Reflections on the 70th Anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences
February 22, the National Academy of Sciences held a general meeting on the 70th anniversary of its foundation, to which Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of Kazakhstan, was invited, and for the first time in recent years, the general university community – teachers and professors of universities of Almaty were present […]
Renewable Energy as a Potential Driver of Kazakhstan’s Growth*
Kazakhstan has implemented important reforms and achieved major breakthroughs in its political and socioeconomic development, and the nation’s energy and mineral resources have played a crucial role in this transformation. At the same time, however, Kazakhstan has not largely succeeded in developing its non-resource-based industrial and tradable sectors, which results […]
Current Developments in a Dispute over the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea
It is widely known that nowadays the littoral states of the Caspian region have moved far away from the legal-theoretical dilemma of whether the Caspian is a sea or a lake in a legal sense (Janusz-Pawletta, 2015). The countries bordering the Caspian Sea are trying to regulate all aspects of […]
World Trade Organization’s Regulation Harmonization with Other Organization: Eurasian Economic Union
World Trade Organization (WTO) has been established as GATT in 1947 with the purpose of reducing the tariffs on goods and services to boost the global economic output. The reason why GATT has been turn into World Trade Organization in 1995 is because GATT regulations especially in terms of services, […]
Impact of Covid-19 on Uzbekistan’s Tourism Industry
The novel coronavirus outbreak affects almost every area of life in many parts of the world. With the arrival of summer, the tourism industry was expected to revive. However, this tourist season is far from the previous years’ activity due to the pandemic. Because of the highly contagious virus, businesses […]
Asya Avrupa No: 53
Kıymetli okuyucularımız, Hoca Ahmet Yesevi Üniversitesi’ne bağlı Avrasya Araştırma Enstitüsü olarak hazırladığımız ve aylık olarak yayınlanan haber yorum dergimiz Asya Avrupa’nın yeni sayısı ile karşınızdayız. Bu sayımızda da Dünya ve özellikle Avrasya gündeminde son dönemde öne çıkan konuları irdeleyen yazılarımıza yer veriyoruz. 2020 yılının ortalarına geldiğimiz şu günlerde uluslararası gündem, […]
Far-Right Parties Rising in the Western End of Eurasia: The Case of Estonia
The past 10 years have been marked by many events such as global economic crises, migration flows, epidemic diseases and their consequences. In many countries, we are witnessing the effects of the series of negative situations on economic, political, and even social life. In a few years after the 2008-2009 […]
Impact of COVID-19 on the Kyrgyz Economy
The coronavirus outbreak affected almost the entire world, causing one of the largest economic crises since the Second World War. The leaders of almost all countries of the world, including Kyrgyzstan, are trying to find a balance between protecting public health and maintaining the normal operation of the economy with […]
Uzbekistan’s Path to Enhanced Partnership with the European Union
In accordance with the 2019 European Union (EU) Strategy on Central Asia, the European Council initiated negotiations on the new-generation bilateral Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreements (EPCAs) with the Central Asian states. The EPCA, aimed to be a cornerstone of the EU’s engagement with the region, will be the major […]
Shinzo Abe’s Pyrrhic victory over Coronavirus
In November 2019, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made history having become the nation’s longest-serving prime minister: he surpassed Taro Katsura, Japan’s prime minister in the early twentieth century. Abe had big plans for 2020 since the country was supposed to host the Summer Olympic Games, and the prime minister […]