Decolonizing Central Asian International Relations: Beyond Empires

ISBN-13: 9781032005195 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 160 str.

Timur Dadabaev

Opis

This book unpacks the main narratives used in International Relations to depict and explain existing inter-state relations in Central Asia, with a focus on the construction of fairer International Relations along the Silk Road.

Spis treści

1. Towards Decolonizing Central Asian International Relations  2. Critical Assessment of Contemporary Approaches to Central Asia  3. Manipulating Post-Soviet Nostalgia: Contrasting Political Narratives and Public Recollections in Central Asia  4. Emerging Japan-EU strategic partnership and its implications for Central Asia  5. De-securitizing the "Silk Road": Uzbekistan’s cooperation agenda with Russia, China, Japan and South Korea in the Post-Karimov Era  6. Connectivity, Energy and Decolonization: Uzbekistan’s strategy vis-à-vis Russia, China, South Korea and Japan  7. Decolonizing the Afghanistan-Central Asian relations  Concluding remarks: Seven points for decolonizing agenda setting in Central Asia

O autorze

Timur Dadabaev is a Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Special Program for Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tsukuba, Japan. His recent books include Transcontinental Silk Road Strategies (2019), Chinese, Japanese and Korean In-roads into Central Asia (2019), Japan in Central Asia (2016) and Identity and Memory in Post-Soviet Central Asia (2015).