Training of International Relations Specialists in Kazakhstan

Abstract

In the article the authors analyze the process of training specialists in the field of international relations on the basis of the history of the formation and development of the diplomatic service of the Kazakh SSR and the Republic of Kazakhstan. At the initial stage, this training was fully subject to the logic and relevance of the problems that the Soviet diplomatic service was solving in the international arena in the 1940s. As the world situation changed and new trends in the internal development of the Soviet Union emerged, the attitude towards the training of national personnel in the field of diplomacy, including for the MFA of the Kazakh SSR, changed in a positive direction. After gaining independence, the Republic of Kazakhstan, setting the course for a multi-vector foreign policy, began a complex process of independent training of specialists in the field of international relations, drawing on the traditions of the Soviet-Russian school of diplomacy. In today’s conditions of a rapidly changing balance of power in the international arena, the collapse of the unipolar world, the Republic of Kazakhstan faces new problems that require solutions. Based on this, the authors conclude that it is necessary to make some adjustments in the system of professional training of diplomatic personnel, who will have to further protect the interests of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which is striving to promote its position in the international arena.