The roundtable offers two key contributions. First, it leverages the region’s variation in structural (size, resources, socio-economic composition) and institutional (especially regime type) features to compare how these shape policymaking processes and outcomes. Second, it addresses a major gap in the literature: despite the strategic importance of the region, no work has yet systematically compared policymaking across post-Soviet Eurasia. The findings generate insights relevant beyond the region, contributing to broader debates in comparative politics and public policy, on authoritarian and hybrid regimes, policy change in unstable institutional contexts, the politics of expertise, civil society’s role, and crisis management.

The participants of the roundtable will be: 

Ellie Martus who will present her chapter for the edited volume entitled: "Multiple Streams Framework (MSF): comparing policy entrepreneurs in Georgia and Armenia". This study contributes to the growing literature on MSF in non-democratic and hybrid regime contexts, focus on two critically understudied cases.;

Marianna Muravyeva presenting her co-authored chapter “Judicial policymaking: apex courts and gender based violence in post-Soviet countries.” This research examines the role of apex (supreme and constitutional) courts in policymaking in Russia, Belarus, and Armenia.;

Amelia Barnes presenting results of her research "Between War, Geopolitics and Civil Society: Using Punctuated Equilibrium Theory to Explain Divergent Paths to Istanbul Convention Ratification in Ukraine and Armenia".; and

Marina Khmelnitskaya who will present the edited volume's overview chapter "Pillars of power and policy in policymaking in Eurasia," in which she offers the theoretical framework for the volume and discusses its key findings.