On a positive note…
Opportunities for Central Asia Central Asia receives rather limited attention when compared to other parts of the world, and when...
Economy
Central Asia 2030…
Novels, academic literature and cinema all tend to take a bleak view in forecasting the future. Futuristic novels from the...
Thinking security, doing development? The security-development nexus in European policies towards Tajikistan
As the 2014 NATO drawdown from Afghanistan approaches, the EU increasingly focuses on preventing potential spillover effects on Central Asia....
Promises and hurdles in EU-Kazakhstan energy cooperation
Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister, Karim Massimov, once referred to energy cooperation as the ‘core’ of relations between his country and the...
Harvesting the ‘White Gold’
Check your sweater How do you know that your sweater has not been made of cotton harvested by Uzbek children...
Into EurAsia – Monitoring the EU’s Central Asia Strategy
The EUCAM Final Report in paperback offers the first assessment of the ambitious strategy to upgrade the EU's cooperation with...
Central Asia: Going nuclear
Recent data show that Kazakhstan is on course to become the world’s largest producer of uranium in 2009.(1) Uranium output...
On How the Inclusion on EU Aviation List Spurs Reform in Central Asia
Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov announced on 3 November 2009 that the government would not issue any new licences to...
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 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 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...
Central Asia’s growing partnership with China
Since the start of the 2000s, the China has become an increasingly important player on the Central Asian scene, which...