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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'.
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'.
Kyrgyzstan is probably the best known of any central Asian country,
the one that has elicited the most academic publications, reports
by NGOs or advocacy groups, and op-eds in the media. The country
opened up massively to Western influence through development aid
for civil society and for economic reforms, faced two revolutions
in 2005 and 2010, and experienced bloody interethnic conflict in
2010. Kyrgyzstan is therefore commonly studied as a twin case: that
of having been, for more than two decades, both an "island of
democracy" in Central Asia-and the only country of the region to
have made the transition to a parliamentary regime-and the
archetypical example of a "failing state," one marked by endemic
corruption, criminalization of the state apparatus, and collapse of
public services. This volume goes beyond these two cliches and
provides a research-based and unideological narrative on the
country. It identifies political dynamics, their powerbrokers, and
the role of international organizations; investigates the profound
social transformations of both the rural and the urban worlds; and
examines the broad feeling, by local actors, that Kyrgyzstan's
fragile state identity should be consolidated. This book gives the
floor to the new generation of scholars whose long-term
vernacular-language field research made it possible to provide new
interpretative prisms for the complex evolution of Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyzstan is probably the best known of any central Asian country,
the one that has elicited the most academic publications, reports
by NGOs or advocacy groups, and op-eds in the media. The country
opened up massively to Western influence through development aid
for civil society and for economic reforms, faced two revolutions
in 2005 and 2010, and experienced bloody interethnic conflict in
2010. Kyrgyzstan is therefore commonly studied as a twin case: that
of having been, for more than two decades, both an "island of
democracy" in Central Asia-and the only country of the region to
have made the transition to a parliamentary regime-and the
archetypical example of a "failing state," one marked by endemic
corruption, criminalization of the state apparatus, and collapse of
public services. This volume goes beyond these two cliches and
provides a research-based and unideological narrative on the
country. It identifies political dynamics, their powerbrokers, and
the role of international organizations; investigates the profound
social transformations of both the rural and the urban worlds; and
examines the broad feeling, by local actors, that Kyrgyzstan's
fragile state identity should be consolidated. This book gives the
floor to the new generation of scholars whose long-term
vernacular-language field research made it possible to provide new
interpretative prisms for the complex evolution of Kyrgyzstan.
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