Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Doğan E., Özdemirkıran Embel M., Özkan B.
UFUK 2020 Projesi, 2020 - 2024
Over the last two decades, economic relations between the EU and the five post-Soviet Central Asian republics
(Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) have evolved around two parallel and contradictory
patterns. On the one hand, due to the efforts of the EU, economic relations and inter-dependence have increased and the
presence of EU companies in the region has expanded significantly. On the other hand, inconsistent business ethics
standards - and the peculiar way in which rule of law is interpreted and applied in the region, also called “the local way of
doing business” have hindered and limited the role of foreign companies in the region. Building on recent political
developments leading to the opening up of previously closed and inaccessible countries, CENTRAL ASIAN LAW is a
research and training programme that aims to promote greater understanding and explanation of the interconnections
between legal cultures, local business environments and governance in Central Asia. This will enable the CENTRAL ASIAN
LAW team to: 1) produce new empirical knowledge on legal cultures and business ethics in the region; 2) engage with, and
challenge, existing theoretical paradigms within socio-legal studies, law, economic and business sciences, Central Asian
studies (post-Soviet studies, more generally) and governance scholarship; 3) provide strategic intelligence for business
actors interested or already operating in the region; 4) inform international organizations and decision makers in the EU and
Central Asia on possible ways to improve the business and investment climate, the rule of law and governance in the region.