Politics Of Regionalism In Central Asia

Author : JeongWon BOURDAIS PARK,Aigul ADIBAYEVA,Danial SAARI
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789819940790

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Politics of Regionalism in Central Asia by JeongWon BOURDAIS PARK,Aigul ADIBAYEVA,Danial SAARI Pdf

This book addresses how to mitigate regional tensions and enhance cooperative opportunities through well-designed regional institutions and organizations among countries in geographical proximity. We use the case of Central Asia (i.e., Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) to employ our conceptual framework of ‘externally guided regionalism.’ The following questions guide the study: How and by what forces has Central Asian regionalism evolved, and what are the main characteristics and political implications of the continuously evolving regional institutions? We discuss not only the extra-regional influential actors (i.e., Russia, the United States, the European Union, and China), but also intra-regional initiatives, strategies, and struggles in securing stability and sovereignty. Extra-regional actors’ growing competition over molding their own kind of multilateralism involving this region has contributed to the current direction of Central Asia’s regionalization. Concurrently, Central Asia’s political conditions and constraints interactively contribute to ever-increasing institutional sprawl.

Author : Chinara Esengul
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 9967025735

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Politics of Regionalism in Central Asia by Chinara Esengul Pdf

Author : Emilian Kavalski
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814287562

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The New Central Asia by Emilian Kavalski Pdf

This book focuses on Central Asia's place in world affairs and how international politics of state-building has affected the Asian region, thus filling the gaps in ongoing discussions on the rise of Asia in global governance. It also attempts to generalize and contextualize the "Central Asian experience" and re-evaluate its comparative relevance, by explaining the complex dynamics of Central Asian politics through a detailed analysis of the effects of major international actors -- both international organizations as well as current and rising great powers.--Publisher's description.

Author : Sunatullo Jonboboev,Mirzokhid Rakhimov,Reimund Seidelmann
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783736947320

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Central Asia Today by Sunatullo Jonboboev,Mirzokhid Rakhimov,Reimund Seidelmann Pdf

This collection of descriptions and analyses from scholars from Central Asia, Xinjiang, Kashmir, and Siberia gives first a general overview about the geopolitics, economics, and politics of the Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgizstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) plus a details description of their foreign policy towards their neighborhood, the region, and the further abroad (Russia, India, China). This is complemented by studies on the relations between Central Asia on the one side and China, India, and Russia on the other hand. Secondly, the history, problems, and pers-pectives of the Central Asian regionalization and trans-regional (SCO, OSCE) process is discussed and evaluated. Third, problems such as Islamism in Central Asia are studied. The book is not only a coherent handbook on Central Asia but presents the views of the academic generation of the newly independent Central Asian countries. It gives a comprehensive overview about foreign policies and Central Asian relations with the big neighbors China, Russia, and India as well as a differentiated discussion on the regionalization process.

Author : Rico Isaacs,Alessandro Frigerio
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319973555

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Theorizing Central Asian Politics by Rico Isaacs,Alessandro Frigerio Pdf

This book brings together a series of innovative contributions which provide an eclectic view of how theorizing politics plays out in Central Asia. How are the concepts of governance, legitimacy, ideology, power, order, and the state framed in the region? How can we use the experiences of the Central Asian states to renovate political theorizing? In addressing these questions, the volume relies on the contributions of many young and local researchers, whose chapters are primed to address three key themes: exploring models of governance, revealing ideological justifications, and reframing state and order. Utilizing a range of single and comparative case studies from across the Central Asian space, this illuminating and original volume opens up a new space for political theorists, regional specialists and students of politics to begin reconsidering how we approach the theorization of regions of the world assumed to be on the periphery.

Author : Pauline Jones Luong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139432283

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Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia by Pauline Jones Luong Pdf

The establishment of electoral systems in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan presents both a complex set of empirical puzzles and a theoretical challenge. Why did three states with similar cultural, historical, and structural legacies establish such different electoral systems? How did these distinct outcomes result from strikingly similar institutional design processes? Explaining these puzzles requires understanding not only the outcome of institutional design but also the intricacies of the process that led to this outcome. Moreover, the transitional context in which these three states designed new electoral rules necessitates an approach that explicitly links process and outcome in a dynamic setting. This book provides such an approach. Finally, it both builds on the key insights of the dominant approaches to explaining institutional origin and change and transcends these approaches by moving beyond the structure versus agency debate.

