Murad Nasibov

Doctoral thesis

• Civil Society within Authoritarian Regimes. A Case for Positive Theorising, supervised by Prof. Dr Andrea Gawrich and Prof. Dr Simone Abendschön.
  
  

Current research focus

• Eurasian (security) regionalism
• Small state strategies through and within regional organisations
  
  

Shaping new research focus

• Small state strategies in times of intensified international power competition
• International power competition and democracy and democracy support (the reverse linkage);
• International organisations in times of order transformations
  
  

Conference presentations

• (Upcoming) Multi-Layered Regionalism in Eurasia: The Distinctive Fabric of the Collective Security Treaty Organization; DVPW Kongress 2024, Panel: Die Innen- und Außenbeziehungen internationaler Organisationen: Delegation, Design, Kooperation und Konfrontation, the Georg August University of Göttingen, 24-27 September 2024
• (Upcoming) Regional Organizations as Arenas for Non-Hegemonic States: The Case of Eurasia. EISA, Realist theory Section, Pan-European Conference on International Relations. 27-31 August 2024, Catholic University of Lille, France.
• The Home Front of Authoritarian Regionalism: Domestic Regime Concerns and CSTO Commitment. ECPR Joint Sessions, Workshop P015: Non-Liberal States and Global Governance: Are Autocracies and Hybrid Regimes Reshaping International Organisations? Leuphena University, Lüneburg, 25-28 March 2024
• Regional Organisations As Arenas of Strategic Self-Positioning: Central Asia and South Caucasus (CASC) Region. Gawrich, A. & Nasibov, M., SVPW Kongress 2024, 8-9 February 2024, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
• Power Dynamics in the CASC Region & its Implications for European Security. A Theory Guided Observation. Gawrich, A. & Nasibov, M., DVPW IB-Sektionstagung, 14-16 June 2023, Friedrichshafen, Germany.
• Decoding the Toxic Ideational World of Post-Soviet Regionalism. Gawrich, A. & Nasibov, M., DVPW IB Sektionstagung, 14-16 June 2023, Friedrichshafen, Germany.
• Decoding the Toxic Ideational World of Post-Soviet Regionalism. Gawrich, A. & Nasibov, M., The Sevenths Annual Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies, 11-13 June 2023, Tartu, Estonia.
• Populism as A Practice and in Civil Society: A Theoretical Inquiry. Nasibov, M. DVPW VP-Sektionstagung, 22-23 September 2022, Frankfurt am Oder, Germany.
• Social impetus for political activism within authoritarian regimes: Case of Azerbaijan. Why Fight against Dictatorship at high personal costs? Studying Political Activism and its Leadership in Autocracies, PRIF/HSFK, September 2019, Frankfurt
• Russia as Role Model Hybrid Regime in Reconstructing Civil Society in the Post-Soviet Space: Case of Azerbaijan. Nasibov, M. The 21th Annual ASN World Convention, on 14-16 April 2016, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, the US. 
• Russia as Role Model Hybrid Regime in Reconstructing Civil Society in the Post-Soviet Space: Case of Azerbaijan. Nasibov, M. The Democracy-Security Nexus in and around the Caucasus, CASCADE Final Conference, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels 20-21 October 2016.

Current Memberships

• Co-speaker at GGS Section International Organizations and International Law
• DVPW member 
• EISA member

Past Memberships

• International Development Peer-Review College, United Kingdom Research Council

Academic Distinctions

• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Doctoral Research Scholarship 2019-2022
• Civil Society Scholar Award 2016, 2017 by Open Society Institute

Completed Supervision

• First Supervisor in a bachelor’s degree thesis “The Electoral Demise of Die Linke in the Federal Elections of 2021. A Comprehensive study on the Party’s Trajectory in a Transforming Political Landscape” by Bethelhem D. Feleke, the Institute of Political Science, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen, 2024.