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Donald Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” is already being translated into his foreign policy strategy. The country is renouncing the idea of the “global empire for the world” and returning to the “global empire for America” model.
In the previous articles of this series, the focus was on the ruling elite, as if we almost left the rest of the citizens of the country out of the equation. However, as history shows, without an engaged and conscious participation of the majority of population in the reforms, it is impossible to both achieve a countrywide leap into the future and preserve national sovereignty.
According to Evgeniy Jovtis, the constitutional reform that was announced in Kazakhstan, retains the existing power structure of “three plus one”, with three branches of government, and a president above them, so nothing has changed dramatically.
President Nazarbaev’s message to Kazakhstani people with a call for third wave of modernization made the activist part of society ask an age-old question: will the Akorda and the ruling elite be able to provide grounds for the development of economy based on non-raw materials, under present conditions?
We allow for the fact that we might be overly pessimistic, but we forecast that the current economic, social, political and other crises in Kazakhstan will drag on for many years. This is primarily due to the fact that the ruling elite is unable to perform their functions well.
In the previous articles of our series, we have noted that the policy of turning the screws in the matters of domestic politics is the only viable survival tactic for the current Kazakhstani elite. And it doesn’t matter who is in the forefront of it – the current leader of the nation, his successors or a new “elbasy”.
