The workshop was devoted to the discussion on a new perspective on transition in the post-Soviet region, and on the role that the EU plays in this process. The participants of the workshop introduced the papers that share the assumption that a detailed understanding is needed of how economic and political institutions interact in hybrid forms of social orders in the countries of Eastern Partnership and beyond. This understanding is required to prevent international engagement from further limiting rather than opening access to political and economic resources. More specifically, the findings of the discussed papers will have important implications for the role of the EU in furthering opening or closure in its Eastern neighbors.
The outcomes of the workshop would be a special issue publication.
The workshop was a part of the EU-STRAT project that studies the relationship between the European Union and the countries in the European Eastern neighborhood (supported within European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program). Dr. Tatsiana Chulitskaya participates in this project as a part of the social partnership of EHU political sciences programs with Belarusian think tank SYMPA/BIPART.
In this workshop, Tatsiana Chulitskaya participated together with the director of SYMPA/BIPART EHU alumna Natallia Ryabava.