Risks and Opportunities for Central Asia in a New Geopolitical Context

How are Central Asian countries impacted by the war in Ukraine? What is the future of the Eurasian Economic Union? How can Central Asian countries avoid being the collateral victims of the Western sanctions against Russia? After the January riots in Kazakhstan, what is the room of maneuver for President Tokayev’s “new course”?
The two hour discussion will be followed by lunch.

Speakers

Mariya Y. Omelicheva, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of KansasProfessor of Strategy, National War College, National Defense University

Roger Kangas, Adjunct Professor – Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES)

Irfan Shahzad Takalvi, Founding President of Eurasian Century Institute (ECI), Islamabad, Pakistan

Greg Mitchell, Co-Chairmen, International Religious Freedom

Sergei Gretsky, Academic Director, Foreign Academy, Georgetown University

Moderator: Marlene Laruelle, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; Director of the Central Asia Program; Director of the Illiberalism Studies Program; Co-Director of PONARS Eurasia; and Research Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University.