Dr. phil. Andrea Schmitz
Eastern Europe, Eurasia Senior Fellow
Areas of Expertise
- Central Asia
Political and social developments; forms of power and normative foundations of politics; Islam and Islamism; regional relations; interests, strategies and instruments of Russian, European and American policy.
Working GroupsShort Curriculum vitae
09/2015–12/2017 Head of FES offices in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
03–12/2013 and 03–07/2014 field research in Tajikistan
10–11/2009 SWP Fellow in Residence at SWP’s Brussels Office
2004–2005 Policy Advisor, German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
2002–2004 Senior Research Associate at SWP, Research Unit Russian Federation and CIS
1997–2002 Education Management and University Lecturing in Kazakhstan (Goethe Institute, German Academic Exchange Service)
1995–1997 Research associate and lecturer, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Munich University
SWP Publications
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Reconfigurations in the Post-Soviet South
Dynamics and Change in Eurasia
SWP Comment 2024/C 58, 19.12.2024, 7 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024C58
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German Central Asia Policy after the “Zeitenwende”
Challenges and Opportunities for a Strategic Partnership
SWP Comment 2024/C 35, 16.08.2024, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024C35
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Religious Policy in Uzbekistan
Between Liberalisation, State Ideology and Islamisation
SWP Research Paper 2023/RP 08, 21.08.2023, 31 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2023RP08
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SCO Summit in Samarkand: Alliance Politics in the Eurasian Region
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Uzbekistan on 15 and 16 September has been interpreted as the gathering of an anti-Western alliance. Such assessments misconceive the complex constellations in non-European political spaces, says Andrea Schmitz.
Point of View, 20.09.2022 -
Central Asia’s Muslims and the Taliban
SWP Comment 2022/C 17, 03.03.2022, 4 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2022C17
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Precedent Kazakhstan
At the beginning of the year, Kazakhstan was rocked by violent protests. The intervention of the CSTO, initiated by President Tokayev, set a precedent with far-reaching consequences for the post-Soviet region, argue Margarete Klein and Andrea Schmitz.
Point of View, 19.01.2022
External publications
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“A Bad Peace Is Better than a Good War”: Central Asian Foreign Policy Responses to the War in Ukraine
in: Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 28 April 2022 (online) -
Kazakhstan will continue to 'tiptoe' around China
Nursultan Nazarbayev shocked Kazakhstan on Tuesday with his resignation after nearly three decades in power. Central Asia expert Andrea Schmitz explains what the move could mean for Kazakh-China ties.
in: Deutsche Welle, Interview by Nicole Ng, 21.03.2019 -
The Political Economy of Kazakh Foreign Policy
in: Joachim Ahrens and Herman W. Hoen (eds.), Institutional Reform in Central Asia: Politico-Economic Challenges, London: Routledge 2012, 111–128, 18 Pagesdoi:10.4324/9780203094884-15
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Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats: Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space
London–New York: Ashgate, 2012, 280 Pagesdoi:10.4324/9781315602080
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The Central Asia Strategy: An Exercise in EU Foreign Policy
in: Alexander Warkotsch (ed.), The European Union and Central Asia, London–New York: Routledge 2010, 11–21, 11 Pagesdoi:10.4324/9780203864418
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Whose Conditionality? The Failure of EU Sanctions on Uzbekistan
in: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Analyst, Vol. 11, No. 21, 11 November 2009 (online)