Is the EU-Central Asia Strategy running out of steam? EUCAM Policy Brief No. 17, May 2011

The EU’s Central Asia Strategy approaches its fourth anniversary. In that time the EU has placed its relationship with Central Asia on a more structured footing. Although progress has been made in building dialogue and in furthering engagement, the strategy’s limitations are increasingly obvious. This brief argues that the driving force of the EU engagement should be based on a closer link between security and development. Engagement in this broad field should be underpinned by a values based approach that seeks to promote more explicitly reform on human rights, rule of law, governance and democracy. The momentous changes sweeping across the Middle East and North Africa have demonstrated that even the most apparently durable authoritarian regimes are vulnerable to sudden political shocks.

The EU’s Rule of Law Initiative for Central Asia: From Initiative to More Substance? EUCAM Policy Brief No. 18, June 2011

All five Central Asian states are weak in terms of rule of law, good governance and democracy. The EU chose to devote specific attention to the rule of law through a regional initiative with Central Asian partners' participation. What is the current state of the initiative and is the EU on track?

Involving Central Asia in Afghanistan’s future – what can Europe do? EUCAM Policy Brief No. 20, August 2011

The EU argues in its Central Asia policy that it wants to take greater account of Afghanistan. But what does this mean in practice? There is a case for engaging the Central Asian states beyond agreements over supply and material transport routes to Afghanistan. Central Asian states themselves have the most to gain from a stabilised Afghanistan. Cultural ties and the increasing economic linkages between Central Asia and Afghanistan need to be taken into consideration so that Central Asian states can be assisted in playing a positive role in Afghanistan together with Western actors.

Human security in Central Asia: can the EU help out? EUCAM Policy Brief No. 21, October 2011

The European Union is a security actor in Central Asia, although with less influence than other players. Russia and China have a much larger impact on Central Asian regimes’ security strategies. These limitations do not dispense with the need for the EU to provide a better security narrative, especially in light of its growing emphasis on human security, and to incorporate this into the current review of its strategy for the region. This policy brief will centre on the EU’s contribution to human security in Central Asia.

Chinese Central Asia; a ride to Little Tibet,

Appendices: A. Some of the specimens of fauna collected by Dr. Lansdell in Central Asia. B. Bibliography of Chinese Central Asia.

Russian Central Asia, 1867-1917; a study in colonial rule.

Bibliography: p. [339]- 346.

The Eastern question in its historical bearings; an address delivered in Manchester, November 15, 1876.

Mode of access: Internet.

The soviet Far East and central Asia /

Bibliographical foot-notes.

The European powers and the near Eastern question, 1806-1807,

Issued also as thesis (PH. D.) Columbia university.

Two years of the Eastern question.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Eastern question from the treaty of Paris 1856 to the treaty of Berlin 1878, and to the second Afghan war.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Biblical geography of Central Asia : with a general introduction to the study of sacred geography, including the antediluvian period /

Continued by the author's Biblical geography of Asia Minor, Phœnicia and Arabia.

The oral art and literature of the Kazakhs of Russian Central Asia.

Mode of access: Internet.

The soviet Far East and central Asia,

Mode of access: Internet.

Scientific results of a journey in Central Asia 1899-1902.

Edited by E. W. Dahlgren and Axel Lagrelius.