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Political Regimes and Neopatrimonialism in Central Asia
This book is aimed both at researchers and advanced students of Central Asia, the space of the former USSR, and the foreign policy of Russia and China. The authors adopt a sociological approach in understanding how power structures emerged in the wake of the Soviet collapse. The independencies in Central Asia did not happen as a consequence of a nationalist struggle, but because the USSR imploded. Thus, instead of the elites being replaced, the same Soviet elites who had competed for power in the previous system continued to do so in the new one, which they had to build, adapting themselves and the system to their needs. Additionally, unlike in the immense majority of the independent states ...
A New Ecological Order
The rise of industrial capitalism in the nineteenth century forged a new ecological order in North American and Western European states, radically transforming the environment through science and technology in the name of human progress. Far less known are the dramatic environmental changes experienced by Eastern Europe, in many ways a terra incognita for environmental historians and anthropologists. A New Ecological Order explores, from a historical and ethnographic perspective, the role of state planners, bureaucrats, and experts—engineers, agricultural engineers, geographers, biologists, foresters, and architects—as agents of change in the natural world of Eastern Europe from 1870 to ...
Politics of Regionalism in Central Asia
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.
Political Regimes and Neopatrimonialism in Central Asia
"This book provides a thorough and well needed analysis of the dynamics of power in Central Asian republics. By focusing on the role played by neopatrimonialism, these contributions are able to shed light on the fundamental features of governance in the "Stans": clientelism, corruption, crony capitalism, concentration of power in the hands of a closed circle of ruling elites and the absence of democracy. A must read for any scholars studying this part of the world." - Jean-François Caron, Associate professor in Political Science and International Relations at Nazarbayev University This book adopts a sociological approach in understanding how power structures emerged in Central Asia since th...
The European Handbook of Central Asian Studies
This handbook is the first collection of comprehensive teaching materials for teachers and students of Central Asian Studies (CAS) with a strong pedagogic dimension. It presents 22 chapters, clustered around five themes, with contributions from more than 19 scholars, all leading experts in the field of CAS and Eurasian Studies. This collection is not only a reference work for scholars branching out to different disciplines of CAS but also for scholars from other disciplines broadening their scope to CAS. It addresses post-colonial frameworks and also untangles topics from their ‘Soviet’ reference frame. It aims to de-exoticize the region and draws parallels to European or to historically...
Unión Europea y la Federación Rusa, La: Continuidad y cambios
El fundamento para establecer unas correctas relaciones internacionales es, sin duda, un buen entendimiento mutuo..El conjunto de trabajos de este libro representa una contribución importante para avanzar en el conocimiento de aspectos relevantes en los ámbitos sociales, económicos y políticos de España y Rusia.
TELOS 87
El dossier monográfico de este número de Telos, dirigido por el catedrático de comunicación audiovisual, Hipólito Vivar (Universidad Complutense), se orienta hacia la demanda pero también hacia la formación de profesiones inéditas en el pasado, nacidas en la transformación profunda de la comunicación social y de sus relaciones con los usuarios. La profunda transformación de la tecnología ocasionada por el desarrollo de Internet implica profundos cambios en la cadena de valor de los diferentes sectores de la comunicación: no sólo se modifican los procesos productivos y cambian sus herramientas, sino que además aparecen otras formas de organización profesional y empresarial y n...
España y la Europa oriental: tan lejos, tan cerca
Estructurat entorn de sis grans eixos temàtics cridats a sistematitzar la rica varietat dels problemes analitzats - «Obstacles per a la consolidació de la democràcia en l'Europa postcomunista», «Qüestions de Sociologia, Ciència Política i Dret Públic», «Avanços en la integració europea vs. tensions en les relacions internacionals», «La seguretat en els països de l'Est, abans i després de l'11S», «Economia i polítiques socials» i «Qüestions historiogràfiques pendents» - i culminat amb un intent de sistematitzar i avaluar el progrés dels estudis sobre l'Europa Oriental a Espanya en les dos últimes dècades, el present volum constitueix un ambiciós esforç col·lectiu per a brindar al públic lector una àmplia varietat de perspectives sobre un món cada vegada més complex i cada vegada més proper.
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