Nazarbayev’s Remedy to the National Identity Crisis of Kazakhstan
Nazarbayev’s Remedy to the National Identity Crisis of Kazakhstan

Summary/Abstract: National identity crisis is evaluated as one of the significant reasons of civil war. Therefore, it is important to develop adequate policy to this problem. In this respect, the article analyzes the Nursultan Nazarbayev’s remedy to the national identity crisis of Kazakhstan. Nazarbayev was aware of the fact that if he fails to resolve this problem, then Kazakhstan will be disintegrated to Russian north and Kazakh south. Kazakh president’s policy was compromise and balance. During the quarter century Nazarbayev main policy was to preserve the balance between these competing two poles. The author argues that Nazarbayev made emphasis on civic nationalism in order to prevent conflicts between ethnic groups. In the final analysis, Nazarbayev managed to change Kazakhstan’s disadvantage in ethnic diversity of the country to the advantage by presenting Kazakhstan as the country where different ethnic and religious groups live peace and harmony.

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