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Developing a conceptual framework of strategic silence and applying it to various domains of Central Asian international relations, this book uncovers how silence allows states to navigate structural constraints, maintain flexibility, and assert subtle forms of resistance or alignment.
Strategic ambiguity and restraint often characterize Central Asia's response to major geopolitical shifts. This book frames these silences as forms of soft power and subtle resistance that reflect regional logics of survival, dignity, and diplomacy. By exploring the multifaceted ways in which the region's states employ silence as part of their international behavior, the book introduces a new conceptual vocabulary in order to understand subaltern agency and regional identity construction in the post-Soviet space. Chapters explore strategic silence not as a uniform doctrine but as a contextual practice—emerging differently in response to Russian imperial nostalgia, Chinese economic expansion, Western engagement, and internal post-Soviet memory struggles. The result is a reconceptualisation of silence as an intentional, strategic, and communicative device within international relations.
This book will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students working in international relations, central Asian studies, area studies, and global politics. Policymakers and diplomatic practitioners working on Eurasian, Indo-Pacific, or post-Soviet affairs may also benefit from the book.
Contents
Chapter 1 - Introduction: The Politics of Silence in Central Asian International Relations
Chapter 2 - Rethinking IR Theory through Central Asia: Tacit Nationhood in Patchworked Neighborhoods
Chapter 3 - "Silence Is Golden"? Strategic Silences in Central Asian States' Response to the Ukrainian Crisis
Chapter 4 - Political Narratives and Public Recollection in Central Asia: Polyphonic silences and the manipulating of Post-Soviet nostalgia
Chapter 5 - Power of Non-verbal Diplomacy: Nudging Not Nagging in Sino-Uzbek Relations
Chapter 6 - Constructivist Framework for a Central Asian Regional Security Complex: Strategic Ambiguity
Chapter 7 - Strategic Silences and the Water Neighbourhood in Central Asia: Tacit Diplomacy in Hydropolitics
Chapter 8 - Normative Implications of Strategic Silence Beyond Russia and China: Prospects for U.S.-Japan Foreign Policy Coordination in Central Asia
Chapter 9 - Rethinking IR Theory through Silence and Neighborhood in Central Asia: Beyond Rationalism and Reflectivism
