Foreign Policy Diversification and Intercontinental Transport Corridors: The Case of Kazakhstan’s Railways Diplomacy

Nicola P. Contessi

Europe-Asia Studies, 2018, vol. 70, issue 5, 759-790

Abstract: Building on recent scholarship, this essay contributes to further developing a conceptual understanding of multivector foreign policy, a term that, despite its frequent use, is still in need of additional refinement. I use the two-pronged concept of diversification as hinging, first, on simultaneous co-alignment with multiple major power providers and, second, as resulting from the interaction of variables at both system and unit levels. The essay then models a causal mechanism to explain Kazakhstan’s approach to international infrastructure connectivity, an oft neglected issue-area of interstate collaboration.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2018.1473342

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