Professor Luca Anceschi

  • Professor of Eurasian Studies (Political & International Studies)

telephone: 01413306559
email: Luca.Anceschi@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: They/them/theirs

Central & East European Studies, 9 Lilybank gardens

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X

Biography

I have been teaching Central Asian Studies in CEES since September 2013, and took up a Professorship in Eurasian Studies in August 2021.

Before joining the University of  Glasgow, I lectured in International Relations at La Trobe University in Melbourne, where, in 2012-2013, I held a Discovery Early Career Fellowship awarded by the Australian Research Council.

There are three major lines of inquiry in my research agenda, which remained focused throughout my career on the Politics and International Relations of post-Soviet Central Asia.

One of my key interests relates to the investigation of the region’s processes of foreign policymaking. Here, my work contributed to unveil the domestic power implications of policy frameworks designed to operate at international level. I authored two monographs looking at how foreign policy is made across Central Asia.

I have a longstanding interest in locating discursively Central Asia’s energy mega projects in multidisciplinary debates on the domestic and international roles played by energy infrastructure. As part of my contribution to these debates, I completed a multi-level study of the virtual politics of the TAPI megaproject, a long-distance natural gas pipeline intended to operate across the Central/South Asia divide. This study appeared in article form on the Central Asian Survey.

A third, more recent line of research is meant to result in a multi-stage investigation of personalism and personalist rule, both within and beyond Central Asia. My initial contribution to Political Science debates on personalism centred on the processes that regulated power transfers out of personalist regimes in post-Niyazov Turkmenistan and post-Karimov Uzbekistan. A research article exploring these themes has appeared on the Journal of Contemporary Asia.  I have edited, together with colleagues in Dublin and Quebec City, Personalism & Personalist Regimes, a major edited collection published by Oxford University Press, which looks comparatively at contemporary forms of personalism and personalist rulership across the world. 

I contribute regularly to the international debate on Central Asian Affairs. I have been a regular writer for Open Democracy Russia, and I am frequently interviewed in the Central Asia-focused podcasts organised by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. I have been quoted in The Economist, the Financial Times, The Guardian, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

I have played many leadership roles within CEES and, more widely, the School of Social and Political Sciences:

  • Since 2015, I have been the editor of Europe-Asia Studies, which has been based at CEES since its establishment in 1949 and still remains the world’s premier academic journal for the study of the post-socialist countries of Europe and Asia.
  • In 2024-2028, I will be the Glasgow-lead in the Shifting Global Polarities Network+, a major UKRI investment coordinated by the University of Birmingham bringing together colleagues from top Area Studies departments in the United Kingdom and beyond.
  • Currently, I am the PGR Director for the School of Social Sciences.

Research interests

 

  • The making of foreign policy in post-Soviet Central Asia
  • The geopolitics of Eurasian energy in the era of climate change
  • Personalism and personal rule in post-Soviet Central Asia  

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 37.

2024

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2024) The global history of the Atomic Steppe. Central Asian Affairs, 11(2), pp. 191-193. (doi: 10.30965/22142290-12340032)[Book Review]

Baturo, Alex, Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X and Cavatorta, Francesco (Eds.) (2024) Personalism and Personalist Regimes. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780192848567

Baturo, Alexander, Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X and Cavatorta, Francesco (2024) On 'new' and 'old' personal rule: concluding remarks. In: Baturo, Alex, Anceschi, Luca and Cavatorta, Francesco (eds.) Personalism and Personalist Regimes. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 312-332. ISBN 9780192848567

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2024) Personalist rule and regime continuity in Central Asia. In: Baturo, Alex, Anceschi, Luca and Cavatorta, Francesco (eds.) Personalism and Personalist Regimes. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 205-230. ISBN 9780192848567

Baturo, Alexander, Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X and Cavatorta, Francesco (2024) Introduction: Personalism and Personalist Regimes. In: Baturo, Alex, Anceschi, Luca and Cavatorta, Francesco (eds.) Personalism and Personalist Regimes. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 1-26. ISBN 9780192848567

2021

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2021) After personalism: rethinking power transfers in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 51(4), pp. 660-680. (doi: 10.1080/00472336.2020.1772853)

2020

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2020) Analysing Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy: Regime Neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev Era. Series: Central Asia research forum. Routledge. ISBN 9780415711432 (doi: 10.4324/9781315674698)

