» Master of International Relations College of Social Sciences

Program duration: 1.5 years
Maximum number of credits per semester: 18
Language of instruction: English
Form of study: full-time (classes take place primarily at evening time)
Number of credits: 48 / 90 ECTS

The Master in International relations program covers all aspects of interactions between states and political units in the economic, political, legal, cultural and other spheres. This program trains professionals for a diverse international career at inter-governmental levels, as well as for communications with international business partners.

Graduates study

The theory and practice of international relations
The international political economy including emerging markets
The analysis of natural resource economies and identity construction
Conflict studies

The program faculty team comprises of the professionals with international experience who actively conduct research work and publish in international journals on a regular basis.

Program faculty hold terminal degrees from the leading international universities of Italy, Canada, Japan, Turkey and USA.

The program graduates may work in the following fields: diplomacy, international interaction consulting, regional studies, geopolitics, in public and private enterprises, NGOs, multinational companies and as coordinators of various international projects. In addition, the program graduates continue their careers in various international organization structures, such as UNO, OSCE, Red Cross International, WTO, Green Peace, League of Arab States, European Council, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Turkic Council and many others.

If you need more information about the program and course transfer opportunities, please contact the Program Coordinator, College of Social Sciences, KIMEP University, Abai avenue 4, 050010, office # 503 A, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan Tel.: (727) 270 42 12, e-mail: css_coordinator@kimep.kz

Subject Item	KIMEP-credits	ECTS-credits
Program Foundation required courses	5	6
Professional Foreign Language	2	2
Management for Social Sciences	1	2
Psychology for Social Sciences	2	2
Program Foundation: Elective Courses	6	9
Theories of International Relations	3	4,5
Public International Law	3	4,5
Introduction to Political Geography	3	4,5
International Political Economy	3	4,5
Subject Item	KIMEP-credits	ECTS-credits
Program Major required courses	15	25
Research Methods/Thesis I	3	5
Ethics in International Affairs	3	5
Master Seminar in Regional Studies or	3	5
Master Seminar in International Relations	3	5
Central Asia in Global Politics	3	5
Subject Item	KIMEP-credits	ECTS-credits
Program Major Elective courses	12	20
Emerging Powers and Markets	3	5
Asian Security: Theory and Practice	3	5
Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in the Post-Communist World	3	5
Political Geography	3	5
History of International Relations	3	5
Government and Politics in Central Asia	3	5
Russian Foreign Policy	3	5
Petropolitics	3	5
Central Asia – United States Relations	3	5
Central Asia Russia Relations	3	5
European Union: Politics and Foreign Policy	3	5
Experimental Research Work	6	18
Thesis Seminar	3	10
Research Internship	3	8
Final Attestation 4	4	12
Thesis Defense 4	4	12
Total	48	90

Course (credit) transfer KIMEP University can transfer credits earned in another program/university, if the courses are equivalent to the courses offered by the program at KIMEP University. A department committee shall consider each student’s case individually and make an appropriate decision. KIMEP University transfers a maximum 25 % of the total amount of the credits from a bachelor to a master program.

IRL5010 Professional Foreign Language for International Relations

This course is designed to train students in professional analysis and communications in English for the field of International Relations. Students will learn advanced language terminology and will develop skills that will enable them to analyze discourses and present valid arguments for a political audience at the international level. Practice includes developing critical thinking and writing skills specific for the field of international relations that enable students to clearly present claims to support their conclusions and avoid reinforcing biases. Topics addressed include the relationship between critical thinking and clear writing, credibility of sources, rhetorical devices, fallacies, unclear or misleading language, and the characteristics of various types of arguments.

IRL5513 Theories of International Relations

The course examines old and new theories used in International Relations, Realist, Liberal/internationalist, globalist and Marxist. Modern theories of globalization, modernization, dependency and human rights will also be discussed. The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with the theories and concepts used in the field of IR and to sharpen their theoretical knowledge and analytical skills so that they can understand and explain modern complex issues and conflicts in IR from a theoretical perspective and framework.

IRL5515 International Political Economy: Politics in the World of Interdependent Economics

The main objective of this course is to acquaint students with the dynamics and changes of the field, and to discuss the scope boundary and methodologies used in the study of IPE. It critically examines and analyzes major international economic trends and institutions such as international monetary and financial organizations, globalization of production and distribution, international trade and investment, development, dependency and foreign aid. Issues and problems of order, stability and transformation of world economy are also discussed.

IRL5517 Political Psychology and International Relations

This course applies psychological theories and methods to the study of political interactions. The course will survey psychological approaches to politics, examining psychological research on attitudes, personality, emotion, group processes, memory, cognition, and decision making. Specific course topics include: attitude formation, attitude change, decision heuristics and biases, personality, political leadership, political communication, groupthink, inter-group conflict, and stereotypes.

IRL5536 Management of International Institutions and Organizations

This course will train students to the basics of the management of international institutions and organizations, including a descriptive and normative analysis of such contemporary institutions, organizations and law. During the course students will reflexively consider the constraints that politicians, activists and administrators have to face when managing an international institution or organization. Issues such as limited resources, bureaucratization, balancing the political and economic interests of different stakeholders, and cultural differences will be analyzed in order to develop critical awareness and basic skills.

Program Major Required courses (12 credits)

Students need to take:

– All courses from Group A

– One course from Group B

– One course from group C

IRL5512 Research Methods/Thesis I

This course will train students how to design and carry out research in the social sciences. Structuring research is about the planning of scientific inquiry, designing a strategy for finding out questions to your answers. Ultimately, scientific inquiry comes down to making observations, collecting data, analyzing them, and interpreting what you have observed and analyzed. However, before you start, you need to determine what you are going to observe and analyze and how. That’s what research design is all about. Although this sounds rather simple and trivial, the craft of designing social research is quite complex. This course lays out various possibilities for social research and provides a general introduction to research design and elaborates on its specific aspects. Research proposals are prepared according to some established rules and should incorporate the major elements of research design, including a variety of methods.

IRL5521 Central Asia in Global Politics

The course is designed as an in-depth study of the place of Central Asia in global politics and the policies of key external actors, such as Russia, the United States, China, European Union, Turkey, Iran, Japan, and India, toward the region. Students are familiarized with the ways Central Asia has been contextualized both in scholarly sources and media. We will dwell on the changing geopolitical dynamics of the region and analyze similarities and differences in the foreign policies of Central Asian states. At the end of the course, we will discuss future prospects of the region.

IRL 5538 Ethics in International Affairs

This is an advanced course presenting students a normative approach centered on ethics for studying international affairs. The main purpose of this course is to prepare students to have a critical perspective on international politics and institutions and to be able to evaluate the moral dilemmas that political leaders, activists and citizens have to face in a globalized world. The course has three main components: a theoretical approach that focuses on the ethics of political decision-making; a detailed study of contemporary international institutions and norms such as just war theory and human rights; an analysis of case studies based on current global issues.

IRL5580 Master Seminar in Regional Studies

This course is designed to enhance students’ research and thesis writing skills and develop a comprehensive understanding of their research topics. While learning to critically assess the work in progress of their peers, students will develop an advanced knowledge of Regional Studies with a particular focus on Central Asia.

IRL5590 Master Seminar in International Relations

This advanced seminar course is designed to offer students an opportunity to deepen and apply their theoretical knowledge to a specific issue in international relations. Students will participate in ongoing projects headed by individual faculty members and are expected to provide a substantial contribution engaging in research development through data collection and critical analysis. Topics will vary every time the course is offered, and may include issues in bilateral relations, international security, international political economy and the international legal order.

