Cohort 2015
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tanja Börzel
Topic of PhD thesis
Cooperation among Autocracies - Regional Integration in Eurasia
10/2012 - 04/2015
Freie University Berlin/ Humboldt University Berlin/ University of Potsdam, M.A. in International Relations
09/2013 – 08/2014
Moscow Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Russia, M.A. Word Politics
09/2010 – 07/2011
Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
2008 – 2012
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, B.A. in European Studies
09/2018 - 10/2018
Visiting Researcher at University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel Hill, United States
Since 01/2018
Researcher at the Center for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin
06/2017 - 08/2017
Visiting Researcher at the OSCE Academy Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
02/2017- 04/2017
Visiting Researcher at the School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Since 11/2016
Election observer for OSCE/ODIHR
08/2016 – 01/2017
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) in Copenhagen, Denmark, Visiting Scholar
03/2015 – 11/2015
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Sector Programme Peace and Security, External Consultant
09/2014 – 04/2015
Research Group “The Transformative Power of Europe” (KFG), Free University Berlin, Student Assistant
04/2014 – 07/2014
Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Uzbekistan, European External Action Service, Traineeship
02/2014 – 04/2014
Carnegie Moscow Center, Research Internship
08/2012 – 05/2013
Institute for European Politics (IEP), Berlin, Student Assistant
09/2018 - 10/2018
FUB Alumni Program Scholarship for reserach stay abroad
01/2017 - 09/2018
PhD Scholarship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volks)
09/2015 – 12/2016
PhD Scholarship, Kolleg-Forschergruppe (DFG) "The Transformative Power of Europe"
06/2015
Best Graduate Award of the 2014/2015 cohort, Master in International Relations, Free University Berlin
05/2010 – 04/2015
Scholarship, German Academic Scholarship Foundation
05/2010 – 07/2011
Scholarship, "Metropolises in Eastern Europe“, German Academic Scholarship Foundation and the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation
Eurasian Integration
Regional Integration and Regional Organizations
Russian Foreign Policy
Transformation in the Post-Soviet Space
Regional Politics in Central Asia
Gast, Ann-Sophie/Kossow, Niklas/Nelles, Mattia 2018: Schluss mit dem Augenzwinkern Richtung Moskau!, in ipg-journal, https://www.ipg-journal.de/regionen/europa/artikel/detail/schluss-mit-dem-augenzwinkern-richtung-moskau-2886/.
Gast, Ann-Sophie 2018: Warum Kirgistans Mitgliedschaft in der Eurasischen Wirtschaftsunion bisher kein Erfolg war, in: Zentralasien-Analysen Nr. 123, ZOiS Berlin, p. 2-5.
Gast, Ann-Sophie 2018: Zentralasien und die Präsidentschaftswahlen in Russland, ZOiS spotlight 8/2018, https://en.zois-berlin.de/publications/zois-spotlight/central-asia-and-russias-presidential-election/.
Gast, Ann-Sophie 2018: Russlands Rolle in Zentralasien: Ringen um Einfluss und Verbündete, in: Religion und Gesellschaft in Ost und West (RGOW) 2/2018, p. 6-9.
Gast, Ann-Sophie 2018: Kyrgyzstan and the Eurasian Economic Union – A Partnership with Obstacles, in: OSCE Policy Brief No. 45, Bishkek: OSCE Academy Bishkek, http://www.osce-academy.net/en/news/full/478.html.
Gast, Ann-Sophie 2017: Regionalism in Eurasia – Explaining Authority Transfers to Regional Organizations, in: KFG Working Paper No. 82, Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.
Gast, Ann-Sophie 2017: Presidential Elections in Kyrgyzstan – A Democratic Exception in Autocratic Central Asia? in: WZB Democracy Blog, https://democracy.blog.wzb.eu/2017/11/02/presidential-elections-in-kyrgyzstan/.
Gast, Ann-Sophie/Minesashvili, Salome 2017: The Global Increase of Hybrid Warfare: The Case of Russia's Warfare in Ukraine, in: Long Shots and Bold Claims, Polis Paper No. 2, http://polis180.org/polisblog/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Polis-Paper-2.pdf.
Gast, Ann-Sophie 2016: The Pivotal Role of Women in Ukraine's Peacebuilding Process, Polis Blog, http://polis180.org/polisblog/2016/12/08/women-ukraine-peacebuilding/.
Gast, Ann-Sophie 2014: A Shift in the EU Strategy for Central Asia, Carnegie Moscow Center, http://carnegie.ru/publications/?fa=55483.
Gast, Ann-Sophie 2014: No European Impact in Central Asia?, Eurasia Outlook, Carnegie Moscow Center, http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=54790.
Gast, Ann-Sophie et al. 2013: Kreativer Protest im öffentlichen Raum: Artivismus als Kanal des politischen Engagements, in PROJEKT EUROPA 2012/13, Jahrespublikation des Studienkollegs zu Berlin, S. 58-84.
Gast, Ann-Sophie 2012: Erste Jahrestagung des Deutsch-Portugiesischen Forums: Perspektiven einer starken Partnerschaft in schweren Zeiten, in integration 02/2013, Baden Baden: Nomos, S.146-155.