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X and Smith, David J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3346-3824 (2020) From the Editors. Europe-Asia Studies, 72(1), pp. 1-2. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2019.1705613)

2017

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2017) Kazakhstani neo-Eurasianism and Nazarbayev’s anti-imperial foreign policy. In: Bassin, Mark and Pozo, Gonzalo (eds.) The Politics of Eurasianism: Identity, Culture and Russia’s Foreign Policy. Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., pp. 283-300. ISBN 9781786601612

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2017) Turkmenistan and the virtual politics of Eurasian energy: the case of the TAPI pipeline project. Central Asian Survey, 36(4), pp. 409-429. (doi: 10.1080/02634937.2017.1391747)

2015

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2015) The irreplaceables in Central Asia. Open Democracy, 2015, 24 Apr.

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2015) The persistence of media control under consolidated authoritarianism: containing Kazakhstan’s digital media. Demokratizatsiya, 23(3), pp. 277-295.

2014

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X, Gervasio, Gennaro and Teti, Andrea (Eds.) (2014) Informal Power in the Greater Middle East: Hidden Geographies. Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government. Routledge: Abindgon. ISBN 9780415624367

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2014) Authoritarian informality: elite centralization in Turkmenistan. In: Anceschi, Luca, Gervasio, Gennaro and Teti, Andrea (eds.) Informal Power in the Greater Middle East: Hidden Geographies. Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government. Routledge: Abindgon, pp. 190-206. ISBN 9780415624367

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2014) Dilemmas of compatibility: GCC-Kazakhstani relations. Journal of Arabian Studies, 4(1), pp. 1-19. (doi: 10.1080/21534764.2014.918466)

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2014) The importance of (not) being a stan. Open Democracy,

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2014) Regime-building, identity-making and foreign policy: neo-Eurasianist rhetoric in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Nationalities Papers, 42(5), pp. 733-749. (doi: 10.1080/00905992.2014.928276)

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2014) The tyranny of pragmatism: EU–Kazakhstani relations. Europe-Asia Studies, 66(1), pp. 1-24. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2013.864101)

2013

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2013) Belusconi’s l’amico Nursultan, and the Shalabayeva affair. Open Democracy,

2012

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X and Symons, J. (Eds.) (2012) Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change: The Asia-Pacific Experience. Series: Energy, climate and the environment. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230279872

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2012) Central Asia: succession planning in dictatorships. Open Democracy,

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2012) Central Asian Islam: activism, radicalism, and opposition. Fair Observer,

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2012) Change put on hold in Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstan. Open Democracy,

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2012) Elections in Turkmenistan: Niyazovshchina redux? Fair Observer,

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2012) Energy governance and climate change: Central Asia’s uneasy nexus. In: Anceschi, L. and Symons, J. (eds.) Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change: The Asia-Pacific Experience. Series: Energy, climate and the environment. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 180-197. ISBN 9780230279872

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2012) When it’s not time for change: Russia, China and the Arab revolutions. In: Akbarzadeh, S., Isakhan, B. and Mansouri, F. (eds.) The Arab Revolutions in Context: Civil Society and Democracy in a Changing Middle East. Series: Islamic studies series. Melbourne University Press: Melbourne, pp. 131-152. ISBN 9780522861600

2011

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2011) Reinforcing authoritarianism through media control: the case of post-Soviet Turkmenistan. In: Freeman, E. and Shafer, R. (eds.) After the Czars and Commissars: Journalism in Authoritarian Post-Soviet Central Asia. Series: Eurasion political economy and public policy study series. Michigan State University Press: East Lansing, MI, pp. 59-77. ISBN 9781611860054

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X and Akbarzadeh, S. (2011) Central Asia: pragmatism in action. In: Akbarzadeh, S. (ed.) America’s Challenges in the Greater Middle East: The Obama Administration’s Policies. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, NY, pp. 217-235. ISBN 9780230112773

2010

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2010) External conditionality, domestic insulation and energy security: The international politics of post-Niyazov Turkmenistan. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 8(3), pp. 93-114.

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2010) Integrating domestic politics and foreign policy making: the cases of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Central Asian Survey, 29(2), pp. 143-158. (doi: 10.1080/02634937.2010.498231)

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X and Peyrouse, S. (2010) Turkmenistan. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 8(3),

2009

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X, Camilleri, J.A. and Petito, F. (2009) Europe, the United States and the Islamic world: conceptualising a triangular relationship. International Politics, 46(5), pp. 505-516.

