Security challenges in Central Asia: implications for the EU’s engagement strategy
Security challenges in Central Asia: implications for the EU’s engagement strategy

Author(s): Daniel Kimmage
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, Security and defense, Military policy, Studies in violence and power
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: Security challenges; Central Asia; EU;
Summary/Abstract: Central Asia presents the European Union with a uniquely problematic set of security challenges. Enumerated in their most basic form, without reference to context, the challenges are formidable enough: the threat of violent extremism, a well established conduit for smuggling illegal narcotics and potential instability rife with the possibility of conflict and humanitarian catastrophe. But these challenges are not stand-alone issues that can be treated individually; they are embedded in a regional context that creates additional difficulties for engagement.

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