Articles by Eduardo Araral, Riccardo Pelizzo, Aziz Burkhanov and Serik Orazgaliyev

Constitutional reform: what can Kazakhstan learn from international experience?

President Nursultan Nazarbayev recently announced Kazakhstan will pursue constitutional reforms. The reforms will give more powers to the parliament and the government while the President will look after national security, defence and foreign policy and will serve as an arbiter. This model of government is referred to as a semi-presidential government, similar to that of…