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Democracy in Central Asia [...
Promoting 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
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monografia Rebiun19149480 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun19149480 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 150529s2015 kyu ob 001 0 eng d 9780813160696 0813160693 0813160707 epub) 9780813160702 epub) 9780813161006 0813161002 UPVA 997922896203706 UAM 991007725036304211 CBUC 991001013469606712 CBUC 991010891736506709 NT eng pn NT P@U NT YDXCP IDEBK E7B CDX JSTOR OCLCF COO K6U LVT AGLDB QCL UKOUP OCLCQ CCO PIFFA FVL ZCU UNAV 320.958 23 Omelicheva, Mariya Y. Democracy in Central Asia Recurso electrónico] competing perspectives and alternative strategies Mariya Y. Omelicheva Lexington, Kentucky University Press of Kentucky [2015] Lexington, Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky University Press of Kentucky 1 recurso electrónico 1 recurso electrónico EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete Asia in the new millennium Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice Political regimes in Central Asia : two decades after independence -- A framing perspective on democracy promotion -- Western perspectives on democracy in central asia -- Models of governance promoted by russia and china -- Central asian democracy frames -- Democracy in the public eye -- Assessing the effectiveness of democracy promotion frames Promoting 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 Forma de acceso: World Wide Web