"This book examines the development of bilateral energy relations between China and the two oil-rich countries, Kazakhstan and Russia. Challenging conventional assumptions about energy politics and China's global quest for oil, this book examines the interplay of politics and sociocultural...

The unanticipated and unsolicited Russian aggression in the Ukraine in February 2022 highlighted the urgency of updating general assumptions about post-communist countries. The war has revealed the inadequacy of the terms and concepts employed for western democracies for describing,...

Mit Beginn der 2000er Jahre traten Kasachstan, Russland und die Ukraine (KRU), also Länder, die traditionell eher nicht als Weizen-Exportländer bekannt waren, als bedeutende Exporteure auf dem Weltmarkt für Weizen auf. In Folge dessen vergrößerte sich der Wettbewerb auf dem internationalen...

With the goal of reducing the dependency on oil revenues, the Government of Kazakhstan has recently increased its budget allocations to prop up the domestic agricultural sector. Yet, many observers agree that it is less the amount of public spending that induces long-term growth than the quality...

В статье на основании изучения и анализа значительного количества законодательных актов и нормативных правовых документов рассмотрены вопросы формирования...

В Казахстане ежегодно государство выделяет образовательные гранты на сельскохозяйственные специальности, однако агропромышленный комплекс (АПК) до сих пор не...

Current explanations of global governance fail to incorporate in their analysis the importance of both structural domestic and contextual factors in which global governance initiatives operate. More specifically, it is necessary to further investigate what global governance means for specific...