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Geopolitics and Culture

Narrating Eastern European and Eurasian Worlds

by Sanna Turoma, Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus, Saara Ratilainen, Michael Denner, Sherzod Eraliev, Eeva Kuikka, Ilya Kukulin, Tatu Laukkanen0, Mika Perkiömäki1, Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius2, Marja Sorvari3, Mikhail Suslov4, Rustamjon Urinboyev5 ...

Inspired by popular, feminist, subaltern, and ecocritical geopolitics, Geopolitics and Culture: Narrating Eastern European and Eurasian Worlds presents new research of culture in the Eastern European context. This volume highlights the symbolic production of power, which, although located outside political institutions, engenders geopolitical boundaries and defines cultural margins. Analyzing ... Read more

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Inspired by popular, feminist, subaltern, and ecocritical geopolitics, Geopolitics and Culture: Narrating Eastern European and Eurasian Worlds presents new research of culture in the Eastern European context. This volume highlights the symbolic production of power, which, although located outside political institutions, engenders geopolitical boundaries and defines cultural margins. Analyzing
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Constructing the Uzbek State

Narratives of Post-Soviet Years

by Marlene Laruelle, Sergey Abashin, Peter Finke, Matteo Fumagalli, Alisher Ilkhamov, Svetlana Peshkova, Sebastien Peyrouse, Johan Rasanayagam, Noah Tucker, Rustamjon Urinboyev0, Russell Zanca1, Morgan Y. Liu2, Nick Megoran3, Rano Turaeva-Hoehne4, Maria Louw5 ...

Series series Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
Over the past three decades, Uzbekistan has attracted the attention of the academic and policy communities because of its geostrategic importance, its critical role in shaping or unshaping Central Asia as a region, its economic and trade potential, and its demographic weight: every other Central Asian being Uzbek, Uzbekistan’s political, social, and cultural evolutions largely exemplify the ... Read more

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Over the past three decades, Uzbekistan has attracted the attention of the academic and policy communities because of its geostrategic importance, its critical role in shaping or unshaping Central Asia as a region, its economic and trade potential, and its demographic weight: every other Central Asian being Uzbek, Uzbekistan’s political, social, and cultural evolutions largely exemplify the
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Central Asia in the Era of Sovereignty

The Return of Tamerlane?

by Daniel L. Burghart, Theresa Sabonis-Helf, Svetlana Ancker, Yuhao Du, Stacie L. Giles, Elena Kovalova, Marlene Laruelle, Saltanat Liebert, Erica Marat0, Sebastien Peyrouse1, Timothy Rowe2, Dena Sholk3, Sophia Srinivasan4, Måns Svensson5, Robert Timm6, Rustamjon Urinboyev7, Vivian Walker8, Richard Wheeler9, Laura Adams0, Roger D. Kangas1, Professor Mariya Y. Omelicheva2 ...

Series series Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
After twenty-five years of independence, there is little doubt that the five Central Asian states will persist as sovereign, independent states. They increasingly differ from each other, and are making their way in global politics. No longer connected only to Russia, they are now connected in important ways to Afghanistan, South Asia, China, Iran, and each other. This volume covers a wide range of ... Read more

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After twenty-five years of independence, there is little doubt that the five Central Asian states will persist as sovereign, independent states. They increasingly differ from each other, and are making their way in global politics. No longer connected only to Russia, they are now connected in important ways to Afghanistan, South Asia, China, Iran, and each other. This volume covers a wide range of
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Law, Society and Corruption

Lessons from the Central Asian Context

by Rustamjon Urinboyev, Måns Svensson ...

Series series Law, Justice and Power
This book presents new socio-legal perspectives and insights on the social life of corruption and anticorruption in authoritarian regimes.This book takes up the case of Uzbekistan—an authoritarian regime in Central Asia and one of the most corrupt countries in the world according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index—and examines the corruption that developed in a tightly ... Read more

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This book presents new socio-legal perspectives and insights on the social life of corruption and anticorruption in authoritarian regimes.This book takes up the case of Uzbekistan—an authoritarian regime in Central Asia and one of the most corrupt countries in the world according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index—and examines the corruption that developed in a tightly
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Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe

Power, Institutions and Mobile Actors in Transnational Space

Edited by Rano Turaeva, Rustamjon Urinboyev ...

