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The multicultural region of Central Eurasia is living through its
early post-independence years and as such serves as an ideal case
to study and analyse theories of identity and foreign policy in a
non-European context. Looking to re-introduce identity as a
multidimensional factor informing state behaviour, this book
analyses the experiences of the different Central Eurasian states
in their post-independence pursuits. The book is structured into
two broadly defined sections, with the first half examining the
different ways in which the combination of domestic, regional,
international and trans-national forces worked to advance one
national identity over the others in the states that comprise the
region of post-Soviet Central Eurasia. In the second half, chapters
analyse the many ways in which identity, once shaped, affected
foreign policy behaviours of the regional states, as well as the
overall security dynamics in the region. The book also looks at the
ways in which identity, by doing so, enjoys an intricate, mutually
constitutive relationship with the strategic context in which it
bears its effects on the state and the region. Finally, given the
special role Russia has historically played in defining the
evolutionary trajectory of the regional states, the book discusses
the ways in which Russia itself and its post-cold war policies
towards its former colonies have been conditioned by factors
associated with Russia's evolving post-Soviet identity. Placing the
region firmly within existing theories of identity and state
practices, the book will be of interest to students and scholars of
Central Asian Politics, Security Studies, Foreign Policy and
International Relations.
The multicultural region of Central Eurasia is living through its
early post-independence years and as such serves as an ideal case
to study and analyse theories of identity and foreign policy in a
non-European context. Looking to re-introduce identity as a
multidimensional factor informing state behaviour, this book
analyses the experiences of the different Central Eurasian states
in their post-independence pursuits. The book is structured into
two broadly defined sections, with the first half examining the
different ways in which the combination of domestic, regional,
international and trans-national forces worked to advance one
national identity over the others in the states that comprise the
region of post-Soviet Central Eurasia. In the second half, chapters
analyse the many ways in which identity, once shaped, affected
foreign policy behaviours of the regional states, as well as the
overall security dynamics in the region. The book also looks at the
ways in which identity, by doing so, enjoys an intricate, mutually
constitutive relationship with the strategic context in which it
bears its effects on the state and the region. Finally, given the
special role Russia has historically played in defining the
evolutionary trajectory of the regional states, the book discusses
the ways in which Russia itself and its post-cold war policies
towards its former colonies have been conditioned by factors
associated with Russia's evolving post-Soviet identity. Placing the
region firmly within existing theories of identity and state
practices, the book will be of interest to students and scholars of
Central Asian Politics, Security Studies, Foreign Policy and
International Relations.
An east-west axis of Azerbaijan and Turkey has grown into
prominence within the broader structure of regional dynamics in
Eurasia over the past two decades. Yet few, including among policy
advisors and policy makers in either of the two states, have
attempted to look deeper into the forces that lie behind the
workings of this important regional nexus, a reality that resulted
in a dual crisis in bilateral relations towards the end of the
second decade of interaction. This volume investigates the
underlying causes that shaped the dynamics within the structure of
the bilateral relationship between Azerbaijan and Turkey. It
features chapters by both scholars from the region and
international experts in the field, and therefore provides both
in-house and outside perspectives on developments within the
complex structure of the relationship. With its analysis portfolio
including historical, political, economic, socio-cultural,
ideological, and international underpinnings of this regional
alliance, the volume offers the most systematic and broad ranged
analysis of the matter available to date. The book will serve as an
important resource for students and scholars of post-Soviet
Studies, Central Asia and the Caucasus, and the Middle East, while
also being of interest to those of International Relations and
political science disciplines.
An east-west axis of Azerbaijan and Turkey has grown into
prominence within the broader structure of regional dynamics in
Eurasia over the past two decades. Yet few, including among policy
advisors and policy makers in either of the two states, have
attempted to look deeper into the forces that lie behind the
workings of this important regional nexus, a reality that resulted
in a dual crisis in bilateral relations towards the end of the
second decade of interaction. This volume investigates the
underlying causes that shaped the dynamics within the structure of
the bilateral relationship between Azerbaijan and Turkey. It
features chapters by both scholars from the region and
international experts in the field, and therefore provides both
in-house and outside perspectives on developments within the
complex structure of the relationship. With its analysis portfolio
including historical, political, economic, socio-cultural,
ideological, and international underpinnings of this regional
alliance, the volume offers the most systematic and broad ranged
analysis of the matter available to date. The book will serve as an
important resource for students and scholars of post-Soviet
Studies, Central Asia and the Caucasus, and the Middle East, while
also being of interest to those of International Relations and
political science disciplines.
Azerbaijan's independence came after seven decades of militant
atheism of Soviet modernization project and emerged into staunch
secularism of Western modernity, two factors that, on a par with
the country's precarious neighborhood, promised a sustained
indigenous effort towards the desacralization of the country's
political space and the associated exclusion of religion from
politics, a modern blueprint that the Azerbaijani state and its
society have stood united to diligently follow over the cause of
the country's independent existence. Yet the specific dynamics
facing the country in the third decade of independence and the
changing contours of its international engagements have gradually
been working to set the country free from the stifling grips of
Western-style modernity and lay the groundwork for quintessentially
and esoterically Azerbaijani pathway of statehood to follow, one
combining the nation's historical embeddedness in an Islamic milieu
with its century-old practical experience of modern policy making.
This book offers a detailed account of the dynamics behind the
religious-secular divide in Azerbaijan over the past two decades of
independence and the conditions underlying the ongoing process of
normalization of Islamic discourse and the rising cooperation
across the country's secular-religious political landscape and
looks into some future dynamics this transformation is set to
unleash. It begins with an outline of hybrid intentionality behind
the elite's manifold attitudes to Islam, with particular focus on
the strategy of separation between religion and politics in which
those attitudes have found expression. It then proceeds to show the
complicity of civil society and the broader populace, as well as
the international community and the country's Islamic stratum
itself, in the reproduction of the narrative of Islamic danger and
the resultant religious-secular divide in post-Soviet Azerbaijan.
The study then continues with an account of a number of dialectical
tensions inherent in policy outcomes to which the hybrid nature of
elite intentionality has given rise. It then follows on to discuss
key factors contributing to the ongoing normalization of Islam
across the public realm and the gradual bridging of the
religious-secular divide amidst the ongoing state repression. The
volume concludes with a comparative insight into some common
features and conditioning factors behind the dynamics underlying
the religious-secular nexus in Azerbaijan and across the broader
region of the Middle East. It also offers an insight into some
future potentialities that the current dynamics have laid bare.
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