Between East and West: Kazakhstan and China’s new Silk Road
This article analyses Kazakhstan’s vision of long-term development and its ambitious goals. After revising the history of the infrastructure projects in the country during the tsarist period and the Soviet era, it sets out the plans of the Kazakh president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, to turn the country...
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Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)
2015-09-01
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| description | This article analyses Kazakhstan’s vision of long-term development and its ambitious goals. After revising the history of the infrastructure projects in the country during the tsarist period and the Soviet era, it sets out the plans of the Kazakh president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, to turn the country into a logistical hub between East and West by 2050. Later, the paper puts Nazarbayev’s vision in the context of the political and economic reality of Kazakhstan, focussing, specifically, on how the government’s multivector foreign policy fluctuates between Russia’s regional integration projects and the Chinese push westwards to develop Xinjiang province along the new Silk Road. As a conclusion, it identifies the multiple goals that may put the future of this plan in doubt. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0739da07189746a3a02179b259a3aee82022-12-22T03:30:42ZspaBarcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals1133-65952013-035X2015-09-0111087112Between East and West: Kazakhstan and China’s new Silk RoadRyskeldi Satke0Franco Galdini1Analista sobre temas de seguridad y colaborador de Al Jazeera, Nikkey Asian Review Magazine, The Jamestown FoundationInvestigador de economía política en conflictos armados y analista de relaciones en Oriente Medio, Universidad Americana de Asia Central (Bishkek, República de Kirguistán)This article analyses Kazakhstan’s vision of long-term development and its ambitious goals. After revising the history of the infrastructure projects in the country during the tsarist period and the Soviet era, it sets out the plans of the Kazakh president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, to turn the country into a logistical hub between East and West by 2050. Later, the paper puts Nazarbayev’s vision in the context of the political and economic reality of Kazakhstan, focussing, specifically, on how the government’s multivector foreign policy fluctuates between Russia’s regional integration projects and the Chinese push westwards to develop Xinjiang province along the new Silk Road. As a conclusion, it identifies the multiple goals that may put the future of this plan in doubt.http://www.cidob.org/en/content/download/61700/1865023/version/4/file/87-112_RYSKELDI%20SATKE%20%26%20FRANCO%20GALDINI.pdfKazakhstaninfrastructureforeign policySilk Road |
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| title | Between East and West: Kazakhstan and China’s new Silk Road |
| title_full | Between East and West: Kazakhstan and China’s new Silk Road |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Between East and West: Kazakhstan and China’s new Silk Road |
| title_short | Between East and West: Kazakhstan and China’s new Silk Road |
| title_sort | between east and west kazakhstan and china s new silk road |
| topic | Kazakhstan infrastructure foreign policy Silk Road |
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