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The Limits of Authoritarian Learning: Deconstructing Kazakhstan’s 2022 Coup Attempt

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Throughout his nearly three-decade rule of Kazakhstan, President Nursultan Nazarbayev has always been eager to project a positive image of himself in the international arena. In…

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Relevant Past PONARS Eurasia Policy Memos on Kazakhstan

Central Asian Responses to COVID-19: Regime Legitimacy and [De]Securitization of the Health Crisis By Mariya Omelicheva and Lawrence P. Markowitz | March 1, 2021 Despite a history of using discourses of danger…

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Authoritarian Learning: Making Sense Of Kazakhstan’s Political Transition

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) On March 19, 2019, President Nursultan Nazarbayev shocked the country he has dominated since before the collapse of the Soviet Union by announcing that he had reached…

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Institutional Trust in Kazakhstan versus Kyrgyzstan: How Divergent Trajectories Matter

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) For the new countries that emerged after the collapse of the USSR, few tasks have been more important, or challenging, than building institutions of government that…

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