SHSS Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Dr. Jean-François Caron, has recently published two books respectively entitled ‘’A Theory of the Super Soldier : The Morality of Capacity-Increasing Technologies in the Military’’ (Manchester University Press) and ‘’Disobedience in the Military : Legal and Ethical Implications’’ (Palgrave MacMillan). The first book […]
Jamilya Nurkanova, MAPSIR student at the SHSS, Nazarbayev University, has been invited to speak in the General Assembly Hall at the United Nations and present Action Plan related to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This is because Jamilya has won the 2017 “ManyLanguages, One World®“ international essay contest. More than 6,000 individuals from […]
Just a couple of days prior to the commencement of EXPO, one could notice a lot of work and excitement going on in the city. Scores of delegates from other countries have been arriving to set up their booths and stands, explore the city, and watch how the former Soviet borough transformed itself into the […]
Three MAPSIR students Madina Bizhanova, Botagoz Kunedilova and Slyamzhar Akhmetzharov have returned from New York City where they had presented their research at Fordham University, Columbia University, and the World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities. You can read their impressions here: https://nupsreview.wordpress.com/2017/05/15/mapsir-trip-to-new-york-city/ […]
In February 2016, Prof. Neil Collins from the School of humanities and social sciences won the Horizon 2020 grant by the European Commission, thus, bringing Nazarbayev University for 3-year period to the team of 8 leading academic institutions from Belgium, UK, Germany, Slovenia and France to work on the research project launched on 1st March […]
Europe’s global image is better abroad than at home where it is daily battered by populists and Eurosceptics. Europe’s concern about its self-image will be the focus of academics attending workshop in Malta on 27th and 28th April who will ponder if the EU should take pride in how it is perceived abroad. At a […]
SHSS Assistant Professor Dr Helene Thibault has published her first book titled “Transforming Tajikistan: State-Building and Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia”, that addresses the issue of religious revival in Tajikistan in light of the Soviet atheist legacy. The book demonstrates the profound and lasting influence of Soviet power structures and attitudes, and how secular and religious identities […]
This is what our MAPSIR student Jamilya Nurkanova has reported from the Syria peace talks in Astana: “I had a unique chance to participate in the negotiations on Syrian settlement that took place in Astana on January 23-24th, by being part of the BBC team. My role was to help and assist Khashayar Joneidi and […]
A group of eight first year MAPSIR students, alongside Professors Alexei Trochev and Hélène Thibault, has just returned from their educational trip to Tbilisi, Georgia. The trip was dedicated to observing the Georgian parliamentary elections that took place on 8 October. On that day, the students visited several polling stations in Tbilisi and observed the […]
On the 22nd November the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences held a seminar dedicated to the 10 the most interesting thesis works on such topics as migration, ethnic tension, jury, near-border business, internet regulations, political parties, student values and budgeting politics. […]
