EU–Central Asian Interactions : Perceptions, Interests and Practices (Paperback)

Preface? 1. EU?Central Asian interactions: perceptions, interests and practices? 2. The EU’s Central Asia policy: no chance for change?? 3. Learning in, about and from the field? Symbolic functions of EU knowledge production on Central Asia? 4. ‘Not here for geopolitical interests or games’: the EU’s 2019 strategy and the regional and inter-regional competition for Central Asia? 5. The interplay of narratives on regionness, regionhood and regionality: European Union and Central Asia? 6. The EU and China: how do they fit in Central Asia?? 7. Bridge or base? Chinese perceptions of Central Asia under Europeanisation? 8. Opportunity and threat perceptions of the EU in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan? 9. Overlap with contestation? Comparing norms and policies of regional organizations in the post-Soviet space? 10. European Union, civil society and local ownership in Kyrgyzstan: analysing patterns of adaptation, reinterpretation and contestation in the prevention of violent extremism (PVE)? 11. The EU and European transnational companies in Central Asia: relocating agency in the energy sector? 12. Communal self-governance as an alternative to neoliberal governance: proposing a post-development approach to EU resilience-building in Central Asia