Togzhan Kassenova

The author:

Togzhan Kassenova, BA (Almaty), MA (Reading), PhD (Leeds) was a Senior Researcher for a UK FCO/Global Opportunities Fund project at Almaty in 2004-2006, and an Affiliated Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies at Leiden, The Netherlands, in 2006. Since 2006, she has been an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Strategic Research in Almaty. In 2007-2008, she is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, California.

The foreword author:

Dr Christoph Bluth is Professor of International Studies at the University of Leeds (UK).