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states. In other words, the hypothesized non-national reconstruction of identity is concurrent with government’s proactive attempts to reconstruct the society of Kazakhstan in ethnic and civic terms.
There are a few important considerations that define the path of the national identity construction in Kazakhstan:
1. Absence of a history of concerted struggle to achieve sovereignty. Quite a few post-colonial states and republics in the former Soviet Union and Soviet Block in Eastern Europe have gained independence without fully developed national liberation movements. The Kazakhs specifically had no clearly defined national movement, and the one popular movement they did have (Nevada-Semipalatinsk) was clearly internationalist rather than nationalist in its mission.69 Such lack of a national idea prior to gaining sovereignty greatly hampered all the efforts of the newly independent republic to form national unity despite all the efforts.
2. Prior experience as a single nation-state provides great incentive to (re)acquire sovereignty as well as unifying ideology motivating cohesiveness and reducing domestic dissention against the authority of the state once its independence has been achieved. However, Kazakhstan lacked previous experience as a single nation-state, at least in the way how the Western civilization understands this
69 While the mission of Nevada-Semipalatinsk movement – achieving a permanent ban of nuclear weapons testing – was an issue close to the heart of Kazakhstan’s inhabitants, and as such could have been used to mobilize national consciousness, its leadership chose to avoid going that route since it was strongly internationalist-minded.
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 66 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 60 states. In other words, the hypothesized non-national reconstruction of identity is concurrent with government’s proactive attempts to reconstruct the society of Kazakhstan in ethnic and civic terms. There are a few important considerations that define the path of the national identity construction in Kazakhstan: 1. Absence of a history of concerted struggle to achieve sovereignty. Quite a few post-colonial states and republics in the former Soviet Union and Soviet Block in Eastern Europe have gained independence without fully developed national liberation movements. The Kazakhs specifically had no clearly defined national movement, and the one popular movement they did have (Nevada-Semipalatinsk) was clearly internationalist rather than nationalist in its mission.69 Such lack of a national idea prior to gaining sovereignty greatly hampered all the efforts of the newly independent republic to form national unity despite all the efforts. 2. Prior experience as a single nation-state provides great incentive to (re)acquire sovereignty as well as unifying ideology motivating cohesiveness and reducing domestic dissention against the authority of the state once its independence has been achieved. However, Kazakhstan lacked previous experience as a single nation-state, at least in the way how the Western civilization understands this 69 While the mission of Nevada-Semipalatinsk movement – achieving a permanent ban of nuclear weapons testing – was an issue close to the heart of Kazakhstan’s inhabitants, and as such could have been used to mobilize national consciousness, its leadership chose to avoid going that route since it was strongly internationalist-minded. |