Author : Assoc Prof Emilian Kavalski
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781409499299

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China and the Global Politics of Regionalization by Assoc Prof Emilian Kavalski Pdf

This volume examines the prominent role of China in global politics and the relevance of the 'new regionalism' paradigm to China's international outreach. It provides a comprehensive and critical assessment of China's impact on the global politics of regionalization, offers a novel application of analytical models, investigates the aspects of the Chinese practice of regionalization that set it apart, and demonstrates China's transformative potential in international life. Addressing the need to 're-Orient' the research and policy agenda of international relations, this comprehensive study demonstrates both the lack of language to engage with existing norms and standards and the difficulty of applying them to an evaluation of the global politics of China's 'non-Western' international agency.

Author : Saroj Rani
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 8178357313

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Regional Economic Intergration [i.e. Integration] by Saroj Rani Pdf

The Regional Economic Integration: A comparative study of Central Asian and South Asian Regions. This book has been acknowledged as an exhaustive research on Economic Integration between Central Asia and South Asian as well as within the regions. This book has given an idea that both the regions are complementary to each other having a lot of potential in all growing sectors. To harness this potential efficiently both the regions should cooperate with each other. Economic benefits might help in diluting some political problems exiting within the regions. War devastating countries by Economic Integration could yield maximum benefits in the European Union then why not these regions could do so. History is witnessed that these regions enjoy same social and culturalties while engaging in trade activities. Author has made extensive efforts to highlight the benefits of economic integration for development and prosperity of both the regions.

Author : Reimund Seidelmann,Ernst Giese
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 3631524463

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Cooperation and Conflict Management in Central Asia by Reimund Seidelmann,Ernst Giese Pdf

The newly independent states in Central Asia face development, transformation and regionalization challenges. These include the definition of their domestic and foreign national politics, the build-up of peaceful regional cooperation and the management of the Islamic fundamentalism, sustainable socio-economic development and the rehabilitation of the environment - in particular water resources. Apart from country studies the volume presents results from two collaborative research projects on Central Asia regarding water resources and political developments. It combines views from politicians and scientists both from Central Asia and Germany towards these matters and gives an overview about the most pressing problems as well as ideas for their solution in the Central Asian region.

Author : Emilian Kavalski
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814466684

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New Central Asia, The: The Regional Impact Of International Actors by Emilian Kavalski Pdf

This book focuses on Central Asia's place in world affairs and how international politics of state-building has affected the Asian region, thus filling the gaps in ongoing discussions on the rise of Asia in global governance. It also attempts to generalize and contextualize the “Central Asian experience” and re-evaluate its comparative relevance, by explaining the complex dynamics of Central Asian politics through a detailed analysis of the effects of major international actors — both international organizations as well as current and rising great powers.

Author : John Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041732598

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The International Politics of Central Asia by John Anderson Pdf

Central Asia is a fascinating region yet remote and unfamiliar to many people. This new study provides an introduction to the politics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgzstan, Tajikistan, Turkestan, and Uzbekistan. The early chapters introduce the readers to the history of Russian and Soviet involvement in the region up until the collapse of communism, whilst the bulk of the book focuses on the politics of independence. The search for national identity in each region and the influence of Islam are discussed and attention is paid to political, economic and international developments. A central theme of the book is the importance of informal politics associated with national, regional and tribal networks in shaping the evolution of the five states.

