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

Edition: 1/2013
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: Monograph

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