The Institution of Sovereignty in Central Asia
Journal: British Academy eBooks
Year: 2022

This chapter illustrates how the Central Asian republics have adopted and interpreted the institution of sovereignty after becoming independent in 1991. By relying on an English School framework of analysis combined with subaltern realism, on material gathered during multi-year fieldwork in the region and on elite interviews with Central Asian diplomats, the analysis shows how a strictly legal and territorial understanding of sovereignty is the one prevalent in Central Asia, supported by an auth