It remains to be seen the extent to which the recent spate of attacks and increased militancy in Kazakhstan have operational links to the broader network of terrorist groups operating in Central Asia and South Asia. 

Kazakhstan’s negotiations to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) will have far-reaching consequences for its future economic and political development—the reforms demanded by WTO membership will determine whether the country moves along a path of market-based development or remains mired in dysfunctional command-and-control policies and institutions. WTO membership and the...

Everybody who pays attention to these sorts of things knows Muslim societies are almost uniquely immune to the forces that have been driving down fertility rates on every continent for decades. But everybody, it seems, fell asleep before the final act.

This time around, Moscow may find the combined interests of Washington, the American oil companies in Kazakhstan, and the transit and consumer countries along this route, too strong to withstand. Success of this project would finally begin to arrest Europe"s worrisome slide into overdependence on Russia for its energy supplies.

Roman Vasilenko, the press secretary at the embassy of Kazakhstan, must rue the day he first heard about the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, better known as the Kazakh character Borat.

The cult of competitiveness is just a ruse used to justify the ambitions of economic planners and the pundits who worship them.

While the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is a catastrophe, it would be a mistake to abandon offshore drilling and to instead pursue biofuels, as they are neither economically viable nor environmentally beneficial.