"In this book E. K. Dosmukhamedov employs a distinctive approach to the study of post-communist transition by analyzing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from a political, legal and economic standpoint. Kazakhstan, the second largest country of the former USSR, is used as a case-study to illustrate the role of FDI in restructuring the economy of the former Soviet Union countries in the post-communist era."--BOOK JACKET.