International Coordination of Water Sector Initiatives in Central Asia
Water resources and their management are a key policy area for Central Asian republics, as well as for international donors. The range of issues and approaches involved, the multitude...
Mapping EU development aid to Central Asia
This collection of factsheets provides an overview of European Union (EU) aid allocations to Central Asia (2007-13) through various geographical and regional instruments and programmes. The information below offers a succinct...
European National Policies Series – Norway and Central Asia
Norway is a peripheral European state, with a population of only five million, but it has an economy that is larger than its population figures would suggest. Although it...
EUCAM essay competition
The European Union’s (EU) engagement policy towards authoritarian and hydrocarbon-rich Turkmenistan has so far yielded little success. It is indeed a challenge for the EU to fnd the right...
Central Asia 2030…
Novels, academic literature and cinema all tend to take a bleak view in forecasting the future. Futuristic novels from the 1920s and 1930s, such as We by Yevgeny Zamyatin...
Security Sector Reform in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: what role for Europe?
The security sectors of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are to different extents corrupt, lack democratic control and can even be a threat to the population. They differ in terms...
European National Policies Series – Sweden and Central Asia
Sweden is a small, neutral country. Its foreign policy is based on working with, and through, international institutions, especially the European Union (EU). Sweden has been a leader in...
European National Policies Series – Greece and Central Asia
Central Asia is not a foreign policy priority for Greece. In Athens, the region is perceived as being very distant, both geographically and in terms of Greece’s interests. Greece...
European National Policies Series – Belgium-Luxemburg and Central Asia
Belgium and Luxembourg still think of Central Asia as a largely unknown and distant region, which is only marginally important to their foreign policy interests. Still, today both countries...
European National Policies Series – Romania and Central Asia
Central Asia is increasingly important to Romania. Over the past few years, Bucharest has taken significant steps to strengthen its relations with the Central Asian republics, particularly with Kazakhstan,...