Central Asia and Kazakhstan: In Search of Civic Identity

Mankind has entered into an extremely complex and controversial stage of its development: the world is simultaneously organized and chaoticized, globalized and localized, combined and split. Analysts point out that globalization as a process of strengthening economic, cultural, financial and other ties of states cause many problems. In the economic sphere, it creates the danger of growing gap between the states, in the sphere of politics it leads to the weakening of political power and influence of nation-states.

Authors:

• Elnura Assyltayeva
• Zhanar Aldubasheva
• Zhengisbek Tolen
• Ziyakul Assyltayeva
• Aliya Alimzhanova

Keywords:

• Civic identity
• globalization
• identity crisis
• culture identity

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