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About the MIR
Program duration: 1.5 years
Maximum number of credits per semester: 18
Form of study: full-time (classes take place primarily at evening time)
Number of credits: 48 / 90 ECTS
The Master in International relations program covers all aspects of interactions between states and political units in the economic, political, legal, cultural and other spheres. This program trains professionals for a diverse international career at inter-governmental levels, as well as for communications with international business partners.
Graduates study
The theory and practice of international relations
The international political economy including emerging markets
The analysis of natural resource economies and identity construction
The program faculty team comprises of the professionals with international experience who actively conduct research work and publish in international journals on a regular basis.
Program faculty hold terminal degrees from the leading international universities of Italy, Canada, Japan, Turkey and USA.
The program graduates may work in the following fields: diplomacy, international interaction consulting, regional studies, geopolitics, in public and private enterprises, NGOs, multinational companies and as coordinators of various international projects. In addition, the program graduates continue their careers in various international organization structures, such as UNO, OSCE, Red Cross International, WTO, Green Peace, League of Arab States, European Council, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Turkic Council and many others.
If you need more information about the program and course transfer opportunities, please contact the Program Coordinator, College of Social Sciences, KIMEP University, Abai avenue 4, 050010, office # 503 A, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan Tel.: (727) 270 42 12, e-mail: css_coordinator@kimep.kz
Subject Item KIMEP-credits ECTS-credits
Program Foundation required courses 5 6
Professional Foreign Language 2 2
Management for Social Sciences 1 2
Psychology for Social Sciences 2 2
Program Foundation: Elective Courses 6 9
Theories of International Relations 3 4,5
Public International Law 3 4,5
Introduction to Political Geography 3 4,5
International Political Economy 3 4,5
Program Major required courses 15 25
Research Methods/Thesis I 3 5
Ethics in International Affairs 3 5
Master Seminar in Regional Studies or 3 5
Master Seminar in International Relations 3 5
Central Asia in Global Politics 3 5
Program Major Elective courses 12 20
Emerging Powers and Markets 3 5
Asian Security: Theory and Practice 3 5
Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in the Post-Communist World 3 5
Political Geography 3 5
History of International Relations 3 5
Government and Politics in Central Asia 3 5
Russian Foreign Policy 3 5
Petropolitics 3 5
Central Asia – United States Relations 3 5
Central Asia Russia Relations 3 5
European Union: Politics and Foreign Policy 3 5
Experimental Research Work 6 18
Thesis Seminar 3 10
Research Internship 3 8
Final Attestation 4 4 12
Thesis Defense 4 4 12
Course (credit) transfer KIMEP University can transfer credits earned in another program/university, if the courses are equivalent to the courses offered by the program at KIMEP University. A department committee shall consider each student's case individually and make an appropriate decision. KIMEP University transfers a maximum 25 % of the total amount of the credits from a bachelor to a master program.
IRL5010 Professional Foreign Language for International Relations
This course is designed to train students in professional analysis and communications in English for the field of International Relations. Students will learn advanced language terminology and will develop skills that will enable them to analyze discourses and present valid arguments for a political audience at the international level. Practice includes developing critical thinking and writing skills specific for the field of international relations that enable students to clearly present claims to support their conclusions and avoid reinforcing biases. Topics addressed include the relationship between critical thinking and clear writing, credibility of sources, rhetorical devices, fallacies, unclear or misleading language, and the characteristics of various types of arguments.
IRL5513 Theories of International Relations
The course examines old and new theories used in International Relations, Realist, Liberal/internationalist, globalist and Marxist. Modern theories of globalization, modernization, dependency and human rights will also be discussed. The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with the theories and concepts used in the field of IR and to sharpen their theoretical knowledge and analytical skills so that they can understand and explain modern complex issues and conflicts in IR from a theoretical perspective and framework.
IRL5515 International Political Economy: Politics in the World of Interdependent Economics
The main objective of this course is to acquaint students with the dynamics and changes of the field, and to discuss the scope boundary and methodologies used in the study of IPE. It critically examines and analyzes major international economic trends and institutions such as international monetary and financial organizations, globalization of production and distribution, international trade and investment, development, dependency and foreign aid. Issues and problems of order, stability and transformation of world economy are also discussed.
IRL5517 Political Psychology and International Relations
This course applies psychological theories and methods to the study of political interactions. The course will survey psychological approaches to politics, examining psychological research on attitudes, personality, emotion, group processes, memory, cognition, and decision making. Specific course topics include: attitude formation, attitude change, decision heuristics and biases, personality, political leadership, political communication, groupthink, inter-group conflict, and stereotypes.
IRL5536 Management of International Institutions and Organizations
This course will train students to the basics of the management of international institutions and organizations, including a descriptive and normative analysis of such contemporary institutions, organizations and law. During the course students will reflexively consider the constraints that politicians, activists and administrators have to face when managing an international institution or organization. Issues such as limited resources, bureaucratization, balancing the political and economic interests of different stakeholders, and cultural differences will be analyzed in order to develop critical awareness and basic skills.
Program Major Required courses (12 credits)
Students need to take:
– All courses from Group A
– One course from Group B
– One course from group C
IRL5512 Research Methods/Thesis I
This course will train students how to design and carry out research in the social sciences. Structuring research is about the planning of scientific inquiry, designing a strategy for finding out questions to your answers. Ultimately, scientific inquiry comes down to making observations, collecting data, analyzing them, and interpreting what you have observed and analyzed. However, before you start, you need to determine what you are going to observe and analyze and how. That's what research design is all about. Although this sounds rather simple and trivial, the craft of designing social research is quite complex. This course lays out various possibilities for social research and provides a general introduction to research design and elaborates on its specific aspects. Research proposals are prepared according to some established rules and should incorporate the major elements of research design, including a variety of methods.
