From the “Forgotten Region” to the “Great Game” Region
On the Development of Geopolitics in Central Asia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7313986 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yelena Nikolayevna Zabortseva (The University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 168-176 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Eurasian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1879-3665 • E-ISSN: 1879-3673 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.euras.2012.03.007 |
| OpenAlex | W2048334317 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 26 |
Only eight years ago, Central Asian 1 1 In this article Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are referred as Central Asia. region was characterized as being “largely ignored as a scholarly backwater of the defunct communist world system”. 2 2 Luong, P. (2002). Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. In Pacek, A.C. (2008). Book Review: Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia, The Journal of Politics, 65. Since then the situation has changed; and the role of the Central Asian region in international affairs has increased considerably. Several developments within the region ushered in new geopolitical approaches, echoing international rivalries for the dominance in the ex-Soviet republics. Kazakhstan's oil export and the Kyrgyz Manas military bases are among those international disagreements that echoed in the “Great Game” vision of Central Asia in the world literature. Could geopolitics be the key approach to frame complex developments in the region? Or is this the case when particular methodological “lenses” 3 3 Baylis, J., Smith, S., and Owens, P. (2005). The globalization of world politics: an introduction to international relation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p.3. through which one could consider the world are counter-productive
Ancient history · Central asia · Communism · Dominance (genetics · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geopolitics · Globalization · International relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Russia and Soviet political economy · Soviet and Russian History
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan - Ethnicity, Language and Power
Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Geopolitics, (sub)regionalism, discourse and a troubled ‘power triangle’ in the Black Sea
Axis of Convenience. Moscow, Beijing, and the New Geopolitics
The role of oil and gas in Kazakhstan's foreign policy
Regionalism, nationalism and Realpolitik in central Asia
Social Forces, States and World Orders
Kyrgyz democracy? The Tulip Revolution and beyond
Matrioshka hegemony? Multi-levelled hegemonic competition and security in post-Soviet Central Asia
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order
Contemporary International Relations, 1949-1950
The End of Eurasia
Central Asia's Second Chance
The New Geopolitics
The US Grand Strategy and the Eurasian Heartland in the Twenty-First Century
Caspian Energy at the Crossroads
The Grand Chessboard
Rose, Orange, and Tulip
The critical geopolitics of the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Ferghana Valley boundary dispute, 1999-2000
Regionalism in Central Asia
Constructing Primordialism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0.42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |