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ENC Analysis: “Uzbekistan: Examining the Parliamentary Elections and Mirziyoyev’s Move Towards Controlled Transition”

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ENC Analysis: “Uzbekistan: Examining the Parliamentary Elections and Mirziyoyev’s Move Towards Controlled Transition”

 This ENC analysis is written by Samuel Doveri Vesterbye, ENC Managing Director and expert in Turkey and the Middle East and Andreas Marazis, ENC Head of Research for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. This paper reports the findings which were gathered from ENC’s electoral observation and in-depth field-interviews during Uzbekistan’s December 2019 parliamentary elections. The purpose of this study is twofold. First, to examine the first elections held under the leadership of President Mirziyoyev. Second, to provide a complimentary analysis about Uzbekistan’s controlled governance transition under President Mirziyoyev, focusing on the momentum gained by the death of long-time President Islam Karimov in 2016 and the new European Union (E.U.) Central Asia Strategy released in 2019;

ENC Analysis – One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Legal Arguments on the Visa-Travel of Turkish Citizens to the EU

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ENC Analysis – One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Legal Arguments on the Visa-Travel of Turkish Citizens to the EU

The European Neighbourhood Council releases its new analysis entitled “One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Legal Arguments on the Visa-Travel of Turkish Citizens to the EU”.

This ENC analysis was written by Dr. A. Asli Bilgin (Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law in Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey) and Dr. Pierluigi Simone (lawyer and Adjunct Professor of International and European Union Law at the Department of Law, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”). In this paper, they examine whether visa-free travel for Turkish citizens is an already-acquired right stemming from the EU-Turkey Association Law or would be a favor given by the EU in exchange for signing the Readmission Agreement, via the interpretation of Article 41 (1) of the AP and Article 13 of ACD 1/80, in light of the case-law of the CJEU.

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ENC Analysis – The New EU Strategy on Central Asia Putting Renewable Energy on the Map

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ENC Analysis – The New EU Strategy on Central Asia Putting Renewable Energy on the Map

The European Neighbourhood Council releases its new analysis entitled “The New EU Strategy on Central Asia: Putting Renewable Energy on the Map”.

The ENC Analysis is co-authored by Andreas Marazis (ENC Head of Research for Eastern Europe and Central Asia) and Federico Ohle (ENC Research Assistant).

The study highlights a significant shift in focus towards sustainability and development of the renewable energy sector from the 2007 to the 2019 EU Central Asia Strategy. It provides an explanation of why this might be the case and recommends future courses of action for the EU and Central Asian states towards sustainable development, clean energy and climate change.

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ENC Analysis: “Kazakhstan’s Presidential elections: field observation from the industrial heartland on the Caspian”

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ENC Analysis: “Kazakhstan’s Presidential elections: field observation from the industrial heartland on the Caspian”

The European Neighbourhood Council (ENC) released its new analysis titled “Kazakhstan’s Presidential elections: field observation from the industrial heartland on the Caspian”.

This article is written by Samuel Doveri Vesterbye, ENC Managing Director and expert in Turkey and the Middle East. He oversees ENC research projects across the neighbourhood and Central Asia. Within the context of the recent elections, Mr. Doveri Vesterbye reports on the findings from the electoral observation and field-interviews conducted at 7 out of 35 polling stations in Zhanaozen, a small de-industrialised oil-town close to the Caspian coast. In addition, a complimentary analysis about Kazakhstan’s current socio-economic situation is given, focusing particularly on the momentum gained from the signing of the EU-Kazakhstan Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (EPCA) and the new EU-Central Asia Strategy, which was released in 2019.

 

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ENC Analysis: Turkey and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization One Night Stand, Passing Flirt or True Love?

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ENC Analysis: Turkey and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization One Night Stand, Passing Flirt or True Love?

The European Neighbourhood Council releases its new analysis entitled “Turkey and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: One Night Stand, Passing Flirt or True Love?”.

The ENC Analysis is written by Dr. Nicola P. Contessi, ENC Academic Council Member and a specialist in international affairs. In this article, he explains Turkey’s ambiguous attitude towards the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Is Ankara drifting away from the Euro-Atlantic fold? Is it living up to the “multi-dimensional and multi-track foreign policy”? Or does Turkey rather aim to improve its bargaining leverage in the lingering negotiations on EU membership?

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ENC Analysis: Changing donor-NGO relations in Tajikistan

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ENC Analysis: Changing donor-NGO relations in Tajikistan

The European Neighbourhood Council (ENC) released its new analysis entitled “Changing donor-NGO relations in Tajikistan”.

The ENC Analysis is written by Dr. Karolina Kluczewska, ENC Academic Council Member and post-doctoral research fellow for the GLOBALCONTEST project by the CERAL research Centre at the University of Paris 13.  In this publication, she describes the evolution of the changing donor-NGO relations in Tajikstan. Eventually, the positive donor-NGO relations transformed into asymmetric power relations, characterised by subordination and exploitation of NGOs by donors. Because of these negative developments, mistrust is created between the two parties, which has significantly limited the agency of local NGOs in development work.

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ENC Analysis: Russia and Serbia: Between Brotherhood and Self-Serving Agendas

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ENC Analysis: Russia and Serbia: Between Brotherhood and Self-Serving Agendas

The European Neighbourhood Council (ENC) released its new analysis entitled “Russia and Serbia: Between Brotherhood and Self-Serving Agendas”.

The ENC Analysis is written by Dr. Radeljic, ENC Academic Council Member and Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of East London. In this article, he depicts the similarities and the differences between Russia’s and Serbia’s stance towards the Balkans and Kosovo.

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ENC Analysis – The role of Education in women’s radicalization process

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ENC Analysis – The role of Education in women’s radicalization process

The European Neighbourhood Council (ENC) released its new analysis entitled “The role of education in women’s radicalisation process“.

The ENC Analysis is written by Dr. Eva Saenz-Diez, ENC Academic Council Member and researcher at GERMAC (Study and Research Group on the Contemporary Arab World) at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL). She analyzes the role of education through the Arab world and she examines how education and religious discourse can induce to radicalization.

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ENC Analysis-Devolution in Moldova: Gagauzia and Transnistria in Focus

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The European Neighbourhood Council (ENC) released its new analysis entitled “Devolution in Moldova: Gagauzia and Transnistria in Focus

The ENC Analysis is authored by Larisa Patlis, ENC Academic Council Member, and Professor at Free International University of Moldova (ULIM), who focuses on the processes of decentralization and unresolved political conflict in Moldova with the separatist region of Transnistria which opens up new challenges for devolution.

The full analysis is available here.

ENC Analysis-Russian Cyberwarfare Capabilities: Assessing the Threat for Ukraine’s Critical Infrastructure

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ENC Analysis-Russian Cyberwarfare Capabilities: Assessing the Threat for Ukraine’s Critical Infrastructure

The European Neighbourhood Council (ENC) released its new analysis entitled “Russian Cyberwarfare Capabilities: Assessing the Threat for Ukraine’s Critical Infrastructure

This ENC Analysis is authored by Andreas Marazis, ENC Head of Research for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Robert Kothe, ENC Research Assistant and identifies cyber threats coming from Russia targeting Ukraine’s critical infrastructure and explains how malicious software infiltrate and affect vital sectors including energy distribution, transport, banking, financial market, and drinking water supply.  The final objective of the study is to provide recommendations with the aim to enhance the EU’s critical infrastructure cyber resilience, as well as Ukraine’s through cooperation including lessons learnt from each other.

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