Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy

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.

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