We invite all to the GSPP Book Presentation webinar by Dr Luca Anceschi: Analysing Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy: Regime Neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbayev Era on September 28 at 18:00.

Date and time: September 28 (Monday) at 18:00 (Nur-Sultan time).

Speaker: Dr Luca Anceschi, Senior Lecturer in Central Asian Studies, University of Glasgow, UK. Author of the Analysing Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy: Regime Neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbayev Era and Turkmenistan’s Foreign Policy: Positive Neutrality and the Consolidation of the Turkmen Regime, also published by Routledge (2009). 

Dr Luca Anceschi is the Editor of the Journal Europe-Asia Studies.

This book investigates the roles that ideas and constructs associated with Eurasia have played in the making of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy during the Nazarbaev era. Based on substantive fieldwork and sustained engagement with primary sources, the book unveils the power implications of Kazakhstani neo-Eurasianism, arguing that the strengthening of the regime’s domestic power ranked highly in the list of objectives pursued by Kazakhstani foreign policy between the collapse of the Soviet Union and Nazarbaev’s apparent withdrawal from the Kazakhstani political scene (19 March 2019). This book, ultimately, is a study of inter-state integration, which makes use of a rigorous methodological approach to assess different incarnations of post-Soviet multilateralism, from the Commonwealth of Independent States to the more recent, and highly controversial, Eurasian Economic Union.

Discussant: Dina Sharipova, GSPP Assistant Professor. 

Moderator: Riccardo Pelizzo, GSPP Associate Professor and Vice Dean for Research. 

Topic: GSPP Book Presentation webinar by Dr Luca Anceschi: Analysing Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy: Regime Neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbayev Era

Format: ZOOM webinar. 

To attend the event we kindly ask you to register here: