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International Conference on “The EU, Central Asia and the Caucasus in the International System” took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan

On 30 and 31 August 2016, the inter­na­tional confe­rence “The EU, Central Asia and the Caucasus in the Inter­na­tional System” (EUCACIS) took place in Almaty (Kazakhstan). The confe­rence served as the kick-off event for the identi­cally named PhD Support Programme which is jointly organised by the Centre inter­na­tional de formation européenne (CIFE) and the IEP and funded by the Volks­wagen Foundation and the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. The event also profited from financial support of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

The confe­rence has been attended by experts and contri­butors from Central Asia, the Southern Caucasus, Europe, China, India and Russia who discussed various aspects of the relations between the EU, Central Asia and the Caucasus as well as current develo­p­ments and challenges in policy fields such as water, resources and trade, security and foreign policy.

In his keynote speech, Dr. Michael Emerson Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), illus­trated areas of intra- and inter-regional coope­ration and regio­na­lization in fields such as transport or trade, but also a number of cleavages between the regions and single countries that emerge. Prof. Dr Mirzokhid Rakhimov, Head of the Contem­porary History and Inter­na­tional Relations Department of the  Institute of History at the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, asked in his keynote speech about “The New Great Power Contest for Central Asia?”. In subse­quent panel discus­sions, experts examined foreign policy options of the Central Asian and South Caucasian states and attempts of regio­na­li­sation in both regions.

During a final selection process on the brink of the confe­rence, the fellows of the PhD Support Programme were selected among the appli­cants from Afgha­nistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkme­nistan, Uzbekistan as well as from the Chinese region of Xinjiang and the Indian region of Kashmir. For the upcoming three years, the EUCACIS fellows will receive scholar­ships and academic support while writing their doctoral thesis.

Please find further infor­mation about EUCACIS on the programme’s website: www.eucacis.eu.


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