Centre for Euro-Asian Studies (CEAS)

Description

Established in 1996, the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies (CEAS) has earned a worldwide reputation for its unique expertise and leading research into Euro-Asian countries.

Formed to address a lack of awareness within the UK about Euro-Asia (with one British academic asking, "But tell me, where is Kazakhstan?" at a prominent research seminar in Oxford back in 1995), the aim of the CEAS is to increase understanding of the reality in countries within the Commonwealth of Independent States and the wider region of Central and Eastern Europe.

The CEAS unites more than 30 professors and prominent academics who are working in politics, economics and security of the countries in transition. CEAS are actively engaged in research and consultancy in the Euro-Asian region and are participants and contributors to the international conferences set up by organisations including the Academy of International Business, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Five themes have provided a focus for CEAS' work:

• The specifics of transition in Euro-Asia and the emergence of new economies in the region
• Post-transition challenges
• Energy security and renewable energy
• Lifting the 'natural resource curse'
• Economic transformation and business enterprises

Through consultancy work and conferences, the CEAS providea a forum in which professionals can discuss and share information and strategies for success in these areas.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

1996

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University of Reading
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