Visiting Scholars

Babak Amini

Babak Amini is an Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (UBC). His research examines how the theoretical foundations of social sciences were impacted by the First World War (WWI) and the postwar reconstruction process. The research is a critical history of the present insofar as many of the […]

Renata Faizova

Renata Faizova is an expert in international relations, focusing on Central Asia and Eurasian energy politics. Originally from Eastern Kazakhstan, she earned her PhD in international relations, with a dissertation on Kazakhstan’s foreign policy. Since 2010, Dr. Faizova has been a faculty member at M. Narikbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, where she led internationalization programs […]