Is Kazakhstan’s rising star fading?
Introduction Kazakhstan’s economic prosperity and active foreign policy have given it increasing regional power status. Kazakhstan has stood out internationally...
Economy
Towards a new EU Strategy for Central Asia
Tactics or Strategy? Ten years after the inception of the European Union’s (EU) Strategy for Central Asia, in June 2017...
On a positive note…
Opportunities for Central Asia Central Asia receives rather limited attention when compared to other parts of the world, and when...
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...