European Union - Central Asia: shaping resilience and capacity building

This article discusses the relationships between the European Union and the Central Asian region and the principles for their implementation. Regional cooperation based on the EU strategy for Central Asia. The factors that led to the development of a new strategy, significant changes in regional policy, the priorities of the strategy and the possibility of their implementation in the countries of the region will be explored. Common problems for the region and the role of the EU strategy in overcoming them will be studied. It also analyses the need for EU experience in strengthening regional integration, considering the different levels of development of the countries of the region. The impact of the EU's neighbourhood policy is particularly notable, as is the shift in foreign policy from normative power to principled pragmatism. The catalyst for this change was a focus on the impact of close neighbours on Europe's security, immigration, terrorism, and economic health concurrently offering a realistic strategy for managing larger challenges of the regional and global security.