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X, Camilleri, J.A. and Petito, F. (2009) The Islamic world between Europe and the United States. International Politics, 46(5),

2008

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2008) Analysing Turkmen foreign policy in the Berdymuhammedov Era. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 6(4), pp. 35-48.

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2008) Turkmenistan’s Foreign Policy: Positive Neutrality and the Consolidation of the Turkmen Regime. Series: Central Asian studies series. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9780415454407

2005

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2005) Asia Centrale post-sovietica: Cosa c’è dopo la pianificazione centralizzata? Oriente Moderno, 85(2-3), pp. 254-268.

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2005) La nottola di Minerva sull’Asia Centrale. Elezioni ed autoritarismo nel Kyrgyzstan post-sovietico (1990 – 2005). Meridione, 5(3), pp. 186-214.

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Articles

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2021) After personalism: rethinking power transfers in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 51(4), pp. 660-680. (doi: 10.1080/00472336.2020.1772853)

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X and Smith, David J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3346-3824 (2020) From the Editors. Europe-Asia Studies, 72(1), pp. 1-2. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2019.1705613)

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2017) Turkmenistan and the virtual politics of Eurasian energy: the case of the TAPI pipeline project. Central Asian Survey, 36(4), pp. 409-429. (doi: 10.1080/02634937.2017.1391747)

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2015) The irreplaceables in Central Asia. Open Democracy, 2015, 24 Apr.

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2015) The persistence of media control under consolidated authoritarianism: containing Kazakhstan’s digital media. Demokratizatsiya, 23(3), pp. 277-295.

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2014) Dilemmas of compatibility: GCC-Kazakhstani relations. Journal of Arabian Studies, 4(1), pp. 1-19. (doi: 10.1080/21534764.2014.918466)

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2014) The importance of (not) being a stan. Open Democracy,

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2014) Regime-building, identity-making and foreign policy: neo-Eurasianist rhetoric in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Nationalities Papers, 42(5), pp. 733-749. (doi: 10.1080/00905992.2014.928276)

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2014) The tyranny of pragmatism: EU–Kazakhstani relations. Europe-Asia Studies, 66(1), pp. 1-24. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2013.864101)

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2013) Belusconi’s l’amico Nursultan, and the Shalabayeva affair. Open Democracy,

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2012) Central Asia: succession planning in dictatorships. Open Democracy,

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2012) Central Asian Islam: activism, radicalism, and opposition. Fair Observer,

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2012) Change put on hold in Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstan. Open Democracy,

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2012) Elections in Turkmenistan: Niyazovshchina redux? Fair Observer,

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2010) External conditionality, domestic insulation and energy security: The international politics of post-Niyazov Turkmenistan. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 8(3), pp. 93-114.

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2010) Integrating domestic politics and foreign policy making: the cases of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Central Asian Survey, 29(2), pp. 143-158. (doi: 10.1080/02634937.2010.498231)

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X and Peyrouse, S. (2010) Turkmenistan. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 8(3),

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X, Camilleri, J.A. and Petito, F. (2009) Europe, the United States and the Islamic world: conceptualising a triangular relationship. International Politics, 46(5), pp. 505-516.

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X, Camilleri, J.A. and Petito, F. (2009) The Islamic world between Europe and the United States. International Politics, 46(5),

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2008) Analysing Turkmen foreign policy in the Berdymuhammedov Era. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 6(4), pp. 35-48.

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2005) Asia Centrale post-sovietica: Cosa c’è dopo la pianificazione centralizzata? Oriente Moderno, 85(2-3), pp. 254-268.

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2005) La nottola di Minerva sull’Asia Centrale. Elezioni ed autoritarismo nel Kyrgyzstan post-sovietico (1990 – 2005). Meridione, 5(3), pp. 186-214.

