Zhulduz Baizakova
Zhulduz Baizakova is a graduate of the Faculty of International Relations, Kazakh National University and holds an MSc in International Security and Global Governance from Birkbeck College, University of London. Her current academic affiliation is with the Institute for Security and Cooperation Studies at Kazakh National University in Almaty. Baizakova recently joined the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University as a Visiting Research Scholar (Fulbright Program). Her areas of research cover regional security, including defense and environment issues of Central Asia.
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Articles by Zhulduz Baizakova
Afghanistan’s Ethnic Turkmens: Enemies or Allies for Ashgabat?
The relationship between Afghanistan’s Turkmen diaspora and Turkmenistan has always been complicated as well as under-researched. However, the latest developments along the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan border helps to shed some light on
Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy: One for All, or All for One?
On December 26, 2014, Kazakhstani Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov delivered an official briefing on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ 2014 activities. He provided a broad overview of Kazakhstan’s main foreign
‘Our People in an Alien War’: Kazakhstanis Fighting for the Islamic State
In late September 2014, Erlan Karin, the newly appointed director of the Astana-based Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies, presented a report on Central Asians fighting for the Islamic State (IS—formerly
Islamic Caliphate for Kazakhstan: Disturbing Signs and Signals
On June 29, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) declared the emergence of an Islamic caliphate and renamed itself the Islamic State (IS). The organisation proclaimed that all