<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In previous years, the evolution of nation-building politics in the Republic of Kazakhstan was characterized by an alternation of tactical schemes that actualized either the ethnocultural or civil-political foundations of statehood. At present, the emerging common Kazakhstani culture is becoming the basis for mutually agreed development of ethnocultural and civic identity as its own elements. In the system of common Kazakhstani culture, the civil and ethnocultural models of the nation are the poles or attractors of the process of self-organization of a single nationwide Kazakhstan identity. The optimal identity politics in the nation-building risk management in the conditions of modern Kazakhstan is to adopt the point of view of the whole set of identification models and to maintain the dynamic balance of conflicting identities through the mechanism of mutual checks and balances.</p></abstract>

In previous years, the evolution of nation-building politics in the Republic of Kazakhstan was characterized by an alternation of tactical schemes that actualized either the ethnocultural or civil-political foundations of statehood. At present, the emerging common Kazakhstani culture is becoming the basis for mutually agreed development of ethnocultural and civic identity as its own elements. In the system of common Kazakhstani culture, the civil and ethnocultural models of the nation are the poles or attractors of the process of self-organization of a single nationwide Kazakhstan identity. The optimal identity politics in the nation-building risk management in the conditions of modern Kazakhstan is to adopt the point of view of the whole set of identification models and to maintain the dynamic balance of conflicting identities through the mechanism of mutual checks and balances.

Identity Politics in Managing the System Risks of Nation-Building: On the Example of the Republic of Kazakhstan

TalTech Journal of European Studies

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In previous years, the evolution of nation-building politics in the Republic of Kazakhstan was characterized by an alternation of tactical schemes that...

Identity Politics in Managing the System Risks of Nation-Building: On the Example of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Published Online: Jul 30, 2019

Page range: 99 - 114

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bjes-2019-0006

Keywords
civil nationalism, cosmopolitanism, ethnonationalism, identity politics, multiculturalism, nation, national state, nation-building

© 2019 Vladimir Dunaev et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Identity Politics in Managing the System Risks of Nation-Building: On the Example of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Published Online: Jul 30, 2019

Page range: 99 - 114

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bjes-2019-0006

Keywordscivil nationalism, cosmopolitanism, ethnonationalism, identity politics, multiculturalism, nation, national state, nation-building

© 2019 Vladimir Dunaev et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
civil nationalism, cosmopolitanism, ethnonationalism, identity politics, multiculturalism, nation, national state, nation-building