Grounded in rich empirical investigations, this collection analyses the new forms of authoritarian conflict management emerging in contemporary Eurasia. It is a welcome contribution to the growing and important scholarship that no longer takes the ‘liberal peace’ as its sole point of reference, but seeks to understand non-liberal forms of peace and conflict management, as well as challenges to these, in their own terms.

- Shahar Hameiri, University of Queensland,

The collapse of the USSR wrought dramatic changes in Eurasia, both in terms of the structure of state power within the region, and the ways in which Western states and international organisations engaged with it. Analyses of conflict in this region remain rooted in supposed ‘global models’, often assuming that patterns of state failure are due to resistance to the liberal model of peacebuilding. This book sets out a challenge to these assumptions and framings. It not only questions but resolutely dismisses the notion that the peacebuilding methods favoured by Western states remain the most salient in Eurasia. Instead, it develops a framework that seeks to conceptualise the ways in which non-liberal actors contest or transform globally promoted norms of conflict management and promote alternative ones in their place. Authoritarian Conflict Management (ACM) consists of an ensemble of norms and practices in which non-liberal actors attempt to exert sustained hegemonic control over the local discursive, economic and spatial realms in a given territory. With case studies ranging from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan, Xinjiang to the Caucasus, the chapters shed light on the ways in which local and regional actors enact practice of ACM in order to impose stability in conflict-prone localities, thereby challenging the Western-led consensus known as the ‘liberal peace’.
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Draws together analyses of new approaches to peacebuilding and conflict resolution in a politically turbulent region and offers students and researchers an in-depth and theoretically guided empirical analyses of post-Western and decolonial approaches to peacebuilding in Eurasia.
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Introduction, Catherine Owen et al / 1. History, Memory and the Quest for Conflict Resolution in Ferghana Valley, Jeff Sahadeo / 2. China’s Approach to Countering Religious Extremism among Uyghurs in Xingjang, Adam Jones / 3. Women and Literature in Azerbaijan: Creative Literacy as an Asset Model of Peace-Building, Alison Mandaville / 4. A Negative Post-Liberal Peace? Probing the Implications of Peacebuilding Discourses and Practices in Central Asia, Philipp Lottholz / 5. “Everyday Peace” in Jabbor Rasulov, Tajikistan: Local Social Order and Possibilities for a Local Turn in Peace Building, Khushbakht Hojiev and Anna Kreikemeyer / 6. Nation-Building in Central Asia: Towards a New Ethnic Policy, Valeriy Khan / 7. Clashes of Universalisms: Xinjiang, tianxia and Changing World Order in 19th Century, Zhiguang Yin / 8. Spatial Security during Ethnic Riots in Osh, Joldon Kutmanaliev / 9. Bottom-up Peacekeeping in Southern Kyrgyzstan, Alisher Khamidov & Nick Megoran / 10. Conflict Management, Extractive Industries, and the 2014 International Military Exit Strategy in Afghanistan, Timor Sharan and Srinjoy Bose/ 11. Positive Incentives to Stop Insurgency? Russian Conciliatory Tactics in the North Caucasus, Elena Zhirukhina / Bibliography / Index
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In the last decade or so a rising literature has developed within the Social Sciences, including International Relations, Global/International Political Economy, Development Studies, Political Economy, Political/Economic Geography and Sociology/Global Historical Sociology, that seeks to deconstruct many of the prevailing theories of the international and the global by revealing a pervading, underlying Eurocentrism. Global Dialogues is interested in multi-disciplinary takes that re-conceptualise and reconstruct the global and the international both theoretically and empirically beyond prevailing Eurocentric conceptions, narratives and empirical accounts. This series adopts a dialogical perspective on the global, which focuses on the interactions and reciprocities between West and non-West, across Global North and Global South. Not only do these shape and re-shape each other but they have done so at differing intensities over time, in the process shaping, making and re-making the international system/global economy in the last 500 years. Acknowledging that these reciprocities may be asymmetrical due to changing disparities in power and resources over time, this series also seeks to register how ‘Non-Western’ agency, in tandem with counterparts in the West, has made the global realm into what it is. All in all, we welcome proposed manuscripts that go beyond the usual postcolonial focus on empire/imperialism and Western hyper-agency. In particular, we are interested in innovative explorations of the many vistas of non-Western agency that have existed either within the non-West or between it and the West. These include those instantiations of non-Western agency that have existed both inside and outside the shadow of Western empire in the last half-millennium. The series welcomes proposals for empirically and theoretically-based monographs and carefully crafted edited collections that examine: Non-Eurocentric theoretical and empirical understandings of the global and international.Non-Western theories of the international and the global that consider, but are not limited to, non-Western cosmologies (e.g., Islam, Ubuntu, Daoism, Dharmic traditions).The role of non-Western agents in the making of the international and global realms.The dialogues that exist across and within civilizations (incorporating the inter-societal), how these manifest in the global realm and what the implications of this dialogical perspective might be for theorizing the global.

Series Editors: John M. Hobson, Bryony J. Vince, and Anahita Arian

Advisory Board: J. Marshall Beier, McMaster University, Canada, Sanjay Chaturvedi, Panjab University, India, Ching-Chang Chen, Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University, Japan, Alan Chong, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore, Josuke Ikeda, University of Toyama, Japan, Fabio Petito, University of Sussex, UK, Shirin Rai, University of Warwick, UK, Alina Sajed, McMaster University, Canada, Karen Smith, Leiden University, Netherlands, South Africa, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra, Portugal, Shogo Suzuki, University of Manchester, UK, Yongjin Zhang, University of Bristol, UK

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781786603623
Publisert
2018-01-09
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Rowman & Littlefield International
Vekt
481 gr
Høyde
230 mm
Bredde
149 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
324

Om bidragsyterne

Catherine Owen is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Exeter. Shairbek Juraev is Marie Curie Fellow, School of IR, University of St Andrews. David Lewis is Senior Lecturer, Director of Education, Department of Politics, University of Exeter. Nick Megoran is Reader in Political Geography, Newcastle University. John Heathershaw is Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Exeter.