Dr. Murad Nasibov
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- Dr. Murad Nasibov
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Research Assistant
at the Chair of International Integration with a special focus on Eastern Europe
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Justus Liebig University Giessen
Institute of Political ScienceKarl-Gloeckner-Strasse 21E
D-35394 Giessen
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by arrangement
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Philosophikum II Room E201
☎ +49 641 99 23110
Fax +49 641 99 23119
CV
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Academic Education
PhD in Political Science, JLU Giessen, January 2025: Civil Society within Authoritarian Regimes. A Case for Positive Theorising. 2025 DOI: https://doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-19443
MA in Political Science, European Politics and Policy-Making Pathway, The University of Manchester (UoM), 2011.
Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, The Academy of Public Administration (Baku), 2010.
Research Experience
Research Fellow (Postdoc, 100%), 01 May – 31 December 2025, REDEMOS: Reconfiguring EU Democracy Support, a Horizon project funded by the European Union. Chair of Comparative Politics (Prof. Dr Marianne Kneuer), Technical University of Dresden
Research Fellow (Doctoral Candidate, 50%), 15 December 2021 – 14 December 2024, Understanding Eurasian Regionalism – Actorness and Interaction in Economy and Security, funded by German Research Foundation (DFG), implemented by the Chair of International Integration (Prof. Dr Andrea Gawrich), Institute of Political Science, JLU Giessen. Major research activities:
Research Fellow (20%), 01 October 2022 – 31 December 2024, SHAPEDEM-EU: Rethinking and Reshaping the EU’s Democracy Support in Its Eastern and Southern Neighbourhoods, a Horizon project funded by the European Union, implemented by the Chair of International Integration (Prof. Dr Andrea Gawrich), Institute of Political Science, JLU Giessen.
Work Experience
January 2016 – November 2017, Country Program Director, Caucasus Research Resource Centre (CRRC), Azerbaijan.
September 2014 – January 2016, Program Coordinator, Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Azerbaijan (sister organisation of the Washington D.C.-based Eurasia Foundation).
November 2012 - January 2014, Programme Coordinator, Oxfam Great Britain in Azerbaijan.
15 years of experience as an independent research consultant on post-Soviet Eurasia. Prominent clients included, among others, German Institute for Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Political Risk Management (PRISM) London, the International Crisis Group (ICG), Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), NIRAS (Denmark), US Embassy in Azerbaijan, and Ansohn Consulting.Awards
DAAD PhD scholarship for 2019, 2020, 2021
Open Society Foundation Civil Society Scholar Award 2016, 2017
Languages
English, Turkish, Russian, German (upper inter.), Azerbaijani (native)
Research
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Research Focus
- Geopolitics and regional order in post-Soviet Eurasia
- The role of regional organizations in shaping cooperation and contestation
- Strategies of small and secondary states in international politics
- Signaling under conditions of asymmetry in international crises
Teaching
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Associate Lectureship at JLU Giessen
- A Research Seminar on Autocratic International Institutionalisation, MA seminar, WiSe 2025-2026
- Networks of Control: Eurasian Regional Organisations, BA seminar, WiSe 2025-2026
- Seminal Works on Democratisation: A Methodological Perspective, MA seminar, WiSe 2024-2025
- Eurasian Security Architecture and Europe, BA seminar, WiSe 2023-2024
- Eurasian Security Architecture and Europe, MA seminar, WiSe 2022-2023
- Advanced Research in Politics, MA seminar, WiSe 2022-2023, WiSe 2021-2022
- Designing Research in Social Sciences, MA Übung, WiSe 2022-2023, 2021-2022
- Political Analysis: Paradigms, Perspectives and Meta-Theoretical Issues, BA seminar, SoSe 2022
- Civil Society in European Comparison, BA seminar, WiSe 2018-2019
- European Security Policy, International Security Policy, MA seminars, SoSe 2021
- European Security Policy, Global Governance-Regional Governance, MA seminars, SoSe 2020
- Comparing Democracies and Autocracies, International Security, MA seminars, WiSe 2019-2020
Associate Lectureship at other universities
- Foundations of Security Studies, BA seminar, WiSe 2015, Khazar University in Baku
- Cross-Cultural Psychology, BA seminar, SoSe 2016, Khazar University in Baku
- Contemporary International Relations, BA seminar, WiSe 2012, Odlar Yurdu University in Baku.