IRL5533 Developmental Studies: Selective Models

This is a seminar course on development studies. A comparative analysis of approaches to the study of development and underdevelopment will be offered here, including structural-functional, neo-classical, Marxist, and dependency theories. The main objective of the course is to acquaint students with various theories, concepts and models of development and provide them with the necessary skills and methodology so that they can independently study, compare and contrast among various developmental models. This course will select several models of development from various parts of the world and study and evaluate them from comparative, historical perspectives. Students are expected to actively participate in the class.

IRL5531 International Institutions and Law

This course is designed to introduce students to advanced concepts of international organization and international law. It will consider the administration and politics of key international institutions and the machinery of international law. During the course students will be critically analyzing how institutions and legal frameworks are created and how they function in the areas of international peace and security, human rights and humanitarian relief, and environment and sustainable development.

Program Major Elective courses (9 credits)

IRL5525 Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in the Post-Communist World

The course provides a comprehensive and comparative analysis and overview of the political, economic, ethno-religious, cultural and demographic peculiarities of the so-called Post-Communist world and their reflection in foreign and domestic politics, economy, security and nation-building.

IRL 5539 Political Geography

This course focuses on key issues and concepts of historical and current Political Geography and applies, these concepts, using advanced analytical methods, to selected events in the modern political world. It discusses geographic aspects, patterns and meanings of the political organization of territory and examines the logic of how power and institutions (political, social, economic, etc.) are distributed over space and places. It also explores how geographic space affects, reflects, and reproduces political organization on the level of national and international politics, including geopolitics.

IRL5540 History of International Relations

This is an advanced course that presents students both an analysis of the major events in the history of international relations and a detailed study of a specific historical case. In the first half of the semester, after a review of the Peace of Westphalia in order to understand the role of the state as the main actor in the international space, the course focuses on events such as the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Wien, the European preeminence, World War I and II, the Cold War, Decolonization and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. In the second half of the semester the course will focus on one historical event in order to provide an in-depth analysis. For example, among the issues under review there can be: the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Arms Race, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Communist Revolution in China and others.

IRL5542 Government and Politics in Central Asia

This advanced course examines the multifaceted historical, ethnic, religious and linguistic factors that impact on the development of Central Asia after 1991. It provides a comparative study of political institutions, domestic politics and foreign policy behavior of Central Asian countries. The course is not only an introduction to the political systems of Central Asian states – new patterns of power and decision-making – but it also offers an analysis of ongoing changes generated by world geopolitics in a period of global uncertainty.

IRL5547 Russian Foreign Policy

The background of the present day Russian foreign policy is to be found in this advanced course. The emergence of USSR and US as the two global powers mainly defined the whole system of international relations in the world from 1945-89. Throughout this period, the Cold War confrontation constructed the essence of Soviet policy. The subsequent crisis and demise of the Soviet Union means not only the end of the “Cold War era” but also denotes the emergence of new key concepts and changes to dominant paradigms that explain the role of an independent Russia in the new world. The goal of the course is to develop students’ critical and analytical skills, and to direct them to explaining the motives and objectives of Russian diplomacy operating on several levels: relations with the USA and the West, the establishment of a new system of relations with former Soviet republics and the development of new approaches to Third World countries.

IRL5548 European Union: Politics and Foreign Policy

This course offers an advanced study of the model of the European Union as a unique experiment whereby European law supersedes national law and a single European currency is used. The purpose of this course is to offer students an advanced and critical analysis of European government and politics as well as of the structure and foreign policies of the European Union.

IRL5551 Petro Politics

This course provides a comprehensive study of the contemporary politics of oil via a critical analysis of the causes, dynamics and implications of the global quest for energy. The course lays special emphasis on the geopolitics of energy in the various oil-producing regions of the world and the interests of great powers in these regions. General theories, concepts, paradigms and models associated with international relations, economics, and security studies will be introduced to provide students with the analytical tools and knowledge necessary to comprehend the complex dynamics of energy politics and to facilitate an understanding of current developments in the field of energy. The course is designed to sharpen students’ abilities in the area of geopolitical analysis by evaluating various strategies for constructing pipelines, accessing markets and forming strategic alliances between producing and consuming nations.

IRL5552 Central Asia-United States Relations

This is a graduate-level survey course on the development of Central Asia – US relations from 1991 to the present. At the outset, we will examine the mutual “discovery” of the United States and Central Asia by their opposite number, as well as the framing of the relationship in the context of realist, idealist, and neo-Marxist paradigms. We will further consider the interests that determine foreign policies of Central Asian states and that of the United States in the region, perceptions and decision-making processes, and the broader geopolitical context of Central Asia – US relations (with the focus on Russia, China, Afghanistan, Iran, and EU). A broad variety of topics will be discussed: American contribution to Kazakhstan’s denuclearization, investments in the energy sector, development assistance, the post-9/11 security relationship, US military bases in Central Asia, US cultural influence on the region, and other issues. We will conclude by examining the likely trajectories for the development of these relationships in the coming decade.

IRL5555 Asian Security: Theory and Practice

The course aims to provide both an advanced theoretical knowledge of the current debates of security studies and to apply their paradigms to the study of Asian security at different levels of analysis: national, regional and global. An updated research of key issues in each region (Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Central Asia) will be combined with an in-depth consideration of various aspects of security: military (including nuclear), political, economic, environmental, societal and human.

IRL5558 Central Asia – Russia Relations

This graduate course provides a comprehensive and comparative overview and analysis of the political, economic and historical background of Russian – Central Asian relations throughout the Tsarist and Soviet periods and their reflection in cultural, political, strategic, economic, ethno-religious relations between the former Soviet Central Asian states and the Russian Federation. In doing so, the course provides a thorough methodological and analytical foundation of the cultural and demographic peculiarities of post-Soviet Russia and Central Asia, their foreign and domestic politics, economy, security. The bulk of the coursework will be devoted to investigating and discussing specific aspects of the Russian – Central Asian relations, such as nation building, language policies, minorities, separatism, interethnic conflicts, global security, democratization, as well as the influence of other global actors like the US, China, the EU, and the Muslim world on the interaction between Russia and the Central Asian states.

IRL5561 Emerging Powers and Markets

This course is designed to present students the evolution of the international system by looking at emerging powers and markets. In particular, the course will consider the conceptualization of ‘emerging powers and markets’ and the methodological bases for studying high-growth economies. An analytical review of social, political and legal frameworks for economic development will be used for comparing case studies.

IRL5563 Foreign Policy: Doctrines and Strategies

This course focuses on the doctrines and strategies adopted by states in foreign affairs. It aims to provide students both a comprehensive view of foreign policy making given the flexible constraints of the international system and an in-depth analysis of case studies. The course will mostly study major powers (USA, EU, Russia, China), but it will also consider a few examples of regional powers.

Internship (4 credits)

IRL5534 Internship in International Relations

The internship is designed to provide the student with a hands-on learning opportunity by in a consulate, the Foreign Ministry, an NGO, private company or other agency. A program of study and activities is collaboratively designed by the students’ advisor and the participating agency. In the past, departmental internships have been pursued at the Foreign Ministry, US and UK consulates, the UN, the OSCE, and the EurAsEC.

Thesis requirements ( 6 credits)

IRL5525 Thesis II

Prerequisite: IRL5512 Thesis I

All Master’s students have to write a M.A. thesis. The thesis topic must be approved in writing, first by the prospective thesis supervisor and then by the Thesis Supervisory Committee (Panel). The thesis research has to be supervised by a qualified KIMEP faculty. (For details, please see the CSS Guidelines for Master’s Thesis.) In his/her M.A. thesis the student has to demonstrate that he/she can design and execute with competence a major piece of research. The length will vary with the nature of the topic, but it should be developed in 50-60 pages (double-spaced). This course, taught by an experienced instructor, is designed to help students to acquire necessary skills in writing their thesis and to organize their time and thesis materials. The course complements the guidance of students’ thesis supervisor. By the end of the semester, students will have completed the introduction, the theoretical framework and the methodology (literature review and bibliography) and have prepared for the Thesis Proposal Defense.

IRL5526 Thesis III

Prerequisite: IRL5512Thesis I and IRL5525 Thesis II

This is the writing and finalization of the research thesis. Normally, by the end of the semester, students will have completed and submitted their thesis, and have it defended before the Thesis Defense Committee. The Thesis has to follow the formal requirements and standards as detailed in CSS Guidelines for Master’s Thesis.

The program graduates may work in the following fields: diplomacy, international interaction consulting, regional studies, geopolitics, in public and private enterprises, NGOs, multinational companies, or as coordinators of various international projects. In addition, program graduates progress through the ranks of various international organization structures, such as UNO, OSCE, Red Cross International, WTO, Green Peace, League of Arab States, European Council, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Turkic Council, and many others.

Xiaotong Zhang

Professor, Department of International Relations and Regional Studies /College of Social Sciences and Director of China and Central Asian Studies Center (CCASC – www.ccasc.kz)

Education:

Ph.D., Political Science at Université Libre de Bruxelles

Most significant publications in the last 5 years:

Zhang Xiaotong, Colin Flint, ‘Why and Whither the US-China Trade War?: Not Realist ‘Traps’ but Political Geography ‘Capture’ as Explanation’, (2021), 55, Journal of World Trade, Issue 2, pp. 335-358
Colin Flint and Zhang Xiaotong, “Historical–Geopolitical Contexts and the Transformation of Chinese Foreign Policy”, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 2019, 1–38
“From Wealth to Power: China’s New Economic Statecraft”, The Washington Quarterly, Spring Issue, 2017

Some facts from Dr. Zhang’s employment history

Full Professor, Institute of Belt and Road Initiative & Global Governance, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2020-

Full Professor, School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, 2016-2020

Associate Professor, School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, 2012-2016

Vice Dean, Institute of International Studies, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, 2017-2020

Executive Director, Wuhan University Centre for Economic Diplomacy, Wuhan, China, 2013-2020

Executive Director, the Joint Research Centre for Caribbean Studies between Wuhan University and the University of the West Indies – St. Augustine Campus, 2015-2020

Deputy Director, US Desk, Ministry of Commerce, China, 2010-2012

Dilara Orynbassarova

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations and Regional Studies, College of Social Sciences

Dilara Orynbassarova is an Assistant Professor in the College of Social Sciences at KIMEP University.

Dr.Dilara Orynbassarova obtained her Ph.D. in Education with distinction from Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University. She completed her BSS and MPA degrees with diploma of excellency at KIMEP university.

She served on academic and research activities at the Nazarbayev University, University of Pennsylvania (USA), KIMEP University and the Eurasian Research Institute. She also headed division for analysis and quality in the Independent Agency for Quality Assurance in Education, served in the Office of Prime Minister of Republic of Kazakhstan, Department of Informational Analytic Center (traineeship) and Center for Research and Consulting.

Dr. Dilara teaches course on Introduction to Social Sciences at KIMEP. The courses co-taught and assisted elsewhere include Communication and Society, World Prehistory, Professional Identity, Learning to Work, Academic Writing for Doctoral Students, English for Research.

Her current research interests include innovation in higher education system and policy, multi-stakeholder and cross-sector partnerships, and social network analysis.

E-mail: d.orynbassarova@kimep.kz

Publications:

“Delivering Environmental Education in Kazakhstan Through Civic Action: second-wave values and governmental responses,” Environmental Values, 1, (2013), 101-122, with Dennis Soltys, UK, Harris

“Family Medicine as a Model of Primary Health Services Delivery: A Pilot Study in Almaty, Kazakhstan”, Central Asian Journal of Global Health, 4 (1), (2015), USA, University of Pittsburgh Press (Master Thesis Publication, USA, University of Pittsburgh) (Indexedin PubMed and Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) of the Web of Science)

“Entrepreneurial University Perspective: Tracking Labor Force Capacity to Support Industrialization Processes in the Emerging Markets, Evidence from Kazakhstan Data”. EMAJ: Emerging Markets Journal 6(2), (2016), 5-11. USA, University of Pittsburgh Press. (Indexed in DOAJ, WorldCat)

“Teacher Education Research in Central Asia: An Analysis of Journal Publications (2006-2016), The Case of Kazakhstan”. Eurasian Research Journal, 2(1), (2020), 81-95.

Conference proceedings

“Developing University-Industry-Government Research Partnerships in Republic of Kazakhstan: factors enhancing and constraining”. Jun 15, (2020).The Proceedings of the 18th Triple Helix Conference. Future of innovation and Innovation for future online. Finland, Tampere University, 21-23.

“Modernization of Teacher Education in Kazakhstan: Experience of Finland”. Asyavrupa, 4 (46), (2019), 71-77.

“Teacher Education in the Context of Transformation Processes in Kazakhstan: Challenges and Perspectives”, Sep 19, (2017). The Collection of the International Conference on Institutionalization of Innovative Education Environment of High Pedagogic School, Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan and National Pedagogic Institute of Pavlodar.

“Policy Reception of Cascade In-Service Teacher Education Model in Kazakhstan through the Lens of Policy Borrowing Theory”, Jun 15-16, (2017), 340 (142), 79-84 The Collection of IV International Scientific-Practical Conference on Science and Education in Globalization Processes, Russian Federation

“Developing Research Competence Through a Student-Run Peer-Review Journal at Higher Education Institutions of Kazakhstan”, May 19-20, (2017), The Collection of the II-nd Annual Conference on Academic Integrity and University Governance, Kazakhstan, Astana, with Philip Montgomery, Anna CohenMiller and Kamila Kozhabayeva, KAZGUU University and Nazarbayev University.

“Guidelines for Writing a Book Review: Through the Lens of a First-Year Doctoral Student”. NUGSE Research in Education Journal, 2 (1), (2017), 43-44, Nazarbayev University, Editorial.

“A Comparative Study of Teacher Attitudes toward Inclusion in Kazakhstan and Turkey: A Literature Review”, (2017),2-16, Preprints of the Eurasian Research Institute for Social and Cultural Studies, Eurasian Research Institute, ERI Working Papers.

“New Methods and Approaches in Modernizing the Continuous Professional Development of Teachers in the World’s Practice: the case of Finland”, Feb 23, (2017), 15-20, The Collection of the International Scientific-Practical Conference on Continuous Professional Development of Teacher: From High School To Post-Graduate Education, Kazakhstan, Petropavl, National Centre for Professional Development ‘Orleu’ in the North-Kazakhstan region and Institute of Increasing Teachers’ Qualifications and Professional Skills.

“Putting inclusive principles into practice: teacher attitude and education as factors impacting inclusive education development”, Vol.1, No. 94 (Nov-20, 2015), p 234, The Collection of the II-nd International Scientific and Practical Conference: “Innovations in Education: Research and Solutions”, Kazakhstan, Astana, published by Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Kazakhstan, National Academy of Education named after Y.Altynsarin and Ural State Pedagogical University.

