International Workshop was held in Dushanbe

On April 3-4, 2019 the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Science in cooperation with the World International Studies Committee (WISC) convened a workshop “Neighbourhoods and Regionalisms: Shifting Borderlines of Inclusion and Exclusion in Central Asia” in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

The workshop aimed at analysing the current dynamics of different types and forms of regionalism unfolding in Central Asia where local actors’ policies intersect with interests of major non-Western power holders – China, Russia, Turkey, and Iran. Discussion at the workshop embraced a rich legacy of studies in region-making that became one of the buzz words after the end of the Cold War, with the EU being widely considered as a pioneer and a locomotive of regional integration in those spaces where EU-centred normative order could be projected. In the meantime, speakers approached Central Asian regionalism as a phenomenon of their own, capable of fostering political changes beyond the West, and in particular in the “global South”.

Since workshop’s agenda was explicitly multi-disciplinary, the organizers brought together a team of contributors coming from various academic backgrounds – comparative politics, foreign policy analysis, international law, area studies and sociology. This combination of variegated approaches was instrumental in uncovering different dimensions of regionalism and spatiality in Central Asia and beyond and thus gave a multidimensional vista to all workshop participants.

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