This book joins the discussion on foreign aid triggered by the rise of multiplicity of emerging donors in international development and explores the transformation of Kazakhstan from a recipient country to a development aid provider.
Drawing on fieldwork in Nur-Sultan and Almaty (Kazakhstan) between 2016 and 2019, this research evaluates the philosophy and core features of Kazakhstan’s chosen development aid model and explains the factors that account for the construction of aid patterns of Kazakh donorship. This book will be of interest to scholars of Central Asia and the emerging politics of Eurasia as well as scholars of politics and aid.
Author(s): Nafissa Insebayeva
Series: Politics and History in Central Asia
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 149
City: Singapore
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
1 Introduction
The Arrival of a New Donor
Methodological Overview
Book Outline
2 Setting the Stage for Research: Theoretical Approaches to Development
Contribution to the Field
3 The “Development” Paradigm: Official Development Assistance and DAC
Origins of Foreign Aid
Literature on Kazakh Aid: How It Has Been Approached So Far
4 Kazakhstan as a Humanitarian Aid Donor
Kazakhstan as a Development Aid Partner
Key Features and Characteristics of Kazakh Aid
The Domestic Context and Interests of Stakeholders: The Drafting of the Law on ODA
5 New Actors Through Old Lenses?
The Soviet Modernization Project: Education
The Educational Legacy: Soviet Higher and Professional Education
The Soviet Style Women Emancipation
Why Soviet History Matters for Kazakhstan’s Aid Policy
6 In the Colonial Matrix of Power: The Aftermath of the Soviet Collapse
International Factors
7 Conclusion
Selected Notes and Meanings
Archival Documents
Bibliography
Index
