Asya Avrupa No: 42
Değerli Okuyucularımız, Avrasya ve özelde Orta Asya son birkaç on yılda önemli dönüşümlerden geçti, ve geçmeye devam ediyor. Bağımsızlıklarını kazanan Türk Cumhuriyetleri hızla devlet mekanizmalarını sağlamlaştırdılar ve uluslararası arenada önemli aktörler haline geldiler. Kazakistan’ın bölgesel ve küresel düzlemde gündeme yön veren ülkelerden biri haline gelmesi; ve gerek kendi bölgesinde ve […]
Investments in Kazakhstan: Economization of the Country’s Foreign Policy
At the end of 2018, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev replaced the country’s minister of foreign affairs, just a few days before the expiration of Kazakhstan’s non-permanent membership in the UN Security Council (UNSC). The appointment of Beibut Atamkulov, the former Minister of Defense and Aerospace Industry, as a new […]
Navoi Free Economic Zone: Opportunities for Regional Economic Cooperation
On May 16, 2019, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree on the Navoi region free economic zone. According to the decree, the entire territory of the Navoi region is declared a free economic zone where enterprises will operate without paying almost all types of taxes. Special economic regulations […]
Firm Statistics of Manufacturing Sector in Kazakhstan
On May 14, 2019, during the governmental meeting, Kazakhstan’s Cabinet of Ministers and regional governors presented their reports to Prime Minister Askar Mamin summarizing the results of socio-economic development during the first quarter of 2019 (government.kz). The Prime Minister noted that in general, the country’s economy maintained a growing pattern. […]
The Phenomenon of Self-Employment in Kazakhstan
There is no one definition of the term “self-employment”, but, in general, this phenomenon can be defined as an employment, in which individuals independently carry out activities to sell products of personal subsidiary farming and provide services to other individuals with the purpose of systematic profit making. The term “self-employment” […]
Silk Road of Steel: Central Asian Vector of South Korea’s Foreign Policy
South Korean president Moon Jae-in’s eight-day tour to Central Asia emphasized the special role of relations with the Central Asian countries. The visit to Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan on the way back from the US, on April 16-23, 2019, is expected to lead to new joint projects worth more than […]
Russia’s Demographics in 2018
The Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) of the Russian Federation reported that the number of the country’s residents as of January 1, 2019 equaled 144.439 million people, which is 88,000 people less than a year ago. Thus, over the course of 2018, the population of Russia decreased for the first […]
China’s Air Silk Road Initiative: Role of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
The recent aggravation of geopolitical, geo-economic and military confrontations on the global and regional scales along with the in-creased global and regional economic crises have negatively affected China’s economy, which had a high growth rate for many years, leading to a decrease in Chinese exports and the flow of foreign […]
Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Risks of Expansion
Initially, since its inception, the path of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was specific and not similar to any other multilateral political organization. This was the first-ever consolidation initiative by China, Russia, and the Central Asian states. The SCO emerged out of the Shanghai Five, created in 1996 with China, […]
Asya Avrupa No: 38
Değerli Okuyucularımız, Hoca Ahmet Yesevi Üniversitesi’ne bağlı Avrasya Araştırma Enstitüsü olarak üç yılı aşkın süredir çıkarmakta olduğumuz aylık yayınımız Asya Avrupa’nın 38. Sayısı ile karşınızdayız. Asya Avrupa’nın bu sayısı için de yine yoğun, ve ilgi uyandıran bir içerik hazırladığımızı düşünüyoruz. Asya-Pasifik bölgesindeki rekabet ve bu çerçevede ABD-Japonya ortaklığını analiz eden […]