Dr Emilian Kavalski

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Awards and Recognition
• Publications
• Professional Affiliations
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Biography

Dr Emilian Kavalski received his doctoral training in international politics at Loughborough University (UK). He had previously gained an MA in English Philology at the University of Veliko Turnovo (Bulgaria) and an MA in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Warwick (UK). He has held the Andrew Mellon Fellowship position at the American Institute for Indian Studies (New Delhi, India), the Killam Postdoctoral position at the Department of Political Science, University of Alberta (Canada), and research positions at Aalborg University (Denmark) and at the Institute for the International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Ruhr Universität-Bochum (Germany).
Dr Kavalski's research has focused on European politics, especially the enlargement, common foreign and security policy, and external relations of the European Union as well as NATO's accession and Partnership for Peace programs. He is currently working on the security governance of complexity and the interactions between China, India and the European Union in Central Asia. Such research focus sketches a prolegomenon to the conceptual contexts of theory-building and policy-making. In both these areas, the application of the complexity paradigm has important implications for the way global life is approached and understood.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

International Relations, Security Studies, Complexity Theory, European Union Politics, Asian Politics, Central Asian Politics, Chinese Foreign Policy, Indian Foreign Policy.

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Awards and Recognition

2011: Taiwan Fellowship at Academia Sinica.

2010: Rachel Carson Fellowship at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich and the Deutsches Museum.

2008/01-06: ANDREW MELLON FELLOWSHIP at the American Institute for Indian Studies (Delhi, India).

2005-2007: IZAAK WALTON KILLAM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP at the Dept. of Political Science, University of Alberta (Canada).

2004/09-2005/04: MARIE CURIE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP at the Institute for the International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Ruhr Universität-Bochum (Germany).

2002/09-12: MARIE CURIE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP at SPIRIT-Europe, Aalborg University (Denmark)

2001-2004: LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP.

2001-2004: OVERSEAS RESEARCH STUDENT AWARD from the UK Department of Education.

2000-2001: FCO CHEVENING/OSI SCHOLARSHIP at the University of Warwick (UK).

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Publications

Monographs:

    2009: India and Central Asia: The International Relations of a Rising Power (London: I.B.Tauris, ISBN: 9781848851245), 272pp

    2008: Extending the European Security Community: Constructing Peace in the Balkans (I.B.Tauris; ISBN 1845114973), 272pp

Edited Volumes:

  2010: Stable Outside, Fragile Inside? Post_Soviet Statehood in Central Asia (Ashgate; ISBN 9780754676003), 252pp.

    2009: The ‘New’ Central Asia: The Regional Impact of International Actors (World Scientific; ISBN 9789814287562), 350pp.

    2009: China and the Global Politics of Regionalization (Ashgate; ISBN 9780754675990), 238pp. 

   2008: (co-editor with M.Zolkos) Defunct Federalisms: Critical Perspectives on Federal Failure (Ashgate; ISBN 9780754649847), 220pp.

Selected Journal Articles:

2011: 'Coming to Terms with the Complexity of External Agency in Central Asia', Journal of Eurasian Studies 2(1): 20-29.

2010: 'The Peacock and the Bear in the Heartland: Central Asia and the Shifting Patterns of India's Relations with Russia', Indian Journal of Asian Affairs 23(1): 1-20.

2010 ‘Playing the EU: The Logic of Mythmaking in Bulgaria’s Foreign Policy towards Central Asia’, Mediterranean Quarterly 21 (1): 101-21
 
2010: ‘Shanghaied into Cooperation: Framing China’s Socialization of Central Asia’, Journal of Asian and African Studies 45(2): 131-45

2009: ‘Timescapes of Security: Clocks, Clouds, and the Complexity of Security Governance’, World Futures 65 (7): 527-51

2008: 'The Complexity of Global Security Governance', Global Society 22(4): 423-43.

2008: 'Venus and the Porcupine: Assessing the Strategic Partnership between the EU and India', South Asian Survey 15(1): 63-81.

2007: 'The Fifth Debate and the Emergence of Complex International Relations Theory', Cambridge Review of International Affairs 20(3): 435-54.

2007: 'Partnership or Rivalry between the EU, India and China in Central Asia', European Law Journal 13(6): 839-56.

2007: (with M.Zolkos) 'The Hoax of War: The Foreign Policy Discourses of Poland and Bulgaria on Iraq', Journal of Contemporary European Studies 15(3): 377-93.

2007: 'Whom to Follow? Central Asia between the EU and China', China Report 43(1): 43-55.

2007: "Do Not Play With Fire": The End of the Bulgarian Ethnic Model', Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 27(1): 25-36.

2006: 'Divide and Reward: Maintaining EU's Deterrence in the Balkans after the 2004 Enlargement', Journal of Political and Military Sociology 34(2): 289-99.

2006: 'From the Western Balkans to the Greater Balkans Area: The External Conditioning of "Awkward" and "Integrated" States', Mediterranean Quarterly 17(3): 86-100.

