Research Training Group World Politics RTG 2225
Dr. Aziz Elmuradov
Start-Up Project:
Towards a Concept of Political Power in Russia
Doctoral Project (completed):
Russia and the EU in the New World Disorder - Revisiting sovereignty and balance of power in the study of Russian foreign policy
- Biography
Since 10/2020 Post-Doctoral Researcher (under DFG start-up funding scheme)
Bielefeld University, RTG-2225 'World Politics', Faculty of Sociology, Germany10/2017 - 09/2020 Doctoral Researcher in the Research Training Group "World Politics", Bielefeld University 2015 - 2017 Research Associate, Department of International Relations and European Integration, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Stuttgart 04/2014 - 07/2014 Internship, Centre for OSCE Research at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, University of Hamburg 2013 - 2014 M.A. Peace and Security Studies, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, University of Hamburg 02/2012 - 05/2012 Internship, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan 2007 - 2012 B.A. International Relations, University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan - Abstract
How do Russia's political elites make sense of the contemporary Russia-EU relations? What conceptual conditions underlie change and continuity in their discourse? In my PhD dissertation I provide an analysis of how Russian foreign policy making towards the EU evolved from cooperation to competition and ultimately conflict. I argue that to understand change and continuity we must explore embedded concepts central to the crafting of Russian foreign policy, sovereignty and balance of power.
- Publications
- Elmuradov, A. (2021). 'Postcolonial/Decolonial Critique and the Theory of International Relations', MGIMO Review of International Relations, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 23-38 [original text in Russian, translated by the author].
- Elmuradov, A. (2021). 'Uzbekistan between modernity and tradition: subject and symbolic order', in: C. Pierobon, N. Becker and S. Schlegel (eds.), Central Asia after Three Decades of Independence. Politics and Societies between Stability and Transformation. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
- Elmuradov, A. (2021). 'Russia and the EU in a multipolar world: invoking the global in Russian terms', in: S. Holtgreve, K. Preuß and M. Albert (eds.), Envisioning the World: Mapping and making the Global. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 165-178.
- Conferences
- Elmuradov, A. (2021). Presentation of the webinar 'Russia-European relations: history, culture and politics', 24 May, University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, online.
- Elmuradov, A. (2020). 'Decoloniality: Webinar with Walter D. Mignolo'. Presentation in the lecture series 'Theory from the Margins and CoFutures', 18 November, online.
- Elmuradov, A. (with S. Holtgreve, M. Jacobsen, K. Preuss, Y. Sunca and G. Vásquez) (2019). Organisation of the RTG workshop 'Envisioning the Global, Engendering Agency: Perspectives, Positions, Communities', 21-22 November, Bielefeld University.
- Elmuradov, A. (2019). 'Russia and EU in a Multipolar World: Invoking the Global in Russian Terms'. Paper presented at the workshop 'Envisioning the Global, Engendering Agency: Perspectives, Positions, Communities', 21 November, Bielefeld University.
- Elmuradov, A. (2019). Participation in the RTG workshop 'Organising Competition & Contestation in World Politics', 24-25 October, Bielefeld University.
- Elmuradov, A. (2019). 'The making of Russia's "conservative turn" and the challenge of "post-historical" Europe'. Paper presented at the seminar series 'Mirovoya politika i teoriya mezhdunarodnix otnosheniy' (World Politics & International Political Theory), National Research University Higher School of Economics, 13 June, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- Elmuradov, A. (2019). 'Mutual Perceptions and Norms Promotion'. Paper presented at the workshop 'Communicating EU Foreign Policy: the Power of Political Dialogue?' in the framework of COST research network 'EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities', Schader Stiftung, 12-14 March, Darmstadt, Germany.
- Elmuradov, A. (2018). Participation at the workshop 'Temporal Comparisons as Valuation Tools: Historical Semantics and Beyond', 05-06 December, Bielefeld University.
- Elmuradov, A. (2018). Participation in the RTG workshop 'Balance & Competition in World Politics', 09-10 November, Bielefeld University.
- Elmuradov, A. (2018). 'Russlands europäische Schatten: Historisches Erbe und zeitgenössische politische Einstellungen'. Paper presented at the DAAD Center's doctoral conference 'Herausforderungen der neuen Welt Imaginationen der neuen Generation: 1968-2018', Centre for German and European Studies, Chung-Ang University, 04-08 October, Seoul, South Korea.
- Elmuradov, A. (with S. Holtgreve, M. Jacobsen, K. Preuss, Y. Sunca and G. Vásquez) (2018). Organisation of the RTG workshop 'Imagining Belonging in World Politics: Concepts, Practices and Struggles', 01-02 October, Bielefeld University.
- Elmuradov, A. (2018). 'Practice of Othering in Foreign Policy'. Paper presented at the workshop 'Imagining Belonging in World Politics: Concepts, Practices and Struggles', Bielefeld University, 01 October, Bielefeld University.
- Elmuradov, A. (2018). Chair at the panel 'Inclusion and Exclusion. New Perspectives in History and Sociology', at the 10th Annual Seminar of the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology BGHS 'Revolution and Nation', 05-07 July, Bielefeld University.
- Elmuradov, A. (2018). 'The Politics of Otherness: EU in Russia's "Multipolar World"'. Paper presented at the Third Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies, University of Tartu, 10-12 June, Tartu, Estonia.
- Elmuradov, A. (2018). 'Competing Narratives of the EU in Russian Foreign Policy: In Search for Identity or Policy'. Paper presented at the conference 'Tuning into the Noise of Europe', The Hague University of Applied Science, 18-19 January, Den Haag, The Netherlands.
- Elmuradov, A. (2018-2019). BGHS doctoral representative and support in cultural and international events.
- Elmuradov, A. (2017-2020). RTG doctoral representative and participation in RTG Executive Committee Meetings.
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