Panel Recording

The new Eurasian chessboard: Power, connectivity and strategic resources

Join us for an expert panel exploring how the EU, the UK, the US, and Turkey can navigate great power competition in Central Asia and harness the region’s growing strategic and economic potential. 

Event date and time: 5 May 2026 — 13:30 TO 14:30 BST

Event location: Hybrid — Chatham House and Online

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— Join us for an expert panel exploring how the EU, the UK, the US, and Turkey can navigate great power competition in Central Asia and harness the region's growing strategic and economic potential.

Central Asia sits at the heart of today’s great power competition — a pivotal arena for East-West connectivity, energy transition, and the restructuring of the global order. Its governments are increasingly asserting their independence from Moscow without aligning with the West, making the region a critical testing ground for a new geopolitical settlement. The second gathering in a two-event series co-hosted by Chatham House and GMF, this expert roundtable will focus on the region’s political trajectory and geoeconomic dynamics amid a shifting strategic landscape. It will also ask how the EU, the UK, the US, and Türkiye can cooperate more effectively to support regional stability and harness its growth potential.

This expert panel will focus on the region’s political trajectory and geoeconomic dynamics amid a shifting strategic landscape. It will also ask how the EU, the UK, the US, and Turkey can cooperate more effectively to support regional stability and harness its growth potential.

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Panel sessions bring together several renowned speakers with different perspectives on an issue, offering the audience a thought-provoking discussion that thoroughly analyses a topic from many angles. They are held in our Joseph Gaggero Hall and on the record. 

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