Borders and Orders in Central Asia: Transactions and Attitudes between Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

Bernd Kuzmits

doi:10.5771/9783845245362

Summary

Zentralasien ist ein Raum staatlicher Fragilität, der Assoziationen wie Drogenhandel und Instabilität weckt. Soziale Ordnungen und die sie definierenden Grenzen haben sich in dieser Region häufig gewandelt. Welche Funktionen haben Grenzen dort heute angesichts parallel laufender Prozesse des State and Nation Building? Wie wirken sich Grenzen auf die Wahrnehmungen der Grenzbevölkerung aus? Und vor allem: Was treibt grenzüberschreitende Beziehungen an und was hemmt sie?

State and Nation Building

Der Autor untersucht diese Fragen entlang der jungen Staatsgrenze zwischen Tadschikistan und Usbekistan sowie an Grenzabschnitten beider Staaten zu Afghanistan – einst die Scheidelinie geopolitischer Großregionen. Zwar bauen die autoritären Regime in Tadschikistan und, mehr noch, in Usbekistan ihre State Building-Projekte in Abgrenzung zu vermeintlich destabilisierenden Einflüssen der Nachbarn. In staatsfernen Grenzregionen sind Interdependenzen aber die Basis für einen durchaus legalen Austausch.

State Building

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8487-0153-7
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-4536-2
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Weltregionen im Wandel
Volume: 15
Language: English
Pages: 392
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 2 - 4 Bernd Kuzmits
Acknowledgements No access Pages 5 - 10 Bernd Kuzmits
Abbreviations and Acronyms No access Pages 11 - 14 Bernd Kuzmits
1. Why Study Borders? No access Pages 15 - 21 Bernd Kuzmits
2. Study Outline No access Pages 21 - 24 Bernd Kuzmits
1. Research Objectives No access Pages 25 - 26 Bernd Kuzmits
2. Hypotheses on Drivers for Cross-Border Transactions No access Pages 26 - 28 Bernd Kuzmits
3. 1. Boundary, Border or Frontier? No access Pages 28 - 30 Bernd Kuzmits
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    1. Borders as Markers of Territorial Rule No access Bernd Kuzmits
    2. Borders as Membranes No access Bernd Kuzmits
    3. Borders as Defining Lines for the Formation of Identities No access Bernd Kuzmits
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    1. The Historical Narratives of Borders, Orders and States No access Bernd Kuzmits
    2. Problems of State Building Outside the ‘Western World’ No access Bernd Kuzmits
    3. Territoriality and the Challenge of Globalisation and Regionalisation No access Bernd Kuzmits
    4. Challenged by Failure No access Bernd Kuzmits
    5. Sovereignty and Alternatives No access Bernd Kuzmits
    6. De-Territorialisation and Re-Territorialisation No access Bernd Kuzmits
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    1. … as Discussed in the Literature No access Bernd Kuzmits
    2. … Based on the Functions of Borders No access Bernd Kuzmits
    3. Borderlanders’ Identities No access Bernd Kuzmits
    4. Types of Borderlands No access Bernd Kuzmits
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    1. The Geographical Context Factor of Being Landlocked No access Bernd Kuzmits
    2. Opportunity, Trust, Reciprocity, Vulnerability, Interdependence – What Motivates Cooperation? No access Bernd Kuzmits
    3. On Security Cooperation: Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbours? No access Bernd Kuzmits
  6. Effects on Border Management No access Pages 82 - 88 Bernd Kuzmits
1. Geographical Context No access Pages 89 - 91 Bernd Kuzmits
2. 1. Empires in a Zone of Transition No access Pages 91 - 93 Bernd Kuzmits
  2. Weak Political Orders – Strong Translocal Ties No access Pages 93 - 95 Bernd Kuzmits
  3. Empires Reloaded: the ‘Great Game’ and the River as Border No access Pages 95 - 97 Bernd Kuzmits
  4. New States: Soviet Union and Independent Afghanistan No access Pages 97 - 98 Bernd Kuzmits
  5. State Building and the Fostering of the Soviet–Afghan Border No access Pages 98 - 103 Bernd Kuzmits
  6. Ruptures in the Sociocultural Structure of Soviet Central Asia No access Pages 103 - 104 Bernd Kuzmits
  7. From Friendly Buffer State to Battlefield No access Pages 104 - 107 Bernd Kuzmits
  8. Withdrawal from Afghanistan and Upheaval in Soviet Central Asia No access Pages 107 - 110 Bernd Kuzmits
3. Summary No access Pages 110 - 112 Bernd Kuzmits
