Security Governance in Central Asia: The Perception of intrastate Conflict Among Officials in Kazakhstan

Abstract

This paper examines how Kazakhstan’s officials perceive conflict within state after Kyrgyz Crisis in 2010. Political, economic and military threats merge and reform, presenting new political challenges in every state, and Central Asian republics are not exception. Kyrgyz regime change and violent ethnic clashes in the South in 2010 showed good example of threats to national security of Kazakhstan. Thus, paper gives relatively complex picture of security issues that have to be faces by the independent Kazakhstan in term of conflicts prevention. In thesis I employed quantitative method of analysis for research.