Political ideologies; Party Politics; Libertarianism

Terrorism & Extremism, Organised Crime, Gangs & Corruption, Policing, and International Security Studies

International Development; Environment; Politics in Africa

Caspian Region; Authoritarian Regimes; Post-Soviet Politics

Civil Society; Democratisation; Conflict Management; Caucasus

Citizenship, state recognition, de facto states

Civil Conflict, Violence Against Civilians, International Security Studies

Competitive authoritarian states, post-Soviet politics, democratisation, the EU and Eastern Partnership Programme

Human Rights; Transitional Justice; Peace Building; Missing Persons; Humanitarian Exhumations; Caucasus; Russia

EU law, international law, democratization

Politics of Central Asia and the Caucasus; Comparative Politics

Counter–terrorism, Artificial Intelligence, Social media and extremism, Human rights, International Humanitarian law, Israel-Palestine

Chinese politics, Socialisation, China at the United Nations, Taiwan-China relations, Authoritarian Regimes

Political parties, gender politics, post-Soviet politics, electoral processes; Georgian and Moldovan politics

Female Political Participation; Gender Studies; Conflict Management

Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding; Civil-Military Relations; Counterterrorism; European Union Politics; Asia; MENA.

Politics, informality, inter-ethnic relations, nationalism, migrations, gender, Post-Soviet and Post-Yugoslav states.

South Asian/Indian politics, conflict and peace studies, political discourse, visual/documentary research projects in these fields of interest

(Western) Balkans, Balkanization, Southeast Europe, EU and NATO enlargement, Euro-Atlantic integration processes, Russia’s soft power, (poststructuralist) discourse analysis.