Areas of Expertise

Political developments in the Central Asian states, EU-Central Asia relations
Russian foreign policy

Short Bio

Judith Heckenthaler is Project Officer and Assistant at the Center for Order and Governance in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. There she works in a project on EU-Central Asia relations. Her main research interests are political developments in the Central Asian states, EU-Central Asia relations, Russia’s foreign policy and authoritarianism in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

Previously, she worked for the ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen in St. Petersburg, Austausch e.V. and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). She holds a Master’s degree in Eastern European Studies from LMU Munich.