1st Edition
Identity and Politics in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Introduction: Identity as a source and an output of foreign policy and regional security in post-Soviet Central Eurasia: Towards integrating nationalism scholarship into IR constructivism Murad Ismayilov PART I: Nation-building and emerging identities in post-Soviet Central Eurasia 1. Threat perceptions of Islam in a post-communist secular context: Public policies towards Islamic finance in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan and the effects on nation-building Fuad Aliyev 2. Language and sovereignty: A comparative analysis of language policy in Tatarstan and Kazakhstan, 1991-2010 Kyle L. Marquardt 3.Identity recovered vs. identity redefined: Three post-Soviet cases Paul Goble 4. Domesticating elite education: Raising patriots and educating Kazakhstan’s future Natalie Koch PART II: From identity to foreign policy back to identity 5. Russian foreign policy toward Central Asia and the Caucasus since the end of the Cold War: A search for identity with geopolitical characteristics Norman A. Graham 6. International commitments to elections and election observation in the Caucasus and Central Asia: The interplay between political identity, foreign policy and regional affiliation Rick Fawn 7. Identity and alignment in Central Eurasia S. Neil MacFarlane 8. International cultural engagements and their domestic effects: Eurovision and nation-building in Azerbaijan Murad Ismayilov
Biography
Mohammed Ayoob is University Distinguished Professor of International Relations at Michigan State University, USA.
Murad Ismayilov is Doctoral Researcher in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK and Research Fellow at ADA University (previously Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy), Azerbaijan.
