Interrogating Illiberal Peace in Eurasia - Critical Perspectives on Peace and Conflict

Draws together analyses of new approaches to peacebuilding and conflict resolution in a politically turbulent region and offers students and researchers an in-depth and theoretically guided empirical analyses of post-Western and decolonial approaches to peacebuilding in Eurasia.

List of contents

Introduction, Catherine Owen et al / 1. History, Memory and the Quest for Conflict Resolution in Ferghana Valley, Jeff Sahadeo / 2. China's Approach to Countering Religious Extremism among Uyghurs in Xingjang, Adam Jones / 3. Women and Literature in Azerbaijan: Creative Literacy as an Asset Model of Peace-Building, Alison Mandaville / 4. A Negative Post-Liberal Peace? Probing the Implications of Peacebuilding Discourses and Practices in Central Asia, Philipp Lottholz / 5. "Everyday Peace" in Jabbor Rasulov, Tajikistan: Local Social Order and Possibilities for a Local Turn in Peace Building, Khushbakht Hojiev and Anna Kreikemeyer / 6. Nation-Building in Central Asia: Towards a New Ethnic Policy, Valeriy Khan / 7. Clashes of Universalisms: Xinjiang, tianxia and Changing World Order in 19th Century, Zhiguang Yin / 8. Spatial Security during Ethnic Riots in Osh, Joldon Kutmanaliev / 9. Bottom-up Peacekeeping in Southern Kyrgyzstan, Alisher Khamidov & Nick Megoran / 10. Conflict Management, Extractive Industries, and the 2014 International Military Exit Strategy in Afghanistan, Timor Sharan and Srinjoy Bose/ 11. Positive Incentives to Stop Insurgency? Russian Conciliatory Tactics in the North Caucasus, Elena Zhirukhina / Bibliography / Index

About the author

Catherine Owen is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Exeter.

Shairbek Juraev is Marie Curie Fellow, School of IR, University of St Andrews.

David Lewis is Senior Lecturer, Director of Education, Department of Politics, University of Exeter.

Nick Megoran is Reader in Political Geography, Newcastle University.

John Heathershaw is Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Exeter.

Summary

Draws together analyses of new approaches to peacebuilding and conflict resolution in a politically turbulent region and offers students and researchers an in-depth and theoretically guided empirical analyses of post-Western and decolonial approaches to peacebuilding in Eurasia.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Owen, Catherine Juraev Owen
• Assisted by: John Heathershaw (Editor), Heathershaw John (Editor), Shairbek Juraev (Editor), Juraev Shairbek (Editor), David Lewis (Editor), Nick Megoran (Editor), Megoran Nick (Editor), Catherine Owen (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781786603616
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-361-6
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Global Dialogues: Developing Non-Eurocentric IR and IPE; Global Dialogues: Developing N; Global Dialogues: Developing N; Global Dialogues: Non Eurocentric Visions of the Global
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), Europe, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, International Relations, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Warfare and defence, Peace studies & conflict resolution