Eurasian Studies Balkans, Anatolia, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia Studies Notebooks

Series | Eurasian Studies
Edited book | Monitoring Central Asia and the Caspian Area
Chapter | Foreign Policy Challenges for a Post-Nazarbayev Kazakhstan

Foreign Policy Challenges for a Post-Nazarbayev Kazakhstan

Some Preliminary Observations

Abstract

After almost 30 years of rule by Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan is going through a sensitive phase of power transition. Since the "multi-vector" diplomacy of these years represents one of the best legacies of the first President, policy-makers would leave as untouched as possible the sphere of foreign policy. At the same time, a crisis of legitimacy following the Presidential elections together with a number of trends which are changing the social and ethno-demographic structure of the population will also put into question some traditional lines of the country’s diplomacy. This will add to the challenges to which the political class will have to provide innovative responses in order to preserve the stability of the country.


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Submitted: Aug. 8, 2019 | Published Dec. 16, 2019 | Language: en

Keywords SPower transitionNationalismBelt and Road Initiative (BRI)KazakhstanInternational relationsPolicies in Central AsiaU


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