Kazakhstan Today

Monograph– Almaty: The Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2010. – 356 p. This joint monograph aims to present a generalised image of modern Kazakhstan. The book focuses on Kazakhstan’s role in the international community and discusses issues of the political, economic and social life of modern Kazakh society. It contains the history of the country and information on its present administrative-territorial divisions, population and government system. The book presents Kazakhstan’s main steps on the path of the establishment of statehood and interim results of the country’s development in its years of independence. The joint monograph targets primarily foreign readers who do not know much about the Republic of Kazakhstan, and will be also useful to local political analysts, researchers, civil servants, students and university teachers, and others.