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The Russian attack on Ukraine worries other post-Soviet states. They fear the Kremlin and Putin’s imperial ambitions. The Russians’ relationship with Uzbekistan is particularly strained, where protests in an autonomous region took place recently. The EUCON project coordinator Hannes Meissner analyses the situation in an Podcast with Kevin Schulte from the German news channel NTV. https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Podcast-Wieder-was-gelernt-Wie-Proteste-in-Usbekistan-Putin-in-die-Haende-spielen-article23466147.html […]

On June 15, at ASUE Tempus Hall, within the frames of the project “The EU and the EEU: Between Conflict and Competition, Convergence and Cooperation (EUCON)”, a roundtable discussion took place aiming at the deep and comprehensive understanding of the Armenian foreign policy by means of a debate between prominent experts and scholars. Representatives of

Eurasian Summer School in Budapest, Hungary will take place from September 5 to September 9 at Corvinus University of Budapest The European Union stands as the world’s most ambitious attempt at regional integration and interdependence. To its East, the Eurasian Economic Union claims to aim for coordination and integration, yet conflicts around the borders of

After several days of protest at the beginning of the year 2022, expectations in Kazakhstan for reforms are very high. In a blog post recently published with the “Eastblog” of the Austrian newspaper “Der Standard”, EUCON member Julian Plottka discusses prospects of Kazakh President, Kassym-Jomart Tokajew, meeting these expectations. Following a brief summary of the

Roundtable discussion within the framework of “THE EU AND THE EEU: BETWEEN CONFLICT AND COMPETITION, CONVERGENCE AND COOPERATION (EUCON)” Project will take place on June 15, 2022 at 15:00, at ASUE Tempus Hall.The aim of the roundtable discussion is to understand Armenian foreign policy. This event is a debate between prominent experts and scholars.The roundtable

The post-Cold War system of globalization that helped drive the spectacular growth of East Asia has steadily eroded in recent years. Trade wars, securitization of supply chains, ethno-nationalism and pandemic have all taken a toll.  Will Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine be the last straw that signals globalization’s end? That is a rapidly forming view

For the first time during the pandemic, a face-to-face meeting of EUCON project partners took place at the University of Passau on Friday, 1 April 2022. In addition to general discussions on the project, the team started the recording of the EUCON podcast series, which is produced by Maximilian Becker, Julian Plottka and Florence Reiter

The special issue titled “EU-EEU Relations as Risks and Chances for Multinational Enterprises” will be published in “Wirtschaft und Management”, a journal edited by UAS BFI Vienna. It has an applied research focus, with libraries, private persons, internal and external lecturers, business representatives, public institutions as addresses. The issues are accessible worldwide via the German

The special issue titled “EU-EEU Relations as Risks and Chances for Multinational Enterprises” will be published in “Wirtschaft und Management”, a journal edited by UAS BFI Vienna. It has an applied research focus, with libraries, private persons, internal and external lecturers, business representatives, public institutions as addresses. The issues are accessible worldwide via the German

EUCON’s David Morris has been researching political risks along China’s Belt and Road from Asia to Europe. In this piece, he examines the particularly problematical case of Myanmar. From Asia Global Online https://www.asiaglobalonline.hku.hk/myanmars-perfect-storm-risks-chinas-belt-and-road  China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is often depicted by critics as a grand strategy to trap developing nations in debt, build new