Economic and Security Regionalism among Patrimonial Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Central Asia

摘要: Abstract The ‘new regionalism’ has spread to Central Asia; yet there been little success in implementing most regional initiatives there. Security regionalism had greater than economic regionalism, even though would bring great benefits the economy and population. I propose a connection between patrimonialism regionalism. Asia's patrimonial leaders are driven by survival personal enrichment, beholden informal vested interests. Since involves liberalisation that adversely affects these actors, result is ‘virtual’ at best. In case of security some organisations progress because they bolster regimes, with negative consequences for democracy.