Silent disasters in forgotten conflicts. Analysing the Kyrgyz-Tajik conflict from geopolitical and political ecology perspectives
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2024-07-13
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The post-Soviet region is often described as a region of high conflict
potential. The number of cross-border conflicts between post-Soviet states
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have been growing steadily since the
dissolution of the Soviet Union. This conflict is understudied in the
existing academic literature and controversies surround the attempts to
explain the underlying causes. This thesis identifies multiple causes and drivers which
exacerbate tensions and hinder the restoration of peace, including the competition over
natural resources, the legacies of the Soviet Union regarding border demarcation,
socio-economic hardships and ethnic differences. This case study uses causal process tracing
to analyse the extent to which the Kyrgyz-Tajik conflict can be explained from a geopolitical
or a political ecology perspective. This thesis finds that the political ecology perspective
offers a more comprehensive understanding of the underlying causes of the Kyrgyz-Tajik
conflict.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen