Status Seeking in the Steppe

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_3117
dc.contributor.author	Contessi Nicola
dc.title	Status Seeking in the Steppe. Taking Stock of Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy, 1992-2019
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	In its 25 years of existence as an independent state, Kazakhstan has had to invent an entire foreign policy. The process was driven by multiple objectives, for a large part aimed at ensuring the success of the broader state-building project: the preservation of national sovereignty, political stability, economic growth, and taking on international responsibilities. This strategy, shaped at once by the nature of the political regime and the constraints of the regional system, was inspired by the convergence of economic, political, and geopolitical considerations. Taking stock of Kazakhstan’s external action, this article finds unexpected correspondence with the key tenets of middle power doctrine, pointing to a widely unacknowledged reading of the country’s external action.
dc.relation.ispartof	Eurasian Studies
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2019-12-16
dc.dateAccepted	2019-10-02
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-08-08
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-377-9/status-seeking-in-the-steppe/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-376-2/010
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8879
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9433
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-377-9
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-376-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Authoritarianism
dc.subject	Authoritarianism
dc.subject	Developing country
dc.subject	Developing country
dc.subject	Foreign policy
dc.subject	Foreign policy
dc.subject	Kazakhstan
dc.subject	Kazakhstan
dc.subject	Middle power
dc.subject	Middle power
dc.subject	Status
dc.subject	Status

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Status Seeking in the Steppe

Taking Stock of Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy, 1992-2019

Nicola Contessi York Centre for Asian Research, York University, Canada

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In its 25 years of existence as an independent state, Kazakhstan has had to invent an entire foreign policy. The process was driven by multiple objectives, for a large part aimed at ensuring the success of the broader state-building project: the preservation of national sovereignty, political stability, economic growth, and taking on international responsibilities. This strategy, shaped at once by the nature of the political regime and the constraints of the regional system, was inspired by the convergence of economic, political, and geopolitical considerations. Taking stock of Kazakhstan’s external action, this article finds unexpected correspondence with the key tenets of middle power doctrine, pointing to a widely unacknowledged reading of the country’s external action.

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Dec. 16, 2019

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Oct. 2, 2019

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Aug. 8, 2019

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Keywords: Developing country • Authoritarianism • Foreign policy • Kazakhstan • Status • Middle power

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