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and/or processes of amalgamation into a nation. The target is the choices made by the people of Kazakhstan, and possible conditions prompting those choices such as globalization and FDI, ethnic and sub-ethnic identities, and policies to establish a sense of unity in the republic. One particular application of process-tracing method would be to examine the rejection of globalization and attendant de-humanizing and de-personalizing rationality of market economy logic, and what kind of response that may generates such as idealization of pre-modern values and norms, or, alternatively, recollections of the Soviet economic ‘equality’. The insight sought is how such interaction of market economy forces and identity prompts the search for cultural markers, affirming either civic, or ethnic, or sub-ethnic identities in Kazakhstan.
In the end, if the evidence does not show that the process of identity construction in Kazakhstan is strongly correlated with the influence of global market economy, and that in fact one of the alternative explanations (i.e. transitional weakness of national identity, colonial legacy, concern for Russian/Russified part of the population) lends a better explanation, then the main hypothesis will be rejected in favor of the best supported alternative. Additionally, the research will consider the problem of endogeneity at all times because it is inherent in the hypothesized relationships between political institutions and national identity.
The research was structured as follows:
1) The study of the historical background of Kazakhstan, identifying 3 significant periods and development of national identity during each: pre-Russian period, Russian colonization, Soviet period and post-Soviet period.
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 74 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 68 and/or processes of amalgamation into a nation. The target is the choices made by the people of Kazakhstan, and possible conditions prompting those choices such as globalization and FDI, ethnic and sub-ethnic identities, and policies to establish a sense of unity in the republic. One particular application of process-tracing method would be to examine the rejection of globalization and attendant de-humanizing and de-personalizing rationality of market economy logic, and what kind of response that may generates such as idealization of pre-modern values and norms, or, alternatively, recollections of the Soviet economic ‘equality’. The insight sought is how such interaction of market economy forces and identity prompts the search for cultural markers, affirming either civic, or ethnic, or sub-ethnic identities in Kazakhstan. In the end, if the evidence does not show that the process of identity construction in Kazakhstan is strongly correlated with the influence of global market economy, and that in fact one of the alternative explanations (i.e. transitional weakness of national identity, colonial legacy, concern for Russian/Russified part of the population) lends a better explanation, then the main hypothesis will be rejected in favor of the best supported alternative. Additionally, the research will consider the problem of endogeneity at all times because it is inherent in the hypothesized relationships between political institutions and national identity. The research was structured as follows: 1) The study of the historical background of Kazakhstan, identifying 3 significant periods and development of national identity during each: pre-Russian period, Russian colonization, Soviet period and post-Soviet period. |
