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Browsing Theses and Dissertations by Subject "Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Political science"

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  • Effects of Different Types of Actors on Civil War Duration 
    Tulegenova, Bakhyt (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-05-01)
    The proportion of civil wars that involve external intervention has increased dramatically since the end of the Cold War. So has the duration of such internationalized internal conflicts. This thesis seeks to explain the ...
  • Environment as a Foreign Policy Tool: The Case of Kazakhstan 
    Nurtas-Kalikeyeva, Alina (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-05-01)
    This thesis focuses on how Kazakhstan used environment as a foreign policy tool and how the environmental foreign policy is articulated in yearly presidential addresses. I am interested whether environmental issues are ...
  • EXPLAINING INTERNET REGULATION VARIATION IN NON-DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES 
    Bizhanova, Madina (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017-05)
    This thesis analyzes the role and impact of labor-free resources such as foreign aid and natural resources revenues on the level of internet freedom in non-democracies. Specifically, with help of the Freedom on the net ...
  • IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WORLD BANK PROJECTS IN KAZAKHSTAN 
    Kunedilova, Botagoz (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017-05)
    International financial institutions (IFIs), such as the World Bank, play a significant role in world development. The World Bank’s global agenda on ending poverty through the implementation of various development projects ...
  • LEGAL LOW-SKILLED LABOR MIGRATION FROM KYRGYZSTAN TO KAZAKHSTAN: DID THE EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION MAKE A DIFFERENCE? 
    Ulanova, Malika (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017-05)
    The EEU policies simplified the procedure to obtain legal labor status for labor migrants from the member states. However, Kyrgyz workers in Kazakhstan are not able to enjoy these benefits. This thesis analyzes the EEU ...
  • MODERNIZATION AND POLITICAL PARTY DEVELOPMENT IN KAZAKHSTAN 
    Rakhimzhanova, Galiya (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017-05)
    Modernization is a unique process that in one or another way can contribute to democratization. However, the transition to democracy is not guaranteed and includes various factors, such as the development of civil society, ...
  • OVERCOMING THE “RESOURCE CURSE”: WELFARE POLICY AND CIVIL CONFLICT IN RENTIER STATES 
    Mukasheva, Zhamilya (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017-05)
    Existing literature cannot explain why some rentier states, that is, states dependent on revenues from exports of natural resources or foreign aid, experience significantly more civil conflicts while others remain peaceful. ...
  • THE IMPACT OF WESTERN EDUCATION ON THE SOCIOPOLITICAL VALUES OF YOUNG ADULTS IN KAZAKHSTAN 
    Baimuratova, Ainur (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017-05)
    How does a type of education influence the development of particular norms and beliefs within a society? My thesis is aimed at finding the impact of Western-oriented education on sociopolitical values of young people in ...
  • THE POLITICS OF JURY TRIALS IN KAZAKHSTAN 
    Akhmetzharov, Slyamzhar (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017-05)
    This study investigates the paradoxical politics of jury trials in Kazakhstan. In doing so, it tries to find out the influence of jury institution on the pro-accusation bias within criminal justice system as well as ...