China, the West, and Democratization: The Struggle for the Local and the Global in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan

ISBN-13: 9780367030643 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 216 str.

Luba Von Hauff

Opis

This book examines China’s efforts to multi-polarize - and hence potentially de-liberalize - the international system from a local perspective and then applies these insights to Beijing’s current global agency in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Spis treści

Introduction: Democracy and the Global-Local Nexus of Western Dominance  1. Political Systems and International Relations after the Cold War  2. Localizing the International: On Similar Pathways and Variant Outcomes of Socialization in IR  3. Post-Soviet Kazakhstan’s Democratization Pathway (1991 – 2001): ‘Failed’ Socialization or ‘Successful’ Localization? How Newly Independent Kazakhstan became a ‘Democracy with Soviet Characteristics’  4. Kazakhstan’s Continued Democratization Pathway (2002 – 2012): From ‘Soviet Characteristics’ to the ‘Kazakh Way’  5. The ‘Kazakh Way’: A Chinese Construct?  6. Strategic Localization Going Global: The Belt and Road Initiative.  Conclusion: Democracy and the Global-Local Nexus of Western Dominance in a Multipolar World

O autorze

Luba von Hauff is Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany.