Foreign Policy - General: 'The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: A Networking Organisation for a Networking World' - Tuesday 8th June (publication available - click here)
Dr Shirin Akiner
Author of 'The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: A Networking Organisation for a Networking World'
Dr Shirin Akiner has longstanding firsthand experience of Central Asia and has written and lectured widely on the region. In 2006 she was awarded the Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal by the Royal Society for Asian Affairs for her contribution to Asian studies. In December 2008 she was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Ancien Association of the NATO Defense College. Dr Akiner has held research and teaching posts at the University of London (1974-2009) and visiting professorships at Oberlin University (USA), Uppsala University (Sweden), Kazakh National University (Almaty) and the National University of Seoul (South Korea). She is currently a Fellow of the Cambridge Central Asia Forum, University of Cambridge, and Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has presented papers at international conferences and high-level seminars in leading think tanks, government bodies, international organisations and universities, in some 20 countries. She is a regular lecturer at the NATO Defense College, Rome and also at the Royal Defence College, London. She has made oral and written submissions to the UK House of Commons Select Committee on Defence; and presentations on regional security to NATO Parliamentary Assembly and to the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council Security Forum. Dr Akiner has authored seven monographs and over 25 scholarly articles on such topics as Islam, ethnicity, political change and security challenges in Central Asia. She has edited nine volumes of collected papers, including a major work on The Caspian: Politics, energy and security (RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2004). Her work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Russian and Chinese. She is founder and general editor of the long-running Routledge book series 'Central Asia Research Forum', which has pioneered the publication of new research on the region. She was Rapporteur to the major UNESCO project 'Integral Study of the Silk Roads' (1989-99) and has acted as consultant for several award-winning radio and television documentaries on Central Asia. She is a frequent contributor to international media networks.
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