Barakatullo Ashurov
Lecturer , Harvard
I am cultural historian of medieval and modern Central Asia.
Zhanibek Arynov
Postdoctoral Scholar, Nazarbayev University
My research interests include Central Asian geopolitics, Eurasian regionalism, EU-Central Asia relations, Kazakhstan’s foreign policy, and the issues of international identity, image, and perception. Currently I am working on internal and external (de)legitimation of the Eurasian Economic Union.
Vera Axyonova
Marie Curie REWIRE Fellow, University of Vienna
My research interests include knowledge production and the role of expert communities in policy processes in Kazakhstan and Russia as well as international organizations’ (especially the European Union’s) normative and security engagements in Central Asia.
Bashar Malkawi
Global Professor of Practice in Law, University of Arizona
My work sits at the intersection of WTO/GATT and preferential trade agreements. My work also focuses on a range of interests including intellectual property and China’s integration with the global economy.
Anastassiya Reshetnyak
Researcher, PaperLab
Violent extremism, community resilience.
Nurseit Niyazbekov
Assistant Professor, KIMEP University
Democratization, Protests, Social Movements, Political Culture, Authoritarianism, State Building, China and Central Asia, Civil Society.
Begench Yazov
PhD Researcher, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich))
Works on the current status of ICT in education for achieving the SDG4 in Central Asia, especially in Turkmenistan. Other long term-research interests are digital transformation at higher education, international cooperations and state-level educational reforms (through possible partnerships between EU and CA states).
Alisher Sadykov
Researcher and Lecturer , Almaty Management University
Alisher Sadykov is an alumnus of the Bolashak program and a graduate of Warwick University with his master’s degree in international political economy. Currently, he teaches at the Almaty Management University. Alisher’s research interests include economics, macroeconomics, geopolitics, national security, international trade, investment and tourism, national branding and political economy, ideology, national ideas, the image […]
Ben Hales
Graduate Student, University of Oxford
China’s historic borderlands, Trans-border histories of the Kazak minority in Xinjiang, competing nationalisms in Central Asia, China’s ethnic minority policies.
Anastassiya Perevezentseva
PhD Candidate, School of International Service, American University
Anastassiya Perevezentseva is a doctoral candidate whose dissertation focuses on contentious politics, populism, and democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe. Her dissertation examines the interactions between social movements, political parties, and civil society, and how these interactions result in movement outcomes. She concurrently conducts research in the area of post-Soviet studies. She had previously […]