Step into our Yurt and join us for a monthly conversation on Europe-Central Asia developments. In these series of podcasts EUCAM welcomes guests from both regions to discuss exciting new research and the latest developments in Europe and Central Asia. Guests range from academics to policymakers and from journalists to civil society activists. What is happening in Europe that Central Asians should know about? What events are unfolding in Central Asia that Europeans should understand? Together, we discuss society trends, political developments, and economic turns while assessing the past and looking ahead to what may unfold.

In this episode, hosts Rashid Gabdulhakov and Yelena Kilina meet with Douwe van der Meer who is an independent researcher focusing on energy, climate, water and security issues in Central Asia and the South Caucasus and with Julian Postulart who specializes on the South Caucasus and Central Asia, with a background in regional geopolitics, memory and identity politics, and military and security affairs. Together they published Receding Waters, Rising Challenges: Navigating the Caspian Sea’s Geopolitical Moment. The podcasts discusses what is happening in the Caspian ecology, focussing on concerns over the Sea’s water level. At a time when the Caspian features in geopolitical calculations of littoral states and European Union corridor plans, it should be imperative to avoid an Aral Sea scenario that would negatively affect all stakeholders.