Grounding Central Asian Geopolitics

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. For an analysis of this metaphor, see Natalie R. Koch, ‘The ‘Heart’ of Eurasia? Kazakhstan's Centrally Located Capital City’, Central Asian Survey 32/2 2013) pp. 134–147. 2. Alexander Cooley, Great Games, Local Rules: The New Power Contest in Central Asia (New York: Oxford University Press 2012) p. 8. 3. Marlène Laruelle and Sébastien Peyrouse, Globalizing Central Asia: Geopolitics and the Challenges of Economic Development (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe 2013) p. 7. 4. Nick Megoran and Sevara Sharapova, Central Asia in International Relations: The Legacies of Halford Mackinder (London: C. Hurst and Co. 2013). 5. Cooley (note 2) pp. 5–6. 6. Ibid., p. 6. 7. Ibid., p. 6. 8. Ibid., p. 7. 9. Ibid., p. 7. 10. Ibid., p. 9. 11. Ibid., p. 21. 12. Ibid., p. 25. 13. Ibid., pp. 27–28. 14. Ibid., p. 142. 15. Ibid., p. 162. 16. See, e.g., Marlène Laruelle, China and India in Central Asia: A New “Great Game”? (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2010); Marlène Laruelle and Sébastien Peyrouse, Mapping Central Asia: Indian Perceptions and Strategies (Burlington: Ashgate Pub. Co. 2011); Marlène Laruelle and Sébastien Peyrouse, The “Chinese Question” in Central Asia: Domestic Order, Social Change and the Chinese Factor (New York: Columbia University Press 2012). 17. I have already commented upon how Laruelle and Peyrouse's text reproduces the statist conventions of classical geopolitical writing elsewhere; see Natalie R. Koch, ‘Globalizing Central Asia: Geopolitics and the Challenges of Economic Development’, Central Asian Survey (forthcoming) doi: 10.1080/02634937.2013.835198. 18. John Agnew, Geopolitics: Re-Visioning World Politics (New York: Routledge 2003); Gearóid Ó Tuathail, Critical Geopolitics: The Politics of Writing Global Space (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1996); Joanne P. Sharp, ‘Remasculinising Geo-Politics? Comments on Gearóid O'Tuathail's Critical Geopolitics’, Political Geography 19/3 (2000) pp. 361–364. 19. Gearóid Ó Tuathail, ‘Localizing Geopolitics: Disaggregating Violence and Return in Conflict Regions’, Political Geography 29/5 (2010) pp. 256–265. 20. Megoran and Sharapova (note 4) p. 1. 21. Michel Foucault, Fearless Speech (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e) 2001)

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