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Kazakhstan. Unfulfilled Promise by Martha Brill Olcott (Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002, ISBN 0-87003-188-0) xii+321 pages, €32.50

Kazakhstan. Unfulfilled Promise by Martha Brill Olcott (Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for... AEJ 3:585–590 (2005) DOI 10.1007/s10308-005-0025-3 BOOK REVIEW Kazakhstan. Unfulfilled Promise by Martha Brill Olcott (Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002, ISBN 0-87003-188-0) xii+321 pages, €32.50 Published online: 11 November 2005 © Springer-Verlag 2005 It is are to find country monographs which inform so comprehensively in a well written, well researched manner with measured reasonable judgments, with very few questions—inevitable updates apart—left open. Professor Olcott covers Kazakh- stan’s tribal past, her mixed fate under the Czars and—worse—the Soviet Union, the reluctant acceptance of independence in 1991 by the state’s nomenclatura, the gradual consolidation of Nursultan Nazarbayev’s increasingly dictatorial and his family’sand court’s kleptocratic rule, the resulting economic handicaps for this resource-rich country, and its divided society—the few transformation winners and the dis- advantaged rest. It appears as a post-independence record which holds only very mixed prospects for the near-to-medium future after Nazarbayev’s inevitable depar- ture from the scene, Kazakhstan thus offers once again the all-too-familiar tale of postcolonial mismanagement, wasting the potential of an educated middle class and of vast accessible resources for the development of a pluralist society and a flourishing market economy, by opting for autocratic underdevelopment and oligarchic exploi- tation instead. The strategic stakes are http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asia Europe Journal Springer Journals

Kazakhstan. Unfulfilled Promise by Martha Brill Olcott (Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002, ISBN 0-87003-188-0) xii+321 pages, €32.50

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Asia Europe Journal , Volume 3 (4) – Nov 11, 2005
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Social Sciences; Social Sciences, general; International Economics
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10.1007/s10308-005-0025-3
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AEJ 3:585–590 (2005) DOI 10.1007/s10308-005-0025-3 BOOK REVIEW Kazakhstan. Unfulfilled Promise by Martha Brill Olcott (Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002, ISBN 0-87003-188-0) xii+321 pages, €32.50 Published online: 11 November 2005 © Springer-Verlag 2005 It is are to find country monographs which inform so comprehensively in a well written, well researched manner with measured reasonable judgments, with very few questions—inevitable updates apart—left open. Professor Olcott covers Kazakh- stan’s tribal past, her mixed fate under the Czars and—worse—the Soviet Union, the reluctant acceptance of independence in 1991 by the state’s nomenclatura, the gradual consolidation of Nursultan Nazarbayev’s increasingly dictatorial and his family’sand court’s kleptocratic rule, the resulting economic handicaps for this resource-rich country, and its divided society—the few transformation winners and the dis- advantaged rest. It appears as a post-independence record which holds only very mixed prospects for the near-to-medium future after Nazarbayev’s inevitable depar- ture from the scene, Kazakhstan thus offers once again the all-too-familiar tale of postcolonial mismanagement, wasting the potential of an educated middle class and of vast accessible resources for the development of a pluralist society and a flourishing market economy, by opting for autocratic underdevelopment and oligarchic exploi- tation instead. The strategic stakes are

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