About the Author: Yerzhan Dosmukhamedov
Dr. Yerzhan Dosmukhamedov is a founding Chairman of the Kazakhstan opposition political party "Atameken". Former Minister and Deputy Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Germany, chief of staff to the Vice President of Kazakhstan. He served as a Dean of the Law School of the Kazakh American University and Advisor to the President of the Kazakh National Petroleum Company "KazMunaiGaz". He was a visiting scholar at Yale University Law School. Fellow at Oxford University where he earned his doctoral degree in Law. Dr Dosmukhamedov has also earned his Master of Law degree from the Southern Methodist Law School in the United States. His book Foreign Direct Investment in the Republic of Kazakhstan: Politico-Legal Aspects of Post-Communist transition (MacMillan Publishers) was awarded a Paul Frankel prize by the British Institute of Petroleum in 2003.
Kazakhstan's Assassinated Democracy describes how the highest levels of
government in Kazakhstan are attempting to suppress the country's genuine
democratization, particularly through the case of a political party, Atameken.
It is based on extensive interviews with Dr. Yerzhan K. Dosmukhamedov, Chairman
of the Atameken Party. These interviews and articles — most of which were originally
published in Kazakh or Russian — have created quite a public stir in Kazakhstan.
Dr. Dosmukhamedov analyses problems in building a civic society in the country,
key political events, major issues of domestic and foreign policy, and the objective and
subjective influences affecting the deep historical process currently underway in the
country — nothing less than the transformation of relationships between the state and
the person.
Kazakhstan's Assassinated Democracy is directed to a broad range of readers, and
is intended for anyone interested in the future of Kazakhstan, the development of political
parties, and the forces holding back democracy in that country.
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