Dr. Sabina Insebayeva is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Nazarbayev University since 2022. She is concurrently a research associate at the Asia Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she also was a post-doctoral research fellow (Identities Cluster). Prior to joining Nazarbayev University, Dr. Insebayeva worked as an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Science, the University of Tsukuba (Japan) and as a researcher affiliated with the Nippon Foundation Central Asia-Japan Human Resource Development Project (NipCA). Previous positions also include research fellowships with the IERES at the George Washington University (USA) and the Georg Eckert Institute (Germany). Dr. Insebayeva is a former Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Scholarship holder.

In addition to these fellowships, her research has been supported by a number of non-governmental and governmental institutions in the United States, Japan, China, Singapore, Norway and Germany. Dr. Insebayeva studies issues related to identity politics, power relations and security in Central and East Asia, and particularly interested in approaches rooted in social theory and historical sociology. She has published peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Europe-Asia Studies (Taylor&Francis), Nationalities Papers (Cambridge University Press), International Journal of Refugee Law (Oxford University Press).

Insebayeva, S., & Insebayeva, N. (2021). The Power of Ambiguity: National Symbols, Nation-Building and Political Legitimacy in Kazakhstan. Europe-Asia Studies, 1–23. doi:10.1080/09668136.2021.1912296

Insebayeva, S. (2019). Japan’s Central Asia Policy Revisited: National Identity, Interests, and Foreign Policy Discourses. Nationalities Papers (Cambridge University Press), 47(5), 853–867. doi:10.1017/nps.2018.19

Insebayeva, S. (2019). Visions Nationhood: Youth, Identity and Kazakh Popular Music”. In M. Laruelle (ed), Nazarbayev Generation. Being Young in Kazakhstan (1^st ed., 177-190). Lexington/Rowman and Littlefield.

Insebayeva, S. (2017). Social Capital and Liberal Democracy. In: T. Dadabaev, M. Ismailov and Y. Tsujinaka, ed., Social Capital Construction and Governance in Central Asia: Communities and NGOs in post-Soviet Uzbekistan, (1^st. ed., 97-115). NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Insebayeva, S. (2016). Imagining the Nation: Identity, Nation-Buidling and Foreign Policy in Kazakhstan. In: M. Laruelle, ed., Kazakhstan: Nation-Branding, Economic Trials, and Cultural Change. (1^st ed., 53-61). Washington DC.: CAP.

PLS469 International Relations of Eurasia

PLS100 Introduction to the Politics of Central Asia