TY - JOUR
T1 - Economic and security regionalism among patrimonial authoritarian regimes
T2 - The case of Central Asia
AU - Collins, Kathleen
PY - 2009/3
Y1 - 2009/3
N2 - The 'new regionalism' has spread to Central Asia; yet there has been little success in implementing most regional initiatives there. Security regionalism has had greater success than economic regionalism, even though economic initiatives would bring great benefits to the economy and population. I propose a connection between patrimonialism and regionalism. Central Asia's patrimonial leaders are driven by survival and personal enrichment, and are beholden to informal vested interests. Since economic regionalism involves liberalisation that adversely affects these actors, the result is 'virtual' economic regionalism at best. In the case of security regionalism, some regional organisations progress because they bolster patrimonial regimes, with negative consequences for democracy.
AB - The 'new regionalism' has spread to Central Asia; yet there has been little success in implementing most regional initiatives there. Security regionalism has had greater success than economic regionalism, even though economic initiatives would bring great benefits to the economy and population. I propose a connection between patrimonialism and regionalism. Central Asia's patrimonial leaders are driven by survival and personal enrichment, and are beholden to informal vested interests. Since economic regionalism involves liberalisation that adversely affects these actors, the result is 'virtual' economic regionalism at best. In the case of security regionalism, some regional organisations progress because they bolster patrimonial regimes, with negative consequences for democracy.
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U2 - 10.1080/09668130802630854
DO - 10.1080/09668130802630854
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:62249193593
SN - 0966-8136
VL - 61
SP - 249
EP - 281
JO - Europe - Asia Studies
JF - Europe - Asia Studies
IS - 2
ER -