Interrogating Illiberal Peace in Eurasia

Catherine Owen is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Exeter.Shairbek Juraev is Marie Curie Fellow, School of IR, University of St Andrews.David Lewis is Senior Lecturer, Director of Education, Department of Politics, University of Exeter.Nick Megoran is Reader in Political Geography, Newcastle University.John Heathershaw is Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Exeter.

• Introduction, Catherine Owen et al / 1. History, Memory and the Quest for Conflict Resolution in Ferghana Valley, Jeff Sahadeo / 2. China’s Approach to Countering Religious Extremism among Uyghurs in Xingjang, Adam Jones / 3. Women and Literature in Azerbaijan: Creative Literacy as an Asset Model of Peace-Building, Alison Mandaville / 4. A Negative Post-Liberal Peace? Probing the Implications of Peacebuilding Discourses and Practices in Central Asia, Philipp Lottholz / 5. “Everyday Peace” in Jabbor Rasulov, Tajikistan: Local Social Order and Possibilities for a Local Turn in Peace Building, Khushbakht Hojiev and Anna Kreikemeyer / 6. Nation-Building in Central Asia: Towards a New Ethnic Policy, Valeriy Khan /7. Clashes of Universalisms: Xinjiang, tianxia and Changing World Order in 19th Century, Zhiguang Yin / 8. Spatial Security during Ethnic Riots in Osh, Joldon Kutmanaliev / 9. Bottom-up Peacekeeping in Southern Kyrgyzstan, Alisher Khamidov & Nick Megoran / 10. Conflict Management, Extractive Industries, and the 2014 International Military Exit Strategy in Afghanistan, Timor Sharan and Srinjoy Bose/ 11. Positive Incentives to Stop Insurgency? Russian Conciliatory Tactics in the North Caucasus, Elena Zhirukhina / Bibliography / Index

Grounded in rich empirical investigations, this collection analyses the new forms of authoritarian conflict management emerging in contemporary Eurasia. It is a welcome contribution to the growing and important scholarship that no longer takes the ‘liberal peace’ as its sole point of reference, but seeks to understand non-liberal forms of peace and conflict management, as well as challenges to these, in their own terms.