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EDITORIAL BOARD
Founder and Editor-in-Chief:
Nasimi Aghayev
Editorial Board members:
Dr. Tracey German
(King’s
College London,
United Kingdom)
Dr. Robin van der Hout
(Europa-Institut, University of Saarland, Germany)
Dr. Andrew Liaropoulos
(Institute
for European and American Studies, Greece)
Dr. Martin Malek
(National Defence Academy, Austria)
Dr. Jason Strakes
(Army Research Reachback Center East, United States)
Dr. Cory Welt
(Georgetown University, United States)
Senior
Editor:
Alexander Jackson
Managing
Director:
Farhad
K. Rustamov
Interview Editor:
Jesse Tatum
Editorial Assistants:
Bahar Baser
Jan Künzl
Elchin Mammadov
Dumitru Minzarari
Founder and Editor-in-Chief:
Nasimi Aghayev,
LL.M.Eur. is currently pursuing a PhD in Political Science at the University of
Siegen in Germany. Previously, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of
Toronto in Canada, held diplomatic positions in the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry
in Baku, and in the embassies of Azerbaijan in Vienna and in Berlin. He earned
his Master in European Law (LL.M.Eur.) from the Europa-Institute of the
University of Saarland in Germany and Master of Arts in International Relations
from the Baku State University in Azerbaijan. His book "Humanitäre Intervention
und Völkerrecht" (Humanitarian Intervention and International Law) was published
in 2007 in Berlin. Aghayev’s current research interests are South Caucasian
regional security, integration into Euro-Atlantic structures, Azerbaijan’s
foreign policy. He is fluent in English, German, French, Spanish, Russian and
Turkish.
Editorial Board members:
Dr. Tracey German
is a lecturer in Defence Studies at the Joint Services Command and Staff
College, King’s College London. Her current research interests include security
in the Caucasus region, the impact of the Chechen conflict and energy security
in the former Soviet states. Recent publications include the co-authored
Securing Europe: Western Interventions towards a New Security Community
(forthcoming) and Russia’s Chechen War (Routledge, 2003), as well as
articles in journals such as European Security, Central Asian Survey, Vestnik
analitiki,
Caucasian
Review of International Affairs and
Politique étrangère.
Dr. Robin van der Hout
is a lawyer at Kapellmann and Partner in Brussels and a lecturer at the
Europa-Institut Saarbrücken/Germany. As a lawyer he advises on all aspects of EU
Law, in particular EU Competition Law and International Trade Law, including
litigation matters. He has written several articles and books on the topic.
Robin van der Hout received his law degree in 1999 from the University of
Saarland, a special degree in European law in 2003 and a “Dr. iur.” in 2006. He
is a member of the Brussels and the Saarbrücken Bar and he is also a member of
the German Lawyers Association. Robin van der Hout speaks fluently German,
English, French and Dutch.
Dr.
Andrew Liaropoulos
is a Senior Analyst at the Research Institute for European and American Studies
(RIEAS) in Greece. He
earned his Master Degree in Intelligence & Strategic Studies at Aberystwyth
University, UK, in 2002 and his Doctorate Diploma at Swansea University, UK, in
2006. His research interests include international security, intelligence,
strategy, foreign policy analysis and military reforms. He has published
articles in Journal of Military History, Journal of International
Security Affairs and
Caucasian
Review of International Affairs.
He speaks
fluently English and German.
Dr. Martin Malek
is a (civilian) researcher at the Institute for Peace Support and Conflict
Management of the National Defense Academy (Vienna) since 1997.
Several
internships in research institutes in Germany, Russia, Ukraine and the U.S.
Areas of expertise: State failing theories, theories of ethnic conflicts,
security and military policy in the Commonwealth of Independent States
(especially Russia, Ukraine, South Caucasus).
Author of two books and some 250 publications in thirteen countries. He speaks
fluently English and Russian.
Dr. Jason E. Strakes
is a Greater Middle East analyst at the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command
Human Terrain System-Research Reachback Center East, United States. He completed
his M.A. and Ph.D. in international studies and political science at the School
of Politics and Economics, Claremont Graduate University, USA. His research
interests include foreign policy analysis, defense and security policy, Central
Eurasia, and the international relations of developing and former Soviet states.
