Looking East? An Analysis of Kazakhstan’s Geopolitical Code after Participation

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_6115
dc.contributor.author	Sciorati Giulia
dc.title	Looking East? An Analysis of Kazakhstan’s Geopolitical Code after Participation in China’s Belt and Road Initiative
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Kazakhstan’s geopolitical landscape plays a decisive role in framing its multi-vector foreign policy. Not only is the country landlocked by five states, but it is also enclosed between two regional powers, China and Russia. When joining the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Kazakhstan made firm commitments to China, potentially putting its multi‑vectorism at risk. The paper adopts geopolitical codes as a theoretical framework to account for changes in the country’s geopolitical considerations. It presents a qualitative discourse analysis on the presidential ‘State of the Nation Addresses’. The research contributes to the literature on Kazakhstan’s multi-vectorism by conducting a data-driven analysis that maintains geography at the core.
dc.relation.ispartof	Eurasian Studies
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2021-06-30
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-04-06
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-551-3/looking-east-an-analysis-of-kazakhstans-geopolitic/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-550-6/011
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8879
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9433
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-551-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-550-6
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Discourse Analysis
dc.subject	Discourse Analysis
dc.subject	Foreign Policy
dc.subject	Foreign Policy
dc.subject	Geopolitical Codes
dc.subject	Geopolitical Codes
dc.subject	Kazakhstan‑China Relations
dc.subject	Kazakhstan‑China Relations
dc.subject	Multi-vectorism
dc.subject	Multi-vectorism

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Looking East? An Analysis of Kazakhstan’s Geopolitical Code after Participation in China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Giulia Sciorati Università di Trento, Italia

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Kazakhstan’s geopolitical landscape plays a decisive role in framing its multi-vector foreign policy. Not only is the country landlocked by five states, but it is also enclosed between two regional powers, China and Russia. When joining the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Kazakhstan made firm commitments to China, potentially putting its multi‑vectorism at risk. The paper adopts geopolitical codes as a theoretical framework to account for changes in the country’s geopolitical considerations. It presents a qualitative discourse analysis on the presidential ‘State of the Nation Addresses’. The research contributes to the literature on Kazakhstan’s multi-vectorism by conducting a data-driven analysis that maintains geography at the core.

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Dec. 21, 2021

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June 30, 2021

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April 6, 2021

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978-88-6969-551-3

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978-88-6969-550-6

Keywords: Foreign Policy • Kazakhstan‑China Relations • Multi-vectorism • Discourse Analysis • Geopolitical Codes

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