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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Social Politics, the State, Policy, Comparison: Gordon White's Contribution to China Studies; Gordon White and Development Studies: An Appreciation; Reform and the Role of the State in China; Managing Central-Local Relations During Socialist Marketisation: A Changing Role for the Chinese Communist Party; Treasuring the Word: Mao, Depoliticisation and the Material Present; State Enterprise Reform and Gender: One Step Backwards for Women?; Corporatist Capitalism: The Politics of Accumulation in South India.

1.Political Theory and Central Asia: An Introduction /Alessandro Frigerio --Section I Exploring Models of Governance --2.Legitimacy and Legitimation in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan /Rico Isaacs --3.Governmentalization of the Kazakhstani State: Between Governmentality and Neopatrimonial Capitalism /Assel Tutumlu --4.Theorizing the Managerialism-Neoliberalism-Development Nexus: Changing Donor Landscapes and Persistence of Practices in Kyrgyzstan /Liga Rudzite --5.Rawlsian Liberalism and Rationalistic Maturidi Islam in Central Asia /Kairat Moldashev --Section IIRevealing Ideological Justifications --6.In Search of `National Purpose': In Theory and Practice. Formation and Main Features of National Ideologies in Post-Soviet Central Asia /Parviz Mullojanov --7.Compartmentalized Ideology: Presidential Addresses and Legitimation in Kazakhstan /Diana T. Kudaibergenova --8.Beyond `Personality Cults': Sacralization of Power in Kazakhstan and the Concept of Monarchy /Adrien Fauve --9.Eternal Futurostan: Myths, Fantasies and the Making of Astana in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan /Mikhail Akulov --Section IIIReframing State and Order --10.State Identities in Post-Soviet Foreign Policy: Theories and Cases in Central Asia /Selbi Hanova --11.The Heartland of IR Theory? Central Asia as an `International Society' Between Realism and Liberalism /Filippo Costa Buranelli --12.The Incomplete State: Re-conceptualizing State and Society Relations in Central Asia /Viktoria Akchurina --13.Driving in Almaty: Ironic Perspectives on Domestic Anarchical Society /Alessandro Frigerio --14.Postscript: Dude Where's My Theory? /Alessandro Frigerio.

This book brings together a series of innovative contributions which provide an eclectic view of how theorizing politics plays out in Central Asia. How are the concepts of governance, legitimacy, ideology, power, order, and the state framed in the region? How can we use the experiences of the Central Asian states to renovate political theorizing? In addressing these questions, the volume relies on the contributions of many young and local researchers, whose chapters are primed to address three key themes: exploring models of governance, revealing ideological justifications, and reframing state and order. Utilizing a range of single and comparative case studies from across the Central Asian space, this illuminating and original volume opens up a new space for political theorists, regional specialists and students of politics to begin reconsidering how we approach the theorization of regions of the world assumed to be on the periphery.--

New dynamics of competition between countries are emerging in the quest for promoting regional connectivity. Several economic corridor projects are being pushed by different countries in South Asia to advance their respective interests. Pakistan and China are promoting the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a north-south trade and transit corridor for enhancing connectivity and regional integration. Regional countries, in response, are advancing separate connectivity projects. The challenge for Pakistan is to operationalise the CPEC, while being cognisant of markets present across the eastern and western frontiers. The regional connectivity agenda of the South Asian states and the framework of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) provides opportunities for establishing new patterns of economic and trade cooperation in the region.

China's rise and East Asian security / Hochul Lee -- The changing US role and the shifting regional order in East Asia / Il Hyun Cho -- The era of "ibis diplomacy" in Japan-China relations? / Mary M. McCarthy -- Cross-strait relations today : challenges and opportunities / Chunjuan Nanncy Wei -- The rise and fall of anti-Americanism in South Korea / Heon Joo Jung -- Economic globalization, democracy, and social protection : welfare capitalism in East Asia / Mason M.S. Kim -- East Asia in the digital age : national innovation strategies of Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and China / Carin Holroyd and Ken Coates -- Media and environmental politics in East Asia / Mary Alice Haddad -- Environmental legislation in East Asia : rationale and significance / Matthew A. Shapiro -- East Asian women and the military : victors and victims / Lana Obradovic -- China's rising generation : college-educated youth in the reform era / Teresa Wright -- A "natural" state? : nature and nation in North Korea / Carol Ann Medlicott -- A global "Chinawood"? : China's cultural policy toward global Hollywood in the new century / Wendy Su -- Japan's belated policy development toward a gender-equal society / Atsuko Sato -- The local people's congress and grassroots democracy in China / Diqing Lou.