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This book explores the emerging politics of Eurasia from the vantage point of Kazakhstan. Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022 has led to the end of the post-Cold War paradigm of liberal convergence and has triggered a geopolitical shift that...
This book explores the various ramifications and consequences of the violent civil protests that affected Kazakhstan in January 2022. In this compelling study, the authors examine the underlying social and political tensions that have affected this biggest country of...
This book proposes an interdisciplinary look at the culture of shame in Central Asia and evaluates its role in the regulation of social and political interactions in the region. Contributors demonstrate how 'uyat' relies on patriarchal and hierarchical gender norms that...
It is being said that we should all be proud of the way we are confronting the Covid-19 pandemic. Rather than privileging profits and trade, Western societies have made the noble decision to save lives at all costs. Indeed, the logic that has prevailed is that accepting...
This book aims at shedding light on the reasons why the death rates during the pandemic were so high in Central Asia. More specifically, this book proposes analysis on why individuals did not follow the sanitary rules imposed by their respective government and on the...
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the serious crisis of political authorities that liberal societies are currently experiencing. Indeed, a significant number of individuals living in these societies did not hesitate to defy the sanitary rules enacted by their...
The final page in the political history of the Soviet Union was turned on March 19, 2019, when Nursultan Nazarbayev, the last former Chairman of a Soviet Republic who had managed to stay in power following the collapse of USSR, unexpectedly decided to resign. This...
This book tries to understand the lessons we ought to learn from the Covid-19 crisis as well as the profound transformations this pandemic will bring to the world order. These essays explore the challenge that the pandemic poses to liberalism, the unique potential this...
This Pivot updates the ideas of the famous political philosopher from the Italian Renaissance, Machiavelli, for the 21st century, using case studies from the West and from Kazakhstan to demonstrate the utility of Machiavelli's ideas for contemporary political life. In...
This book examines Kazakhstan’s struggle to distance itself from its Soviet past over 25 years after its independence. To a very large extent, the affirmation of its sovereignty and a unique Kazakhstani way remain largely a matter of rhetoric.This book looks to explain...
We often think of the army as an institution whose members are required to blindly obey all orders they receive. However, this perception is inaccurate. Disobedience is a fundamental professional obligation of members of the military and overrides the obligation to...
Dieses Buch wirft einen interdisziplinären Blick auf die Kultur der Scham in Zentralasien und bewertet ihre Rolle bei der Regulierung der sozialen und politischen Interaktionen in der Region. Die Beiträge zeigen, wie "uyat" auf patriarchalen und hierarchischen...
Le coup est parti. Alexandre a vu mourir son père, abattu par erreur. Alors il a couru, fonçant à travers les branches, affolé, vers la première maison, chez celui qu’on appelle Tison. La chasse à l’aube, les sandwichs de pain blanc, les bûches qu’il faut corder droit,...
Dorothée, réalisatrice mandatée par la société de développement Plumules Nord, filme Rose Brouillard, une vieille femme à la mémoire défaillante, afin qu’elle témoigne de son enfance passée sur une île du fleuve. Du haut de la grande falaise, sur l’Île du Veilleur, on...
Justin Trudeau avait promis lors de son arrivée au pouvoir, en 2015, que le Canada serait de retour comme acteur important et respecté de la scène internationale. Or, son échec, cinq ans plus tard, à obtenir un siège de membre non permanent au Conseil de sécurité de...
L’Occident a basculé dans une nouvelle réalité le matin tragique du 11 septembre 2001 lorsque quatre avions détournés par les hommes d’Oussama ben Laden ont frappé le cœur de l’Amérique. Il n’en fallut pas davantage pour que nous nous engagions dans une lutte sans merci...
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