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Democracy in Central Asia - Competing Perspectives and Alternative Strategies (Hardcover)
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Democracy in Central Asia - Competing Perspectives and Alternative Strategies (Hardcover)
Series: Asia in the New Millennium
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Promoting democracy has long been a priority of Western foreign
policy. In practice, however, international attempts to expand
representative forms of government have been inconsistent and are
often perceived in the West to have been failures. The states of
Central Asia, in particular, seem to be "democracy resistant," and
their governments have continued to support various forms of
authoritarianism in the decades following the Soviet Union's
collapse. In Democracy in Central Asia, Mariya Omelicheva examines
the beliefs and values underlying foreign policies of the major
global powers -- the United States, the European Union, Russia, and
China -- in order to understand their efforts to influence
political change in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
Omelicheva has traveled extensively in the region, collecting data
from focus groups and public opinion surveys. She draws on the
results of her fieldwork as well as on official documents and
statements of democracy-promoting nations in order to present a
provocative new analysis. Her study reveals that the governments
and citizens of Central Asia have developed their own views on
democracy supported by the Russian and Chinese models rather than
by Western examples. The vast majority of previous scholarly work
on this subject has focused on the strategies of democratization
pursued by one agent such as the United States or the European
Union. Omelicheva shifts the focus from democracy promoters'
methods to their message and expands the scope of existing analysis
to include multiple sources of influence. Her fresh approach
illuminates the full complexity of both global and regional notions
of good governance and confirms the importance of
social-psychological and language-based perspectives in
understanding the obstacles to expanding egalitarianism.
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