Projects
Mapping Uncertainties, Challenges and Future Opportunities of Emerging Markets: Informal Barriers, Business Environments and Future Trends in Eastern Europe, The Caucasus and Central Asia KU Leuven
In the past ten years, diplomatic and economic relations between the EU and a number of post-USSR republics have steadily improved. Initially concerned primarily with internal political stability, countries like Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan have since come to realize that availability of oil, gas and minerals is not a guarantee for a stable and shock-resistant economic environment. Efforts to diversify domestic economies and to ...
Early Western Analyses of the Languages of Central Asia and India: Tradition and Renewal in Missionary Linguistics KU Leuven
From the 16th century onwards, European missionaries documented and described numerous non−European languages (many of which are now extinct or on the verge of extinction). Concentrating on the analysis of Central−Asian and Indian languages by 17th− and 18th−century missionaries, the present project seeks to chart the missionaries' attitudes towards unfamiliar, non−European languages and their views on theoretical issues such as linguistic ...
Competing for hearts and minds in today’s multipolar world order: a comparative analysis of the soft power of China, Russia and the European Union in Central Asia Ghent University
This research project will offer the first comparative study of China’, Russia’ and the EU’ soft power in Central Asia In particular, it will examine the two-fold question (i) how effective is the soft power of China, Russia and the EU in Central Asia, and (ii) how does the soft power competition in Central Asia between China, Russia and the EU play out at the receiving end These questions will be examined based on a comprehensive conceptual ...
The EU's transnational power over Central Asia. Developing and applying an alternative analytical approach to the study of the EU's external power. Ghent University
The Ph.D project deals with the European Union (EU)'s engangement with Central Asia. In particular, it examins to what extent the EU exerts power over this peripheral but geopolitically important region. The PhD project argues that the EU's power in Central Asia schould not be underestimated. To demonstrate this, the PhD project develops and uses an integrative analytical framework based on an alternative conceptual tool to study external ...
UNFPA Regional office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECARO) Work Plan with Ghent University/ANSER (Academic Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policy) - 2023 Ghent University
UNFPA Regional office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECARO) Work Plan with Ghent University/ANSER (Academic Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policy) Ghent University
UNFPA - Reimbursable Loan Agreement: "strengthen the capacities of governments and civil society networks of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) region in the development and implementation of high quality and impact oriented national plans and str Ghent University
Tectonic reactivation of intracontinental Central Asia: chronologic evolution and role of inherited basement structures. Ghent University
This project will reconstruct the tectonics of the intracontinental Central Asian Orogenic System. In particular, emphasis lies on the chronology of the different collision-accretion events that are responsible for formation and growth of Central Asia and, in a larger frame-work, of the Eurasian continent. Moreover, the role of inherited basement structures in the reactivation of older orogens will be evaluated.
Advanced multi-method detrital chronology, applied to major intramontane and foreland basins of Central Asia: insights in the sediment provenance and tectonic reconstruction Ghent University
Detrital sediments are the erosion products of crystalline bedrock and hold vital information on the tectonic evolution of mountainous belts. This project focusses on the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Detrital single-grain thermo-tectonic histories will be derived and linked to the formation, reactivation and exhumation of the sediment sources and to the sedimentation and burial processes that controlled the sediment deposition.