EU NEIGHBOURHOOD AND ITS "NEIGHBOURS": EU GEOPOLITICAL ROLE AND STRATEGIC AMBITIONS IN CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA

Fabio Indeo ()
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Fabio Indeo: University of Camerino, Italy

A chapter in EURINT Proceedings 2013, 2013, vol. 1, pp 92-103 from Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Abstract: Since 1991 post soviet Caucasian and Central Asian new independent republics have attracted the growing interests of several states inside a geopolitical competition, triggered by the concern of a power vacuum after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the consequences that unsolved political, economical and social problems could provoke beyond the regional boundaries, as well as by the strategic relevance of the stability and security in the region and above all by the opportunity to exploit the Central Asia and Caspian huge oil and gas reserves, in order to secure the control of the exports energy routes. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the potential role of the European Union in South Caucasus and Central Asia and its ambition to become a geopolitical player and an alternative pole of influence in the regional chess-board: following the adoption of the European Neighbourhood Policy in 2004 and the Strategy for a new partnership between EU and Central Asia 2007-2013, the EU has a concrete opportunity to exercise an important political and economic influence in the region. However, in order to achieve this geopolitical ambition the EU should guarantee the necessary balance between energy/security interests and the promotion of a democratisation process.

Keywords: European Union; Post soviet region; Caucasus; Central Asia; geopolitics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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