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).