Damir Islamov

Damir Islamov
National Research University Higher School of Economics | HSE · Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

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The Wider Black Sea region is increasingly becoming an area of competition between great and regional powers, especially after the start of a new stage of the Ukrainian crisis (2022). This region is characterised by the existence of protracted conflicts (Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia), some of them have ended (Nagorno-Karabakh) or entere...
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Since the 2000s, the European Union (EU) has vigorously commenced to implement the European integration agenda, especially in South -Eastern Europe. However, EU foreign policy began to be implemented in the first half of the 1990s, when the region was shake n by hostilities amid the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. Undoubtedly, at that time the E...
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The article analyzes the experience of conducting certain youth and educational projects of the European Union and assesses the possibility of their implementation as part of the EAEU in the fields of education and tourism based on the Strategic directions of the Eurasian economic integration development until 2025. The study aims to consider the E...
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The article analyzes the role of the Turkish diaspora in the presidential and parliamentary elections held in Turkey in the 2010s. It describes the stages of formation of the Turkish diaspora abroad, particularly in Western Europe, as well as their origin, which further influenced their electoral behavior. The history of Turkish emigrants’ particip...
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The authors analyze the foreign policies of Hungary and Serbia, whose relations with other countries are based on the “partnership of necessity” concept. Initially, these countries drew closer together in search of ways to resolve the common problem of illegal migration, but gradually they deepened their cooperation. Russia’s special military opera...
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Since the mid-2000s, under the rule of the Justice and Development Party, Turkey has included the concept of soft power in its foreign policy agenda. Based on the position of Turkish officials, the practical implementation of soft power is based on public diplomacy, with its “infrastructure” being created at the same time by establishing new or tra...
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In 2022, at the last summit in Samarkand, the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) continued the path of its transformation, which commenced at the Istanbul Summit held in 2021. Turkey seeks to retain the role of a leading state in the OTS, trying to expand political, diplomatic, trade, economic, investment, cultural and humanitarian cooperation wit...
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The events in Bulgaria that took place from 1885 to 1887 affected not only the further political development of the state but also relations between the key countries of the European continent. The Russian Empire, which sought to consolidate its influence in Bulgaria after the end of the Russian-Turkish War of 1877‒1878, encountered a retaliatory i...
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Under the Justice and Development Party (AKP), the Western Balkans’ direction in the Turkey’s foreign policy obtained peculiar significance. In the 2010s, the Turkish officials commenced to accomplish major trade, economic, culturalhumanitarian expansion in the region. After the start of the Special Military Operation, Turkey launched to promote it...
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Since the Berlin Process was launched in 2014, as part of which the “Western Balkans Summits” have been held, the EU has been promoting an agenda for the regional infrastructure integration (Connectivity Agenda) with its member states in the energy and transport sectors. More than €1 billion was subsequently allocated to 45 projects in these sector...
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Despite the focus in recent years on developments in the Middle East, North Africa, South Caucasus, the Balkans still play a crucial role in Turkey’s new foreign policy of trying to become a regional power using a personalized foreign policy, soft power, trade. The COVID-19 crisis also presented an opportunity for Turkey to represent itself as a «s...
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In December 2019, Ursula von der Leyen was elected a new President of the European Commission, who commenced to promote the agenda for advancing gender equality. The Gender Equality Strategy 2020‒2025 was presented in March 2020 by the European Commission. It aims at achieving a gender equal Europe by eliminating gender-based violence, sex discrimi...
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Under the Justice and Development Party (AKP), the Western Balkans’ direction in Turkey’s foreign policy took on a peculiar significance. However, from the 1990s to the mid-2000s, Turkey kept on contributing to NATO's missions and operations supporting Muslims during the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia and being eager to play an active role in...
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The European Union is vigorously implementing a regional policy, especially in the Western Balkans. Since the 2000s the European integration process has covered this region. However, since the 1990s EU had already commenced conducting its foreign policy while the war in the post-Yugoslav states was breaking out. The Western Balkan states can be cal...
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The article deals with the peculiarities of the development of the Montenegrin state-building and Montenegro’s prospects for the European integration after the referendum in 2006. In the wake of the demise of the SFRY and the occurrence of new sovereign states, the Western Balkans became a sphere of interest to the European Union. The author conclu...
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The Western Balkans and the Eastern Partnership States are among the priorities for the implementation of the European Union’s regional policy. One of the dimensions of the process is the conducting of Summit meetings. During these events, the EU and the partner countries emphasize achievements and summarize interim outcomes. It is obvious that the...
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COVID-19 has become a new challenge for the world politics and economy, including for pan-European solidarity. Undoubtedly, the EU is vigorously implementing supranational mechanisms to promote the EU agenda. Brussels traditionally fulfilled “soft powerˮ policy in international affair. This tendency continued to be implemented in the form of “coron...
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The pandemic generated by COVID-19 has brought new challenges for global politics. For this reason, the EU has been changing its policy towards the Western Balkans. The entire region is known to be engaged in the European integration process, which has received new issues associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the «Team Europe» package w...
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The Western Balkans was an arena of military clashes and tensions in the 1990s and commenced to stabilize in the 2000s. In the course of these recent years, it has become extremely obvious that the Western Balkans has been turning into a “chessboard” where great powers, including the Russian Federation and the European Union (EU), would like to pla...
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The article compares the ways of the European integration of the Balkan countries (Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia) and analyzes the problems occurring within this process. In the period of Yugoslavia’s breakdown, the newly formed states were beyond it due to armed confrontations but from the 2000s, when de-escalation of the West Balkans occurred, t...

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