Dr. Huseyn Aliyev

Biography

Dr. Huseyn Aliyev joined the University of Glasgow in 2017 after serving as a Research Fellow at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford. He spent 2015 to 2017 at the Research Center for Eastern European Studies at the University of Bremen, where he was an Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral researcher. Previously, he was a Lecturer in Area Studies and Global Security Studies at the Department of Political Science at the University of Bremen. His post-doctoral project was published as a book in 2017 by the University of Michigan Press titled 'Informal Institutions Change: Institutional Reforms and Informal Practices in the Soviet Union', based on extensive fieldwork in Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova. Dr. Aliyev earned his Ph.D. in Political Science in 2014 from the University of Otago in New Zealand, where his doctoral dissertation examined the impact of the Soviet institutional legacy on post-communist civil society in the broader Caucasus region, with his research published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. He holds a joint Master's degree in Humanitarian Action from Ruhr University Bochum and Uppsala University. His current research interests include civil war dynamics, non-state armed groups, violent mobilization, and radicalization and demobilization of armed groups. He has focused on the security and law enforcement structures in the Russian Federation and Ukraine, with expertise in ethno-nationalism and institution-building, particularly in the North Caucasus region. He is the Principal Investigator for an ESRC-funded project titled 'From Russia to War: Mobilization of Foreign Fighters from the Soviet Union.'

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