- Geopolitics, BA seminar, Autumn Semester 2012, Odlar Yurdu University in Baku
Publications
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Articles:
- Nasibov, M., Gawrich, A. (2025). The agency of secondary states in post-Soviet Eurasian regionalism. International Politics, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-025-00704-x
- Nasibov, Murad (2025). Contingent Authoritarian Regionalism: From Autocratic Regime Challenges to CSTO Collective Signalling? Problems of Post-Communism. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2025.2540883.
- Nasibov M. (2021). Civil Society and Pro-Democracy Social Movements: Troubled Relations within authoritarian regimes? Frontiers in Political Science, Vol. 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2021.708872
Book Chapters:
- Forthcoming: Nasibov, Murad. From Ideals to Reality: Civil Society Autonomy under Authoritarian Rule. Lessons from Russia for Post-Communist Contexts. In: Alexander, J., Jaworsky, B. N., Worschech, S. Post-Transformation and the Civil Sphere in Central and Eastern Europe
- Nasibov M. & Gawrich A. (2024). Chapter 15. EAEU relations with other regional organizations In: Vinokurov E. & Libman A. (2024), Elgar Companion to Eurasian Economic Union. ISBN: 978 1 80037 499 7
- Nasibov M. (2021), Energy Governance in Azerbaijan. In: Knodt M., Kemmerzell J. (eds) Handbook of Energy Governance in Europe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73526-9_3-1
Novel Datasets:
- Nasibov, Murad; Gawrich, Andrea (2025): Illiberal SCRIPTS Dataset: Corpus-Based Analysis of Norm Diffusion across Post-Soviet Regional Organisations (CIS, CSTO, SCO). With the assistance of Lidiia Shumska. Justus Liebig University Giessen. https://doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-20219.
- Nasibov, Murad (2025): Data for "Contingent Authoritarian Regionalism: From Autocratic Regime Challenges to CSTO Collective Signalling?". Justus Liebig University Giessen. https://doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-20008.
- Nasibov, Murad; Gawrich, Andrea (2025): High-Level Document Signing Patterns in the Commonwealth of Independent States (1992–2023). Justus Liebig University Giessen. https://doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-20009.
- Nasibov, Murad; Gawrich, Andrea (2025): Data for "Russian Strategic Culture: Obstacle to the Security Integration under the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)?". Justus Liebig University Giessen. https://doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-20062.
Monography:
- Nasibov, Murad (2024), Civil Society within Authoritarian Regimes. A Case for Positive Theorising. Doctoral Dissertation. https://doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-19443
Non-academic:
- Nasibov, Murad. (2025). Der Mittelkorridor und die neue Zentralität Eurasiens, Zentralasien-Analysen, Nr. 170. https://10.31205/ZA.170.01
- Nasibov, Murad (2025). The Limits of Central Asia’s Multi-Vector Foreign Policy. The Hague Research Institute for Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus & Central Asia. Available online at https://hagueresearch.org/the-limits-of-central-asias-multi-vector-foreign-policy/.
- Nasibov, Murad (2025). EU-Azerbaijan Relations: From Normative Divergence to Strategic Convergence. REDEMOS (EU-Horizon Project) Blog, Available at: https://redemos.eu/2025/09/18/eu-azerbaijan-relations-from-normative-divergence-to-strategic-convergence.
- Nasibov, Murad (2025). Autocracy Goes Global: Inside the Kremlin’s Foreign Policy Toolkit. SHAPEDEM-EU (EU-Horizon Project) Publications. Available at: https://shapedem-eu.eu/user/pages/06.publications/SHAPEDEM-EU_Publication_19_Working_Paper_Russia_(D6.1).pdf
- Konrad, Lea; Nasibov, Murad; Schöppner, Fabian; Gawrich, Andrea (2022). Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Reactions from IOs and other Key Regional Actors Global and Regional Implications. Eurasia Global Policy Paper No. 1, Universitätsbibliothek Gießen. https://doi.org/10.22029/JLUPUB-614.