Between the "De-Extremification Policy" and the "Belt and Road Initiative": Central Asian resistance to the rise of China

“去极端化政策”与“一带一路”之间：中亚抵制中国崛起

• 批准号: 2405166
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2405166
• 关键词: Between; De; Extremification; Policy; Belt

This research investigates Kazakh and Kyrgyz responses to China's "deextremificationpolicy" (DEP) in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region(XUAR), and the concomitant effects of the DEP on Sino-Kazakh/Kyrgyzrelations in the context of China's grand geopolitical 'Belt and Road Initiative'(BRI).Moving beyond accounts of BRI that ignore the agency of Central Asianstates or those that focus entirely on state-actors, this study will instead drawtheoretically on critical security studies and critical geopolitics to locate boththe DEP and the BRI in the domestic nationalist politics of Kazakhstan andKyrgyzstan. It will explore how contested state/popular nationalist narrativesare used to construct understandings of national identities and geopoliticalimaginations about Sino-Kazakh/Kyrgyz relations.The study uses two main research methods; document analysis and semistructuredinterviews with local state and non-state actors. Interpretive PolicyAnalysis will be undertaken on government, media and populist sources todraw out the major themes of Kazakh and Kyrgyz discourses regardingChina's DEP. Further interviews with key actors will help to triangulate thisdata.This study will be a major contribution to understanding how nationalism andpopular protest in Central Asia has the potential to derail China's grandgeopolitical projects, or whether China's BRI will be a vector to further cementauthoritarian rule in the region.This timely multi-level and grounded research will provide the mostcomprehensive and original understanding to date of the relationship betweenamongst the most pressing human rights (DEP) and geopolitical (BRI and therise of China) issues of our age.

本研究调查了哈萨克斯坦和吉尔吉斯斯坦对中国在新疆维吾尔自治区（XUAR）实施的“去极端化政策”（DEP）的反应，以及在中国宏伟的地缘政治“一带一路”倡议（BRI）背景下，DEP 对中哈/吉尔吉斯关系的影响。 对于亚洲国家或完全关注国家行为体的国家，本研究将在理论上借鉴批判性安全研究和批判性地缘政治学，将 DEP 和 BRI 定位于哈萨克斯坦和吉尔吉斯斯坦的国内民族主义政治中。它将探讨如何利用有争议的国家/流行民族主义叙事来构建对中哈/吉尔吉斯关系的民族身份和地缘政治想象的理解。该研究主要使用两种研究方法：文件分析以及与当地国家和非国家行为者的半结构化访谈。将对政府、媒体和民粹主义来源进行解释性政策分析，以得出哈萨克斯坦和吉尔吉斯斯坦有关中国民主党的言论的主要主题。对主要参与者的进一步采访将有助于对这些数据进行三角测量。这项研究将有助于了解中亚的民族主义和民众抗议如何有可能破坏中国宏伟的地缘政治项目，或者中国的“一带一路”倡议是否会成为进一步巩固该地区威权统治的载体。这项及时的多层次和扎根的研究将为迄今为止最紧迫的人类之间的关系提供最全面和最原始的理解。 我们这个时代的权利（DEP）和地缘政治（一带一路和中国的崛起）问题。