Emilian Kavalski

Emilian Kavalski^[1] is a Bulgarian-Australian political scientist and international relations scholar. He is Professor of International Relations at Tampere University, Finland . Since 2014, he has served as the book series editor for Routledge’s Rethinking Asia and International Relations series.^[2] Prior to joining Tampere University, Emilian was the inaugural NAWA Chair Professor in the Centre for International Studies and Development at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, the Li Dak-Sum Chair Professor in China-Eurasia Relations and International Studies and the founding Director of the Global Institute of Silk Roads Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (2018-2021).^[3][4] In 2006, he completed his PhD in International Relations at the Loughborough University.^[5] Kavalski was a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the Western Sydney University (2008-2013), and then a Research Associate Professor of Global Studies in the Institute for Social Justice at the Australian Catholic University (2014-2018).^[6][7][8]

Emilian's work explores the interconnections between the simultaneous decentering of International Relations by post-Western perspectives and non-anthropocentric approaches.