Avrupa Birliği’nin Orta Asya Politikası: İdealist Söylemlerin Yetersiz Eylemlerle Yürütülme Çabası
Insufficient Policy Tools and Idealist Discourse of the EU in Central Asia

Summary/Abstract: Whether for its internal construction process or its relations with external environment, the European Union always emphasises that it gives priority to the democratic-liberal political and economic values and tries to disseminate the idealist discourse enhanced around these values. Within the foreign policy pillar of this emphasis, one of the most important test areas to show the degree of EU’s success is the Union’s policies towards the Central Asia. Moving from such a linkage, this study attempts to reveal the position and impact of idealist discourse within the context of EU’s Central Asia policy. Leaving aside the previous years, a new strategy and a bigger ambition has been articulated since 2007. However, this idealist policy could not have generated any serious change in the region because of the insufficient instruments and of some other reasons resulting from the attitude of the EU and seems to remain just a discourse

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