Oxana Karnaukhova1; 1 Southern Federal University, Russian Federation
Discussion
One of the greatest challenges facing the future of different integration projects on a global scale is security. The Munich Security Conference (MSC) of 2020 has raised the question of the security externally and internally of the European integration project. Therefore, the ‘integration-security’ dilemma awakens again. Perceived external insecurity alongside with raising Euroscepticism and regionalism in public rhetoric is seen as a challenge for integration inside European Union, but also as an ontological external threat coming from projects like Eurasian Union, One Belt One Road etc. Quite a new rationale for the security agenda sounds as a mixture of internal and external, European and non-European dimensions. Such a security regionalism as an explanatory model for security policies of great powers acknowledged since the end of the Cold War gives an additional impetus for further discussion around so-called ‘security regions’, and Central Asia deserves the important place among them.
The paper highlights the major directions and challenges of the European security strategy in the East and vis-a-vie of the EU in the region via implementation of the new "principle pragmatism" approach in the EU vision. Central Asia serves as the reference object of the strategy in the global East.
