A book by a Kazakh author was presented for the first time in Geneva

Geneva, November 15, 2023 – United Nations in Geneva hosted a presentation of the book “Widening the Scope: How Middle Powers are Changing Liberal Institutionalism” by Miras Zhiyenbayev, a leading expert at the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies (KazISS), a specialist in international relations and political economy.

The event was organized at the initiative of the UN at the historical Library of the Organization, founded in 1919. It was attended by heads of diplomatic missions, representatives of diplomatic, research and analytical circles in Geneva.

The panel discussion was moderated by Francesco Pisano, Director of the UN Geneva Library and Archives. Along with the Kazakh expert, the panel included Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, former Chief of Staff, United Nations Office at Geneva, David Chikvaidze, as well as a Postdoctoral researcher, Geneva Graduate Institute and Associate member, Université de Lausanne Fanny Badache.

“Widening the Scope” is one of the first fundamental studies in Kazakhstan that expands the understanding of the role of “middle powers” in international relations. The panelists discussed the tendencies and challenges of modern multilateralism and, in particular, how “middle powers” cope with global problems and how they cooperate with each other on the international stage.

The presentation of a book by a Kazakh author held for the first time in such format at the United Nations has proved the interest of the Geneva academic and expert community and the contribution of Kazakh research to the academic theory of international relations.

“Widening the Scope” was included in the catalog of novelties of the UN Library and Archives, which is the largest library within the UN system and a repository of global knowledge on multilateralism, featuring 11 thousand unique works on the theory of international relations, each presented as a single copy.