Es handelt sich bei diesem Buch um den ersten Versuch einer offi­zi­ellen histo­risch-biogra­phi­schen Unter­su­chung des Lebens und Werks von N. A. Nasar­bajew. Hier wird sein Lebensweg von einem einfa­chen Jungen vom Land hin zu einem natio­nalen Staats­führer nach­ver­folgt.Beson­dere Beach­tung wird dabei der poli­ti­schen Biogra­phie Nasar­ba­jews geschenkt, die darge­s­tellt wird in der histo­ri­schen Perspek­tive der drama­ti­schen und keines­wegs eindeu­tigen Ereig­nisse und Abläufe im Zusam­men­hang mit der Entwick­lung Kasachs­tans an der Schwelle vom 20. zum 21. Jahr­hun­dert

The Near East Section retains custody of materials in over 40 languages of the area known as the Near East, including the countries and peoples of the Caucasus and Central Asia. The main linguistic groupings- Arabic, Armenian, Central Asian, Georgian, Persian, and Turkish and Turkic Armenian, Georgian–form the basis of a particularly potent and vital research center on all things Middle Eastern

Address of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev to the people of Kazakhstan 28 february 2007

A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization. However, as demonstrated in this volume, histories have not, of course, only been written by professional historians. Drawing on studies from a number of different European nation states, the contributors to this volume present a systematic exploration, of the representation of the national paradigm

North Korea under Kim Chong-il: Power, Politics, and Prospects for Change delves deeply into what we know—and what we think we know—about the current North Korean system. This incisive book probes the dynamics that inform the nation's domestic and foreign policies, examining key leadership institutions and personalities, as well as prospects for the next regime

This book chronicles the political-military development of the Korean Peninsula since 1945, with particular attention to North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear technology and nuclear weapons, and how it has shaped Northeast Asian security and non-proliferation policy and influenced the strategic choices of the United States and all regional powers. I focus on North Korea’s leaders, institutions, political history, and the system’s longer-term prospects

North Korean Foreign Policy: Security Dilemma and Succession, by Yongho Kim, starts from the point of view that North Korea's provocations have been motivated more by fear than by her in-born provocative nature. Kim argues that North Korea's provocative foreign policy reflects its threat perception stemming from various security dilemma, and a very real concern regarding another father-to-son succession. This volume views North Korea's external and domestic threats as causes and its provocative foreign policy as an effect of the causes

The history of modern nature concervation in the Nordic region almost coincides with the 20th century, but the history of nature concervation in the individual nordic country is much longer.Through nordic cooperation under the auspices of the nordic concil ministers active and systematic work on relevant, shared problems concerned with nature protection has taken place since the early 1970s

This annual report is a first step in the implementation of the Action Planapproved by the General Conference at its 37th session, to improve cooperation within the network of national Commissions

This book of hauntingly beautiful Native American portraits reflects the tragic history of the Cheyenne, Sioux, Pawnee, Cherokee, and other groups whose leaders traveled to Washington in the mid-nineteenth-century to negotiate treaties with the US government. The images form the core of the Smithsonian's extensive collection of Native American photographs and of important collections in many other major museums around the world