2022/05/16 by Diana T. Kudaibergenova, Marlène Laruelle · 1 voice · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Peacebuilding and International Security #Political Conflict and Governance #Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
paper · doi:10.1080/1060586x.2022.2077060
openalex publication_date 2022/05/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
In January 2022 mass protests spread quickly across the whole of Kazakhstan, becoming the largest mass mobilization in the country’s modern history. We analyze these mass protests through the framework of regime-society relations, arguing that a ey failure of the regime built by Nazarbayev is the inability to reconcile its neoliberal prosperity rhetoric with citizens’ calls for a welfare state. We then explore how a tradition of protests has been developing since 2011 and address the structural components of regime (in)stability and how they contributed to violence in the protests.