RESOURCE NATIONALISM AS KEYSTONE FACTOR INKAZAKHSTAN’S FOREIGN POLICY

Abstract

This article seeks to identify country-specific peculiarities of the factors affecting foreign policy formation in petro-states taking the case of Kazakhstan  including domestic ones as society and state institutions, as well as external factors containing policy of great powers, transnational organisations and international system etc. Energy factor being a key geopolitical motivation for many powers located even far outside the neighborhood urges Kazakhstan to continuously lineup its foreign policy strategy in accordance with contemporary conjuncture in the market.