E-Bulletin – Page 17

July 5, 2019

Investments in Kazakhstan: Economization of the Country’s Foreign Policy

At the end of 2018, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev replaced the country’s minister of foreign affairs, just a few days before the expiration of Kazakhstan’s non-permanent membership in the UN Security Council (UNSC). The appointment of Beibut Atamkulov, the former Minister of Defense and Aerospace Industry, as a new […]

June 28, 2019

Current Status of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea

Since the signing of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea during the Fifth Summit of the Caspian Littoral States held in Aktau on August 12, 2018, a number of important steps and measures have been taken to further develop cooperation in the Caspian Sea. As of […]

June 20, 2019

EU in Central Asia: New Strategy, Old Ideas

After establishing diplomatic relations with the newly independent Central Asian states, the European Union (EU) was mainly engaged in the region through the “Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States” (TACIS) program that covered all CIS countries. TACIS, launched in 1991, was aimed at providing technical support to the […]

June 11, 2019

Possible Impact of U.S.-Iran Tensions on China

The long-standing conflict between the United States and Iran, which especially intensified after Donald Trump’s accession to power, has passed to a new critical stage with the latest sanctions imposed by Washington. Iran, which is rich in energy resources, argues that its nuclear energy development efforts are for peaceful purposes, […]

June 7, 2019

What Jobs Will Be In Demand In The Future?

In recent years, not only experts and analysts in the field of industrial and economic development, but also people less knowledgeable in this area – parliamentarians, journalists, bloggers, and participants in all kinds of public debates, have spoken about the future challenges in the labor market, such as the reduction, […]

May 28, 2019

Ensuring Cybersecurity in Kazakhstan: Problems and Solutions

Cybersecurity is the protection of information systems from damage to their hardware, software or electronic data, as well as from disruption of their operation or services they provide. A cyberattack is any type of an offensive attempt to expose, steal, destroy, alter or get an unauthorized access to information or […]

May 19, 2019

Kazakh Students in China: Recent Developments and Trends

China has one of the most extensive higher education systems in the world: as of 2017, there were over 2,500 universities with about 38 mil-lion students. As the country’s role increases in world affairs, China promotes internationalization of its higher education. On the other hand, growing outside interest in the […]

May 8, 2019

Western China-Western Europe Corridor: Problems and Solutions

The Western China-Western Europe transport corridor can be considered as the largest infrastructure project between China, Russia and Kazakhstan, extending from the South China Sea (Lyanyungan) to the Baltic Sea (Saint Petersburg). The issue of this transport corridor was first raised in the 2005 letter to the Founding President of […]

May 6, 2019

Kyrgyzstan’s Regional Politics under Jeenbekov

In the past two years, regional cooperation in Central Asia has been undergoing significant changes due to the transformation of the political establishment in some of the regional countries. Kyrgyzstan, with its special place in the region, the so-called “democratic island” of Central Asia, has also influenced this trend. Therefore, […]

April 30, 2019

The Aral Sea: is Recovery Still Possible?

The Aral Sea used to be the world’s fourth largest lake but has lost 90% of its volume since 1960s due to the Soviet Union’s massive water diversion and irrigation activities, mainly for cotton production. It is now one of the world’s largest man-made ecological disasters as the desiccation of […]