Emil Aslan


Emil Aslan is a Czech political scientist and university lecturer, since 2018 research director at the Institute of International Relations in Prague.

Biography and career

Emil Aslan was born in Yerevan. He graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical University, Charles University, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. He was Fulbright Visiting scholar at Harvard University.
Since 2004 he lectures at the Charles University; currently an associate professor at the Department of Security Studies, Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences. Additionally. In 2018 he took the post of research director at Institute of International Relations Prague. He has provided dozens of analyses to the Czech Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defence, as well as the NATO. His analyses have frequently appeared in CACI Analyst. He is a frequent columnist and media commentator, authoring ca 150 articles in such media as Hospodářské noviny, Mladá fronta DNES, Lidové noviny.
His area of expertise of interests consist of: security and asymmetric conflict, especially in Central Asia and Caucasus; particularly the ethnography/micro-dynamics of political violence, with emphasis on asymmetric warfare; politics of memory; qualitative methods.
He speaks Russian, Czech, Armenian, English, German, Slovak, Turkish, Azerbaijani and has passive knowledge of Crimean Tatar, French, Italian.
Beside scientific work, Aslan paints and writes poetry as well. In 1997, he was junior superheavyweight box champion of the South Moscow District.

Works

Emil Aslan wrote 6 monographs, 12 book chapters and encyclopaedic entries, 39 articles in journals with impact factor, 19 peer-reviewed articles, 80 analytical articles.
Monographs
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