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With 30 years having passed since Central Asia and the South
Caucasus emerged on the international stage, a new approach to
understanding its contemporary dynamics is required. This volume
argues for a multidimensional analysis of international, regional,
and domestic cooperation and conflicts in the region. The authors
analyze foreign policies of great powers such as Russia, China,
U.S., EU, Japan, and Iran toward this part of the world. The work
looks at regional issues and regionalism, including the Eurasian
Union and the Belt and Road Initiative. A series of chapters study
domestic processes ranging from clan politics, identity
construction, the media, to non-state actors. The publication
applies theoretical pluralism and utilizes realism, liberalism,
constructivism, and FPA.
This book focuses on the problem of regionalism, the crucial
phenomenon in international relations at the turn of the 20th and
21st centuries. Regionalism is analyzed both in terms of regional
economic and political integration, as well as regional competition
and conflict. The book is divided into three parts, based on the
functional and geographical criteria. The first part is devoted to
the theoretical setting, including brief introduction to
regionalism problems and classical theories of integration, as well
as new approaches to regionalism, which are followed by the
analysis of regions in the context of regional security complexes
concept. The second part of the book focuses on Asian and African
challenges to regionalism and the third, and final, part is devoted
to the most developed subregional order, namely the European
region.
This book discusses the applicability of Western International
Relations (IR) theories to Asia and Africa and the rise of
non-Western IR theories (especially in Asia), with case studies
focused on the Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Sub-Saharan African
regions. Theoretically grounded studies of Asia and Africa are
still in high demand, as International Relations scholarship on and
in those regions seems underdeveloped in this regard. This is the
case both in the application of Western theories in research on
Asia and Africa, but especially IR theory-building by scholars in
both regions. The book is driven by the question, whether we need
specific Asia and Africa-oriented IR theories to describe, explain
and predict developments in regional international relations or can
we apply or adapt the so-called Western IR theories.
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