Date: 1 February 2022, 15:00 – 16:00 (GMT+6, Bishkek time)

Venue: Zoom Webinar

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jakob Lempp

Language: English

Organizers: OSCE Academy

Description

The European Union’s policies towards Central Asia involve different policy areas like development cooperation, energy, security, environmental issues, human rights and the rule of law, cultural exchange and many others. Although the EU strategy on Central Asia, adopted in June 2019, as well as several (enhanced) Partnership and Cooperation Agreements with individual Central Asian countries have identified common interests and overall goals, the day-to-day business of managing the relations between the European Union and Central Asia remains a polyphonic choir. This policy brief aims at a comprehensive description of the goals and instruments of the EU within this framework. It identifies key challenges in the relationship between the EU and the Central Asian states and - based on this - recommendations for policy-makers and other stakeholders related to European Central Asia policy will be presented.

Prof. Dr. Jakob Lempp studied Political Science, Communication Science, and Philosophy at the University of Technology Dresden and completed a Diploma in European Studies at the University of Turku / Finland. He worked as a managing assistant and research assistant at the Institute of Political Science of TU Dresden and completed his PhD on the evolution of the Council of the European Union. He then worked as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group GmbH in Munich (mainly with clients in the public sector in the areas of strategy and organization). Prof. Dr. Jakob Lempp has been a professor at the Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences since April 2012, and from 2015 to 2019 he was Dean of the Faculty of Society and Economics. Among other things, he published on party systems in German countries, on European integration, on evolutionary concepts in institutional theory, on economic development and on various non-European political systems.