%0 Journal Article
%T The Dilemma in the Nation-Building Process : The Kazakh or Kazakhstani Nation?
%A £¿zgecan Kesici
%J Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe
%D 2011
%I European Centre for Minority Issues
%X This article analyses the nation-building strategy that Kazakhstan¡¯s government has implemented since independence. It examines why the nation builders have taken the decision to create two nations, the ethnic Kazakh nation and the civic Kazakhstani nation in a multiethnic society. In its analysis the article adopts a constructivist approach.
%K Kazakhstan
%K nation-building
%K nationalism theories
%K Central Asia
%U http://www.ecmi.de/fileadmin/downloads/publications/JEMIE/2011/Kesici.pdf