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Transformation, Development, | 15
and Regionalization in Greater Asia
.
Chiara Pierobon | Nora Becker | Steve Schlegel (eds.)
Central Asia After Three Decades
of Independence
Politics and Societies Between Stability and Transformation
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Transformation, Development, and
Regionalization in Greater Asia | 15
The Series
Transformation, Development, and
Regionalization in Greater Asia
is edited by
Prof. Dr. Christoph Schuck
Department of Philosophy and Political Science
TU Dortmund University, Germany
Matthias Heise, M.A.,
Department of Philosophy and Political Science
TU Dortmund University, Germany
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Chiara Pierobon | Nora Becker | Steve Schlegel (eds.)
Central Asia After Three Decades
of Independence
Politics and Societies Between Stability and Transformation
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Pierobon, Chiara / Becker, Nora / Schlegel, Steve
Central Asia After Three Decades of Independence
Politics and Societies Between Stability and Transformation
Chiara Pierobon / Nora Becker / Steve Schlegel (eds.)
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Acknowledgments
This edited volume results from the research-based professionalization
project “Between Stability and Transformation: Regional and Trans-
national Cooperation in Central Asia and between Central Asia and Eu-
rope.” The project was funded by Volkswagen Foundation and ran from
2016 to 2019. It was directed by Prof. Dr. Christoph Schuck together with
Dr. Steve Schlegel from TU Dortmund University and Prof. Dr. Andreas
Vasilache together with Dr. Chiara Pierobon from Bielefeld University. Its
main goal was to foster social science capacities in Central Asia via
research-oriented professionalization and training measures in the field of
regional and interregional studies. In addition, the consolidation and fur-
ther enlargement of the cooperation network of young and senior re-
searchers from Central Asia and Germany/Europe was supported.
The project built on and directly followed the previous project “Analyz-
ing Patterns of Regional and Interregional Cooperation: Central Asia, its
Neighboring Countries, and Europe” (2012–2015), also funded by Volks-
wagen Foundation. It consisted of three separate, but interrelated compo-
nents: In September 2017, the international summer school “Regional
Cooperation: Approaches from Central Asia and Europe” took place at the
OSCE Academy in Bishkek. One year later the seminar-series “Sustainable
Development: Regional and Interregional Cooperation in Central Asia”
was organized at the German-Kazakh University in Almaty in July and
September 2018. The project’s third and final component was conducted
as an international conference entitled “Central Asian Security in the
Current World Disorder: Challenges and Opportunities” that was held in
Almaty in September 2019. This book represents the result of the intense
cooperation and academic exchange which took place in this framework.
The inter- and multidisciplinary approach of the project is mirrored in the
diversity of perspectives and points of view collected in the chapters of this
volume.
The whole project would have not been the same without a multitude
of partners, whom we owe our gratitude:
First, we want to thank the German-Kazakh University in Almaty
(Kazakhstan) and the OSCE Academy in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) for being
such reliable partners. Special thanks go to Dr. Markus Kaiser, former rec-
tor of the German-Kazakh-University, Dr. Serik Beimenbetov, vice rector
for research and transfer of the German-Kazakh-University, and Dr.
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Acknowledgments
Alexander Wolters, director of the OSCE Academy. For generous hospitali-
ty and friendly cooperation, undoubtedly representing sine qua non condi-
tions for the successful conduction of our research-capacity building activi-
ties in the region, we want to thank all members of staff working at these
institutions. In this context, special thanks for their support go to all with-
out whom the organization of the activities would not have been possible,
namely to Dr. Zarina Adambussinova, Svetlana Dzardanova, Victoria
Orazova, Dr. Kathrin Rucktäschel, and Akbota Saduakassova.
Moreover, we are very grateful to the lecturers, researchers, and partici-
pants of all three project activities for their insightful presentations,
various perspectives, and very lively discussions. Special thanks must be ex-
tended to the keynote speakers Prof. Dr. Rustam Burnashev, Dr. Anna
Gussarova, Prof. Dr. Sebastien Peyrouse, Prof. Dr. Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt,
and Mrs. Saltanat Zhakenova.
Furthermore, we are very thankful to all the anonymous reviewers of
this book who found time to provide their comments and suggestions,
even in the difficult times of COVID-19. We also thank Leonie Streckert
for her support in the editing process as well as all colleagues from Biele-
feld University and TU Dortmund University for their helpful feedback,
including the faculty management units and all the members at both uni-
versities that supported the project.
Many thanks go to the Volkswagen Foundation for its continuous gen-
erous support without which neither the project nor this publication
would have been possible.
We are confident that over the years we have accomplished the task of
laying the groundwork for sustainable cooperation. A freshly started, new
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, funded by Volkswagen Foundation,
will support several participants of this project even further. Our hope for
the future is that opportunities for German and European scholars interest-
ed in engaging with Central Asia to increase their expertise on this region
will continue to be available and that the research network of young
scholars and experts from Central Asia and Germany/Europe will grow
further.
Bielefeld / Dortmund, Spring 2021
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Table of Contents
Introduction 9
Chiara Pierobon, Nora Becker, and Steve Schlegel
Uzbekistan Between Tradition and Modernity:
Subject and Symbolic Order 21
Aziz Elmuradov
Political Participation of Persons with Disabilities in Kyrgyzstan 39
Aliia Maralbaeva
Conceptualizing Neorealism in the Context of Central Asian
Regional Security:
True or False? 55
Shalva Dzebisashvili
Securitizing Islam in Central Asia:
A Comparative Perspective on Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan 81
Matthias Kortmann and Laura Karoline Nette
Kazakhstan as a Provider of International Security:
Rationales Behind the Peacekeeping Deployment to UNIFIL 107
Steve Schlegel
Social Capital’s “Missing Dimension” in Sustainable Development
Programs:
Evidence from EU Support of Civil Society in Kazakhstan 125
Chiara Pierobon
Contributors 151
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