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Beyond the Border Management Programme for Central Asia (BOMCA)
02/12/2009 By George Gavrilis
Since 2003, the EU has been exporting border management assistance to the Central Asian Republics via the Border Management Programme for Central Asia (BOMCA), which has sought to train border guards, provide key technology and infrastructure at border crossings, and prod states into managing their borders jointly. The European Commission is resoundingly enthusiastic about BOMCA, which has achieved much at little cost in a difficult political environment. This policy brief outlines BOMCA’s development and subsequently takes stock of both BOMCA’s achievements and its limitations.
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Central Asia and Russia EU Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Negotiation Security Tajikistan UzbekistanRelated publications
Bio author: George Gavrilis
George Gavrilis is assistant professor of international relations at the University of Texas at Austin and an International Affairs Fellow (2008-09) of the Council on Foreign Relations. He authored The Dynamics of Interstate Boundaries (Cambridge University Press, 2008); the book explains how rulers strategically organise border control institutions and why these strategies sometimes enable and other times frustrate the work of local border authorities. His areas of research include state building, institutions, boundaries, and conflict and he has conducted field research in the Middle East, Central and South Asia.
