This book brings together a series of innovative contributions which provide an eclectic view
of how theorizing politics plays out in Central Asia. How are the concepts of governance
legitimacy ideology power order and the state framed in the region? How can we use the
experiences of the Central Asian states to renovate political theorizing? In addressing these
questions the volume relies on the contributions of many young and local researchers whose
chapters are primed to address three key themes: exploring models of governance revealing
ideological justifications and reframing state and order. Utilizing a range of single and
comparative case studies from across the Central Asian space this illuminating and original
volume opens up a new space for political theorists regional specialists and students of
politics to begin reconsidering how we approach the theorization of regions of the world
assumed to be on the periphery.
