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Dr John Heathershaw

Publications

Books

Post-conflict Tajikistan: the politics of peacebuilding and the emergence of legitimate order, Routledge, 2009.

Chapters

Post-colonial perspectives on Central Asian statehood, in Kavalski E (eds) Stable Outside, Fragile Inside, Ashgate, 2010

with K Czerniecka, Security Assistance and Border Management, in Sehring J,Warkotsch A (eds) The EU in Central Asia, Routledge, 2010

'How is Human Security Practiced in Central Asia? The case of Tajikistan’s discourses of peace, in UNESCO (eds) Human Security in Central Asia, Paris: UNESCO, 2007

New Great Game or Same Old Ideas? Neo-sovietism and the International Politics of Imagining “Central Asia”, in Dusseault D (eds) The CIS: Form or Substance?, Helsinki: Aleksanteri,, 2007, 237-268

The global performance state: a reconsideration of the Central Asian 'weak state', in Reeves M,Rasanayagam J,Beyer J (eds) Performing Politics, Indiana University Press

Journal articles

Of national fathers and Russian elder brothers: conspiracy theories and political ideas in post-Soviet Central Asia, Russian Review, 2013

with E Herzig, Introduction: the sources of statehood in Tajikistan, Central Asian Survey, 2011

The Republic of Tajikistan: failed state or failed analysis?, Central Asian Survey, vol. Tajikistan: the sources of statehood, 2011

with NS Megoran, Contesting danger: a new agenda for policy and scholarship on Central Asia, International Affairs, vol. 87, no. 3, 2011, 589-612

Tajikistan's virtual politics of peace, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 61, no. 7, 2009, 1315-1336 DOI

Rethinking the International Diffusion of Coloured Revolutions: The Power of Representation in Kyrgyzstan, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, vol. 25, no. 2-3, 2009, 297-323 DOI

Unpacking the liberal peace: the dividing and merging of peacebuilding discourse, Millennium: journal of international studies, vol. 36, no. 3, 2008, 597-621

Seeing like the international community: how peacebuilding failed (and survived) in Tajikistan, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, vol. 2, no. 3, 2008, 329-351

with D Lambach, Introduction: Post-conflict spaces and approaches to statebuilding, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, vol. 2, no. 3, 2008, 269-289

'The Tulip Fades: ‘Revolution’ and Repercussions in Kyrgzystan', Perspective, vol. 17, no. 2, 2007

'Worlds Apart: the making and remaking of geopolitical space in the US-Uzbekistan strategic partnership', Central Asian Survey, vol. 26, no. 1, 2007

Peacebuilding as Practice: Discourses from Post-Conflict Tajikistan, International Peacekeeping, vol. 12, no. 2, 2005

with C Thompson, Introduction: Discourses of Danger in Central Asia, Central Asian Survey, vol. 24, no. 1, 2005, 1-4

The Paradox of Peacebuilding: Peril, Promise and Small Arms in Tajikistan, Central Asian Survey, vol. 24, no. 1, 2005, 21-38