This book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states, flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization, where many people, who are forced by the circumstances to be innovative and transnational, have found their niches outside formal processes and structures. The book provides a thorough theoretical introduction to ... Read more

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This book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states, flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization, where many people, who are forced by the circumstances to be innovative and transnational, have found their niches outside formal processes and structures. The book provides a thorough theoretical introduction to
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The Political Economy of Central Asian Law

A Law and Society Analysis

Edited by Rustamjon Urinboyev ...

Series series International Political Economy Series
This open-access book provides fresh and much-needed insights into the interconnections between law, society and governance in Central Asia. By taking the interdisciplinary perspective of law and society, the book explores the social life of law and legal institutions in Central Asia in broader terms, encompassing not only the state legal system and institutions but also various informal (non ... Read more

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This open-access book provides fresh and much-needed insights into the interconnections between law, society and governance in Central Asia. By taking the interdisciplinary perspective of law and society, the book explores the social life of law and legal institutions in Central Asia in broader terms, encompassing not only the state legal system and institutions but also various informal (non
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The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes

Central Asian Migrant Workers in Russia and Turkey

by Rustamjon Urinboyev, Sherzod Eraliev ...

Series series International Political Economy Series
This open access book contributes new theoretical and comparative insights on migrant agency, undocumentedness and informality in non-Western, non-democratic migration regimes. The book is conceived as a critical reflection on the contemporary migration regime scholarship, and, more generally, on comparative migration studies, which primarily focus on migrants’ experiences and immigration policies ... Read more

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This open access book contributes new theoretical and comparative insights on migrant agency, undocumentedness and informality in non-Western, non-democratic migration regimes. The book is conceived as a critical reflection on the contemporary migration regime scholarship, and, more generally, on comparative migration studies, which primarily focus on migrants’ experiences and immigration policies
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The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy

Edited by Tobias Schumacher, Andreas Marchetti, Thomas Demmelhuber ...

The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy provides a comprehensive overview of the EU’s most important foreign policy instrument, provided by leading experts in the field.Coherently structured and adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this handbook covers the most important themes, developments and dynamics in the EU’s neighbourhood policy framework through a series of cutting ... Read more

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The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy provides a comprehensive overview of the EU’s most important foreign policy instrument, provided by leading experts in the field.Coherently structured and adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this handbook covers the most important themes, developments and dynamics in the EU’s neighbourhood policy framework through a series of cutting
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25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries

Reform and Continuity

Edited by Jeroen Huisman, Anna Smolentseva, Isak Froumin ...

Series series Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades ... Read more

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades
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Higher Education in the Global Age

Policy, Practice and Promise in Emerging Societies

Edited by Daniel Araya, Peter Marber ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies
Discussions on globalization now routinely focus on the economic impact of developing countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union and Latin America. Only twenty-five years ago, many developing countries were largely closed societies. Today, the growing power of “emerging markets” is reordering the geopolitical landscape. On a purchasing power parity basis, emerging ... Read more

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Discussions on globalization now routinely focus on the economic impact of developing countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union and Latin America. Only twenty-five years ago, many developing countries were largely closed societies. Today, the growing power of “emerging markets” is reordering the geopolitical landscape. On a purchasing power parity basis, emerging
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Routledge Handbook of Corruption in Asia

Edited by Ting Gong, Ian Scott ...

Corruption in Asia ranges from the venal rent-seeking of local officials to the million-dollar bribes received by corrupt politicians; from excessive position-related consumption to future job offers in the private sector for compliant public servants; from money-laundering to ‘white elephant’ projects that do little more than line the pockets of developers and their political partners.The ... Read more

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Corruption in Asia ranges from the venal rent-seeking of local officials to the million-dollar bribes received by corrupt politicians; from excessive position-related consumption to future job offers in the private sector for compliant public servants; from money-laundering to ‘white elephant’ projects that do little more than line the pockets of developers and their political partners.The
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Securitization and Democracy in Eurasia

Transformation and Development in the OSCE Region

Edited by Anja Mihr, Paolo Sorbello, Brigitte Weiffen ...

Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
This open-access book presents cutting-edge research on securitization and democratic development in the OSCE Region. Gathering contributions by practitioners and researchers from various disciplines, it presents case studies and highlights recent activities of proactive engagement in democratic institution-building and responding to security threats from the Balkans to Central Asia. The volume is ... Read more

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This open-access book presents cutting-edge research on securitization and democratic development in the OSCE Region. Gathering contributions by practitioners and researchers from various disciplines, it presents case studies and highlights recent activities of proactive engagement in democratic institution-building and responding to security threats from the Balkans to Central Asia. The volume is
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