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March 2026
Making Rule of Law Resilience Work in EU Enlargement
24/03/2026
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Resilio Access
Declining rule of law and growing political pressure pose new challenges to the EU enlargement process. During the online event, four authors of the RESILIO-ACCESS snapshot series examined the resilience of rule of law structures.
March 2023
Europe Talks Central Asia: European-German-Uzbek relations
15/03/2023
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Europe talks
Representatives of Uzbek and German think tanks met at the IInstitut für Europäische Politik" for an exchange of ideas. The talks focused on the amendments to the Uzbek constitution and Uzbekistan's relations with Germany and the EU.
September 2021
The fellows and projects of the Eurasia Lab & Fellowship Program
16/09/2021
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Eurasia Lab Fellowship Program
From Civic activism in Kazakhstan during Covid-19, to the impact of the pandemic on gender-based violence in Uzbekisten and Kyrgyzstan and digital activism in Turkmenistan: These are the topics of the Eurasia Lab research teams from September to December 2021.
Transformation processes in Eastern Europe and Central Asia – Public discussion
16/09/2021
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Eurasia Lab Fellowship Program
Anti-corruption in Moldova, Covid-19 in Central Asia, Civil Society in Belarus – the fellows of the Eurasia Lab & Fellowship program have presented their research projects and discussed the findings with external experts.
January 2021
Meet the Eurasia Lab fellows
25/01/2021
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Eurasia Lab Fellowship Program
Three research teams for the fellowship have been chosen and are introduced.
November 2020
Workshop: Developing project ideas and writing funding applications
26/11/2020
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Eurasia Lab Fellowship Program
Application writing should not be outsourced completely, the administrative work not underestimated. Eurasia-researchers got new impulses.
August 2020
End of EUCACIS programme
31/08/2020
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EUCACIS
Half of the fellows have successfully completed their PhD degrees, while the others are awaiting their defence date. All fellows have furthermore written for local, regional or international academic journals. Within the EUCACIS network, they have published 27 articles.
July 2020
Successful completion of the regular PhD support programme EUCACIS and further extension
29/07/2020
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EUCACIS
Since 2016, the EUCACIS programme has completed four international conferences, three PhD schools, the organisation of individual exchanges and provided continuous intensive PhD trainings. All fellows will be accompanied until the completion of their PhD thesis.
April 2020
EUCACIS Online Paper No. 12: Prosperity and Resilience as the New Panacea? The New Central Asia Strategy in View of the Security - Development Nexus
01/04/2020
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EUCACIS
Since the independence of the five Central Asian republics in the 1990s, the European Union has been enhancing its ties with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
December 2019
EUCACIS Online Paper No. 10: The roots of political instability in Afghanistan and the implications of (mis)governance
03/12/2019
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EUCACIS
The paper looks at two forms of governance in the recent history of Afghanistan: the elected Afghan government and the Taliban, analysing both in terms of their contribution to the current and continued misgovernance of the country.
April 2019
EUCACIS Online Paper No. 7: A brief overview of the development of the EU-Azerbaijan Relations
29/04/2019
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EUCACIS
Daniel Weißenrieder elaborates the history of the 25-year relationship of the EU with Azerbaijan which is characterized by common interests, but also by contentious issues such as corruption, the human rights situation, authoritarian trends and the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
EUCACIS Online Paper No. 7: Brussels and the Land of Fire: A brief overview of the development of the EU-Azerbaijan Relations
29/04/2019
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EUCACIS
Daniel Weißenrieder elaborates the history of the 25-year relationship of the EU with Azerbaijan which is characterized by common interests, but also by contentious issues such as corruption, the human rights situation, authoritarian trends and the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
EUCACIS Online Paper No. 6: Mirziyoyev's Uzbekistan: Towards Openness and Real Democracy
12/04/2019
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EUCACIS
In his paper, Jasur Salomov analyses the transformation process of Uzbek politics by referring to political, social and economic development within the two-year activities of the government during September 2016 until June 2018.
October 2018
EUCACIS Online Paper No. 1: From the Soviet System to Bologna: A Critical Analysis of Doctoral Education Reforms in Kazakhstan
13/10/2018
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EUCACIS
Sholpan Tazabek delivers a critical policy analysis of doctoral education reforms that have been made since Kazakhstan's independence in 1991.
September 2018
Mapping EU–Central Asia relations – Policy Papers just published
20/09/2018
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SEnECA – Strengthening and Energizing EU-Central Asia Relations
In the framework of the SEnECA project, nine policy papers have been published which describe the current relations between the five Central Asian states Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, the European Union, selected Asian states, and world powers.