Emilian Kavalski is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. His research focuses on European politics, especially the enlargement, common foreign and security policy, and external relations of the EU, as well as on the interactions between China, India and the European Union in Central Asia. He has published several books, including India and Central Asia: The Mythmaking and International Relations of a Rising Power (I.B.Tauris, 2010).

Perhaps the biggest merit of the book is that it offers a very well thought, thoroughly constructed and neatly presented analytical framework

• Introduction: Framing the Normative Foreign Policy Agency of the European Union, China, and India in Central AsiaPart I. Context and Frameworks for the Engagement with the Rise of Normative Powers in Central Asia1. Involving Central Asia in World Politics2. The Shadows of Normative Powers3. The Deliberate Practice of Security Governance Part II: Following the Central Asian Agency of Normative Powers4. The European Union and Central Asia: In Search of a New Strategy?5. Shanghaied into Cooperation? Framing the Central Asian Agency of China 6. India and Central Asia: A Strategic Culture "Looking North" for Its Normative Power Conclusion: The (Struggle for) Recognition of Normative Powers Bibliography

Emilian Kavalski is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. His research focuses on European politics, especially the enlargement, common foreign and security policy, and external relations of the EU, as well as on the interactions between China, India and the European Union in Central Asia. He has published several books, including India and Central Asia: The Mythmaking and International Relations of a Rising Power (I.B.Tauris, 2010).

Perhaps the biggest merit of the book is that it offers a very well thought, thoroughly constructed and neatly presented analytical framework

• Introduction: Framing the Normative Foreign Policy Agency of the European Union, China, and India in Central AsiaPart I. Context and Frameworks for the Engagement with the Rise of Normative Powers in Central Asia1. Involving Central Asia in World Politics2. The Shadows of Normative Powers3. The Deliberate Practice of Security Governance Part II: Following the Central Asian Agency of Normative Powers4. The European Union and Central Asia: In Search of a New Strategy?5. Shanghaied into Cooperation? Framing the Central Asian Agency of China 6. India and Central Asia: A Strategic Culture "Looking North" for Its Normative Power Conclusion: The (Struggle for) Recognition of Normative Powers Bibliography

Emilian Kavalski is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. His research focuses on European politics, especially the enlargement, common foreign and security policy, and external relations of the EU, as well as on the interactions between China, India and the European Union in Central Asia. He has published several books, including India and Central Asia: The Mythmaking and International Relations of a Rising Power (I.B.Tauris, 2010).

Perhaps the biggest merit of the book is that it offers a very well thought, thoroughly constructed and neatly presented analytical framework

• Introduction: Framing the Normative Foreign Policy Agency of the European Union, China, and India in Central AsiaPart I. Context and Frameworks for the Engagement with the Rise of Normative Powers in Central Asia1. Involving Central Asia in World Politics2. The Shadows of Normative Powers3. The Deliberate Practice of Security Governance Part II: Following the Central Asian Agency of Normative Powers4. The European Union and Central Asia: In Search of a New Strategy?5. Shanghaied into Cooperation? Framing the Central Asian Agency of China 6. India and Central Asia: A Strategic Culture "Looking North" for Its Normative Power Conclusion: The (Struggle for) Recognition of Normative Powers Bibliography