The international politics of fusion and fissure in the awkward states of post-Soviet Central Asia -- Part 1 Analytical Perspectives on the Post-Soviet Statehood of Central Asia -- Applying the democratization literature to post-Soviet Central Asian statehood -- The problems of the "clan" politics model of Central Asian statehood: a call for alternative pathways for research -- The international political economy of Central Asian statehood -- Central Asian statehood in post-colonial perspective -- Part 2 Insights from the Processes of Localization in the Dynamics of Central Asian State-Making -- International democratic norms and domestic socialization in Kazakhstan: learning processes of the power elite -- International agency in Kyrgyzstan: rhetoric, revolution and renegotiation -- The limits of international agency: post-Soviet state building in Tajikistan -- Turkmenistan: flawed, fragile and isolated -- Stalled at the doorstep of a modern state: neopatrimonial regime in Uzbekistan
