Code
01SF1209
Duration
01 February 2010 → 31 August 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Other economics and business
- Citizenship, immigration and political inequality
- International and comparative politics
- Multilevel governance
- National politics
- Political behaviour
- Political organisations and institutions
- Political theory and methodology
- Public administration
- Other political science
Keywords
European Union
international power
Central Asia
Project description
The Ph.D project deals with the European Union (EU)'s engangement with Central Asia. In particular, it examins to what extent the EU exerts power over this peripheral but geopolitically important region. The PhD project argues that the EU's power in Central Asia schould not be underestimated. To demonstrate this, the PhD project develops and uses an integrative analytical framework based on an alternative conceptual tool to study external power. Labelled 'transnational power over' (TNPO), this concept draws on Susan Strange (1987) and Keukeleire & McNaughton's (2009) reflections on power.