EU–Central Asian Interactions: Perceptions, Interests and Practices

Abingdon : Routledge, 2024.

Arynov Z., Bossuyt F., Davletova N., Dzhuraev S., Fawn R., Gawrich A., Hanova S., Hou P., Kluczewska K., Krivokhizh S., Moisé G. M., Pierobon C., Russo A., Soboleva E., Sorbello P.

Editor-in-chief: R. Fawn, K. Kluczewska, Korneev O.

Under the general editorship: R. Fawn, K. Kluczewska, Korneev O.

From limited interactions in the early 1990s, the EU and Central Asia now consider each other to be increasingly important. This book includes 12 chapters written by seasoned and policy-engaged researchers from across Eurasia and the wider world that analyse multiple levels of mutual interactions, understandings and misunderstandings across a range of policy areas. It shows why and in what ways exactly the EU and Central Asia matter to each other and why policymakers and researchers should pay more attention to their interactions.

Central Asia falls under the broader external relations and security agenda of the EU, and over years it provided a testing ground for many EU policies, including the priority ones of region-building and resilience promotion. Looking at the EU, in turn, informs as to how Central Asian actors interact with external partners of the region, and how that can influence national policy agendas and consequently everyday life – bringing new approaches, insights and evidence also to the wide field of EU studies.

This book is of key interest to scholars, practitioners and students of Central Asian history and politics, EU foreign policy, EU-Central Asia relations, and more broadly of EU studies, International Relations, regionalism and interregionalism as well as security studies. The chapters in this book were published over three issues of Central Asian Survey.

Chapters

The EU and China: how do they fit in Central Asia?

Krivokhizh S., Soboleva E., , in: EU–Central Asian Interactions: Perceptions, Interests and Practices.: Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Ch. 6.

Since the collapse of the USSR, the European Union (EU) and China have launched a range of leadership initiatives in Central Asia. Focusing on non-traditional security, connectivity and water management cooperation, this paper contributes to the special issue by highlighting the evolution of the EU's goals and practices in Central Asia, contrasting them with China's ...

Added: August 8, 2024

EU–Central Asian interactions: perceptions, interests and practices

Fawn R., Kluczewska K., Korneev O., , in: EU–Central Asian Interactions: Perceptions, Interests and Practices.: Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Ch. 1 P. 1–22.

By shifting the study of European Union (EU)–Central Asian relations from its fixed category of black-boxing both the EU and Central Asia, this chapter advances the case for the approach of examining multi-level and multi-actor interactions that identify the dynamic processes of reciprocal action and meaning-making that characterize the mutual cooperation. It distinguishes perceptions, interests and practices, pointing to the rationales and modes ...

Added: March 24, 2025

Learning in, about and from the field? Symbolic functions of EU knowledge production on Central Asia

Korneev O., Kluczewska K., , in: EU–Central Asian Interactions: Perceptions, Interests and Practices.: Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Ch. 3 P. 38–58.

Examining the European Union’s (EU) engagement with Central Asia since the early 1990s, we see an increased commitment to context sensitivity. Arguably, in order to design ‘better’ interventions, the EU needs to know more about this region. This chapter explores three means of EU learning: in the field – through EU officials’ first-hand experience of working at EU Delegations in Central ...

Added: March 24, 2025

Keywords: Центральная Азия, European Union, Central Asia, региональная интеграция, практики, теория международных отношений, полевое исследование, интересы, regional integration, interests, внешняя политика ЕС, EU-Central Asia relations, отношения ЕС-Центральная Азия, EU foreign policy, IR theory, fieldwork, practices, российская внешняя политика, perceptions, восприятия, Russian foreign pollicy, EU-China relations, Европейский союз, EU development policy, international interactions, политика содействия развитию ЕС, международные интеракции, отношения ЕС и Китая