Stable Outside, Fragile Inside?

Post-Soviet Statehood in Central Asia
Herausgeber: Kavalski, Emilian

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Produktbeschreibung

In the wake of Soviet disintegration, Central Asia became an idiom for the ensuing confusion in the post-Cold War climate of international affairs, characterized by inter-state order and intra-state anarchy. Dynamic changes associated with the end of communism, the 'revival' of ethnic, religious and clan mobilization and the gradual involvement of various international actors, have inspired extensive scholarly and policy engagement with the region. Yet most analyses fail to bring Central Asia into the mainstream of systematic interrogation. This timely volume analyzes the quality of statehood in the region by assessing the complex dynamics of Central Asian state-making and focusing on the simultaneous patterns of socialization and internalization in the region. It straddles four different bodies of literature and addresses the systematic lacunae in all of them to investigate the localization effects of Russia, China, the EU and NATO on forms of post-Soviet statehood in Central Asia - placing Central Asia in the study and practice of world politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9780754676003
• ISBN-10: 0754676005
• Artikelnr.: 45001002

Autorenporträt

Emilian Kavalski is Associate Professor of Global Studies at the Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University (Sydney). He is currently working on (i) the encounter of International Relations with life in the Anthropocene, especially the conceptualization of and engagement with non-human actors; and (ii) the nascent Asian normative orders and the ways in which they confront, compliment, and transform established traditions, norms, and institutions. Emilian contends that in both these areas the application of Complexity Thinking has important implications for the way global life is approached, explained, and understood. At the same time, these research foci sketch a prolegomenon to the conceptual contexts of theory-building and policy-making intent on facilitating economic, social, and environmental interactions that promote the well-being of people in ways that are just, equitable, and sustainable.

Inhaltsangabe

The international politics of fusion and fissure in the awkward states of
post-Soviet Central Asia, Emilian Kavalski; Part 1 Analytical Perspectives
on the Post-Soviet Statehood of Central Asia: Applying the democratization
literature to post-Soviet Central Asian statehood, Paul Kubicek; The
problems of the 'clan' politics model of Central Asian statehood: a call
for alternative pathways for research, David Gullette; The international
political economy of Central Asian statehood, Martin C. Spechler and Dina
R. Spechler; Central Asian statehood in post-colonial perspective, John
Heathershaw. Part 2 Insights from the Processes of Localization in the
Dynamics of Central Asian State-Making: International democratic norms and
domestic socialization in Kazakhstan: learning processes of the power
elite, Kirill Nourzhanov; International agency in Kyrgyzstan: rhetoric,
revolution and renegotiation, Claire Wilkinson; The limits of international
agency: post-Soviet state building in Tajikstan, Lawrence P. Markowitz;
Turkmenistan: flawed, fragile and isolated, Steven Sabol; Stalled at the
doorstep of a modern state: neopatrimonial regime in Uzbekistan, Alisher
Ilkhamov; Bibliography; Index.