Author : Rabindra Sen,Anindya Jyoti Majumdar,Bhagaban Behera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000651546

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Conflicting Identities by Rabindra Sen,Anindya Jyoti Majumdar,Bhagaban Behera Pdf

In the era of globalization, regionalism aims at a practical compromise between global governance and national aspirations. Attempts have been made by states, in varying degrees, to advance cooperation towards mutual benefit in different parts of the world. However, the very process of regional cooperation in a defined geographical area adopts unique ways and special characters to accommodate the particularities of the region and does not lead to similar consequences when compared with the processes in motion in other areas. This volume is the culmination of the brainstorming exercise of a National Seminar on ‘Asian Regionalism in the Twenty First Century’ at the Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. The task is to fulfil two main objectives: to join the debate on the efficacy of regionalism today and make a meaningful contribution to an understanding of the subject; and also to suggest ways of tiding over the problems faced by the countries in various regions or sub-regions of the Asian continent in their attempts to advance towards the goal of regional cooperation and integration. The essays in this book are envisioned to benefit not only a wide community of scholars involved in teaching and research in general and the students of international relations in particular but would also be of interest to any avid reader who intends to explore the patterns of contemporary world politics. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Author : Howard Loewen,Anja Zorob
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789402412116

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Initiatives of Regional Integration in Asia in Comparative Perspective by Howard Loewen,Anja Zorob Pdf

This volume offers to compare and explain variances of regionalism in Asia by disclosing the distinctive features of regional arrangements and how they evolved during the 1990s and 2000s against the background of a changing global environment. Moreover, it takes up a genuinely ‘inter-Asian’ perspective. By analysing and comparing diverse manifestations of regional integration agreements across Asia and its different sub-regions, it sets out to track their common characteristics and sub-regional facets with respect to their establishment, design and consequences. In addition, political processes accompanying their negotiation and implementation are scrutinized. The analysis encompasses nine case studies written by renowned scholars who together as a group combine an extraordinary mixture of different disciplinary backgrounds as well as expertise on shapes and processes of regional integration in different parts of Asia. The case studies seize on some of the most important features and controversial issues characterizing the second regionalism. Such are the emergence and impact of overlapping FTAs, regional financial and sub-regional economic integration and cooperation, power and the politics of regional integration as well as the nexus between conflict resolution, state failure and regional integration.

Author : Nandini Bhattacharya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 8175413700

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Dueling Isms by Nandini Bhattacharya Pdf

Foreword Preface 1. Introduction 2. Socialism and Nationalism 3. Political Evolution and Economic Experience: Central Asia under the Soviet Rule 4. Religion: The Determining Factor in Central Asian Identity 5. Role of Language in the Identity: Formation of Central Asia 6. Role of Ethnic Factors in the Development of Multi- Layered Identities in Central Asia 7. Perestroika, Glasnost and the Change in Central Asia 8. Quest for Identity Continues-Conclusion Bibliography Endnotes Index Marxist ideology and ethnic identities are usually counterpoised in the mainstream literature. No where has the mutual dynamics and interactions between these two forces been more profound and innovative than in the Soviet Central Asia. This book offers a lucid explanation of this volatile and little understood phenomenon. Duelling Isms concerns the events of post-Soviet Central Asia and on the inter-ethnic relations in the Eurasian region, where initially after the Soviet disintegration there was a nationalising impulse that threatened the internal harmony of the multi-ethnic societies. The book shows how the Soviet Union tried to accommodate national, ethnic, religious, linguistic and regional identities as long as they did not clash with Soviet identity. The work reveals the mechanisms through which the Soviet system even encouraged some of these identities such as the linguistic identity of the Tajiks, though these identities had their relative spheres of influences and were subservient to the larger Soviet identity. The book draws attention to the difficulties involved in consolidating national identities in the post-Soviet period. Given the centrality of ethnic and Islamist impulses of contemporary times, the book is sure to raise curiosity for any one interested in the history and sociology of Soviet Central Asia.

Author : Kathleen Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139461771

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Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia by Kathleen Collins Pdf

This book is a study of the role of clan networks in Central Asia from the early twentieth century through 2004. Exploring the social, economic, and historical roots of clans, and their political role and political transformation in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, it argues that clans are informal political actors that are critical to understanding politics in this region. The book demonstrates that the Soviet system was far less successful in transforming and controlling Central Asian society, and in its policy of eradicating clan identities, than has often been assumed. In order to understand Central Asian politics and their economies, scholars and policy makers must take into account the powerful role of these informal groups, how they adapt and change over time, and how they may constrain or undermine democratization in this strategic region.