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Conventional discourse on Central Asia since the end of the Cold War has embedded in the five "stans," says Azizov--Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. He argues that the spatial discourse is territorially trapped, and so is limited in its ability to explain the political and economic processes taking place on the ground, thus allowing the perception that the region and its people are inert objects over which Russia, China, and the US contend. He proposes an alternative methodology that draws on Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory. His topics are territorial states and imagined regions in international relations, three dimensions of the "five stans" discourse and its contextual structures, and Eurasianism versus Eurasianism: from a static understanding of the concept to a language-in-use. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
