Nation-Building and Identity in the Post-Soviet Space
Nation-building as a process is never complete and issues related to identity, nation, state and regime-building are recurrent in the post-Soviet region. This comparative, inter-disciplinary volume explores how nation-building tools emerged and evolved over the last twenty years. Featuring in-depth case studies from countries throughout the post-Soviet space it compares various aspects of nation-building and identity formation projects. Approaching the issue from a variety of disciplines, and geographical areas, contributors illustrate chapter by chapter how different state and non-state actors utilise traditional instruments of nation-construction in new ways while also developing non-traditional tools and strategies to provide a contemporary account of how nation-formation efforts evolve and diverge.
Rico Isaacs is a Reader in Politics at Oxford Brookes University. His research focuses on the comparative political sociology of authoritarianism, regime-building and nation-building in Central Asia.
Abel Polese is a research fellow at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction at Dublin City University and the Institute of Governance of Tallinn University. His main interest is the gap between theory and practices of governance which he explores both theoretically and in practice through a series of social innovation projects in Europe, the former USSR and South East Asia. He is a fellow of the Global Young Academy, gathering academics from all around the world to propose new directions in research policies, and his project Sustainable Development in Cultural Diversity was awarded the Global Education Award by the Council of Europe in 2011.
Post-Soviet Politics
Series Editor:
Neil Robinson, University of Limerick, Ireland
The last decade has seen rapid and fundamental change in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Although there has been considerable academic comment on these changes over the years, detailed empirical and theoretical research on the transformation of the post-Soviet space is only just beginning to appear as new paradigms are developed to explain change.
Post-Soviet Politics is a series focusing on the politics of change in the states of the former USSR. The series publishes original work that blends theoretical development with empirical research on post-Soviet politics. The series includes work that progresses comparative analysis of post-Soviet politics, as well as case study research on political change in individual post-Soviet states. The series features original research monographs, thematically strong edited collections, and specialised texts.
Uniquely, this series brings together the complete spectrum of work on post-Soviet politics, providing a voice for academics world wide.
Also in the series
Euro-Atlantic Discourse in Georgia
The Making of Georgian Foreign and Domestic Policy After the Rose Revolution
Frederik Coene
ISBN 978 1 4724 5460 7
Systemic and Non-Systemic Opposition in the Russian Federation
Civil Society Awakens?
Edited by Cameron Ross
ISBN 978 1 4724 3504 0
Autocratic and Democratic External Influences in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Edited by Anastassia Obydenkova and Alexander Libman
ISBN 978 1 4724 4124 9
Religion, Politics and Nation-Building in Post-Communist Countries
Edited by Greg Simons and David Westerlund
ISBN 978 1 4724 4969 6
The Politics of Energy and Memory between the Baltic States and Russia
Agnia Grigas
ISBN 978 1 4724 5136 1
Negotiating Armenian-Azerbaijani Peace
Opportunities, Obstacles, Prospects
Ohannes Geukjian
ISBN 978 1 4724 3514 9
Nation-Building and Identity in the Post-Soviet Space
New tools and approaches
Edited by Rico Isaacs and Abel Polese
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Contents
RICO ISAACS AND ABEL POLESE
FABIO DE LEONARDIS
YVES-MARIE DAVENEL AND EUNSIL YIM
DIDEM BUHARI GULMEZ
TERESA WIGGLESWORTH-BAKER
AIMAR VENTSEL
KARLI STORM
RICO ISAACS
SLAVOMIR HORK AND ABEL POLESE
ELISABETH MILITZ
FILIPPO MENGA
DONNACHA BEACHIN
SAGLAR BOUGDAEVA
RICO ISAACS AND ABEL POLESE
Saglar Bougdaeva is an Associate of the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies who has presented and written her research on public health issues having to do with postcolonial studies in the Soviet and post-Soviet regions; race and ethnicity; and the demography of the Muslim populations in Eurasia and the Arabian peninsula. Saglar developed her multidisciplinary training first at Saint Petersburg State University Faculty of Asian and African Studies, and subsequently at Yale University (MPH 2005 in Global Health Policy and PhD 2010 in Sociology), and New York University Abu Dhabi (Visiting Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy 20102013). Saglars global health initiatives were supported by a Weinerman Fellowship for Social Justice (Yale Public Health School) and a Kirby Simon Fellowship for International Human Rights (Yale Law School).
Didem Buhari-Gulmez is a Lecturer in International Relations at Istanbul Kemer-burgaz University. Previously she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Early Career research fellow at Oxford Brookes University. Her publications include amongst others: European Multiplicity (co-editor with Chris Rumford, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014); Europeanization of Foreign Policy and World Culture: Turkeys Cyprus Policy, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 12(1), 8195, 2012; and Stanford School on Sociological Institutionalism: a Global Cultural Approach, International Political Sociology
