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...
2009
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...
Kazakhstan on the eve of the OSCE chairmanship: Madrid commitments and domestic political landscape
The prospect of Kazakhstan’s chairmanship of OSCE was controversial due to the country’s poor human rights record. None of the...
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...
Studying Europe in Central Asia: The Case of Kyrgyzstan
As the European Union sets out an ambitious agenda in its Central Asian strategy, its support for education may be...
Tajikistan: ‘Revolutionary situation’ or a Resilient state?
Since 2008, after a period of relative growth and social stability, the situation in Tajikistan has been steadily deteriorating, leading...
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...
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,...
The impact of the global economic crisis on Central Asia and its implications for the EU engagement
There is a profound connection between economics and politics. A stronger economy creates a basis for more ambitious political actions...