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Central Asia's Muslims and the Taliban
- Source :
- SWP Comment
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- DEU, 2022.
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Abstract
- Afghanistan's Central Asian neighbours have generally reacted pragmatically to the Taliban's seizure of power there. For the autocratically ruled, secular states on the periphery of the former Soviet empire, economic cooperation and the stabilisation of humanitarian and political conditions in Afghanistan are at the forefront of their interests in maintaining relations with their southern neighbour. According to offi­cial discourse, Central Asia's entrenched secularism is not challenged by the Taliban's Islamism. On social media in Central Asia, however, the Islamic emirate of the Taliban is portrayed as a political counter-model; one which is more positively received in coun­tries with greater discursive freedom and under governments whose policies more openly confront the Taliban. This reveals a trend towards Islamist-inspired iden­tity formation that will be difficult to stop through censorship and repression. (author's abstract)
- Subjects :
- Kirgisistan
Tajikistan
Religionspolitik
Laizismus
laicism
Politikwissenschaft
social media
Islam
Usbekistan
Zentralasien
Fremdbild
Central Asia
fundamentalism
Soziale Medien
Tadschikistan
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Kyrgyzstan
Political science
Machtwechsel
Turkmenistan
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Zentralasiatische Staaten der ehemaligen Sowjetunion
Bilaterale internationale Beziehungen
Taliban
Wirkung/Auswirkung
Innenpolitische Faktoren
Religiöser Fundamentalismus
Militanter Islam
Bedrohungsvorstellungen (Sicherheitspolitik)
Bedrohungsvorstellungen (Gesellschaft)
Berichterstattung
UdSSR-Nachfolgestaat
USSR successor state
Afghanistan
Uzbekistan
religious policy
Muslim
Kazakhstan
Kasachstan
ddc:320
change in power
Fundamentalismus
stereotype
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- SWP Comment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fc1c2eba786330d4fcef89f1564a559d