1. ‘Who Are We – And If So, How Many?’ The Ethnic Ascriptions of the Population No access Pages 113 - 116 Bernd Kuzmits
2. New States and New Borders No access Pages 116 - 120 Bernd Kuzmits
3. 1. Failed States and War Economies No access Pages 120 - 125 Bernd Kuzmits
  2. Uzbek Interventions No access Pages 125 - 128 Bernd Kuzmits
  3. Migration No access Pages 128 - 130 Bernd Kuzmits
4. 1. State and Nation Building in Afghanistan No access Pages 130 - 136 Bernd Kuzmits
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    1. Historicising (Post-)Soviet Identities for Nation Building No access Bernd Kuzmits
    2. Soviet and Pre-Soviet Legacies No access Bernd Kuzmits
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    1. Digging Deeply into History for the Future Nation No access Bernd Kuzmits
    2. Subnational Regionalism No access Bernd Kuzmits
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    1. The Concept of Ethnic Nationalism No access Bernd Kuzmits
    2. Keep Out the Evil! The Relevance of Borders No access Bernd Kuzmits
5. Summary: The Production of States and Borders No access Pages 153 - 158 Bernd Kuzmits
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1. Between Uzbekistan and Afghanistan No access Bernd Kuzmits
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1. Between Uzbekistan (Surkhondaryo) and Tajikistan (RRS and Dushanbe) No access Bernd Kuzmits
From Shaartuz (Tajikistan) to Termez via the border post at Gulbakhor No access Pages 176 - 180 Bernd Kuzmits
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1. Between Tajikistan and Afghanistan No access Bernd Kuzmits
From Sher Khan Bandar (Afghanistan) to Qumsangir (Tajikistan) No access Pages 205 - 205 Bernd Kuzmits
Between Kulob (Khatlon Province, Tajikistan) and Takhar (Afghanistan) No access Pages 206 - 211 Bernd Kuzmits
Between GBAO (Tajikistan) and Badakhshan (Afghanistan) No access Pages 212 - 220 Bernd Kuzmits
From Qalaikhum to Khorog No access Pages 221 - 221 Bernd Kuzmits
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1. Summary No access Bernd Kuzmits
1. 1. The Bigger Players – USA, Russia and China No access Pages 239 - 247 Bernd Kuzmits
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    1. Iran No access Bernd Kuzmits
    2. Pakistan No access Bernd Kuzmits
    3. India No access Bernd Kuzmits
    4. Turkey No access Bernd Kuzmits
    5. The European Union – a Newcomer in the Game No access Bernd Kuzmits
  3. Adapting to the Multiplicity of Actors No access Pages 257 - 259 Bernd Kuzmits
2. 1. Arrangements in the post-Soviet Realm No access Pages 259 - 264 Bernd Kuzmits
  2. Water and Energy Interdependence No access Pages 264 - 270 Bernd Kuzmits
  3. Economic Initiatives with Central Asian Roots No access Pages 270 - 272 Bernd Kuzmits
  4. Regional Organisations Exceeding the post-Soviet Space No access Pages 272 - 276 Bernd Kuzmits
  5. Externally Induced Regional Initiatives No access Pages 276 - 281 Bernd Kuzmits
  6. Excursion: Drug Traffic in Central Asia No access Pages 281 - 288 Bernd Kuzmits
  7. Summary No access Pages 288 - 290 Bernd Kuzmits
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  1. Impediments to Enhanced Regional Trade? No access Bernd Kuzmits
4. 1. … between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan No access Pages 305 - 308 Bernd Kuzmits
  2. … between Uzbekistan and Afghanistan No access Pages 308 - 309 Bernd Kuzmits
  3. … between Tajikistan and Afghanistan No access Pages 309 - 311 Bernd Kuzmits
5. Summary: The State of Regionalism in Greater Central Asia No access Pages 311 - 318 Bernd Kuzmits
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    1. Borderland Governance No access Bernd Kuzmits
    2. Border Management – Security to the Front No access Bernd Kuzmits
  2. Borders as Membranes – the Economic Narrative No access Pages 326 - 328 Bernd Kuzmits
  3. Borders as Markers of Identity No access Pages 328 - 330 Bernd Kuzmits
  4. Regional Interdependence and Regional Cooperation No access Pages 330 - 333 Bernd Kuzmits
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  1. The Degree of Regionalisation: Higher in the Mountains No access Bernd Kuzmits
3. Summary: Drivers of and Constraints on Cross-Border Interactions No access Pages 338 - 346 Bernd Kuzmits
Bibliography No access Pages 347 - 388 Bernd Kuzmits
Appendix No access Pages 389 - 392 Bernd Kuzmits