Citizenship in Perspective: Central Asia-Diplomacy-International Negotiations

The Moynihan Institute’s Central Asia and the Caucasus Initiative presents Dr. Alisher Faizullaev from Webster University.

Join us for a discussion  with Professor Alisher Faizullaev who will shed light on the evolving and widening concept of diplomacy, and the essence of negotiations in contemporary international affairs. Issues of Central Asian politics and diplomacy will also be discussed.

Moderated by Mirjakhon Turdiev, Director, All Children Succeeding Project, Syracuse University

Professor Faizullaev, with a D.Sc. in political science and a Ph.D. in psychology, is a scholar, author and teacher. He served as the former ambassador of Uzbekistan to the United Kingdom (1999-2003), Benelux countries, the European Union, and NATO (1995-1998). 

He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (2011-2012), as well as a Visiting Scholar at McGill University (2014), Cambridge University (2005) and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Western Washington University (1992).

His two last books, “Symbolic Insult in Diplomacy: A Subtle Game of Diplomatic Slap” (2018) and “Diplomacy for Professionals and Everyone” (2022), were published by Brill in Leiden and Boston. Recently, his book chapter “Digital Diplomacy of the Central Asian Countries” was published in The Oxford Handbook of Digital Diplomacy (2024).