The European Union's Role in South Asia

This book delineates the role and evolution of the European Union (EU) as an instrument of soft power in relation to South Asian countries. It explains the EU’s development policy towards South Asia and examines its cooperation while attempting to assess the extent to which EU’s development policy can be an instrument of soft power. In addition to examining the development challenges in South Asian countries and the impact of the EU’s development assistance on them, this book describes the vario