Eurasian Economic Integration

Djoomart Otorbaev is a former Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan having also formerly served as a Senior Adviser in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. This essay is an adapted excerpt from his latest book entitled Central Asia’s Economic Rebirth in the Shadow of the New Great Game (2023).
Territory as a Factor of Nation-Building in New Kazakhstan

Rustem Kadyrzhanov is Chief Scientific Officer at the Institute of Philosophy, Political science and Religion Studies of the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Science and Education of Kazakhstan. An earlier version of this essay appeared in the Kazakhstan Journal of Foreign Studies, a scientific magazine published by the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.