EU and EAEU Security Strategies Toward Central Asia

Abstract

The 2020 Munich Security Conference (MSC) highlighted the external and internal security of the European integration project. The recent draft treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States on security guarantees and the proposed agreement on measures to ensure the security of the Russian Federation and the member states of NATO heralded a new stage of confrontation on the subject. The chapter draws on Central Asia as a focal region for the EU and EAEU security strategies in 2001-2020. It argues that the security policies of both unities are not efficient since they use the same postcolonial narrative and similar security imperatives for promoting specific values in Eurasia, exploit the ‘civilizing – unifying' element of the great power for improving security and welfare perception. and thus impose themselves to help the dependent region. This half-step approach appears equally unsatisfactory for all parties involved and needs to be reviewed from subordinate to cooperative partnership.