EDITORIAL BOARD

Giuli ALASANIA

Doctor of History, professor, Vice Rector of the International Black Sea University (Georgia)

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Bulent ARAS

Doctor, Chair, Department of International Relations, Fatih University (Turkey)

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Mariam ARUNOVA

Doctor of Political Sciences, leading research associate, Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS (Russian Federation)

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Garnik ASATRIAN

Doctor of Philology, professor, head of the Department of Iranian Studies, Erevan State University (Armenia)

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Bakyt BESHIMOV

Doctor of History, professor, Vice President, American University-Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan)

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Ariel COHEN

Doctor, leading analyst, The Heritage Foundation, U.S.A. (U.S.A.)

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William FIERMAN

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor of Indiana University (U.S.A.)

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Paul GOBLE

Senior Advisor, Voice of America (U.S.A.)

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Sergei GRETSKY

Doctor, Chair of Central Asian Studies, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State (U.S.A.)

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Xing GUANGCHENG

Doctor of Political Sciences, professor, Deputy Director of the Institute for East European, Russian and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (China)

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Alexander IGNATENKO

Doctor of Philosophy, specialist in Islamic studies, leading expert of the Institute of Social Systems, Moscow State University, member of the Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations under the Russian Federation President (Russian Federation)

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Ashurboi IMOMOV

Ph.D. (Law), assistant professor, head of the Department of Constitutional Law, Tajik National University (Tajikistan)

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Lena JONSON

Doctor, senior researcher, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Sweden)

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Klara KHAFIZOVA

Doctor of History, Director, Center for Strategic and International Studies, professor at the International Relations and Foreign Policy Department, Kainar University (Kazakhstan)

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Hasan KULIEV

Doctor of Philosophy, professor, department head, Institute of Philosophy, AS of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan)

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Jacob M. LANDAU

Professor of Political Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)

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S. Neil MACFARLANE

Professor, Director, Center for International Studies, The University of Oxford (Great Britain)

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Alexei MALASHENKO

Doctor of History, professor, Scholar-in-Residence, Ethnicity and Nation-Building Program Co-Chair, The Carnegie Moscow Center (Russian Federation)

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Abbas MALEKI

Dr., Director General, International Institute for Caspian Studies (Iran)

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Akira MATSUNAGA

Ph.D., History of Central Asia and the Caucasus, Program Officer, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation (Japan)

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Roger N. McDERMOTT

Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent at Canterbury (UK)

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Vitaly NAUMKIN

Doctor of History, professor, Director, Center for Strategic and International Studies of RF (Russian Federation)

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Yerengaip OMAROV

Professor, Rector of Kainar University, President of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan)

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Vladimer PAPAVA

Doctor of Economics, professor, Corresponding member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Senior Fellow of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (Georgia)

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S. Frederick STARR

Professor, Chairman, The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, The Johns Hopkins University (U.S.A.)