| Description |
xii, 198 pages : maps ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. The South's 'Insecurity Dilemma'. Forms of Sovereignty within the State System. Three Dimensions of State Power. Unresolvable Uncertainty from Within -- 2. Ethnicity, Nationalism and Nation-Building. The Origins of Nationalism. The Fusion of Civic and Ethnic Nationalism. Theories of Nationalism. Consolidating the Nation -- 3. Pre-Revolutionary Identities in Central Asia. Ethnic Identities within Central Asia. Sub-Ethnic Identities. Institutional Structures of Central Asia. Pan-Islamic Identity. Political Movements of Pre-Revolutionary Central Asia -- 4. The Redrawing of Boundaries: Soviet 'Official Nationalism'. The Creation of a National Classificatory Grid. National Modernisation within the Republics. The Effects of Russification. The Construction of National Myth-Symbol Complexes. Reconstructing History. Soviet Policy towards Islam. The Changing Face of Islam. The Central Asian Economy -- 5. Contemporary Central Asia. Supra-Ethnic Identities |
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Political Movements in Contemporary Central Asia. Inter-Ethnic and Intra-Ethnic Divisions. Consequences of the Soviet Era -- 6. Iron Fist or Velvet Revolution? The Soviet Legacy. The Insecurity Dilemma Revisited. Reform or Reaction? |
| Summary |
"This book analyses the new pattern of security concerns of the Central Asian successor states, i.e. Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizstan, Turkmenistan and Tadzhikistan. It argues that although some form of national consolidation occurred during the Soviet period, divisions within each national grouping remain. These states are confronted with the fact that subnational, supranational and national loyalties frequently override a population's loyalty to the state. It is this so-called 'insecurity dilemma' of each of the Central Asian states which is examined in this book."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-194) and index |
| Subject |
National security -- Asia, Central.
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Nationalism -- Asia, Central.
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| SUBJECT |
Asia, Central -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94001932
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Asia, Central -- Ethnic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114265
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| LC no. |
98055307 |
| ISBN |
0312222181 cloth |
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0333733592 : |
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