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The authors have analyzed the Arab Spring, which caused an outburst of radical Islamism and echoed in the sociopolitical and economic context of Central Asia. The subject has gathered a lot of importance because of rising extremism that threatens national security of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The authors have posed themselves with the task of delineating the general provisions and specific situations related to the problem of extremism in Kazakhstan, as well as the measures needed to lower the level of radicalization of different population groups, first and foremost, the younger generations, and prevent their involvement in terrorist activities. This is achieved by accomplishing three tasks: to explain in which way the Arab Spring affected Central Asia, first and foremost, in the form of terrorist activities; to reveal the global nature of the problem of religious extremism, the measures needed to prevent its spread among the younger generation and the mechanisms of protecting our country against the ideas of terrorism; to create and improve the legal, normative, organizational and other mechanisms of power of the Republic of Kazakhstan designed to oppose the ideology of terrorism. We have concentrated on the driving forces, impacts of the Arab Spring, its role in the contemporary history of the Republic of Kazakhstan and deemed it absolutely necessary to pay particular attention to the place Kazakhstan occupies in the processes that are pushing the world towards a new world order. The type of radical activities in Kazakhstan, and in the Central Asian region for that matter, changed significantly under the pressure of the Middle Eastern crisis, which has been unfolding since 2011. Today, Syria and Iraq attract mercenaries from all corners of the world. The events in the Middle East forced many people to ask themselves whether the Arab Spring can be repeated in Central Asia; whether Arab revolutions can be continued there, how these processes might affect the region and, last but not least, how the Arab Spring echoed in other regions, what place Kazakhstan occupies and will occupy in the near future in the international balance of power and how this will affect the region's security. The impact of the Arab Spring, which is a multidimensional phenomenon, has spread far and wide outside the Middle East. This means that what happened and is happening there had already affected the interests of the United States, Russia, the European Union, Turkey, Iran, China and other countries which share Kazakhstan's international and geopolitical interests. Authors of hundreds of books, thousands of articles, monographs, academic papers and collections of articles published in different countries around the world have already discussed the economic and political impacts of the Arab Spring on Central Asia as a whole, and on Kazakhstan in particular. This is a topical subject that attracts attention of politicians and analysts of many countries. This article is our contribution to the common effort. We have posed ourselves with the task of examining the lessons of the Arab Spring from a different angle: having analyzed the lessons of the Arab Spring, we should work hard to prevent all sorts of threats and the spread of extremism and terror as the main challenges created by the Arab Spring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
