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This book is an exploration of how the European Union (EU) and
other regional actors construct, understand and use different forms
of power in a political space that is increasingly referred to as
"Greater Eurasia". The contributors examine the extent that the
understanding of power shapes how states and the EU act on a range
of questions from energy to the balance of power in Eurasia. They
explore how the EU's and other regional actors', primarily
Russia's, understanding of power determines whether the post-Soviet
space is a neighbourhood, a battleground or an arena for
geopolitical and geostrategic confrontation. The chapters deal with
a range of issues from negotiations between the EU and Azerbaijan,
to how the EU and Russia are trying to shape relations in Central
Asia. The volume represents an innovative way of understanding the
changing dynamics of the relationship between Russia and the EU,
with some original empirical data, and presents these dynamics
within a broader conceptual and geographic framework. It also
contributes to emerging debates about how the ideational
construction of political space may provide insight into how actors
behave. The chapters in this book were originally published as a
special issue of the journal Europe-Asia Studies.
This book is about transformation of the state and an incomplete
state-building. It defies the transitology assumption of
continuity, linearity and dichotomy of formal and informal in the
transformation of the state. Contrary to the conventional
approaches, it claims that any social order or its political
scaffolding, the state, is always incomplete and we need to develop
cognitive maps to better understand that incompleteness. It
reflects on the social practices, processes and patterns that
evolve as a non-linear result of three sets of factors: those that
are historical, external, and elite-driven. Three Central Asian
states - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan - are examined here
comparatively as case studies, as Central Asia represents an
interesting terrain to challenge conventional understanding of the
state. Specifically, the book captures a paradox at hand: how come
three states, which made different political, economic, cultural,
and social choices at the outset of their independence in the
1990s, have ended up as so-called "weak states" in the 2000s and
onwards? This puzzle can be better understood through looking at
the relationship among three main sets of factors that shape
state-building processes, such as history, external actors, and
local elites. This book applies an interdisciplinary approach,
combining political anthropology, political economy, sociology, and
political science. It helps conceptualize and understand social and
political order beyond the "failed state" paradigm
Eurasia, wherever one draws the boundaries, is very much at the
centre of discussions about today's world. Security across Eurasia
is a global concern and has been subject to a range of discussions
and debate. However, the current tensions over security and world
order, with the growing challenges from Eurasia and Asia, require
more intense scrutiny. The goals of the book are to explore the
challenges facing the region and to assess how to achieve economic,
social and political stability in the Eurasian core. The book's
chapters are written by prominent experts in the field, and
together contribute to the continuing debate by providing policy
advice for managing crises in the region. Conflicts inevitably
arise in the Eurasian space as global powers, regional powers and
individual states jockey for positions and influence. These
conflicts need not reach a crisis state provided the foundations of
conflict, and the surrounding frameworks, can be better understood.
To do this, it is necessary to examine the issue of security in
Eurasia from a multi-dimensional perspective that challenges any
and all assumptions about Eurasia and global order. This volume has
two overarching goals. The first is to come to a better
understanding of key security threats in the Eurasian region from a
multi-dimensional - social, political, economic and institutional -
perspective. The second is to discuss policies directed to increase
mutual security in and around the Eurasian core. Although the
crisis of security affects the whole continent, the area covered by
the former Soviet Union and its neighborhood is at the epicenter of
the current crisis. On the one side, the Atlantic community is
consolidating and extending. On the other, various 'greater Asia'
ideas are in the making. All of Eurasia is in danger of becoming an
extended shatter zone, a vast new, shaky 'borderland' trapped
between two great systems of power and world order.
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