The overarching objective of the SOCIAL is to contribute to global and national efforts in understanding and addressing the challenges associated with promoting democratization and good governance in authoritarian contexts. More specifically, SOCIAL is built around three interconnected goals:

1. To collect original empirical data and produce new theoretical and empirical insights on the interplay between law, society and governance in authoritarian regimes in the Central Asian context. The empirical findings will enable us to engage with and advance theoretical debates within (comparative) political regimes literature and authoritarian law/legality scholarship.

2. To create, develop and enhance the sustainability of doctoral training programmes focused on the study of authoritarian regimes. Our proposed programme will involve a variety of disciplines, sectors, fields and geographical regions. By doing this, we will equip doctoral candidates with a comprehensive understanding of the interplay between law, society, and governance in authoritarian regimes, which will be embedded in the novel theoretical and methodological approaches.

3. To engage with and contribute to the global democratization and good governance agenda by translating research findings into policy-relevant ways and providing strategic intelligence and policy insights for international organisations, development agencies, decision-makers, researchers and practitioners inside and outside the EU on ways to promote democratization and good governance in authoritarian contexts.

These goals will be accomplished by designing and conducting interdisciplinary and multisectoral doctoral networks programme on the “sociology of authoritarian law” involving 17 doctoral candidates, each completing a PhD at one of the 14 leading universities in Europe and Canada that are part of the SOCIAL consortium.

 

Beneficiars

MARMARA UNIVERSITY

LUNDS UNIVERSITET

UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL

SIHTASUTUS ESTONIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL

THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTLICHE ZENTREN BERLIN EV

MALMO UNIVERSITET

RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN

SODERTORNS HOGSKOLA

THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

SIA BIZNESA AUGSTSKOLA TURIBA

UNIVERZITA KARLOVA

VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS

 

Asssociated Partners

HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN

UNIVERSITAT ZURICH

KURULTAI PE

TAJIK STATE UNIVERSITY OF COMMERCE

TEBIGY KUWWAT PUBLIC ASSOCIATION

OSCE ACADAMY IN BISHKEK

NEKOMMERCHESKOE AKCIONERNOE OBSHCHESTVO ZHETYSUSKIJ UNIVERSITET

TOSHKENT DAVLAT YURIDIK UNIVERSITET

STIFTUNG WISSENSCHAFT UND POLITIK

GENERAL PROSECUTORS OFFIFCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

ANTICORRUPTION BUSINESS COUNCIL OF THE KYRGYZISTAN

EUROASIAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

NATIONALWIDE MOVEMENT YUKSALISH

UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA

ACADEMY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE PRESIDENT OF THE KAZAKHSTAN

ACADEMY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN

CROSSROADS CENTRAL ASIA

LAWYERS' TRAINING CENTER UNTER THE MINISTRY OF JUSTİCE UZ

TASHKENT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

MIRZO ULUG BEK NOMIDAGI OZBEKISTON MILLIY UNIVERSITET