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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In this article, I investigate the processes of the discursive construction of the identity of Kazakhstan as a sovereign and non-nuclear state, and show how the construction and performance of these identities are both productive and the product of Nuclear Weapons Technology (NWT) as a threat to the national security of Kazakhstan. I argue that both practices - the production of the state identity and the abolition of the ex-Soviet nuclear arsenal from the territory of Kazakhstan - are instrumental ways to secure the values of Kazakhstan, in this case the existence of Kazakhstan as a sovereign state.
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