Ulzhan Kazybekova

PhD, Assistant Professor Department of International Relations and Regional Studies

Education:

PhD in Sociology, The Nottingham University, United Kingdom, 2017
MA in Public Administration, The Nottingham University, United Kingdom, 2009
Bachelor of Public Administration, KIMEP, Kazakhstan, 2008

Courses Taught at KIMEP

Introduction to Social Science; Nutrition in Modern World

Courses Taught Elsewhere

Sociology, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Research Design in Social Policy, The Management Support of Youth Policy, Psychology Management

Research interests:

Gender Inequality, Leadership, Motivation, Education policy

Publications:

Bugytayeva, S. and Kazybekova, U. (2022). The South Korean component in the doctrines of the United States Presidents (1945-2022). Public Administration and Civil Service journal. Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. No 3 (82).
Polozhentseva, Y., Kazybekova, U., Subalova, M., and Ghosh, A. (2022). We or I? Survival and Success Challenges Jokeasses. Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, Vol. 12 No.1.
Kazybekova U. (2014). Presented the paper on “Working mothers’ understanding of the shift from state to non-state pension provision” (Conference Stream: Negotiating Access to Research Participants) at the 7th Enquire Conference “4D Research: Early experiences of Designing, Debating, Doing and Disseminating Social Research”, The University of Nottingham, School of Sociology and Social Policy, 14th November 2014.
Kazybekova U. (2013). Presented the paper on “Understanding of working mothers of the shift from state to private pension provision” at the 6th Enquire Conference “Normality in an Uncertain World”, The University of Nottingham, School of Sociology and Social Policy, 10th-11th September 2013.
Kazybekova U. (2012). New model of educator’s personality in the educational system. Collection of materials of Republican Scientific Conference. “Spiritual and moral component in the triad of education-science-innovation”, Almaty, May 18, 2012, Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World Languages.

Contact information:

Office: # 231 Valikhanov building
E-mail: u.kazybekova@kimep.kz

David Porter

David Porter is an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department….

David Porter is an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department. He has obtained his PhD degree in Economics from the University of Georgia, USA.

In January 2021, he joined Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU ) in Fort Myers, Florida and taught numerous sections of ECO 2023 Microeconomics, both in-person and online, to more than 600 students as a Visiting Instructor. Since 1999, Dr. Porter has been employed in the energy sector as electricity load forecaster, tariff rate forecaster (Enron Energy Services), real-time electricity trader (Enron and Nextera), financial trader (Nextera) and proprietary speculative trader for numerous firms. He has an extensive background in Financial Economics and Monetary Economics dealing with foreign exchange, option pricing, swaps, collars and derivatives.

Dr. Porter joined KIMEP University from the Spring 2023 semester, he is currently teaching “Monetary Economics”, “Money and Banking” and “Financial Management Institutions” courses.

Scholarly Research Papers Published in Peer-reviewed Journals

The Demand for residential, industrial and total electricity, 1973-1998. Kamerchen, D.R. and Porter, D.V., Energy Economics, 26 (1), p.87-100, Jan 2004

Peer reviewed journal article I co-authored has been used in MIT Graduate Energy Economics course since 2007.
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-44-energy-economics-spring-2007/readings/
266 citations according to Google Scholar.

Market Structure in the US Electricity industry: A long-term perspective. Kamerschen, D.R., Klein, P.G. and Porter, D.V., Energy Economics, 27 (5), p.731-751, Sep 2005

Contact information: d.porter@kimep.kz

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Alen Askar

Alen Askar is a Ph.D. candidate in Eurasian Studies at…

Alen Askar is a Ph.D. candidate in Eurasian Studies at Nazarbayev University. He is finishing his dissertation on the history of Tselinograd during the 1950s and 1960s in the context of building an ideal socialist city. His research interests revolve around the history of the Muslim population in the early twentieth-century Russian Empire, memory studies, and historical politics.
In addition to his research pursuits, Alen Askar offers courses on the History of Kazakhstan. Recently, he joined the KIMEP team in Spring 2023 as a senior lecturer. If you would like to contact him, you can do so via email at a.askar@kimep.kz

Aslan Tanekenov

(Kazakh) Әлеуметтік ғылымдар факультетінің мемлекеттік басқару кафедрасының ассистент-профессоры

Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, College of Social Sciences

Dr. Tanekenov obtained his PhD degree from Heriot-Watt University, UK and MPhil degree from University of Glasgow, UK. His research interests are International civil society organizations; social enterprise, empowerment of socially vulnerable people; cross-sector partnership; volunteering, philanthropy, NGO management.

Dennis Soltys, Ph. D. in Political Science

Adjunct Professor,
Department of Public Administration/College of Social Sciences

Professor Dennis Soltys obtained his PhD from the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.

He has served on many KIMEP committees, especially concerning accreditations and quality assurance, and is currently the chair of the Department of Public Administration and International Development.

In his 15 years at KIMEP Dr. Soltys has taught a wide variety of courses, including graduate courses in research methods and thesis-writing, public policy of Kazakhstan, comparative education policy, and organization theory. He has publications in top international journals such as Journal of Central Asia, Comparative Education, International Journal (Canada) and Foreign Policy (USA), complemented by numerous conference papers published in Kazakhstan.

His main research interests include the cultural foundations and systemic design of public education in developed and transitional countries, development of civil society in transitional countries, and the public policy of Kazakhstan.

Email: dsoltys@kimep.kz
Tel. (727) 270-4303

Research and Publications:

Soltys, D. (2017). Social transformation with conflict avoidance in Ukraine between the maidans of 2004 and 2014. Post-Soviet Affairs, USA, (submitted, September, 2017).

Soltys, D. (2017). The central role of humanities and social sciences education in powering economic innovation. Vcheni zapysky (Scientific Notes), Kyiv, (forthcoming, July 2017).

Milen Nikolaev Filipov

Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communication/College of Social Sciences

Research and Publications:

Filipov. M. et. al. (2017). Do Bulgarian Schools Effectively Communicate with Their School Communities? Journal of School Public Relations, 37(2):163-202.

Filipov. M. (2016). Media Release – A Basic Genre in Public Relations. Journal of Contemporary Humanitaristics, 2016(1): 7-18. (co-authorship with Galya Hristozova).

Aigerim Kalybay, Ph. D.

Professor, Department of Economics/College of Social Sciences

Aigerim Kalybay is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics. After graduating from L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University in 1998 she received a research fellow position at the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan. She worked at the Institute of Mathematics for six years, during which in 2002 she attained the degree of Candidate in Physical and Mathematical Sciences. In 2004 she received a grant from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for a two-year postgraduate study at the Luleå University of Technology, where she defended her PhD Thesis in 2006. In the same year she joined KIMEP.

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Courses taught: Mathematics for Business and Economics, Introduction to Statistics, Calculus, Quantitative methods for Economics, Quantitative Data Analysis, Statistical methods.

Selected Publications:

A. Kalybay, “One-dimensional differential Hardy inequality”, Journal of Inequalities and Applications, 2017, 2017:21; http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13660-017-1293-3 (Published: January 2017).

A. Kalybay, D. Karatayeva, R. Oinarov, A. Temirkhanova, “Oscillation of a second order half-linear difference equation and the discrete Hardy inequality”, Electronic Journal of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations, # 43, 2017, 1-16; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/ejqtde.2017.1.43 (Published: May 2017).
A. Kalybay, S. Shalginbayeva, “Additive estimates for discrete Hardy-type operators”, Eurasian Mathematical Journal, Vol. 9, #2, 2018, 44-53 (Published: June 2018).

A. Kalybay, R. Oinarov, “Kernel operators and their boundedness from weighted Sobolev space to weighted Lebesgue space”, Turkish Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 43, 2019, 301-315; http://dx.doi.10.3906/mat-1807-187 (Published: January 2019).

A. Kalybay, R. Oinarov, A. Temirkhanova, “Integral operators with two variable integration limits on the cone of monotone functions”, Journal of Mathematical Inequalities, Vol. 13, #1, 2019, 1-16; http://dx.doi.10.7153/jmi-2019-13-01 (Published: March 2019).

A. Kalybay, R. Oinarov, “Estimates of a class of quasilinear integral operators on the set of nonnegative and nonnegative-monotone functions”, Izvestiya: Mathematics, Vol. 83:2, 2019, 61–82; http://dx.doi.org/10.4213/im8613 (Published: March-April 2019).

A. Kalybay, “Weighted estimates for a class of quasilinear integral operators”, Siberian Mathematical Journal, Vol. 60, # 2, 2019, 291–303; http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S0037446619020095 (Published: March-April 2019).

