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Back to European Integration: Resetting the Foreign Policy Priorities of Moldova
The election of Maia Sandu as the President of Moldova on November 15, 2020, led to drastic changes in Moldovan politics and its foreign policy. As she had declared earlier, the new President of Moldova started to take actions aimed at intensification of the European integration of Moldova since she […]
March 20, 2021
Global Arms Trade and Implications for the Central Asian Region
A few weeks ago, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the leading international research institute on armed conflict, military expenditure and arms trade, presented its extensive annual Arms Industry Database for 2019 that elucidates the current state of affairs in the field of development and transfer of military technology […]
Tags: Foreign Policy, Politics
March 19, 2021
Illegal Landfill Sites in the Balkans Affecting Water Pollution
With the start of 2021, news agencies around the globe attracted public’s attention to the issue of floating waste in the Balkans, especially along the Drina and Lim rivers. It has been reported that during heavy rainfall events, waste was transported from illegal landfill sites to the local rivers contributing […]
March 18, 2021
Asya Avrupa No: 60
Değerli okuyucularımız, Hoca Ahmet Yesevi Uluslararası Türk-Kazak Üniversitesi’ne bağlı Avrasya Araştırma Enstitüsü’nün aylık yayını Asya Avrupa’nın 60. sayısını sizlere sunmaktan mutluluk duyuyoruz. 2020 yılı, yalnızca Avrasya bölgesi için değil, esasen tüm dünya için büyük kırılmaların yaşandığı bir yıl oldu. 2020 yılındaki gelişmelerin çok boyutlu etkileri hiç şüphesiz 2021 yılına da […]
March 17, 2021
Trade between Turkey and Central Asia
Central Asia is a region of increasing competition between great powers such as Russia, China and the United States. Eurasian integration with active participation of Russia, China-led One Belt – One Road initiative, and the United States’ proposals such as the New Silk Road are in the focus of many […]
Synopsis on the finalized negotiations of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment
On December 30, 2020, the European Union (EU) and China marked a new level of engagement with the completion of negotiations on the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI). As agreed during the joint virtual conference between the heads of member states, once signed and ratified, the CAI is expected to […]
Tags: China, European Union, Finance
March 13, 2021
Rethinking Global Cooperation in the Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, which still raises many questions regarding its origin and date of spread, has continued to be a global crisis for the past year with the risks, dangers and devas-tating consequences in all areas. Although panic and fear prevalent at the beginning of the pandemic has decreased with […]
Tags: Foreign Policy, International Relations
March 12, 2021
Impact of the Pandemic on democracy in the Central Asia Region
The pandemic has disrupted the usual course of life in many ways – some had to adapt to the new online lifestyle, others lost their jobs, some – even their lives. Most of the countries worldwide finished the year in a much worse socio-economic state than they had begun with […]
Tags: Central Asia, Politics
China’s post-pandemic Digital Silk Road
At the time when the pandemic has become an essential reminder of the undeniable role of digital technologies, China has shown itself as a leading technological power, which has been promoting its digital capabilities globally through a wide range of technological instruments, including using the pandemic for its own advantage. […]
Turkey’s Place in Mongolia’s “Third Neighbor” Policy
From Turkey’s perspective Mongolia is a very distant and little-known country with a small population. There is neither maritime connection between the two, because Mongolia is a landlocked country, nor direct active land transport route. In the pre-pandemic 2019 the bilateral trade between Turkey and Mongolia barely reached $43 million, […]
Tags: International Relations, Politics, Turkey
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