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of the large Russian-speaking minority, or internal cleavages among Kazakhs, or general indecisiveness on the part of the government to follow through with nation-building. To date, there has been no systematic effort to see whether the transition to market economy and integration into world trade system affects the processes of national identity formation in the former Soviet Union and Kazakhstan in particular, even though the latter appears to most suitable for testing such a theory.
Research Questions
The main research question that this paper proposes to tackle is the relationship between market economy reforms and globalization on the one hand and fragmentation of the national identity in Kazakhstan on the other. As discussed above, the republic displays a variety of patronage networks when their members (clients) are intrinsically interested in the survival of such networks since it is through that system that they gain the most in terms of political power as well economic benefits. However, in 2001 the increasingly authoritarian hold of Nazarbayev and his family over Kazakhstan was challenged by the very members of his elite, clan even, when they founded an opposition party Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan. While this attempt to challenge Nazarvayev’s control over the country has failed, it has sawn seeds of elite cleavages, as a number of clients of Nazarbayev’s patronage network, his closest allies and supporters became his political opponents. So far, it did not amount to any serious challenge to the governing regime and yet, it marks an important departure from the general model of clan-based
Object Description
| Title | Market reforms, foreign direct investment and national identity: Non-national identity of Kazakhstan |
| Author | Zhanalin, Azamat |
| Author email | janalin_a@yahoo.com; zhanalin@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | International Relations |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-22 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-04-29 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | English, Robert |
| Advisor (committee member) |
James, Patrick Rorlich, Azade-Ayse |
| Abstract | The present study offers an analysis of the concept of non-national identity in application to the Republic of Kazakhstan as the most likely case. The primary hypothesis is that newly independent states, which are undergoing a rapid transition to market economy and actively pursue integration in the world economy and foreign direct investment, will experience fragmentation of their national identity, defined as non-national identity.; Three sites in Kazakhstan, Almaty, Astana and Aktau, were chosen for the study as representative of the market reforms in the republic as well as the best examples of the country’s pursuit of foreign direct investment and integration into the global economy. The data collected indicates that while Kazakhstan does demonstrate fragmentation of its national identity, it is not necessarily caused by the market reforms and the participation in the global trade. Alternative causal variables such as the Soviet and Russian colonial legacy, intra-ethnic cleavages among the Kazakhs and the prevalence of multi-vector foreign policy were found to contribute to the development of non-national identity of Kazakhstan. The study’s results also suggest that in the last few years, Kazakh identity is experiencing a rather strong revival as well, which may yet counteract the existing factors leading to the emergence of the non-national identity of Kazakhstan. |
| Keyword | identity; nationalism; Kazakhstan; market reforms; globalization; foreign direct investment; national identity; countries in transition; foreign policy; culture; former Soviet Union; Central Asia; patronage networks; energy; oil; post-colonial legacy; nation-state |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Almaty; Astana; Aktau |
| Geographic subject (country) | Kazakhstan |
| Coverage date | 1970/2010 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3812 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Zhanalin, Azamat |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Zhanalin-4506 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume51/etd-Zhanalin-4506.pdf |
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| Title | Page 62 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 56 of the large Russian-speaking minority, or internal cleavages among Kazakhs, or general indecisiveness on the part of the government to follow through with nation-building. To date, there has been no systematic effort to see whether the transition to market economy and integration into world trade system affects the processes of national identity formation in the former Soviet Union and Kazakhstan in particular, even though the latter appears to most suitable for testing such a theory. Research Questions The main research question that this paper proposes to tackle is the relationship between market economy reforms and globalization on the one hand and fragmentation of the national identity in Kazakhstan on the other. As discussed above, the republic displays a variety of patronage networks when their members (clients) are intrinsically interested in the survival of such networks since it is through that system that they gain the most in terms of political power as well economic benefits. However, in 2001 the increasingly authoritarian hold of Nazarbayev and his family over Kazakhstan was challenged by the very members of his elite, clan even, when they founded an opposition party Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan. While this attempt to challenge Nazarvayev’s control over the country has failed, it has sawn seeds of elite cleavages, as a number of clients of Nazarbayev’s patronage network, his closest allies and supporters became his political opponents. So far, it did not amount to any serious challenge to the governing regime and yet, it marks an important departure from the general model of clan-based |
