STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES FOR BILATERAL ENERGY COOPE-RATION BETWEEN THE EU AND KAZAKHSTAN GEO-ECONOMIC AND GEOPOLITICAL DIMENSIONS IN COMPETITION WITH RUSSIA AND CHINA’S CENTRAL ASIA POLICIES
Journal: Nazarbayev University Repository (Nazarbayev University)
Year: 2016

Central Asia strategy in 2007, to enhance the energy and general political-economic&#13;\ncooperation with Central Asia. But the EU has had to compete mostly with Russia&#13;\nand China, the two major powers and potential rivals in Central Asia and the Caspian&#13;\nRegion (CACR). While Azerbaijan has become the most important gas partner&#13;\nof the EU, due to the planned Trans-Anatolian Gas Pipeline (TANAP) and Trans-&#13;\nAdriatic Pipeline (TAP) pipeline network of the EU’s Southern Gas Cor