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Staff Profile: Jana Kobzova

Recent Commentary

• The hobbled summit
  14 Dec 11
• Russia's post-BRIC election
  08 Dec 11
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  18 Jul 11
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• Where next for Europe on Belarus?
  17 Jan 11

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Recent Blogs

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  21 Dec 11
• Belarus: Is there life after Lukashenka?
  04 Nov 11
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  12 Oct 11
• Slovakia votes: more freedom, less solidarity?
  11 Oct 11
• Why Belarus could do with a dose of IMF medicine
  02 Jun 11

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recent press

• Financial Times
  27 Jan 12
• Dagbladet Information
  18 Jan 12
• Wall St Journal
  04 Jan 12
• Today's Zaman
  20 Dec 11

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Jana Kobzova is ECFR's Wider Europe Programme co-ordinator and Policy Fellow. She covers the EU’s relations with its eastern neighbours including Russia, works on increasing ECFR's profile in this area and expanding the programme's activities. Before joining ECFR, Jana headed the Belarus democratisation programme at the Bratislava-based Pontis Foundation between 2006 and 2009. Before that, she helped establish the Slovak branch of the European webzine ‘Café Babel'.

She studied Russia and Central Asia studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London and political science at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Her research interests include the EU’s foreign policy towards the Eastern partnership countries and Russia, Central Asia and democratization in the post-Soviet space. Jana has co-authored several book chapters on Eastern Europe (most recent include ‘The GreatPower (mis)Management’, 2011, and ‘Bruselenie valasiek’ [on Slovakia’s new foreign policy], 2010) as well as articles on the same topic for various academic journals and media outlets, including EUObserver, E!Sharp orGeorgetown Journal of International Affairs.

Contact details: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), +44 7786 008 683

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Recent publications:

Belarus - What Now and for How Long? Slovak Foreign Policy Magazine (“Zahranicna politika” ) (Jauary 2012, author)

How to Influence Neighbors IP Global (August 2011, co-author)

European Neighbourhood Policy: Addressing myths, narrowing focus, improving implementation, Centre for European Studies policy brief (May 2011, co-author)

European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2010, ECFR policy report (March 2011, co-author of the Russia chapter)

The EU and Belarus: After the election ECFR policy report (January 2011, co-author)

The Spectre of a Multipolar Europe ECFR policy report (October 2010, co-author)