China’s Disjointed Foreign Policies Concede Agency on Kazakhstan Discourse Control

... Neither the foreign designation nor the identification of terrorism are in any way convincing. However caught between a domestic audience and the pseudo-legality of the CSTO, the Tokayev discourse is limited in its imaginatory scope. Kazakhstan’s discourse has thus centred on shifting agency away from both the factional power struggle as well moving culpability away from the incensed local citizenry whose initial legitimate protests appear to have been hijacked by political opportunism. Artem Dankov: A Post-Crisis Kazakhstan: Economic and Social Transformation Russia’s emerging narrative has been to position its intervention rhetorically against an overt ‘revolution’ ...