Kazakhstan and the European Union: Cooperation in Regional Security

Energy policy of the EU in Central Asia

“…Since they were formerly part of the Soviet Union, most European and Central Asian experts from different fields of research consider the region to be a single, indivisible entity with a common line of development (Jafalian 2019;Kizeková 2019). However, this circumstance is not fair: although there are many common features and characteristics, RK, KR and other countries have different approaches to addressing specific issues of strategic significance (Baizakova 2013). It primarily concerns energy policy, which is one of the key elements of the state security system (Movkebaeva and Kurganbaeva 2015).…”

“…Nurdavletova and Zharmakhanova (2020) considered cooperation in the oil sector of transnational companies representing the interests of the EU countries as promising areas of interaction. The specifics and distinctive features of the areas of the EU's energy policy with individual CA countries were considered by Dyussembekova et al (2019), Baizakova (2013), Gubaidullina (2011) (cooperation between Brussels and Astana in the field of hydropower and renewal of infrastructure facilities), Saitov (2020) (EU-led development of renewable energy sources in RU) and Rovenskaya et al (2018) (ways of energy import and export from Kyrgyz Republic).…”