LEADER 04218nam 22006615 450 001 9910619270203321 005 20251009103344.0 010 $a9783031141829$b(eBook) 010 $z9783031141812$b(hardcover) 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-14182-9 035 $a(OCoLC)1348633304$z(OCoLC)1348490699 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7119904 035 $a(CKB)25179637400041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-14182-9 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925179637400041 100 $a20221019d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#|||mnaua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 181 $ccri$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIncomplete State-Building in Central Asia $eThe State as Social Practice /$fby Viktoria Akchurina 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 342 pages) $ccolour maps 225 1 $aCritical Security Studies in the Global South,$x2946-5087 311 08$aPrint version: Akchurina, Viktoria Incomplete State-Building in Central Asia Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, [2022] 9783031141812 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 295-335) and index. 327 $a1. The Incomplete State: Fifty Shades of Failure -- 2. Understanding State-Building in Central Asia -- 3. Follow the Water: Soviet Legacy as Cross-Border Societal Interdependence -- 4. Impact of External Actors on States and Societies -- 5. When Elites Meet: The Struggle for Power and its Social Meaning. 330 $aThis book is about transformation of the state and an incomplete state-building. It defies the transitology assumption of continuity, linearity and dichotomy of formal and informal in the transformation of the state. Contrary to the conventional approaches, it claims that any social order or its political scaffolding, the state, is always incomplete and we need to develop cognitive maps to better understand that incompleteness. It reflects on the social practices, processes and patterns that evolve as a non-linear result of three sets of factors: those that are historical, external, and elite-driven. Three Central Asian states - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan - are examined here comparatively as case studies, as Central Asia represents an interesting terrain to challenge conventional understanding of the state. Specifically, the book captures a paradox at hand: how come three states, which made different political, economic, cultural, and social choices at the outset of their independence in the 1990s, have ended up as so-called ?weak states? in the 2000s and onwards? This puzzle can be better understood through looking at the relationship among three main sets of factors that shape state-building processes, such as history, external actors, and local elites. This book applies an interdisciplinary approach, combining political anthropology, political economy, sociology, and political science. It helps conceptualize and understand social and political order beyond the ?failed state? paradigm. Viktoria Akchurina is Senior Lecturer at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Her research focuses on state-building in Central Asia and the Middle East, comparatively. 410 0$aCritical Security Studies in the Global South,$x2946-5087 606 $aInternational relations 606 $aPolitical sociology 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aInternational Relations Theory 606 $aPolitical Sociology 606 $aPolitical Science 615 0$aInternational relations. 615 0$aPolitical sociology. 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 14$aInternational Relations Theory. 615 24$aPolitical Sociology. 615 24$aPolitical Science. 676 $a327.1 676 $a327.58 700 $aAkchurina$b Viktoria$01262596 801 0$bYDX 801 1$bYDX 801 2$bBDX 801 2$bUKMGB 801 2$bOCLCF 801 2$bYDX 801 2$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bCaOWtU 912 $a9910619270203321 996 $aIncomplete State-Building in Central Asia$92952250 997 $aUNINA