title: The European Union’s geopolitical turn and Central Asia as seen from the postcolonial perspective. Part I
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metadata.value: Mazanik, Sergey V.
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metadata.value: 2024-12-20T11:37:37Z
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metadata.value: 2024-12-20T11:37:37Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-09
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metadata.value: Mazanik S. V. The European Union’s geopolitical turn and Central Asia as seen from the postcolonial perspective. Part I. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations, 2024, vol. 17, issue 3, pp. 276–290. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu06.2024.303 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu06.2024.303
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/48195
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metadata.value: The European Union’s geopolitical turn leads to a revision of the bloc’s external action, including
  towards Central Asia (CA). Based on a postcolonial approach that views colonization as
  a key structuring factor of contemporary international relations, and the method of discourse
  analysis, this study consisting of 2 separate publications clarifies how connectivity, which has
  become in the context of the geopolitical turn a priority of EU policy in Central Asia, affects
  the structure of the EU’s normative hegemony in the region as well as the Central Asian states’
  normative agency. To set the stage for postcolonial analysis, Part I of this research traces the
  formation of a hierarchical normative structure in the experience of interaction between the
  European Union and Central Asian states before the geopolitical turn began. To this end, the
  models of EU normative influence central to this study are theorized — normative power
  Europe
  and resilience, then an analysis is carried out how Brussels, permanently positioning
  itself as a normative centre, changed its approach to the transfer of its norms in Central Asia,
  and finally, the functioning of the normative hegemony of the European Union is demonstrated,
  i. e., a situation in which the EU is recognized by Central Asian actors as an authoritative
  source of the normal. Part II of this research first outlines the basic principles of the
  postcolonial approach; further, taking into account the dialogic model adopted in postcolonial
  studies, an explanation is given of why the colonized is capable of not only submitting to the
  normative requirements of the colonizer, but also influencing the latter’s policy; in the final part of the study, the concept of EU connectivity is analyzed and a conclusion is drawn on how
  Central Asian states can strengthen their normative agency in relation to Brussels through
  participation in European connectivity projects.
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metadata.value: The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant no. 22-28-00682, https://rscf.ru/
  project/22-28-00682/.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. International Relations;Volume 17; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: European Union
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Central Asia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: postcolonialism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: normative power
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: normative hegemony
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: connectivity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: resilience
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: rules-based order
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: geopolitical turn
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The European Union’s geopolitical turn and Central Asia as seen from the postcolonial perspective. Part I
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metadata.value: Article
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