- The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations
- Issue: 26
- Identities in Formation: Nationality Religion and Transnational Ideas in Former Soviet Central Asia
Identities in Formation: Nationality Religion and Transnational Ideas in Former Soviet Central Asia
Authors : Mustafa Aydin
Pages : 65-79
Doi:10.1501/Intrel_0000000248
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Publication Date : 1996-05-01
Article Type : Research
Abstract :The polilicaltremors experienced in international rclations since 1989 significantly altered political geography of Eurasia, sweeping away at the same time the international system that had bcen built up over many years and certainties that many people believed to be inviolate. Within less than seven years since the World had heard Gorbachev's rise to power in Moscow, he cam c to supervise the disintegraıion of the lası of the great empires. Instead, within the vast area once govemed centrally from Moscow, suddenly emerged i5 new states, 'some of which, in modem times, have never enjoyed the status of independent actors in international politics'.lKeywords : Identities in Formation, Nationality Religion, Transnational Ideas