Kanat Kudaibergenov, Doctor of Science

Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics/College of Social Sciences

Research and Publications:

Kudaibergenov, K., (2016). On model-theoretic properties in the sense of Peretyat’kin, o-minimality, and mutually interpretable theories. Siberian Advances in Mathematics. ISSN: 1055-1344, vol. 26, No. 3, 190 – 195.

Kudaibergenov, K. (2017). The small index property and the cofinality of the automorphism group. Siberian Advances in Mathematics. ISSN: 1055-1344, vol. 27, No. 1, 1 – 15.

Kristopher White, Ph.D. Geography

Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration/College of Social Sciences

Faculty Profile

Kristopher D. White

Associate Professor

D. Geography, (2002) University of Connecticut

MA Geography, (1996) University of Connecticut

BA Geography, (1992) Clark University

Teaching Experience: Has been at KIMEP since 2004

Stephen F. Austin State University (Nacogoches, Texas) (2001-2004)

University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut) (1998-2001)

Classes taught at KIMEP:

Globalization and Diversity

Population and Environment

Human Geography

The Aral Sea Crisis: A Geographical Perspective

Political Geography

Ecology and Sustainable Development

Oil Geopolitics (Graduate seminar)

Oil and Gas Policy

Introduction to Environmental Studies

Digital Photography

Photojournalism

Natural Resource Management and Economics

Research Reading and Writing

Research Interests:

Geography of Central Asia, Kazakhstan. Regional economy, Aral Sea region, Aral Sea crisis and contemporary socio-economic development in Aral Sea region. .

Selected Recent Publications

White, K.D. and Micklin, P. 2021. Ecological restoration and economic recovery in Kazakhstan’s Northern Aral Sea region. Focus on Geography 64: doi: 10.21690/foge/2021.64.4f.

White, K.D. 2021. Population, Development, and Environment in Kazakhstan. In: McNicol, B. ed. Sustainable Planet: Issues and Solutions for Our Environment’s Future. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, pp. 29-37.

Micklin, P., Aladin, N.V., Chida, T., Boroffka, N., Plotnikov, I.S., Krivonogov, S., and White, K. 2020. The Aral Sea: A story of devastation and partial recovery of a large lake. In: Mischke, S. ed. Large Asian Lakes in a Changing World: Natural State and Human Impact. Switzerland AG: Springer Nature, pp. 109-141.

White, K.D. 2019. Environmental Issues in Kazakhstan. In: Farazmand, A. ed. Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (Switzerland: Springer Nature).

White, K.D. 2019. Visualizing the languages of nature, society, power and politics in contemporary Kazakhstan. In: Brunn, S.D and Kehrein, R. eds. Handbook of the Changing World Language Map (New York: Springer Nature).

White, K.D. 2018. The snow leopard and cultural landscape in contemporary Kazakhstan. Society and Animals 26: 1-23.

Koch, N. and White, K. 2016. Cowboys, gangsters, and rural bumpkins: Constructing the ‘other’ in Kazakhstan’s ‘Texas.’ In: Laruelle, M. ed. Kazakhstan in the Making: Legitimacy, Symbols, and Social Changes. Lanham: Lexington Books, pp. 181-207.

White, K.D. 2016. Kazakhstan’s Northern Aral Sea today: Partial ecosystem restoration and economic recovery. In: Freedman, E. and Neuzil, M. eds. Environmental Crises in Central Asia: From steppes to seas, from deserts to glaciers. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 129-140.

White, K.D. 2014. Nature and Economy in the Aral Sea Basin. In: Micklin, P., Aladin, N., and Plotnikov, I. eds. The Aral Sea: The devastation and partial rehabilitation of a great lake. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp. 301-335.

White, K.D. 2013. A geographical perspective on the Aral Sea crisis: Three interpretations of an image. Bulletin of Geography Socio-economic Series 21: 125-132.

White, K.D. 2013. Nature-Society Linkages in the Aral Sea Region. Journal of Eurasian Studies 4(1): 18-33.

Aliya Nurtaeva, Ph. D. in Chemistry

Adjunct Professor, Department of Public Administration/College of Social Sciences

Dr. Nurtaeva holds an Honors Diploma (1974) and Candidate of Science degrees in Chemistry from Moscow State University (1979 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Oklahoma State University (1999). She has more than 30 years of teaching experience including at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Oklahoma State University, New Hamphire Technical College, Southern New Hampshire University. She has done research in Chemistry, Technology and Radiation Dosimetry at KazGU, Moscow State University, Oklahoma State University and the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda (USA) and registered 17 patents.

Nurseit Niyazbekov, Ph. D. Politics

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations and Regional Studies/College of Social Sciences

Dr Nurseit Niyazbekov is an assistant professor in the Department of International Relations in KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He is researching and consulting various international media and think tanks in the areas of post-communist transitions, democratization, Central Asian state building and protest mobilization. He was a visiting research fellow at the University of Michigan and SciencePO. He obtained his PhD and MSc degrees in Politics and Sociology from the University of Oxford.

Nadeem Naqvi, Ph. D.

Professor, Department of Economics/College of Social Sciences, College of Social Sciences

Research and Publications:

Naqvi, N., & Egbert, H. (2015). Market-Dependent Domestic Production Set. Journal of Economics and Finance Education, 14 (1), 31-40

Naqvi, N. (2017). Production Possibility Frontier: New Concepts for Post-Crisis Economics Textbooks in Ploehn, Juergen and George Chobanov (Eds.), Sustainability and Welfare Policy in European Market Economies, Peter Lang, pp 11-12.

Gerald Pech, Doctorate of Economics

Associate Professor, Department of Economics/College of Social Sciences
Dean, College of Social Sciences

Gerald Pech held teaching and research positions at the Graduate School Bochum and Dortmund, the University of St Andrews, National University of Ireland in Galway, American University in Bulgaria and Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz. His fields of specialization are game theory, public economics and the economic analysis of institutions.

Francis Amagoh, Ph. D. in Public Policy and Administration

Professor, Department of Public Administration/College of Social Sciences

Research and Publications:

Amagoh, F. (2017). Healthcare in Kazakhstan in The Future of Healthcare in Developing Countries in Asia( Eds. C. Aspalter and K. Pribadi). London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

Amagoh, F., & Rahman, T. (2016). Tapping into the Potential of Academic Diaspora for Homeland Development: The Case of Nigeria. Journal of International Migration and Integration .Vol. 17 No. 1, 35-53.

Nygmet Ibadildin, Ph. D. in Political Science and International Relations

Chair of the Department of International Relations and Regional Studies, Department of International Relations and Regional Studies/College of Social Sciences

Nygmet Ibadildin graduated in 1995 from Kazakh State University with major in Philosophy. He made his Master of Arts in International relations in California State University at Fresno. He defended his PhD dissertation in 2011 in University of Tampere, School of Management. Title of dissertation is Role Of New And Old Institutional Framework In Combating The Resource Curse In Kazakhstan”. Dissertation grade is Magna cum laude approbatur.

He was editor and journalist in the Energy of Kazakhstan magazine and in the newspaper Vremya Po form 1999-2002.

Worked in different schools in Kazakhstan and abroad.

Research interests are political economy of natural resources, institutional development, Post-Soviet institutions and discourse analysis.

Currently teaching in KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Research and Publications:

Ibadildin, N. (2012). Role of institutions in Kazakhstan in combating the resource curse: Transition from the Soviet legacy to something else. London: Lambert Academic Publishing.

Ibadildin, N. (2009). Oil and Authoritarianism in Kazakhstan, in Ostrov, B. (Ed.) From Silk Road to Oil Slick: Kazakhstan Reemergence to Modernity. Norwalk: EastBridge.

