China, the West, and Democratization - The Struggle for the Local and the Global in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan

List of contents

Introduction: Democracy and the Global-Local Nexus of Western Dominance 1. Political Systems and International Relations after the Cold War 2. Localizing the International: On Similar Pathways and Variant Outcomes of Socialization in IR 3. Post-Soviet Kazakhstan’s Democratization Pathway (1991 – 2001): ‘Failed’ Socialization or ‘Successful’ Localization? How Newly Independent Kazakhstan became a ‘Democracy with Soviet Characteristics’ 4. Kazakhstan’s Continued Democratization Pathway (2002 – 2012): From ‘Soviet Characteristics’ to the ‘Kazakh Way’ 5. The ‘Kazakh Way’: A Chinese Construct? 6. Strategic Localization Going Global: The Belt and Road Initiative. Conclusion: Democracy and the Global-Local Nexus of Western Dominance in a Multipolar World

About the author

Luba von Hauff is Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany.

Summary

This book examines China’s efforts to multi-polarize - and hence potentially de-liberalize - the international system from a local perspective and then applies these insights to Beijing’s current global agency in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Product details

• Authors: von Hauff, Luba von Hauff, Luba (Dgap Von Hauff, Luba (University of the Bundeswehr Muni Von Hauff
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367030643
• ISBN: 978-0-367-03064-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Studies on Challenges, Crises and Dissent in World Politics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Politics & government, Political structures: democracy, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Regional Geography, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies and movements