China, the West, and democratization the struggle for the local and the global in post-Soviet Kazakhstan / Luba von Hauff.
| Author/creator | Hauff, Luba von |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies on challenges, crises and dissent in world politics |
| Contents | Introduction : democracy and the local-global nexus of global dominance -- Political systems and international relations after the Cold War -- Localizing the international : on similar pathways and variant outcomes of socialization in IR -- Post-Soviet Kazakhstan's democratization pathway (1991-2001) : 'failed' socialization or 'successful' localisation? : how newly independent Kazakhstan became a 'democracy with Soviet characteristics' -- Kazakhstan's continued democratization pathway (2002-2012) : from 'Soviet characteristics' to the 'Kazakh way' -- The 'Kazakh way' : a Chinese construct? -- Strategic localization going global? : the Belt and Road Initiative -- Conclusion : democracy and the local-global nexus of global dominance in a multipolar world. |
| Abstract | "Drawing upon insights from international socialization theory and social psychology, this book examines China's efforts to multi-polarize - and hence potentially de-liberalize - the international system from a local (non-democratic) perspective and then applies these insights to Beijing's current global agency in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative. Specifically, the book scrutinizes Beijing's normative engagement in Kazakhstan, a nation that evolved from an enthusiastic supporter of the West's normative domination of international affairs into an overt critic - after having institutionalized relations with Beijing through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Tracing and juxtaposing the respective patterns of Kazakhstan's political identity development before the SCO entered the region and after, this book not only yields unexpected conclusions about the quality of post-Soviet democratization outcomes, but also about Beijing's local and global influence potentiality for the time to come - and its limits. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of China's normative power, democratization studies, post-Soviet studies, and International Relations"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Hauff, Luba von. China, the West, and democratization Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. 9780367030643 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019048448 |
| ISBN | 9780429670688 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9780429020131 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
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