1st Edition
Strategic Silences and Narrative Power in International Relations Ambiguity and Non-verbal Diplomacy in Reframing Central Asian Agency
Chapter 1 – Introduction: The Politics of Silence in Central Asian International Relations
Chapter 2 – Rethinking IR Theory through Central Asia: Tacit Nationhood in Patchworked Neighborhoods
Chapter 3 – “Silence Is Golden”? Strategic Silences in Central Asian States’ Response to the Ukrainian Crisis
Chapter 4 – Political Narratives and Public Recollection in Central Asia: Polyphonic silences and the manipulating of Post-Soviet nostalgia
Chapter 5 – Power of Non-verbal Diplomacy: Nudging Not Nagging in Sino-Uzbek Relations
Chapter 6 – Constructivist Framework for a Central Asian Regional Security Complex: Strategic Ambiguity
Chapter 7 – Strategic Silences and the Water Neighbourhood in Central Asia: Tacit Diplomacy in Hydropolitics
Chapter 8 – Normative Implications of Strategic Silence Beyond Russia and China: Prospects for U.S.–Japan Foreign Policy Coordination in Central Asia
Chapter 9 – Rethinking IR Theory through Silence and Neighborhood in Central Asia: Beyond Rationalism and Reflectivism
Biography
Timur Dadabaev is a Swedish Research Council Guest Professor at Lund University. He concurrently holds Professorships at the University of Tsukuba, Japan and the University of World Economy and Diplomacy.
Shigeto Sonoda is Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at the University of Tokyo.