List of Publications

Charles McGrath, Nygmet Ibadildin. Kazakh Famine 1928-1932. Publication date.2018/5. Journal Ukrainian Policymaker, Volume 2, 2018: 12-19 DOI: 10.29202/up/2/2

Ken Harvey and Nygmet Ibadildin. Handbook of Research on Human Social Interaction in the Age of Mobile Devices, scheduled for publication in 2016 by IGI Global, Chapter Mobile Impacting All Phases of Business IGI Global 2016

Ken Harvey and Nygmet Ibadildin. Business and mobile: Rapid restructure required June 2016 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0469-6.ch014

Нефть и политика. Мировой опыт и Казахстан. Казакпарат: Алматы 2015 in Russian

Role Of New And Old Institutional Framework In Combating The Resource Curse In Kazakhstan. Acta Universitatis Tamperensis 1600, Tampere 2011

Role of institutions in Kazakhstan in combating the resource curse

Transition from the Soviet legacy to something else

2011

LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

292 p

Oil and Authoritarianism in Kazakhstan, Chapter for the book From Silk Road to Oil Slick: Kazakhstan Reemergence to Modernity, Edited by Ben Ostrov. Norwalk: EastBridge 2009

Resource Curse avoidance policies in Kazakhstan: issues, debates, difficulties in implementation in The Exploitation Of The Landscape Of Central And Inner Asia: Past, Present And Future Edited by Michael Gervers, Uradyn E. Bulag, Gillian Long, Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia, No. 9 Asian Institute, University of Toronto

Toronto, 2008

Kazakhstan. Article for the Routledge Encyclopedia of adolescence, 2007

“Concepts of Political Development and Modernization”, Poisk, Research journal of the Ministry of education and science 2003, 4 (Part II)

“Concepts of Political Development and Modernization”, Poisk, Research journal of the Ministry of education and science 2003, 4 (Part I)

“Historical and Country Lessons in Oil Development”, Poisk , Research journal of the Ministry of education and science 2002 , 4

“Interdependence Of Oil And Politics In Kazakhstan”, Poisk , Research journal of the Ministry of education and science 2002 , 3

“The Great Game. History and today”, Vestnik Vishei Shkoly Kazakhstana, 2002, 1, Almaty

“World Best Practice for Petroleum Fund and Kazakhstan’s Variant”, Poisk , Research journal of the Ministry of education and science 1,2002, p.152-156

“Some Positive and Negative Aspects of Oil Development in Kazakhstan”, Poisk , Research Journal of the Ministry of Education and Science №6, 2001, p.215-218

“International aspects of oil production in Kazakhstan”, Kazakhstan and World Community: Collection of the Articles, edited by M. Zholdasbekov Almaty: Dyke-press, 2000. p.134-143

“What are the Price Determinants for Oil Markets” Materials of the International Conference held by Diplomatic Academy, Astana, January 18-19, 2001 TACIS, FINEK.

“Some Implications of the Recent Constitutional Changes in Kazakhstan”, Working Papers. Symposium: Politics, Economics and Ideology in Kazakhstan, Research Center Almaty, Kazakhstan, KIMEP, 1999, pp. 130-134

“Philosophy and Idealism” Poisk , Research Journal of the Ministry of Education and Science 1999, 1, p.194-199, Almaty,

“Realist, Interdependent and World Systems theories as Explanatory Models of International Relations” Higher Education in Kazakhstan. 1999, 1, pp.119-124, Almaty

“The Economic Miracle and Its Rational Explanations” Poisk, Research Journal of the Ministry of Education and Science. 1998, 3, pp.198-201, Almaty,

“Philosophy as an Apophatic Phenomenon of the Consciousness” Mysl, Republican journal on social and political issues 1998, 6, pp.18-23, Almaty,

“Liberalization in Kazakhstan. Part 1.”, Vestnik Vishei Shkoly Kazakhstana ,1998, 4, pp.135-141, Almaty

“Liberalization in Kazakhstan. Part 2.”, Vestnik Vishei Shkoly Kazakhstana 1998, 5, pp.94-106, Almaty

“Truth. Beauty and Common Good”, Mysl, Republican journal on social and political issues

1998, 6, pp.36-38, Almaty,

“Some Peculiarities of Philosophical Discourse”, Poisk , Research Journal of the Ministry of Education and Science 1998, 3, pp.191-192, Almaty,

“Relationship between Political and Military Elites in Russia”, Vestnik Vishei shkoly Kazakhstana, 1996, 4, pp. 65-70, Almaty

“Kataphatic Definition of Philosophy”, Methodical Recommendations Almaty, “Kazakh Universiteti”, 1997 pp.3-17

“Economic and Political relations of Kazakhstan with Russia, China and United States”, Vestnik Vishei Shkoly Kazakhstana , 1997, 4, pp.75-82, Almaty

“Sino-American Relations” Materials of the First International Scientific Conference on the Role of Sociology, October 23-24 1996, pp.158-167, Almaty, 1997

“Kataphatic Definition of Philosophy” Vestnik Vishei Shkoly Kazakhstana , 1996, 5, pp.114-124, Almaty

“Apophatic Definition of Philosophy”, Vestnik Vishei Shkoly Kazakhstana 1996, 4, pp. 71-81, Almaty

Patents

US Patent PCT/US 2013/049188 Bentonite collars for wellbore casings Craig Benson, Ivan Kornienko, Nygmet Ibadildin – US Patent App. 13/542,390, 2012 WO 2014008325 A1 United States Patent US009080419B2 (12) (10) Patent No.: US 9,080,419 Date of Patent: Jul. 14, 2015

Номер патента: 30703. Узел обсадной трубы и способ изоляции зазора между обсадной трубой и стенкой ствола скважины.. Опубликовано: 15.12.2015. Авторы: Бэнсон Крэг Х., Ибадильдин Ныгмет Амангельдинович, Корниенко Иван Викторович

МПК: E21B 43/10, C09K 3/18, E21B 17/01

Kazakhstan Patent No16322, Е21В 33/14, 14.10.2005  Сушко Сергей Михайлович, Бегун Анатолий Данилович, Ибадильдин Ныгмет Амангендинович, Корниенко Иван Викторович. Способ заканчивания технологических скважин и конструкция герметизирующего стакана

Kazakhstan Patent No15117, 15.12.2004 Цирельсон Людмила Екимовна, Ибадильдин Ныгмет Амангендинович Способ лечения диарейных заболеваний

Kazakhstan Patent No 14313, 05.05.2004 Цирельсон Людмила Екимовна, Ибадильдин Ныгмет Амангендинович Способ получения адсорбирующего средства из коллоидных глин

Kazakhstan Patent No 13071, 15.05.2003 Бухман Михаил Александрович, Ибадильдин Ныгмет Амангендинович Распылительная сушилка

Sholpan Kozhamkulova, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Media and Communications/College of Social Sciences

Currently, Sholpan is on leave to study towards her PhD in Journalism Studies at the University of Maryland. Sholpan Kozhamkulova graduated from Kazakh National University with a BA in Journalism in 2000. She earned an MA in Translation Theory from Abylay Khan Kazakh State University in 2002, an MA in Journalism and Public Affairs from the American University in Washington DC in 2004 and a PhD in Political Communications from KazNU in 2008. Her career includes work as an editor at “Aykos” and teaching positions at Abylay Khan University and KazNU.

Saltanat Kazhimuratova, M.A. in International Journalism

Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, College of Social Sciences

Professional journalist, experienced instructor, has been working at KIMEP University since 2003. Graduated from the Advanced training program for faculty of the University of Michigan (USA) and Lund University (Sweden). Member of the Thomson Foundation Editors’ Program, Cardiff, UK. Speaker at international conferences in Germany, Hungary, Turkey, Malaysia, and Spain. Member of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Presented at the UNESCO session on journalism education as an expert. Shared her positive experience of teaching journalism at KIMEP University and spoke about the processes of globalization of journalism education in Kazakhstan. Completed an internship for journalists in the USA, got acquainted with the work of the ABC News, The Washington Post, Discovery TV channel and other US media.

