Spheres of Influence as Negotiated Hegemony - The Case of Central Asia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3948958 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Filippo Costa Buranelli (0000-0002-2447-7618, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 378-403 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2017.1413355 |
| OpenAlex | W2780384945 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 50 |
In the nineteenth century, as well as during the Cold War, spheres of influence were created and legitimized to pursue and sustain order in world politics, as well as to avoid direct confrontation between the great powers. Nowadays, they are considered as belonging to a past characterized by confrontation, power politics, balance of power and coercion. Yet, spheres of influence still constitute part of the present-day political vocabulary, and several regional dynamics are in fact framed and analysed by using this concept. Are spheres of influence returning, or have they simply evolved? How do spheres of influence look like in contemporary international relations? With a specific focus on Russia and Central Asia, this article adopts an English School approach to the study of spheres of influence and offers a conceptualization of contemporary spheres of influence as structures of negotiated hegemony between the ‘influencer’ and the ‘influenced’ where norms and rules of coexistence are debated, contested and compromised on. The implications of this are multiple. First, the approach allows for seeing spheres of influence as social structures where norms and rules of coexistence are in play. Second, it allows for an analysis of the implementation and the legitimacy of spheres of influence through history. Third, by stressing the evolutionary character of spheres of influence, it puts the notion of their ‘return’ into question
Coercion (linguistics) · Conceptualization · Hegemony · International relations · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Separate spheres · Sociology · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance
Central Asia’s Challenging Prospects for Regional Cooperation
Belarus, Kazakhstan and Alliance Security Dilemmas in the Former Soviet Union
Seeing China's Belt and Road
Russia's New Authoritarianism
Russia's New Authoritarianism
Russia's Leadership in Eurasia
The United States, China, and the Politics of Hegemonic Ordering in East Asia
The Future of Sino-Russian Relations in the Russian Far East
The changing landscape of legal gender recognition in the post-Soviet region
The ‘Geographical Here’ and the Pursuit of Ontological Security
Commonwealth of Independent States at 30
From Almaty to Minsk
Interpreting great power rights in international society
The agency of secondary states in post-Soviet Eurasian regionalism
The Pervasive Nature of Power in Central Asia
Contingent Authoritarian Regionalism
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Geopolitics of interconnectivity
Borders Ending Nowhere
Shaping the Eurasian Gas Market
The geopolitical orientations of ordinary Belarusians
Dangerous dyads in the post-Soviet space
Racial capitalism and spheres of influence
The Fight for Influence
Great Games, Local Rules
The Evolution of International Society
The Global Transformation
Hegemony in International Society
The Global Covenant
Hegemony, Domination, Detachment: Differences in Regional Powerhood
Hegemony & History
Pluralism
Unspoken Rules and Superpower Dominance
The Anarchical Society
From International to World Society
Civilization and Empire
Russia's droit de regard
Great Power Management in International Society
Preserving Influence in a Changing World
State Consent and Disagreement in International Law-Making. Dissolving the Paradox
Kissinger and World Order
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
The dynamics of superpower spheres of influence
Ideology, calculation, and improvisation
Contemporary understanding about spheres of influence
The Anarchical Society
The standard of ‘civilization’ in international society
Mapping Eurasia in an Open World
Post-Soviet Authoritarianism
Practice Theory and Relationalism as the New Constructivism
The Constitutional Structure of International Society and the Nature of Fundamental Institutions
Black knights and elections in authoritarian regimes
The ties that bind? Russia’s evolving relations with its neighbors
International Society and Regional Integration in Central Asia
May We Have a Say? Central Asian States in the Un General Assembly
Towards an English School Theory of Hegemony
The role of external factors in advancing non-liberal democratic forms of political rule
The Discursive Constitution of a World-Spanning Region and the Role of Empty Signifiers
The Historicity of the International Region
Introduction
One world? Many worlds? The place of regions in the study of international society
| Unique citing works | 25 |
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| Citations per year | 4,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |