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"""Ostrowski’s command of the topic is impressive. His study includes many interesting facts that will be valuable for researchers. He conducted in-depth interviews with high-ranking representatives of numerous bodies...Ostrowski’s study provides a good example of how informal political relations and behaviour are an important mechanism in maintaining the Kazakh regime. It is a good empirical contribution to the existing literature on resource-rich post-Soviet countries and their political economy."" - Julia Kusznir, Europe-Asia Studies, 62:8, 2010 ""[The study] markedly improves our understanding of the political economy of a petrol-rich state... [it] will become a touchstone for anyone working in this area... [and] represents an important contribution to our understanding of Kazakhstan in the 1990s and 2000s."" - Edward Schatz, University of Toronto; Central Asian Survey, Vol. 30, No. 1, March 2011"

Ostrowski's command of the topic is impressive. His study includes many interesting facts that will be valuable for researchers. He conducted in-depth interviews with high-ranking representatives of numerous bodies...Ostrowski's study provides a good example of how informal political relations and behaviour are an important mechanism in maintaining the Kazakh regime. It is a good empirical contribution to the existing literature on resource-rich post-Soviet countries and their political economy. - Julia Kusznir, Europe-Asia Studies, 62:8, 2010 [The study] markedly improves our understanding of the political economy of a petrol-rich state... [it] will become a touchstone for anyone working in this area... [and] represents an important contribution to our understanding of Kazakhstan in the 1990s and 2000s. - Edward Schatz, University of Toronto; Central Asian Survey, Vol. 30, No. 1, March 2011 The foreign companies do this because their profits are best guaranteed by the stability of the authoritarian government rather than its reform. But the conceptual implications of these basic insights are profound. These forms of governance-where international actors are integral to state power-belie the notion that the young Kazakhstani state is an exclusively national territorial entity. It is a complex polity which is being formed as much via its off-shore spaces, the outsourcing of reputation management and internationally guaranteed contracts, as it is by its own national institutions and narratives. In this sense, it is a global and a performative state. This very good book surveys much of the empirical practice of such a state, without drawing conclusions about what this means for the very nature of state power. - John Heathershaw, University of Exeter, UK; International Affairs 88: 4, 2012

Ostrowski's command of the topic is impressive. His study includes many interesting facts that will be valuable for researchers. He conducted in-depth interviews with high-ranking representatives of numerous bodies...Ostrowski's study provides a good example of how informal political relations and behaviour are an important mechanism in maintaining the Kazakh regime. It is a good empirical contribution to the existing literature on resource-rich post-Soviet countries and their political economy. - Julia Kusznir, Europe-Asia Studies, 62:8, 2010

Ostrowski's command of the topic is impressive. His study includes many interesting facts that will be valuable for researchers. He conducted in-depth interviews with high-ranking representatives of numerous bodies...Ostrowski's study provides a good example of how informal political relations and behaviour are an important mechanism in maintaining the Kazakh regime. It is a good empirical contribution to the existing literature on resource-rich post-Soviet countries and their political economy. - Julia Kusznir, Europe-Asia Studies, 62:8, 2010 [The study] markedly improves our understanding of the political economy of a petrol-rich state... [it] will become a touchstone for anyone working in this area... [and] represents an important contribution to our understanding of Kazakhstan in the 1990s and 2000s. - Edward Schatz, University of Toronto; Central Asian Survey, Vol. 30, No. 1, March 2011

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Dr Wojciech Ostrowski holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews, UK. His areas of specialization include the politics of oil, authoritarian regimes and state-business relationships in Central Asia.

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