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GUAM: Still Relevant Regional Actor?
On March 27, 2017, the heads of governments of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM (acronym standing for Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) member states gathered in Kiev for the first time in almost a decade since its 2008 summit in Batumi, Georgia. The regional grouping was […]
Tags: International Relations
July 11, 2020
About the Status of School Teachers
The quality of teacher training, the low status of the profession and the low incomes of teachers are deterrents to the development of school education, Kasim-Zhomart Tokayev, Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan, said on Friday during the parliamentary hearings. In his opinion, the government needs to think about how […]
Tags: Education, Kazakhstan
Recent Developments in the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway Project
Taking into the fact that the Trans-Eurasian rail cargo is on the rise it is not surprising that regional countries are strongly interested in enhancing their railway network with new routes and new logistics hubs. Increasing competitiveness of the East-West international transport corridors that create an integrated freight railway network […]
Tags: Azerbaijan, Georgia, International Relations, Turkey
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 […]
Tags: Economy, Energy, Kazakhstan
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 […]
Tags: Eurasia, International Relations
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, […]
July 10, 2020
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 […]
Tags: COVID-19, Finance, Uzbekistan
July 6, 2020
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, […]
Tags: COVID-19, Economy, International Relations, Japan
July 1, 2020
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 […]
Tags: Eurasia, International Relations, Politics
June 29, 2020
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