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Analysing Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy Regime neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev era

By Luca Anceschi Copyright 2020
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

This book investigates the roles that ideas and constructs associated with Eurasia have played in the making of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy during the Nazarbaev era. This book delves into the specific Eurasia-centric narratives through which the regime, headed by Nursultan Nazarbaev, imagined the role of post-Soviet Kazakhstan in the wider Eurasian geopolitical space. Based on substantive... Read more

Introduction  1. Kazakhstani Foreign Policy in the Pre-Eurasianist Era (December 1991–November 1993)  2. From Ideya to Initsiativa? Neo-Eurasianist Rhetoric in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan  3. Regime Neo-Eurasianism and the Failure of Central Asian Regionalism  4. Civilised Divorce, Marriage of Convenience: Revisiting Two Decades of Post-Soviet Re-INTEGRATSIYA (1994-2010)  5. Eurasia without Eurasianism. Kazakhstan and the Eurasian Economic Union Conclusion: Foreign Policy, Power and Identity in the Nazarbaev Era

Biography

Luca Anceschi is Senior Lecturer in Central Asian Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is the Editor of the journal Europe-Asia Studies and the author of Turkmenistan’s Foreign PolicyPositive Neutrality and the Consolidation of the Turkmen Regime, also published by Routledge (2009).

Luca Anceschi needs little introduction as a well-published scholar of Central Asian affairs. [...] Analyzing Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy provides a masterful account of the driving themes and issues with Kazakhstan’s foreign policy since its independence. - Li-Chen Sim, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates, Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs 8(2)