Lectures on journalism and mass communications, supervises students’ internships, and coordinates department’s communications with professional communities. Has developed new courses, for example, Fashion and Lifestyle Journalism. Created a practical laboratory for students, where practicing journalists, PR specialists and other media specialists regularly conduct trainings and master classes.

Awarded with the Y. Altynsarin breastplate from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Author of one of the chapters of the first in Kazakhstan textbook on media literacy for university faculty. “The best faculty for 2016-2017” award.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saltanat.kazhimuratova/

Portfolio: https://newreporter.org/author/saltanat/

E-mail: saltanat@kimep.kz

Phone.: +7 (727) 270-42-96

Alma Kudebayeva, Ph. D.

PhD, Professor, Department of Economics/College of Social Sciences

Faculty profile

Faculty name: Alma Kudebayeva
Position at KIMEP: Assistant professor, Research Director of CSS
Education: PhD in Development Economics from the University of Manchester (UK); PhD in Mathematics from KazNU named Al-Farabi (Kazakhstan),
Experience (teaching / professional)

2020- current Research director of College of Social Sciences, KIMEP University

2004 – current Assistant Professor, KIMEP University.

2015 Teaching assistant at the Institute of Development Policy and Management, the University of

2010- 2011 Research Fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) by the Erasmus Mundus Program

2003 –2004 Research Fellow of the Fulbright Program, Indiana University

2001 – 2003 Associate Dean of the college of Economics and Business, Kazakh State National University (KazNU), Kazakhstan

2001-2003 Associate Professor (part-time), International Academy of Business (Almaty)

1995- 2001 Senior Lecturer, KazNU

1992-1995 Lecturer, KazNU

Classes taught

Principles of microeconomics, principles of macroeconomics, econometric methods, advanced econometrics, financial econometrics, quantitative methods in economics, managerial economics, mathematical economics, economy of Kazakhstan, internship for undergraduate students and graduate students, Research seminar, special topic in economics, thesis seminar, research methods and methodology.

Research interest: Poverty, inequality, well-being, labour economics, BRI, Central Asia.
Recent/top publications (with active links)

Reza Arabsheibani, Alma Kudebayeva, Altay Mussurov (2021) “Note on Bride Kidnapping and Labour Supply of Kyrgyz Women”. Economic Systems. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2021.100885

Kudebayeva, A., Sharipova, A., & Sharipova, D. (2021). Social Capital and Subjective Well-Being in Central Asia. Europe-Asia Studies, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2021.1973965

Primiano, C. B., & Kudebayeva, A. (2020). What is democracy and who supports it? Findings from a university survey in Kazakhstan. Central Asian Survey, 39(4), 463–479. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2020.1823318

Barrientos, A., and Kudebayeva, A., (2018) “Social Transfers and Women’s Labour Supply in Kyrgyzstan” IZA Institute of Labor Economics, GLM|LIC Working Paper No. 41. https://conference.iza.org/conference_files/GLMLIC_Nepal2019_Conference/kudebayeva_a8594.pdf

Kudebayeva, A., & Barrientos, A. (2017). A Decade of Poverty Reduction in Kazakhstan 2001–2009: Growth and/or Redistribution? Journal of International Development, 29(8), 1166–1186. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3278

Brück, T., Esenaliev, D., Kroeger, A., Kudebayeva, A., Mirkasimov, B., & Steiner, S. (2014). Household Survey Data for Research on Well-being and Behavior in Central Asia. Journal of Comparative Economics, 42(3), 819–835. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2013.02.003

Eldar Madumarov, Doctorate in Economics

Chair, Department of Economics/College of Social Sciences

Research and Publications:

Alimbekov, A., Madumarov, E., & Pech, G. (2017). Sequencing in Customs Union Formation: Theory and Application to the Eurasian Economic Union. Journal of Economic Integration 32.

Madumarov, E. (2008) External Factors of Economic Growth: Transition Economies of the Baltics and Central Asia. VDM Verlag, Saarbrücken, August 2008. (Book).

Aliya Kabdiyeva, MPhil

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration/College of Social Sciences

Research and Publications:

Kabdiyeva, A. (2015). Development of NGOs in Kazakhstan. European Journal of Business and Social Sciences 4 (2), pp. 159-169.

Dixon, J., Kabdiyeva A. (2014). Collaboration between the State and NGOs in Kazakhstan. International Journal of Community and Cooperative Studies 1(1), pp. 27-41.

Azhar Baisakalova, Ph. D.

DBA, Adjunct
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration/College of Social Sciences

Research and Publications:

Baisakalova A.B. (2015). Grounded Action Research: Systems Thinking Approach to Promoting CSR in Kazakhstan. Abstracts of the Papers Presented at the ISSS2015 International Conference “Governing the Anthropocene: The greatest challenge for systems thinking in practice?” pp.131-132. Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 2-7 August, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-906740-13-9.

Baisakalova A.B. (2016). Responsible Business and Social Entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan. Chapter in the book: The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise (ed. Wayne Visser), v. 2, 78-83. Greenleaf Publishing. ISBN-13: 978-1-78353-462-3.

Gulnara Dadabayeva

Professor, Department of International Relations and Regional Studies
Phone: 270-42-79, 270-42-88 ext. 3077
Office:129 /ac
E-Mail: dgulnara@kimep.kz

Professor

Education:
D.Sc. (Historical Sciences), Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi, Kazakhstan

Work experience:

2005 – present, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, KIMEP, Kazakhstan

1987 – 2005, Lecturer, Department of History,in Kazakh National University named after al-Farabi, Kazakhstan

Primary teaching areas and teaching experience:
History of Kazakhstan, “Nation-state building in Asian Republics of Soviet Union” ”Government and Politics in Central Asia”, ”Central Asian – Russian Relations”, “History of Diplomacy from 1648 to 1815”, “History of Diplomacy from 1815 to 1945”

Research interests:
Nationalism and nation-state building processes in modern Central Asia.

Selected publications:

Articles

Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Nationalism and Language Issues. The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, vol. 37 no. 2 2010, Brill The Netherland, ISSN 1075-1262, e-ISSN 1876-3324 (co-author A. Adibayeva)

Kazakh Nationalism in Eurasian Context. History Research, vol.2, Number 7, July 2012. USA, David Publishing Company, ISSN 2159-550X, ISSN 2159-5518.

El Nasionalismo Kazajo en el Contexto Eurasia Tico, Eurasiatica Revista Online Sobre Asia Central, 2011, 2

Post-Crisis World: The Chinese Factor in The Transformation of Kazakhstan” , co-author A. Adibayeva (submitted for publication by Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (USA)

Problems of Refugees from Central Asia as Consequences of Stalin’s Modernization [Проблема Беженцев из Центральной Азии, как Последствия Сталинской Модернизации], Vestnik KazNU, Seriya Istoricheskaya, 2009, 2 (31): С. 11-18

Nationalism in Modern Kazakhstan Language Policy, Otan Tarihy, 2009, 2: 54-63

The Peculiarities of “Russification Processes” in SovietRepublics and Kazakh Language Problems [Особенности Процесса «Русификации» в Советских Республиках и Проблемы Казахского Языка], Аlash, 2009, 1 (22): 104 – 111

Kazakhstan – Russian relations in 2000-s geopolitical context (p. 21-27)// Kazakh civilization, # 3, 2012.

“Great Powers Politics in Central Asia in 2000-s: The New “Great Game”? // KazNU Herald [Вест. КазНУ, сер ист.] – 2013 – №3 (70).- с. 96-103.

