The impact of Bolashak program on internationalization of higher education in Kazakhstan

The preliminary study aims to evaluate the intentions of the Bolashak Alumni and actual performance on internationalization agenda of Higher Education in Kazakhstan. This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical research analyzing the internationalization of higher education (HE)

How the new EU Dual-Use Regulation could benefit third countries?

peer reviewedEuropean Union P2P Programme on Export Control of Dual-use Goods Export Control - Chaudfontaine Grou

Politico-economic aspects of strategic trade control in Central Asian countries

As a piece of interdisciplinary research, the thesis aims to consider the economic effects of a political tool such as strategic trade control after its adoption and implementation in various Central Asian countries, namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. To study the economic effects of strategic trade controls in Central Asian countries, the structure of the thesis is built on understanding the political and historical backgrounds of implemented control systems and at grasping the current status of control systems based on the descriptive analysis of strategic trade control’s elements by applying the 3WH method (“Why? What? Who? and How?”). It then analyses the economic effects of adopting and implementing control systems by applying two approaches to examine the implications of dual-use technology transfer. First, to explore the impact of strategic trade control on trade flows (exports and imports) of dual-use items. The analysis showed that states did not experience decreasing exports and imports in three sets of HS codes of dual-use items in 14 countries. However, the results for the group of Central Asian countries are different, with primarily negative impacts observed on trade flows. These states experienced a decline in trade flows, primarily on exports, for three sets of Harmonised System (HS) codes due to the legislation enacted on strategic trade control, law and control list. The most adverse impacts were identified in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Second, to analyse the impact of imports of dual-use technology on total factor productivity. The analysis showed that the imports of dual-use technologies had a minor but positive impact on total factor productivity in 14 countries. However, due to missing values in variables of total factor productivity, this positive impact works only in the case of two countries of Central Asia: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. For the analysis, three sets of data have been used from 1995 to 2018: 11 HS of dualuse technologies, 111 HS codes of more technological strategic commodities, and 35 HS codes of more dual-use technological strategic commodities. The 14 countries examined included Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, China, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Russia, Singapore, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the USA, and Uzbekistan. These countries were selected based on country selection criteria in a non-random selection. The panel data methods and ordinary least squares were applied as econometric tools

The impact of Bolashak program on internationalization of higher education in Kazakhstan

The preliminary study aims to evaluate the intentions of the Bolashak Alumni and actual performance on internationalization agenda of Higher Education in Kazakhstan. This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical research analyzing the internationalization of higher education (HE)