Luba von Hauff

China, the West, and Democratization

The Struggle for the Local and the Global in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines China's efforts to multi-polarize - and hence potentially de-liberalize - the international system from a local perspective and then applies these insights to Beijing's current global agency in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781032400679
• ISBN-10: 1032400676
• Artikelnr.: 69899684

Autorenporträt

Luba von Hauff is Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

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