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OverviewPromoting democracy has long been a priority of Western foreign policy. In practice, however, international attempts to expand representative forms of government have been inconsistent and are often perceived in the West to have been failures. The states of Central Asia, in particular, seem to be democracy resistant, and their governments have continued to support various forms of authoritarianism in the decades following the Soviet Union's collapse.In Democracy in Central Asia, Mariya Omelicheva examines the beliefs and values underlying foreign policies of the major global powers -- the United States, the European Union, Russia, and China -- in order to understand their efforts to influence political change in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. Omelicheva has traveled extensively in the region, collecting data from focus groups and public opinion surveys. She draws on the results of her fieldwork as well as on official documents and statements of democracy-promoting nations in order to present a provocative new analysis. Her study reveals that the governments and citizens of Central Asia have developed their own views on democracy supported by the Russian and Chinese models rather than by Western examples.The vast majority of previous scholarly work on this subject has focused on the strategies of democratization pursued by one agent such as the United States or the European Union. Omelicheva shifts the focus from democracy promoters' methods to their message and expands the scope of existing analysis to include multiple sources of influence. Her fresh approach illuminates the full complexity of both global and regional notions of good governance and confirms the importance of social-psychological and language-based perspectives in understanding the obstacles to expanding egalitarianism. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Associate Professor Mariya Y Omelicheva (University of Kansas, USA University of Kansas University of Kansas University of Kansas)Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Imprint: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 9780813160696ISBN 10: 0813160693 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 29 June 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Electronic book text Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsIn this impressive work, Omelicheva offers both an academic analysis and important practical polich recommendations. The book offers a new and comparative vision of the democratization processes (or their absence) in the region. -- Andrei Korobkov, Middle Tennessee State University Author InformationMariya Y. Omelicheva is associate professor of political science at the University of Kansas and the author of Counterterrorism Policies in Central Asia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |