ABSTRACT
To understand the Tajik peace better we must understand how it is differentially legitimated via popular-subordinate, elite and international discourses. In any setting of the post-conflict there are multiple communities or ‘selves’ at play. Over the next two chapters I will investigate these communities across three scales of political order: global, elite and subordinate. This short chapter begins with the global. It explores the rise and fall of international peacebuilding discourse in Tajikistan from 2000 to 2007. As such this chapter and the remainder of this book can be read in four ways.
