Problems and Fundamentals of Stability in Central Asia
Problems and Fundamentals of Stability in Central Asia

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the stability issue in the countries of Central Asia as the main obstacle to their successful development. The number of factors that influence remarkably the stability of foreign and domestic policy of the countries in the region is substantially big. These comprise the ethnic factor, the factor of Islam, the socio-economic factor, the factor of clans, the factor of the authorities and finally, the external factor. Each of them is significant in its own way, and they all are inextricably entwined. The key factor of (in-) stability in the countries of Central Asia is the relations variable between the clans and the authorities. The fundamental practical and academic novelty of the conception of the long-term stability of Central Asian countries put forward in the present article is in the idea that the core of the issue of stability and successful development of the countries of the region is concealed in the absence of equilibrium of interests of the authorities and the clans in the sphere of decision-making and implementation at the national level. The practical probability, viability and success of this system of power relations in Central Asian countries are demonstrated by the example of Kazakhstan. The author proposes to characterize it as “sociopolitical corporatism”.

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