In the context of totalitarian regimes and their aftermaths, memorial landscapes are highly contested spaces in which newly emerging governments are quite active in framing and reframing the past as well as mapping a course for the future. Unsurprisingly, statuary and other over…
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This dissertation explores how various actors in Kazakhstan have constituted the state's sovereign authority since gaining independence in 1991, and it contributes to a broad range of literatures, from political and urban geography, to post-Soviet and Central Asian regional stud…
The collapse of the Soviet Union provides several situations where the presence of Russian-speaking minorities produces a potential challenge to the consolidation of former Soviet Republics as independent democracies. My dissertation examines ethnic relations in two former Sovie…
Russia's relationship with the Kazakhs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries evolved from that of a pre-modern Muscovite state with several Inner-Asian nomadic neighbors, to that of a more centralized bureaucratic Russian Empire influenced by the European Enlightenment. The…
The arbitration legislation of Kazakhstan has no direct answer to the problem of possible participation of the third parties therein. The analysis of the Kazakhstani legislation and practice, as well as the comparison of the Kazakhstani approach with international approaches reg…
Severe wellbore-stability issues such as stuck pipe, sidetracking of wells and incomplete pipe-conveyed-logging operations have been encountered during drilling horizontal wells in the West Kazakhstan Field. To contribute to solutions of these issues, an integrated wellbore-stab…
Intimate partner violence (IPV) violates human rights, specifically, the right to life and bodily integrity. Although considerable knowledge about the prevalence of and risk factors for IPV in developing countries has been amassed, little attention has been paid to the attitudes…
Beginning with the insight that highly-centralized state structures have historically provided a unifying target and fulcrum for the mobilization of contentious nationwide social movements, this dissertation investigates the hypothesis that decentralized state structures in auth…
Why do market-oriented economic reforms in developing countries succeed or fail? Of the three sets of factors that affect the outcome of the reforms - economic policies, formal and informal institutions, and leadership - the role of political leaders and reform teams in initiati…
As the price of oil has risen, the effect of resource wealth on countries around the world has become increasingly important. Previous studies have shown that countries dependent on oil exports tend to be less democratic and more prone to civil unrest, but have not clarified wha…
Scope and method of study. This study analyzes Kazakhstan's 2006 advertising campaign. The purpose of the campaign was to combat the movie Borat: Cultural Learning of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation, create a positive image of Kazakhstan in the wake of President Nazarba…
Background . Although injection drug use emerged as the initial propellant of HIV in Central Asia, the epidemic may be verging on widespread diffusion through bridge populations to the general population. While HIV incidence appears to be increasing sharply, the absolute number …
This paper discuses the theory of nationalism in building modern nation-states. The main thesis is explanatory which is defended on theoretical grounds and by referencing two Central Asian case studies: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. In particular, the paper was influenced by Benedi…
This qualitative study examines the impact of cultural change on the perspectives of business and economic teachers in Kazakhstan, a country that has experienced tremendous change since gaining its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. During this study, eighteen participa…
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990's Kazakhstan experienced a socio-economic transition from a socialist economy to a free market economy and was challenged with building a newly independent state. In pursuit of fulfilling strategic nationwide tasks, the go…
The context of this research is the increasing prevalence of Internet usage among national or ethnic minorities and the growing assumption among media theorists and some political scientists that there is a connection between access to uncensored and self-published media on the …
This dissertation considers the Soviet policy of rooting both socialist and nationalist messages in public performance culture as part of a modernization campaign to promote nationalism, a constructed national vision, and a national state in Kazakstan. In this image of the Kazak…
This dissertation addresses the ways in which the Kazakh two-stringed fiddle qyl-qobyz has represented a microcosm of the Kazakhs' historical experience as its function and reception have fluctuated in sync with the ebb and flow of Kazakh traditional culture through several stag…
Carbon dioxide flux (FCO2) patterns were assessed on four agroecosystems of the semiarid steppe in northern Kazakhstan (51°37' N, 71°05' E). Fields representing virgin land (VL), crested wheatgrass (CW), wheat (W) and abandoned land (AL) were sampled in four blocks, separated ab…