The interests of the European Union in Central Asia

• Název v anglickém jazyce: The interests of the European Union in Central Asia
• Klíčová slova: the European Union, Central Asia, cooperation, Kazakhstan, the Strategy, the interests
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2010/2011
• Typ práce: diplomová práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Katedra ruských a východoevropských studií (23-KRVS)
• Vedoucí / školitel: prof. PhDr. Emil Aslan, Ph.D.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno vedoucím/školitelem
• Datum přihlášení: 09.06.2011
• Datum zadání: 09.06.2011
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 14.09.2012 08:00
• Místo konání obhajoby: IPS FSV UK, U kříže 8/661 158 00 Praha 5 – Jinonice
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 31.07.2012
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 14.09.2012
• Oponenti: Mgr. Markéta Žídková, Ph.D.

Seznam odborné literatury

1. Blank S.J., 2007. U.S. interests in Central Asia and the challenges to them. Strategic Studies Institute.
2. Bolgova I., 2005. Politika Evropeiskogo Soyuza v Zakavkaze i Centralnoi Azii: 1993-2004, MGIMO.
3. Boonstra J., 2011. EU’s Interests in Central Asia: Integrating Energy, Security and Values into Coherent Policy.
4. Burkhanov A., 2005 «Interesy i politika ES v Centralnoi Azii//Kazakhstan v globalnyh processah.-2005-№1.
5. Cameron F., 2009. The policies of the European Union and Russia towards Central Asia. Athens: International Centre for Black Sea Studies.
6. Cohen A., 2006. Kazakhstan: Energy cooperation with Russia – Oil, Gas and Beyond. London: GMB Publishing Ltd.
7. Council of the European Union. (2007). The EU and Central Asia: Strategy for a new partnership. Brussels, Belgium: COEST 17.
8. Denison M., 2009. The EU and Central Asia: Commercializing the Energy Relationship. Brussels: FRIDE/CEPS.
9. Esteban, De Pedro N., 2009. Great Powers and Regional Integration in Central Asia, a local Perspective. Madrid: Exlibris Ediciones.
10. Hug A., 2010. Kazakhstan at a crossroads: Governance, corruption and International Investment. Foreign Policy Centre.
11. Hunter Sh., 2007. Iran, Turkey and Central Asia: The Islamic Connection. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc.
12. Kleveman, L, 2003. The new great game. Blood and oil in Central Asia. London, England: Atlantic books.
13. Legvold R., 2003. Great power stakes in Central Asia. Thinking strategically: The major powers, Kazakhstan and the Central Asian Nexus, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
14. MacFarlane S. N., 2004.Caucasus and Central Asia. Towards a non strategy.(Occasional paper series №. 37), Oxford, England: University of Oxford, Centre for International Studies.
15. Norling N., 2007. EU's Central Asia Policy: The Adoption of a Strategy Paper 2007-2013. Central Asia and Caucasus, No. 3, Vol. 45.
16. Pahlevan T., 1998. Iran and Central Asia. New York: Tauris Academic Studies.
17. de Pedro N., 2009. The EU in Central Asia: Incentives and constraints for greater engagement//Great powers and regional integration in Central Asia: a local perspective, Madrid Exlibris Ediciones.
18. Schmitz A., 2008. Efficiency and Its Costs: The Strategy for a New Partnership with Central Asia, in D. Kietz, D. and V. Perthes, (eds.), The Potential of the Council Presidency: An Analysis of Germany’s Chairmanship of the EU, 2007, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik.
19. Warkotsch A., 2006. Die Zentralasiatische Politik der Europäischen Union: Interessen, Strukturen und Reformoptionen. – Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang.
20. Weitz R., 2008. Kazakhstan and the New International Politics of Eurasia. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Silk Road Studies Program.



Newspapers and Electronic sources

1. Analytical center «Prudent solutions», 2006. Politika ES v otnoshenii Kazakhstana, [online] Available at: www.analitika.org. [Accessed 4 January 2012].
2. KAZENERGY, 2011. What will be the end of «Energy battle for Kazakhstan»?
[online] Available at:
http://www.kazenergy.com/ru/5-49-2011/3438-lenergy-battle-for-kazakhstanr.html [Accessed 5 April 2012].
3. NABUCCO Gas Pipeline, 2012. The project. Facts and figures, 2012. [online] Available at: http://www.nabuccopipeline.com/portal/page/portal/en/Home/the_project
[Accessed 30 April 2012]
4. New York Times, 2011. Europe’s Nabucco Pipeline Delayed Again
[online] Available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/business/global/10nabucco.html
[Accessed 4 January 2012]
5. Voice of America, 2012. Nabucco Pipeline Competition for Russian Gas
[online] Available at:
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/a13-2009-07-14-voa32-68804462.html,
[Accessed 4 January 2012]

Předběžná náplň práce v anglickém jazyce

The thesis will focus on the development of relations between the European Union and Central Asian region on the example of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The EU presented its position and interests in the region. Such issues as human rights, reforming the political system are on the highest importance in the «European Union and Central Asia: Strategy for a New Partnership» as well as the active energy policy in the region. The EU clearly expressed the economic interests in the region and the emphasis is placed on the extraction and their transportation of the energy resources.
For the present time on the EU agenda is the problem of the energy security. In this connection, the EU is trying to solve problems by means of finding the alternative ways to provide the energy and protect its market by developing a common energy policy. In this context the Republic of Kazakhstan is the object of attention of the EU which can serve as the address to the strategically important tasks.
The energy security is a priority for Kazakhstan also. And the country can guarantee to Europe the access to the energy resources in exchange for a modern innovation and technology.
The thesis describes and gives the evaluation to the other important states which play a significant role in the mutual relations of the EU and Kazakhstan as well as the other Central Asian countries and their own interaction to the EU policy.

While work at this dissertation were used a lot of materials, both in English and Russian languages, such authors as R. Legvold, A. Hug, A. Cohen, N. de Pedro, P. Nicolas,
A. Warkotsch, F. Cameron, A. Burkhanov, etc.