and by the Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein.

This colloquium convened a select group of academics, diplomats and experts from states in the wider Middle East, the EU and the US for private discussion and debate. Participants examined four issue areas with the aim of developing new ideas and proposing possible solutions to support peaceful, stable and mutually beneficial developments for Iran, the region and the international system: Iran and its eastern, western and southern regional neighbors; Iran and multilateral nuclear diplomacy; Iran and the EU; and Iran and the US.