Polarization, Shifting Borders and Liquid Governance

​Anja Mihr is DAAD Associate Professor at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She is Professor of Human Rights, Governance, Public Policy, and Transitional Justice and developed training courses on ‘Transitology’. Anja is also Founder and Program Director of the Center on Governance through Human Rights at the Berlin Governance Platform in Berlin, Germany. She has held professorships at the Willy-Brandt School of Public Policy, Erfurt University, Germany, and the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), University of Utrecht, Netherlands. Chiara Pierobon is DAAD Visiting Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, where she teaches German and European Studies. She has held professorships and academic appointments at the American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan), Bielefeld and Magdeburg University (Germany), German Kazakh-University (Kazakhstan), Kyrgyz-National University (Kyrgyzstan), Malaya University (Malaysia), St. Petersburg State University (Russia), and University of California/Berkeley (USA). In addition, Dr. Pierobon has been active as Consultant and Trainer in organizations, NGOs, and think tanks such as DVV International, Europe-Asia Monitoring (EUCAM), the European Neighborhood Council (ENC), and the UNESCO Cluster Office for Central Asia.

• ​Chapter 1. Migration Policies in the OSCE Region (Anisa Abeytia).- Chapter 2. Early Warning Models in the OSCE: Adoption and Re-Invention (Alina Isakova).- Chapter 3. NATO and EU Strategic Security Environment (Aybike Yalcin-Ispir).- Chapter 4. Patterns of Border Disputes Amongst OSCE Countries (Halina Sapeha).- Chapter 5. Assessing Water (Ir)Rationality in the Disputed Region of Nagorno-Karabakh (Leonardo Zanatta).- Chapter 6. Vetting as a Tool for Strengthening Judicial Integrity in the OSCE Region (Teodora Miljojkovic).- Chapter 7. Human Rights Adjudication in Central Asia (Saniia Toktogazieva).- Chapter 8. Human Rights and Social Media: Challenges and Opportunities for Human Rights Education (Joanna Kulesza).- Chapter 9. Digital Citizen Activism in Central Asia: Beyond Contestation and Cooperation (Bakhytzhan Kurmanov).- Chapter 10. The Dilemma of Good Governance vs. Power Grab in Georgia (Shalva Dzebisashvili).- Chapter11. Transformations of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine towards EU Membership (Malkhaz Nakashidze).- Chapter 12. Backsliding Rule of Law and “Stabilotocracy” in Montenegro (Mirko Đuković).