Is the EU downscaling political engagement in Central Asia?
As of 1 March 2014, the European Union (EU) will no longer have a high representative (EUSR) to Central Asia....
Politics
The Impact of the 2014 ISAF Forces’ Withdrawal from Afghanistan on the Central Asian Region
As the 2014 NATO drawdown from Afghanistan commences, the international community increasingly looks towards the relationship between Afghanistan and Central...
Trading values with Kazakhstan
The European Union (EU) and Kazakhstan have become important partners over the past decade. The EU is Kazakhstan’s leading trade...
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...
EU-US cooperation in Central Asia: parallel lines meet in infinity?
The European Union (EU) and the United States (U.S.) have many shared interests in Central Asia, but follow different approaches....
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...
Central Asia 2030…
Novels, academic literature and cinema all tend to take a bleak view in forecasting the future. Futuristic novels from the...
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 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,...
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...
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...
European National Policies Series – The Baltic sates and Central Asia
After a long period of minimal contact given their different political and economic choices after the collapse of the Soviet...