ABSTRACT

This paper identifies the interplay between narratives on Central Asia as a region. It compares European Union (EU) narratives with those of the five post-Soviet states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. By doing so, it investigates the manifestations of narratives, stories and narrators who continue to construct and convey certain discourses about the region, comparing EU discourse and that of the local political elites in Central Asia, respectively. By looking at official discourse conveyed by the presidents of the countries and in key foreign policy documents, the interplay of narratives as dialogues between narrators is analysed, thus expanding into ideational analysis, an emerging trend in the literature on post-Soviet Central Asia.

摘要

本文确定了关于中亚作为一个地区的叙事之间的相互作用。它将欧盟 (EU) 的叙述与哈萨克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦、塔吉克斯坦、土库曼斯坦和乌兹别克斯坦这五个后苏联国家的叙述进行了比较。通过这样做，它调查了继续建构和传达有关该地区的特定话语的叙事、故事和叙述者的表现形式，分别比较了欧盟话语和中亚地方政治精英的话语。通过观察各国总统和主要外交政策文件中传达的官方话语，分析了叙事作为叙述者之间对话的相互作用，从而扩展到概念分析，这是后苏联中亚文献中的一种新兴趋势。