The EU's 'transnational power over' Central Asia: developing and applying a structurally integrative approach to the study of the EU's power over Central Asia Universiteit Gent
This thesis challenges the consensual scholarly expectation of low EU impact in Central Asia. In particular, it claims that by focusing predominantly on narrow, micro-level factors, the prevailing theoretical perspectives risk overlooking less obvious aspects of the EUU+2019s power, including structural aspects, and thus tend to underestimate the EUU+2019s leverage in the region. Therefore, the thesis argues that a more structurally integrative ...