Kazakhstan: Tested by Transition

A partial handover of political power through an orchestrated transition takes Kazakhstan into uncharted territory. Will it be able to pursue modernization and reform, and break from its authoritarian past?

Chatham House report ISBN: 978 1 78413 375 7

A gilded imprint of the hand of the First President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, in Baiterek Tower in the centre of the capital. Photo: Mateusz Atroszko.
— A gilded imprint of the hand of the First President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, in Baiterek Tower in the centre of the capital. Photo: Mateusz Atroszko.