Overview
- A comparative analysis of the incomplete state in central Eurasia, focusing on Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan
- Social history of resistance, violence, border and water management in disputed borderlands of the Fergana Valley
- Interdisciplinary conceptual framework on how neo-liberalization can lead to re-traditionalization of societies
Part of the book series: Critical Security Studies in the Global South (CSSGS)
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About the author
Viktoria Akchurina is Senior Lecturer at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. Her research focuses on state-building in Central Asia and the Middle East, comparatively. She is an author of a number of academic publications on the elite formation, power and hegemony, the incomplete state, security and radicalization, border and water management in central Eurasia. She co-edited a Special Section on ‘Power and Competing Regionalism in a Wider Europe’ in Europe-Asia Studies. In her previous capacity as a researcher at TRENDS Consulting in Abu-Dhabi, she published a number of policy papers on the Belt and Road Initiative in the Middle East and conducted research on Russian foreign policy in Syria.
Previously, Viktoria taught at the MA program in Peace and Development at Dauphine University in Paris andconducted research on borders, informal cartography, and the "lost cities" in Eurasia at the Centre of "Geopolitics of Risk" at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Incomplete State-Building in Central Asia
Book Subtitle: The State as Social Practice
Authors: Viktoria Akchurina
Series Title: Critical Security Studies in the Global South
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14182-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14181-2Published: 20 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14184-3Published: 21 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-14182-9Published: 19 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-5079
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5087
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 342
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations Theory, Political Sociology, Political Science