EU Assistance to Central Asia: Back to the Drawing Board?
European Union (EU) assistance in general and to Central Asia in particular is a complicated, many sided and fairly opaque...
Uzbekistan
Spain and Kazakhstan in the chair
2010 promises to be an interesting year for relations between Europe and Central Asia. The EU, guided by the Spanish...
Destruction of Central Asian Electricity Grid: Causes and Implications
The destruction of the Central Asia-wide electricity grid has not only demonstrated the fragility of energy arrangements in the region...
Оптимизация наземных транспортных коридоров в Центральной Азии и Евразии
В настоящее время существует несколько частично совпадающих, но несогласованных стратегических международных транспортных коридоров, проходящих по территории Евразийского континента и концентрирующихся...
Optimisation of Central Asian and Eurasian Trans-Continental Land Transport Corridors
There is at present an overlapping but inadequately coordinated combination of strategic trans-continental transport corridors or axes stretching across the...
The Growing Illiteracy in Central Asia: A Challenge for the EU
The Central Asian states have declared their interest in engaging in international cooperation in the higher education sector, but less...
Beyond Border Management Programme for Central Asia (BOMCA)
Introduction In 2002, Romano Prodi, then President of the European Commission, proudly announced a plan to create a unified border...
Программа БОМКА: содействие ЕС в управлении границами в Центральной Азии
Введение В 2002 году Романо Проди, в ту пору президент Европейской Комиссии, гордо заявил о планах создания совместного управления границами...
From Central Asia into EurAsia
Having recently spent some time in all fve states of Central Asia on the EUCAM project monitoring the EU’s strategy...
The multiple paradoxes of the agriculture issue in Central Asia
Agriculture constitutes one of the main sectors in the economies of Central Asia: cotton production in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, a...
The EU Strategy for Central Asia says ‘security’. Does this include Security Sector Reform?
Introduction Central Asia faces a broad range of security challenges.(1) Due to the region’s position at the crossroads between Russia,...