Recalibrating EU Foreign Policy<i>Vis-à-vis</i>Central Asia: Towards Principled Pragmatism and Resilience

With China and Russia acting more assertively vis-à-vis Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan have gradually moved to the core of contemporary Eurasian geopolitics – albeit varying degrees. The European Union (EU) has purposefully sought promote its norms values in region for quite some time past. However, considering ongoing Western “polycrisis” exacerbated by Covid-19 pandemic most recently, our paper investigates how EU been recalibrating relationship towards Asia within timespan two Strategies, dating from 2007 2019, respectively. We argue that reformulation policy is pragmatically taking lead growing constraints foreign as well Chinese Russian intervention region; it is, end, geographical proximity continues shape Asia.