KAZAKH ISLAMIST TERRORISM: THE CHANGING GEOPOLITICS OF TERRORIST THREAT
KAZAKH ISLAMIST TERRORISM: THE CHANGING GEOPOLITICS OF TERRORIST THREAT

Author(s): Miroslav Mareš, Martin Laryš
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Security and defense, Geopolitics, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Kazakhstan; terrorism; Islamist extremism; geopolitics; diaspora;
Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the issue of Islamist terrorism’s spread into Kazakhstan, a country where terrorist attacks of this kind area relatively recent phenomenon. The paper explains the emergence of terrorism in Kazakhstan in the context of the development of Islam and particularly in relation to Islamist extremism in Central Asia; it focuses on the dynamics of Islamist violence in the country in the twenty-first century. The authors evaluate the consequences of terrorism’s propagation into Kazakhstan and the Kazakh diaspora as it affects the overall geopolitics of Islamist terrorism.

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