Book chapters

“Mackinder’s legacy today: new challenges for Kazakhstan and Central Asia” in Central Asia in International Relations, ed. by Nick Megoran & Sevara Sharapova, Hirst and Co, London, 2013. (co–author A. Adibayeva)

Государственная языковая политика в независимом Казахстане: внешне- и внутриполитические факторы.(с. 270-282) –/ Центральная Азия. Традиции и современность. Под ред. А.О. Чубарьяна. Институт всеобщей истории РАН РК.- Москва, 2011.- 330 с. ISBN 978-5-94067-326-2.

Нациестроительство в Центральной Азии: от советских наций к постсоветским нациям-государствам.(с. 295-317) /Центральная Азия. Традиции и современность. Под ред. А.О. Чубарьяна. Институт всеобщей истории РАН РК.- Москва, 2011.- 330 с. ISBN 978-5-94067-326-2.

Kazakhstan during civil war [Казахстан в годы гражданской войны] //History of Kazakhstan since ancient times to nowadays [История Казахстана с древнейших времен до наших дней (курс лекций)]. – Алматы: Уш Киян, 2003. – С. 360-382.

Textbooks

The Modern History of the World [Новейшая История Мира (Учебник для 9 классов 12-летних Школ)], (with G. Kokebayeva, M.Baisymakova), Mektep, Almaty, 2011
The Modern History of the World (Reading Materials Collection), [Новейшая История Мира] (Хрестоматия для 12-летних Школ), (with G. Kokebayeva, M.Baisymakova), Mektep, Almaty, 2011

Conference presentations

Russia and Kazakhstan: Searching for a New Partnership in 2000s, The Dragon and the Bear: Strategic Choices of China and Russia, 11^th Aleksanteri Conference, Helsinki, Finland, November 2011
Kazakh Nationalism in Eurasian Context, CESS XII Annual Conference, Ohio State University, USA, September 2011
Nationalism Issues in Language Policy of Modern Kazakhstan, ICCEES XIII World Congress, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010
The Issues of Nationalism in Kazakhstan Language Policy, Osnovnite Problemi na Sovremenna Nauka, International Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2009: 29-34
The Establishment of State Nationalism in Independent Kazakhstan, Strategiczne Pytania Awiatowej Nauki, International Conference, Przemysl, Poland, 2009: 72-78

Involvement in academic and professional associations:
Member of “Kazakhstan Historians” Association.
Member of Central Eurasian Studies Society (USA).

Contact info:

Phone: 270 42 79/88, ext 3077
Office: 129 Valikhanov bld.
E-Mail: dgulnara@kimep.kz

Aigul Adibayeva

Associate Dean, College of Social Sciences
Candidate of Science
Phone: 270-42-79, 270-42-88 ext. 3275
Office: 130/ac
E-Mail: aigula@kimep.kz

Assistant Professor/Associate Dean/College of Social Sciences

Education:
Candidate of Science in Political Science, Almaty State University named of Abay, Kazakhstan, 2009

Primary teaching areas and teaching experience:
Areas: Political Science, International Relations
Teaching experience: 12 years

Courses taught at KIMEP:

-Fundamentals of Political Science

-Foreign Policy of Kazakhstan

-Russia-Central Asia Relations

-Ethics in International Affairs.

– Management of International Organizations

Research interests:
Research experience involves the following areas: Central Asian integration, issues in foreign policy of Kazakhstan, political and economic situation in Turkmenistan, Caspian region.

Joint Research and Curriculum Development Project “Excellence in Teaching on Global Business and International Relations” with Agder University (Norway), with support from the Norwegian Centre for Cooperation in Education (SIU) in May 2012-2014; curricular development and teaching the course of “Ethics in IA”.

Selected publications:

A. Adibayeva, D. Saari, A. Tleuzhanova (2016). To the Question of Legal Regulations of International Trade in the Context of Multi-dimensional Diplomacy. International Economic Law, issue 1, Moscow, November, 2016.
J. Melich, A. Adibayeva. Nation-building and Cultural Policy in Kazakhstan. European Scientific Journal, ISSN: 1857 – 7431, December 2013, special edition, vol. 2, pp.265-279.
G. Dadabayeva, A. Adibayeva: A Post-Crisis World: The Chinese Factor in the Transformation of Kazakhstan. Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Villanova University, Villanova PA, issue XXXVII no. 2, 2013.
“Kazakhstani-Turkmenistan Relations at Modern Stage”, chapter in the edited book Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan. Scarecrow Press Inc. Lanham, Toronto, 2012.
A. Adibayeva (co-authored with G. Dadabayeva). “H. Mackinder’s Legacy Today: New Challenges for Kazakhstan and Central Asia”, – a chapter in the edited book: H. Mackinder and the International Relations in Central Asia (Editor: Nick Megoran)//Published by: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd., London, ISBN-13: 978-1849042437/ December 2012.
A. Adibayeva, (co-authored with G. Dadabayeva) “Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Nationalism and Language Issues”, published in peer-reviewed journal The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, volume 37, No.2, 2010, p. 127-141. – BRILL, the Netherland.

Contact info:

Phone +7(727) 270-43-12 (ext. 3189)
Office: 205 A Valikhanov bld.
E-Mail: aigula@kimep.kz

Vladimir Ryzhkov

Professor of Research, Department of International Relations and Regional Studies

PhD degree in History, North-Western Institute of Management – a branch of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.

The dissertation title of his doctorate is “Political regime and institutions of Russia in the 1990s.” The dissertation was published as a book “The Fourth Republic” (2000).

Dr. Ryzhkov’s been participating in social and political activities in the democratic movement in Russia since 1987. He worked as a Vice-Governor of the Altai Region in the new democratic administration.

In 1994 – 2007 was a Deputy of the State Duma of Russia 1-4 convocations.

Since the spring of 2000 Dr. Ryzhkov was in opposition to the policies of Vladimir Putin. He worked closely together with Boris Nemtsov, Mikhail Kasyanov, Garry Kasparov and others.

Since 2007 Dr. Ryzhkov’s been a columnist and host of several programs at the independent radio Ekho Moskvy, “The Moscow Times” daily newspaper.

Since 2007 – Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) teaching courses on the history and theory of European integration and the study of the Euro-Atlantic region.

Author of several books including “The Fourth Republic” (2000), “Gift of Democracy” (2006), 6 books on the history of World War II and two big volumes about Altai.

Contact information: office # 127 Valikhanov building

Assylzat Karabayeva

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations and Regional Studies

PhD in International Relations from the International University of Japan, Japan

Master of International Law and Economics, World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland

Bachelor of International Relations, Suleiman Demirel University, Kazakhstan

Visiting scholar at George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies

Courses taught at KIMEP: “Ethics in International Affairs”; “Theories of International Relations” and “Comparative Foreign Policy”

Research interest: Role of norms (ideas, identity, and culture) in both constraining and strengthening region-building processes in Eurasia.

Contact information: office # 117 Valikhanov building

Scott Burgess

Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communications

Mr. Scott Burgess, new Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Communications, CSS, joined KIMEP in Fall 2023. Currently he is teaching courses: Advanced Media Writing; Editing and Communication Research.

Education:

PhD candidate at Wayne State University, USA

MA, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA

Bachelor degree from UCLA, USA

Research interests: perceptual biases in mass media including Hostile Media Effect and Third Person Effect and how the media can exacerbate these effects. He’s also interested in examining problems new journalists encounter when beginning their careers

Scott Burgess is a former journalist with more than three decades of experience. He has worked at small and large newspapers as a reporter and editor. He was the Middle East Bureau Chief for Stars & Stripes covering conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He was the Auto Critic at The Detroit News and the Detroit Editor at Motor Trend.

Contact information: office # 511 Valikhanov building