Velina Tchakarova, M.A.
AIES Director
Twitter: vtchakarova
Velina Tchakarova is Director at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) in Vienna, Austria. She holds a M.A. in political science/political science of South Asia from the University in Heidelberg, Germany and a B.A. in international relations from the University of World and National Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Her work includes research, consulting and lectures on the global system transformation and geostrategy of global actors, particularly the EU's role in Eastern Europe. She participates in the Scenario Monitoring Team at the Austrian Ministry of Defence on global system developments and in simulation games at Wikistrat. She takes part in conferences, workshops and internal expert meetings on global system transformation, geostrategy, global order and actors as well as the EU policy in Eastern Europe.
Articles & Podcasts
Partnership for a Rules-based Order in the Indo-Pacific
Bled Strategic Forum 2021, Veranstaltung am 02.09.2021
Nations have vastly different approaches towards relations with the Taliban
Interview, DW News, 31.08.2021
Afghan withdrawal leaves allies to face harsh reality of US's departure from world stage
Statements, edition.cnn.com, 24.08.2021
Will China get embroildes in the Graveyard of Empires?
www.9dashline.com, 29.07.2021
The Biden-Putin meet in Geneva is a spill-words summit
The Probe, 14.06.2021
EU-India relations further strengthened after the Leaders’ Meeting, say think tanks experts
eeas.europa.eu, May 2021
10 megatrends shaping emerging Europe in the post-pandemic 2020s
intellinews.com, 11.05.2021
Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific Decade - Part II
TDHJ, Special Edition #2, May 2021
India and China: Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific Decade
9dashline.com, 08.03.2021
United States and the significance of global choke points
szystkoconajwazniejsze.pl, April 2021
Is A Cold War 2.0 Inevitable?
Raisina Files 2021
Systems thinking in Global Affairs with Velina Tchakarova M.A.
Spotify, 22.03.2021
India and China: Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific Decade
9dashline.com, 08.03.2021 (also here as a pdf)
The Global Covid-19 System Crisis
Medium.com, 24.03.2020
China – Russia: Six Questions Considering the Dragonbear
Medium.com, 02.08.2019
Boosting Europe's interests in an increasingly bipolar world
Medium.com, 14.06.2019
China and Russia Are Getting Along Better Than Ever, the U.S. Has Only Made It Easier for Them
Newsweek.com, 08.07.2019
Events & Publications
Advanced Strategic Course on European Security and Defence
Teilnahme von AIES Direktorin Velina Tchakarova
15.06.2021
The Three Seas Initiative
Velina Tchakarova, Livia Benko: The Three Seas Initiative as a Geopolitical Approach and Austria's role, AIES Fokus 11/2021
08.06.2021
The CFSP of the EU – The View from Austria
Vladislava Gubalova, PhD, Senior Fellow, Centre for Global Europe (ed.): From Contestation to Buy-In: The EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy as seen from European Capitals – National Approaches to the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy. A Collaborative Report
25.05.2021
EU-Trends in 2021
Velina Tchakarova, Michael Zinkanell, Livia Benko, Katrin Süss, Sofia Maria Satanakis, Christoph Schwarz: EU-Trends in 2021, AIES Fokus 1/2021
18.01.2021
Wird Biden der nächste US-Präsident?
Am 13. Oktober 2020 lud Velina Tchakarova Stanley R. Sloan, Gründungsdirektor der "Atlantic Community Initiative", ein, um zu diskutieren, ob der ehemalige Vizepräsident Joe Biden der nächste US-Präsident werden könnte.
21.10.2020
Wir Joe Biden der nächste US-Präsident?
Velina Tchakarova im Gespräch mit Stanley R. Sloan, Gründungsdirektor der Atlantic Community Initiative
13.10.2020
The Dragonbear
Velina Tchakarova: The Dragonbear: An Axis of Convenience or a New Mode of Shaping the Global System? Irmo Brief 05/2020
14.05.2020
EU – NATO Relations
Velina Tchakarova, Sofia Maria Satanakis: EU – NATO Relations: Enhanced Cooperation Amidst Increased Uncertainty, AIES Fokus 4/2020
13.05.2020
Covid-19 and Europe-China Relations
Covid-19 and Europe-China Relations
A country-level analysis
European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC)
Special Report – 29 April 2020
29.04.2020
Coping with Coronavirus – Euro-Gulf Perspectives
Online-Konferenz mit AIES Institutsleiterin Velina Tchakarova
30.03.2020
Drifting Apart?
Warum die Vereinigten Staaten Europa brauchen – Und was nun zu tun ist. Podiumsdiskussion zur Zukunft der transatlantischen Beziehungen.
16.03.2020
EU-Trends in 2020
Velina Tchakarova, Sofia Maria Satanakis, Michael Zinkanell: EU-Trends in 2020, AIES Fokus 14/2019
23.12.2019
Wien und die Seidenstraße – Gefahr oder Segen?
Thinkers Night in Wien mit Velina Tchakarova
14.11.2019
Herausforderung China
Sinophone organisierte vom 20. bis 21. März 2019 in der Tschechischen Republik die internationale Konferenz „Wirtschaftliche und strategische Auswirkungen der 'Belt and Road'-Initiative (BRI) für Mittelosteuropa, Zentral- und Südostasien“.
01.04.2019
Will the EU lose the East?
Livia Benkova, Apolonija Rihtarić, Velina Tchakarova: Will the EU lose the East? AIES Studies 6 / May 2018.
