Rentier capitalism and economic imaginaries in Central Asia

This article examines how the US, Russia and China have promoted expanded rent extraction in Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan. While global powers articulated competing discourses strategies on economic development region, they largely achieved similar outcomes of rentierism. In ‘free market’ agenda Washington Consensus has co-existed with China's Belt Road Initiative (BRI) Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union (EaEU), domestic elites Kyrgyzstan managed them to achieve substantial for themselves foreign investors. The will investigate imaginaries been responsible instituting normalizing various forms rent, evaluate implications study seeks contribute literature rentierism by understanding three as a legitimate yet unjust form enrichment.