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Outsourcing Violence: Provocateurs and Power Struggles in Kazakhstan, January 2022

Authoritarian rulers in post-Soviet Eurasia draw upon an array of security and police force mechanisms to enforce loyalty and undermine opponents. Beyond these familiar, state-centered agents of repression, we observe…

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

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 a 2016 interview with…

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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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President Nazarbayev’s Resignation | Commentary by Jones, Junisbai, McGlinchey, Roberts, and Schatz

Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, made a brief statement on March 19 announcing his resignation. PONARS Eurasia members provide context and viewpoints. Pauline Jones (University of Michigan) Although the exact timing was…

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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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What Makes “Ardent Democrats” in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan?

(PONARS Policy Memo) If Kazakhstan is home to Eurasia’s longest serving ruler, neighboring Kyrgyzstan is among its most competitive polities. We wanted to know if, as a growing body of literature…

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