He has published articles and coauthored chapters on these topics in various
journals and edited volumes. Dr. Strakes currently serves also as executive
secretary of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES).
Dr. Cory Welt
is
associate director of the Eurasian Strategy Project and an adjunct assistant
professor at the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (CERES)
at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, US. Previously, he was
deputy director and fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C. Dr. Welt is a
specialist of Eurasian politics and security and, in particular, Georgia and the
Caucasus. Dr. Welt received his Ph.D. in political science from MIT and his MA
and BA from Stanford University. He has published articles in The
Nonproliferation Review and Global Dialogue. He is fluent in Georgian
and Russian.
Senior
Editor:
Alexander Jackson
holds a Bachelors degree from Warwick University and an MA in War Studies from King's College London. He currently works for a London-based think tank working on security issues, and has written extensively on security, politics and economics in Eurasia.
Managing
Director:
Farhad K.
Rustamov
is a Research Associate at KornFerry International in Frankfurt am Main,
Germany. He is focusing on executive search and HR consulting for domestic and
international financial services companies. Prior to that he worked as auditor
at KPMG Germany and Azerbaijan. In addition to that he accomplished number
of internships within investment banking and private equity industry in Germany
and Japan. He received his Diploma Degree in Economics and Business
Administration from Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany, and BS in
International Business from Western University in Baku, Azerbaijan. He speaks
fluently English, German, Russian and Turkish.
Interview Editor:
Jesse Tatum
holds a M.Sc. in European Studies with
Translation from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, and a B.A. in
International Studies from Portland State University. Previously, he was a
translator for the Groupe de
sociologie politique européenne at
Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg, France, and taught English in France
and in China. His research interests include the EU’s external relations and
political trends in the Caucasus and Central Asia. He is currently a fellow at
the Caucasus Research Resource Center in Tbilisi.
Editorial
Assistants:
Bahar Baser
is a researcher and a PhD student at the European University Institute, Florence
since 2008. She has graduated in Political Science and International Relations
(2005) from Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey) and has a MA in Peace and
Conflict Research (2007) from Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden). Her overall
interests lay in nationalism, peace building, peace-keeping, conflict
resolution, third party mediation, migration, transnationalism and diaspora
studies. Her other research interests also include civil wars, failed states and
ethnic minorities; particularly the armed conflicts in Eurasia and South Asia.
She has several articles published on the issues of "Diasporas as peacemakers",
"Political violence in Sri Lanka", and "Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora"; and finally
a book on the "Third party mediation in Nagorno Karabakh". Bahar Baser is fluent
in Turkish, English, Italian and French.
Jan Künzl holds a diploma (MA equiv.) in Political
Science/International Relations. He studied at the University of Potsdam
(Germany) and the Université de Montpellier (France). He worked as an intern for
a consulting agency in Cairo, Egypt, and for the CRIA. His book “Islamisten-
Terroristen oder Reformer? Die ägyptische Muslimbruderschaft und die
palästinensische Hamas“ was published in 2008 in Berlin. Künzl’s current
research interests include Islamism, security policy in the Middle East and the
Caucasus region and state failure. He speaks fluently German, English and French
and has a good command of Spanish and intermediate skills in Arabic.
Elchin Mammadov is a MA (in European Studies)
student at the University of Flensburg in Germany and University of Southern
Denmark. He has graduated in International Relations from Azerbaijan State
Economic University. His research interests include self determination and
territorial integrity conceptions in international law and ethnic conflicts in
Europe. He is creator of a number of web sites. He is fluent in English and
Turkish and has intermediate skills in German.
Dumitru Minzarari
is currently a PhD student at the University of Michigan (USA). Previously, he
was an associate research fellow with the Chisinau-based Institute for
Development and Social Initiatives (IDIS) “Viitorul”, a leading Moldovan
non-governmental think tank. He holds an MA degree in International Affairs,
specializing in international security policy, from the School of International
and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York. His research interests
include unconventional warfare, indirect aggression, democratic transition, and
the Russian foreign and security policy in the post-Soviet area. He writes
analytic and popular articles for Romanian, Russian, and English-language
publications.
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