2006: '"We Are the Hawks of Freedom": Bulgaria's Good Fishing in the Muddy Waters of the Gulf', Journal of Slavic Military Studies 19(1): 33-56.

2005: 'Coercing Order in the Balkans: Coming to Terms with NATO's Enforcement Capabilities', Croatian International Relations Review, 9(38/39): 36-47.

2004: 'The EU in the Balkans: Promoting an Elite Security Community', World Affairs 8(3): 98-117.

2004: 'The Balkan America? The Myth of America in the Creation of Bulgarian National Identity', New Zealand Slavonic Journal 38(1): 131-58.

2003: 'The International Socialization of the Balkans', Review of International Affairs 2(4): 71-88.

2003: 'Bulgaria: The State of Chaos', Southeast European Politics 4(1): 68-90.

2000: 'The Balkan Way to Regional Conflict Solving', Migracijske i Etnicke Teme 16(3): 289-300.

Selected Book Chapters:

2012: 'Universal Values and Geopolitical Interests: China and India in the Global Competition' in N.Genov (ed), Global Trends and Regional Development (Routledge): 280-96.

2011: 'Looking North: Central Asia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation' in D.Scott (ed), Handbook of India's International Relations (Routledge): 201-10.

2010: 'An Elephant in a China Shop? India's "Look North" to Central Asia... Seeing Only China' in M. Laruelle et al (eds), China and India in Central Asia (Palgrave): 41-60.

2010: 'The International Politics of Fusion and Fissure in the Awkward States of Post-Soviet Central Asia' in E.Kavalski (ed) Stable Outside, Fragile Inside? Post-Soviet Statehood in Central Asia (Ashgate): 3-33

2009: ‘Uncovering the “New” Central Asia: The Dynamics of External Agency in a Turbulent Region’ & ‘India and Central Asia: The No Influence of the “Look North” Policy’ in E.Kavalski (ed), The ‘New’ Central Asia: The Regional Impact of International Actors (World Scientific): 1-27 & 239-60

2009: (with S.Smith) ‘NATO’s Partnership with Central Asia: Cooperation a la carte’ in E.Kavalski (ed), The ‘New’ Central Asia: The Regional Impact of International Actors (World Scientific): 29-48

2009: ‘The Grass Was Always Greener in the Past: Re-Nationalizing Bulgaria’s Return to Europe’ in I.Karolewski and A.Suszycki (eds), Nationalism in Contemporary Europe (Lexington Books): 219-44

2009: ‘“Do as I Do:” The Global Politics of China’s Regionalization’ & ‘Making a Region Out of a Continent? China’s Regionalization of Africa’ in Idem. (ed), China & the Global Politics of Regionalization (Ashgate): 1-17 & 177-90

2008: (with M.Zolkos) 'Approaching the Phenomenon of Federal Failure' & 'Whither Defunct Federalisms' in Idem. (eds), Defunct Federalisms: Critical Perspectives on Federal Failure (Ashgate): 1-16, 157-72.

2006: 'Identity of Peace: Framing the European Security Identity of the EU' in I.Karolewski and V.Kaina (eds) European Identity: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Insights (LIT Verlag): 91-112.

2006: 'The Balkans after Iraq, Iraq after the Balkans: Who's Next?' in N.MacQueen and T.Flockhart (eds), European Security after Iraq (Brill): 135-59.

2006: (with M.R.J.McCullock) 'Back to Althusius: Pre-Westphalian Suggestions for a Post-Westphalian World' in K. Gupta (ed) Studies in World Affairs (Atlantic Publishers): 123-48.

2005: 'The EU as a Vehicle of Ideational Mobility: Setting Normative Appropriateness in the Baltics and in the Balkans' in C.Gicquel, V.Makarov and M.Zolkos (eds), The Challenge of Mobility in the Baltic Sea Region (Berliner Wissenschaft Verlag): 95-115.

2004: 'The Euratlantic Involvement in the Balkans: Suggestions from Theory' in A.Fatic, ed., Security in Southeast Europe (Security Policy Group): 73-98.

2003: 'The King is Back”Long Live the Prime Minister? Reflections on Bulgarian Political Culture' in N.Surayanarayan (ed), A Decade of Change (University of Delhi Press): 1-16.

Selected review essays:

2011: 'From Cold War to Global Warming: Observing Complexity in IR', Political Studies Review 19(1):1-12.

2010: 'The Peacock and the Dragon: How to Grapple with the Rising Global Ambitions of India and China', China Quarterly 203: 719-25.

2007: 'The Complexity of Empire', Canadian Journal of History 42(2): 271-80.

2006: 'Contending Interventions: Coming to Terms with the Practice and Process of Enforcing Compliance', Human Rights & Human Welfare 6: 137-50.

2006: 'Latin American Perceptions of Power', Journal of Latin American Anthropology 11(1): 249-52.

2005: 'Explaining Compliance in a Post-Westphalian Europe', International Studies Review 7(4): 651-53.

Professional Affiliations

Book Series Editor of Rethinking Asia and International Relations, published by Ashgate

Editor of the journal Research in Social Change

Member of the Editorial Council of the Journal Review of International Affairs

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