Theorizing Central Asian Politics: The State, Ideology and Power (International Political Theory)

Theorizing Central Asian Politics: The State, Ideology and Power (International Political Theory)

by RicoIsaacs (Editor), Alessandro Frigerio (Editor)

Synopsis

This book brings together a series of innovative contributions which provide an eclectic view of how theorizing politics plays out in Central Asia. How are the concepts of governance, legitimacy, ideology, power, order, and the state framed in the region? How can we use the experiences of the Central Asian states to renovate political theorizing? In addressing these questions, the volume relies on the contributions of many young and local researchers, whose chapters are primed to address three key themes: exploring models of governance, revealing ideological justifications, and reframing state and order. Utilizing a range of single and comparative case studies from across the Central Asian space, this illuminating and original volume opens up a new space for political theorists, regional specialists and students of politics to begin reconsidering how we approach the theorization of regions of the world assumed to be on the periphery.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 340
Edition: 1st ed. 2019
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 12 Nov 2018

ISBN 10: 3319973541
ISBN 13: 9783319973548

Author Bio
Rico Isaacs is Reader in Politics at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of Film and Identity in Kazakhstan (2018), Nation-Building in the Post-Soviet Space (with Abel Polese, 2016) and Party System Formation in Kazakhstan (2011).
Alessandro Frigerio is Dean of the School of Management at Almaty Management University, Kazakhstan. He has been working in Almaty for the past ten years combining administrative duties at different universities with heterodox scholarly activities in political philosophy.