Modernity, Development and Decolonization of Knowledge in Central Asia

This book joins the discussion on foreign aid triggered by the rise of multiplicity of emergingdonors in international development and explores the transformation of Kazakhstan from arecipient country to a development aid provider. Drawing on fieldwork in Nur-Sultan and Almaty (Kazakhstan) between 2016 and 2019, thisresearch evaluates the philosophy and core features of Kazakhstan's chosen development aidmodel and explains the factors that account for the construction of aid patterns of Kazakhdonorship. This book will be of interest to scholars of Central Asia and the emerging politics of Eurasia as well as scholars of politics and aid.