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- Title
Astana's privatised independence: private and national interests in the foreign policy of Nursultan Nazarbayev.
- Authors
Bukkvoll, Tor
- Abstract
The article discusses the interplay between personal and national interests as motivating factors in the foreign policy of Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan. According to the author, it is wrong to base analyses of the foreign policy of Nazarbayev exclusively on either national interests, or on personal and factional interests. Nazarbayev probably wants both to remain in power, and to be seen by himself and others as a respected international politicians and a symbol of independent political leadership. Although political survival comes first, he does not use every opportunity to cater to factional interests in order to secure this survival.
- Subjects
KAZAKHSTAN; KAZAKHSTANI politics &; government; NAZARBAEV, Nursultan, 1940-; INTERNATIONAL relations; PRESIDENTS; POLITICAL leadership
- Publication
Nationalities Papers, 2004, Vol 32, Issue 3, p631
- ISSN
0090-5992
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/0090599042000246424