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Central Asia’s Dilemmas and the Paradoxical Lessons of the Ukrainian Crisis

Central Asia’s Dilemmas and the Paradoxical Lessons of the Ukrainian Crisis

Autor(en): Marlene Laruelle
Herausgeber: Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Serie: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Ausgabe: 158
Seiten: 8-11
Verlag(e): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publikationsjahr: 2014

Factoring in Central Asia’s perception of the Ukrainian crisis means above all acknowledging: 1. The lack of factual data such as sociological surveys on which an analysis could rely; and 2. accepting to put each element of the sentence in the plural: there are several Central Asias, and several Ukrainian crises. Each of the five Central Asian countries has its own perception of the Ukrainian crisis. Each of these perceptions is far from monolithic and can be divided into several components - very schematically, political regimes, intellectual elites and activists, and public opinion. And there are at least three Ukrainian crises - EuroMaidan, Crimea, and Eastern Ukraine - each with a distinct meaning: street revolution against a regime, annexation of part of the territory, and new secessionist conflict.

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