1st Edition
China, the West, and Democratization The Struggle for the Local and the Global in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
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
Biography
Luba von Hauff is Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany.
