Politics

January 4, 2010 249

European Union (EU) assistance in general and to Central Asia in particular is a complicated, many sided and fairly opaque...

December 20, 2009 261

2010 promises to be an interesting year for relations between Europe and Central Asia. The EU, guided by the Spanish...

December 15, 2009 347

The destruction of the Central Asia-wide electricity grid has not only demonstrated the fragility of energy arrangements in the region...

December 12, 2009 281

The prospect of Kazakhstan’s chairmanship of OSCE was controversial due to the country’s poor human rights record. None of the...

December 5, 2009 253

Since 2008, after a period of relative growth and social stability, the situation in Tajikistan has been steadily deteriorating, leading...

November 18, 2009 295

Having recently spent some time in all fve states of Central Asia on the EUCAM project monitoring the EU’s strategy...

September 3, 2009 310

Russia is a power unlike others in Central Asia, given its role as the region's former coloniser, which started in...

August 4, 2009 173

As expected, Kurmanbek Bakiev won the presidential election held on July 23rd in Kyrgyzstan by a huge margin. The current...

August 3, 2009 240

Regional cooperation and its alternatives as solution paths for the water and energy disputes in Central Asia by Natalia Mirimanova...

June 30, 2009 272

Introduction After fifteen years of independence, there are practically no democratic institutions in place in Uzbekistan. Only a few individuals...

June 7, 2009 501

Introduction(1) In 2007 the EU published a Strategy for a New Partnership with Central Asia. In its initial stages the...

April 6, 2009 216

The European Union approved its frst Central Asia strategy document in June 2007 for the period 2007-2013. From the EU’s...