Some Theoretical Aspects of Studying the Foreign Policy of the Kazakh Khanate

Abstract

This paper is devoted to a critical analysis and study of contemporary concepts, and the research is based on ethno-cultural and meta-theoretical ideas during the period of Kazakh khanate. The author pays a special attention to determination of scientific and theoretical roots and beginning of relations of the Kazakh khanate and Kazakh steppe civilization with the outer world and neighboring civilizations. First and foremost it has been paid attention to the theoretical, conceptual and universal meaning and significance of the notion of “international relations”. In addition to that by analyzing the inner logics of the terms such as “national interests”, “national security” it has been made an attempt to determine their role during the period of Kazakh khanate in XVII-XVIII centuries and their meta-theoretical meanings have been studied.

Keywords

• foreign policy
• Kazakh khanate
• national interests
• national security
• Kazakhstan