Incomplete State-Building in Central Asia

The State as Social Practice

AvViktoria Akchurina

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Specifically, the book captures a paradox at hand: how come three states, which made different political, economic, cultural, and social choices at the outset of their independence in the 1990s, have ended up as so-called “weak states” in the 2000s and onwards?

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-21
Mått:148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt:466 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Security Studies in the Global South
Antal sidor:342
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031141843

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Viktoria Akchurina is Senior Lecturer at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. Her research focuses on state-building in Central Asia and the Middle East, comparatively. She is an author of a number of academic publications on the elite formation, power and hegemony, the incomplete state, security and radicalization, border and water management in central Eurasia. She co-edited a Special Section on ‘Power and Competing Regionalism in a Wider Europe’ in Europe-Asia Studies. In her previous capacity as a researcher at TRENDS Consulting in Abu-Dhabi, she published a number of policy papers on the Belt and Road Initiative in the Middle East and conducted research on Russian foreign policy in Syria.Previously, Viktoria taught at the MA program in Peace and Development at Dauphine University in Paris andconducted research on borders, informal cartography, and the "lost cities" in Eurasia at the Centre of "Geopolitics of Risk" at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris.

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Incomplete State: Fifty Shades of Failure.- 2. Understanding State-Building in Central Asia.- 3. Follow the Water: Soviet Legacy as Cross-Border Societal Interdependence.- 4. Impact of External Actors on States and Societies.- 5. When Elites Meet: The Struggle for Power and its Social Meaning.