The Constitutional Order of Kazakhstan and Its Adaptability to the Eurasian Economic Union

The Republic of Kazakhstan has been an active participant and one of the major driving forces of the regional integration processes that have taken place in Eurasia since the collapse of the Soviet Union and that culminated in the signing of the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union between Kazakhstan, Belarus and Russia on 29 May 2014. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the adaptability of the constitutional order of Kazakhstan to the operation of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). Foremost, the chapter demonstrates the major characteristics of Kazakhstan's constitutional order and its foreign policy. Subsequently, it distinguishes and explores the major characteristics of the Eurasian integration processes, in particular paying attention to the development of the EAEU's institutional framework that has some rudimentary characteristics of a supranational organisation. Also, it analyses the application of international treaties in the Republic of Kazakhstan as well as major provisions stipulated by the Constitutional Council as related to the participation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in international organisations. Finally, the chapter purports to provide an answer whether the constitutional order of the Republic of Kazakhstan is compatible with integration processes in the framework of the EAEU