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Advancing Women's Rights to Joint Ownership of Matrimonial Property in Nigeria: Using Kenya as a Model
- African Journal of International and Comparative Law
The Role of Law in Shaping a Single Currency: The European Experience in a West African Context
- African Journal of International and Comparative Law
The Role of the Practices of the International and Regional Human Rights Treaty Bodies in the Development and Codification of the Rules of International Law – The Reservation to Treaties as a Model
- African Journal of International and Comparative Law
Addressing Human Rights Violations under International Norms: Ghana's Experience with Multinational Corporations in the Mining Sector
- African Journal of International and Comparative Law
Sexual Harassment Laws in Nigeria: Lessons from the United Kingdom
- African Journal of International and Comparative Law
Woman-to-Woman Marriage in the South-east of Nigeria Versus the Prohibitory Regime of Same-sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act 2013
- African Journal of International and Comparative Law
The Predicaments of UK Wrongful Trading Liability in Insolvency: Implications for Nigeria and Proposal for a Resilient Approach
- African Journal of International and Comparative Law
Poor Institutional Governance: The Bane of Managing Ghana's Oil Revenue
- African Journal of International and Comparative Law
The Preliminary Reference Procedure of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice: Why Would the Courts Not Play?
- African Journal of International and Comparative Law
Of nomads and khanates: heteronomy and interpolity order in 19th-century Central Asia
- European Journal of International Relations
Scholars of International Relations (IR) and Global Historical Sociology alike have recently become more and more interested in Eurasian order(s). Yet, most recent works on Eurasian historical international relations approach the subject from a long durée perspective, mostly focusing on “big polities” from a “high altitude.” Central Asia, or “Turkestan,” and its constitutive polities such as the khanates of Bukhara, Khiva, and Khoqand and the vast array of nomadic groups surrounding them are yet terra incognita in IR, specifically with respect to the pre-Tsarist period. By relying on both primary and secondary sources, this inductive research reveals how precolonial Central Asia was an interpolity order on its own, premised on heteronomy and based on the institutions of sovereignty between the khanates and suzerainty between khanates and nomads; territoriality; Sunni Islam; trade and slavery; diplomacy; and war and aq oyluk. This paper contributes to filling this gap, and to the broader literature on Eurasian historical orders, in three respects. First, it adds granularity, detail, and specificity to current IR knowledge on Eurasia by looking at smaller polities as opposed to empires, which as noted have been the main analytical focus so far. Second, the paper adopts an emic approach to uncover local practices, institutions, and norms of precolonial Central Asia, thus adding to the recent “Global IR” debate. Third, by focusing on a case where heteronomy was the rule, this paper adds a new case to the literature on the entrenchment and durability of heteronomy in historical IR and contributes to its theory-building.