Central Asia and the Eurasian Economic Union: The Global Picture and Country Perspectives

In cooperation with the Harriman Institute and the US-Kazakhstan Business Association
Opening Remarks: Marlene Laruelle (IERES, George Washington University)

9:30-11:00am Session I. Roundtable

Martha Brill Olcott (Michigan State University)
Sarah Freese (US-Kazakhstan Business Association)
Alexander Cooley (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Alexander Libman (German Institute for International and Security Affairs SWP)

11:30-1:00pm Session II. Kazakhstan’s Perspective on the EEU

Aitolkyn Kourmanova (CSIS Visiting Fellow, Washington DC)
Kazakhstan and Eurasian integration: Taking a Broader View

Nate Schenkkan (Freedom House)
The Eurasian Economic Union Treaty. Pre-2014 aspirations, post-2014 realities?

Molly O’Neal (SAIS, Johns Hopkins University)
Kazakhstan in the Eurasian Economic Integration Project: Regionalism and the Multilateral

2:00-4:00pm Session III. Voices from the Central Asian Neighbors

Roman Mogilevsky (University of Central Asia, Bishkek)
The EEU seen from Kyrgyzstan

Saodat Olimova (Sharq Analytical Center, Dushanbe)
The EEU seen from Tajikistan

Farrukh Irnazarov (Central Asia Fellow at GW and Country Director and Researcher, Central Asian Development Institute, Tashkent)
The EEU seen from Uzbekistan

Nazik Muradova (Central Asia Fellow at GW)
The EEU seen from Turkmenistan