07.05.2018
Eastern Europe
Velina Tchakarova: Competing geopolitical approaches towards Eastern Europe, AIES Fokus 4/2017
07.12.2017
Das Globale System im Umbruch
Velina Tchakarova: Das Globale System im Umbruch, AIES Fokus 8/2016
22.12.2016
What future for the Eastern Partnership?
Velina Tchakarova: What future for the Eastern Partnership? More than a partnership, less than a membership, AIES Fokus 5/2015
28.08.2015
Chronologie der Krise in der Ukraine
Velina Tchakarova: Chronologie der Krise in der Ukraine: eine aktuelle Bestandsaufnahme (Teil 2), AIES Fokus 3/2014.
04.06.2014
Chronologie der Krise in der Ukraine
Velina Tchakarova: Chronologie der Krise in der Ukraine: eine aktuelle Bestandsaufnahme (Teil 1), AIES Fokus 3/2014.
03.06.2014
AIES Fokus 6/2013: The EU and its European Neighborhood
Velina Tchakarova: The European Union and its European Neighborhood: Before and After the Vilnius Summit of the Eastern Partnership, AIES Fokus 6/2013.
22.12.2013
AIES Fokus 1/2013: Die Eurasische Wirtschaftsunion
Velina Tchakarova: Die Eurasische Wirtschaftsunion: Ist Russland auf dem Vormarsch im GUS-Raum? AIES Fokus 1/2013.
28.11.2013
AIES Fokus 2/2012: Die Erweiterungspolitik der EU
Velina Tchakarova: Die Zukunft der Erweiterungspolitik der EU: von normativer Macht zum geopolitischen Imperativ? AIES Fokus 2/2012.
13.07.2012
AIES Fokus 7/2011: NATO-Raketenabwehrschild
Velina Tchakarova: Ein NATO-Raketenabwehrschild in Europa: Ambitioniertes Abrüstungsprojekt oder Auslöser eines neuen Rüstungswettlaufs?, AIES Fokus 7/2011.
19.12.2011
AIES Fokus 10/2010: Die Innen- und Justizpolitik der EU
Arnold Kammel, Marie Luková: Die Innen- und Justizpolitik der EU nach dem Vertrag von Lissabon, AIES Fokus 10/2010.
21.12.2010
AIES Fokus 9/2010: Die Östliche Partnerschaft
Velina Tchakarova: Die Östliche Partnerschaft: ein Königsweg für Osteuropa zwischen europäischen Integrationsalternativen und russischen Machtaspirationen? AIES Fokus 9/2010.
16.12.2010
AIES Fokus 3/2010: Zwischeneuropa, EU und Russland
Velina Tchakarova: Zwischeneuropa im Spannungsfeld außen- und sicherheitspolitischer Interessen der EU und Russlands, AIES Fokus 3/2010.
11.06.2010
Videos
US-China Systemic Rivalry
AIES Director Velina Tchakarova speaks with Kyle Bass, Chief Investment Officer Hayman Capital Management.
14.07.2021
Free and Open Indo–Pacific (FOIP) Perspectives of Japan and Austria/Europe
Webinar co-hosted by the Embassy of Japan in Austria, and the AIES
30.06.2021
Connectivity Geopolitics of the Mediterranean and Africa
AIES Director Velina Tchakarova speaks with Prof. Michaël Tanchum
29.06.2021
The Future Starts Now
Velina Tchakarova speaks with futurist and economist Bronwyn Williams
24.06.2021
Webinar: The future of the multilateral, rule-based international order
Online webinar with Velina Tchakarova
22.06.2021
Russia and the Construct of the Indo-Pacific
#GlobalHint | Episode 2 | Season 2 with Velina Tchakarova
15.06.2021
Robotic Wars
Velina Tchakarova speaks with Markus Reisner, Colonel (General Staff), Austrian Armed Forces
27.05.2021
Learnings from High Level EU-India Leaders Meeting 2021
Evaluating the Strategic Partnership after the Porto Summit, Session 2, Velina Tchakarova
11.05.2021
Covid-19 and the Middle East
Velina Tchakarova talks with Michael Tanchum and Mitchell Belfer
06.05.2021
Disease, Disorder and Disunity
Velina Tchakarova talks with Harald Malmgren and Albert Marko
30.04.2021
The Post-Coronavirus Financial and Monetary System
Velina Tchakarova talks with James Rickards, NY Times bestselling author 'The New Great Depression: Winners and Losers in a Post-Pandemic World'
24.04.2021
A new New World Order?
In this episode of The Small Print, Bronwyn is joined by political scientist Velina Tchakarova to discuss global macro trends in a post-Covid world.
22.04.2021
Kronenzeitung „Moment Mal“: Impfen ist politisch
„Russland will zeigen, wie gespalten Europa ist“
16.04.2021
Geoeconomic Trends and Shifts
AIES Director Velina Tchakarova speaks with Pippa Malmgren, an American policy and economic analyst.
16.04.2021
Perceptions of the EU in Central Europe amid COVID-related crisis
Online Panel with Velina Tchakarova
23.03.2021
Towards Inclusive Democracies – Women’s Representation, Leadership, Security, and International Relations
Online panel with Velina Tchakarova
27.10.2020
Will Joe Biden be the next US President?
Velina Tchakarova im Gespräch mit Stanley R. Sloan, Gründungsdirektor der Atlantic Community Initiative
13.10.2020
Three reasons why Europeans should vote
Velina Tchakarova, Head of AIES, has three reasons why Europeans should take part in the election for the European Parliament.
20.05.2019
Trump, the Dragonbear, and the bipolar World Order 2.0
By Velina Tchakarova, Head of Institute, AIES
09.07.2018