Books

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2020) Analysing Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy: Regime Neo-Eurasianism in the Nazarbaev Era. Series: Central Asia research forum. Routledge. ISBN 9780415711432 (doi: 10.4324/9781315674698)

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2008) Turkmenistan’s Foreign Policy: Positive Neutrality and the Consolidation of the Turkmen Regime. Series: Central Asian studies series. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9780415454407

Book Sections

Baturo, Alexander, Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X and Cavatorta, Francesco (2024) On 'new' and 'old' personal rule: concluding remarks. In: Baturo, Alex, Anceschi, Luca and Cavatorta, Francesco (eds.) Personalism and Personalist Regimes. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 312-332. ISBN 9780192848567

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2024) Personalist rule and regime continuity in Central Asia. In: Baturo, Alex, Anceschi, Luca and Cavatorta, Francesco (eds.) Personalism and Personalist Regimes. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 205-230. ISBN 9780192848567

Baturo, Alexander, Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X and Cavatorta, Francesco (2024) Introduction: Personalism and Personalist Regimes. In: Baturo, Alex, Anceschi, Luca and Cavatorta, Francesco (eds.) Personalism and Personalist Regimes. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 1-26. ISBN 9780192848567

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2017) Kazakhstani neo-Eurasianism and Nazarbayev’s anti-imperial foreign policy. In: Bassin, Mark and Pozo, Gonzalo (eds.) The Politics of Eurasianism: Identity, Culture and Russia’s Foreign Policy. Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., pp. 283-300. ISBN 9781786601612

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2014) Authoritarian informality: elite centralization in Turkmenistan. In: Anceschi, Luca, Gervasio, Gennaro and Teti, Andrea (eds.) Informal Power in the Greater Middle East: Hidden Geographies. Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government. Routledge: Abindgon, pp. 190-206. ISBN 9780415624367

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2012) Energy governance and climate change: Central Asia’s uneasy nexus. In: Anceschi, L. and Symons, J. (eds.) Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change: The Asia-Pacific Experience. Series: Energy, climate and the environment. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 180-197. ISBN 9780230279872

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2012) When it’s not time for change: Russia, China and the Arab revolutions. In: Akbarzadeh, S., Isakhan, B. and Mansouri, F. (eds.) The Arab Revolutions in Context: Civil Society and Democracy in a Changing Middle East. Series: Islamic studies series. Melbourne University Press: Melbourne, pp. 131-152. ISBN 9780522861600

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2011) Reinforcing authoritarianism through media control: the case of post-Soviet Turkmenistan. In: Freeman, E. and Shafer, R. (eds.) After the Czars and Commissars: Journalism in Authoritarian Post-Soviet Central Asia. Series: Eurasion political economy and public policy study series. Michigan State University Press: East Lansing, MI, pp. 59-77. ISBN 9781611860054

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X and Akbarzadeh, S. (2011) Central Asia: pragmatism in action. In: Akbarzadeh, S. (ed.) America’s Challenges in the Greater Middle East: The Obama Administration’s Policies. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, NY, pp. 217-235. ISBN 9780230112773

Book Reviews

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X (2024) The global history of the Atomic Steppe. Central Asian Affairs, 11(2), pp. 191-193. (doi: 10.30965/22142290-12340032)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Baturo, Alex, Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X and Cavatorta, Francesco (Eds.) (2024) Personalism and Personalist Regimes. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780192848567

Anceschi, Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X, Gervasio, Gennaro and Teti, Andrea (Eds.) (2014) Informal Power in the Greater Middle East: Hidden Geographies. Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government. Routledge: Abindgon. ISBN 9780415624367

Anceschi, L. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5382-540X and Symons, J. (Eds.) (2012) Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change: The Asia-Pacific Experience. Series: Energy, climate and the environment. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230279872

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Supervision

I am happy to consider proposals from students interested in pursuing postgraduate research related to any of the following areas:

  • Politics and International Relations of post-Soviet Central Asia
  • Eurasian security (both traditional and non-traditional)
  • Eurasian integration, especially the Eurasian Economic Union
  • The geopolitics of Eurasian energy
  • Comparative authoritarianism

 

Currently supervised students:

 

  • Gabdullin, Gabit
    Eurasian Economic Union: Political and socio-economic implications
  • Heneghan, Matthew
    Remittance Regimes: Migrational (inter)dependencies between Russia and Eurasia and the comparative effects on political and institutional development
  • Khalafov, Teymur
    Natural Resource Funds (NRFs) in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan - unexpected efficiency
  • Kobilov, Firdavs
    Uzbekistan’s modern foreign policy

Doctoral supervision: Past students

 

Paolo Sorbello, Industrial Relations in Kazakhstan's Oil Sector [1991-2019]. 

Julia Schwab, Understanding resource nationalism in Russia and Kazakhstan: A mixed-method case study of frames, narratives, and imaginaries around Sakhalin-2 and Kashagan. 

Teaching

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