IRL5521 Central Asia in Global Politics
The course is designed as an in-depth study of the place of Central Asia in global politics and the policies of key external actors, such as Russia, the United States, China, European Union, Turkey, Iran, Japan, and India, toward the region. Students are familiarized with the ways Central Asia has been contextualized both in scholarly sources and media. We will dwell on the changing geopolitical dynamics of the region and analyze similarities and differences in the foreign policies of Central Asian states. At the end of the course, we will discuss future prospects of the region.
IRL 5538 Ethics in International Affairs
This is an advanced course presenting students a normative approach centered on ethics for studying international affairs. The main purpose of this course is to prepare students to have a critical perspective on international politics and institutions and to be able to evaluate the moral dilemmas that political leaders, activists and citizens have to face in a globalized world. The course has three main components: a theoretical approach that focuses on the ethics of political decision-making; a detailed study of contemporary international institutions and norms such as just war theory and human rights; an analysis of case studies based on current global issues.
IRL5580 Master Seminar in Regional Studies
This course is designed to enhance students' research and thesis writing skills and develop a comprehensive understanding of their research topics. While learning to critically assess the work in progress of their peers, students will develop an advanced knowledge of Regional Studies with a particular focus on Central Asia.
IRL5590 Master Seminar in International Relations
This advanced seminar course is designed to offer students an opportunity to deepen and apply their theoretical knowledge to a specific issue in international relations. Students will participate in ongoing projects headed by individual faculty members and are expected to provide a substantial contribution engaging in research development through data collection and critical analysis. Topics will vary every time the course is offered, and may include issues in bilateral relations, international security, international political economy and the international legal order.
IRL5533 Developmental Studies: Selective Models
This is a seminar course on development studies. A comparative analysis of approaches to the study of development and underdevelopment will be offered here, including structural-functional, neo-classical, Marxist, and dependency theories. The main objective of the course is to acquaint students with various theories, concepts and models of development and provide them with the necessary skills and methodology so that they can independently study, compare and contrast among various developmental models. This course will select several models of development from various parts of the world and study and evaluate them from comparative, historical perspectives. Students are expected to actively participate in the class.
IRL5531 International Institutions and Law
This course is designed to introduce students to advanced concepts of international organization and international law. It will consider the administration and politics of key international institutions and the machinery of international law. During the course students will be critically analyzing how institutions and legal frameworks are created and how they function in the areas of international peace and security, human rights and humanitarian relief, and environment and sustainable development.
Program Major Elective courses (9 credits)
IRL5525 Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in the Post-Communist World
The course provides a comprehensive and comparative analysis and overview of the political, economic, ethno-religious, cultural and demographic peculiarities of the so-called Post-Communist world and their reflection in foreign and domestic politics, economy, security and nation-building.
IRL 5539 Political Geography
This course focuses on key issues and concepts of historical and current Political Geography and applies, these concepts, using advanced analytical methods, to selected events in the modern political world. It discusses geographic aspects, patterns and meanings of the political organization of territory and examines the logic of how power and institutions (political, social, economic, etc.) are distributed over space and places. It also explores how geographic space affects, reflects, and reproduces political organization on the level of national and international politics, including geopolitics.
IRL5540 History of International Relations
This is an advanced course that presents students both an analysis of the major events in the history of international relations and a detailed study of a specific historical case. In the first half of the semester, after a review of the Peace of Westphalia in order to understand the role of the state as the main actor in the international space, the course focuses on events such as the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Wien, the European preeminence, World War I and II, the Cold War, Decolonization and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. In the second half of the semester the course will focus on one historical event in order to provide an in-depth analysis. For example, among the issues under review there can be: the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Arms Race, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Communist Revolution in China and others.
IRL5542 Government and Politics in Central Asia
This advanced course examines the multifaceted historical, ethnic, religious and linguistic factors that impact on the development of Central Asia after 1991. It provides a comparative study of political institutions, domestic politics and foreign policy behavior of Central Asian countries. The course is not only an introduction to the political systems of Central Asian states – new patterns of power and decision-making – but it also offers an analysis of ongoing changes generated by world geopolitics in a period of global uncertainty.
IRL5547 Russian Foreign Policy
The background of the present day Russian foreign policy is to be found in this advanced course. The emergence of USSR and US as the two global powers mainly defined the whole system of international relations in the world from 1945-89. Throughout this period, the Cold War confrontation constructed the essence of Soviet policy. The subsequent crisis and demise of the Soviet Union means not only the end of the "Cold War era" but also denotes the emergence of new key concepts and changes to dominant paradigms that explain the role of an independent Russia in the new world. The goal of the course is to develop students' critical and analytical skills, and to direct them to explaining the motives and objectives of Russian diplomacy operating on several levels: relations with the USA and the West, the establishment of a new system of relations with former Soviet republics and the development of new approaches to Third World countries.
IRL5548 European Union: Politics and Foreign Policy
This course offers an advanced study of the model of the European Union as a unique experiment whereby European law supersedes national law and a single European currency is used. The purpose of this course is to offer students an advanced and critical analysis of European government and politics as well as of the structure and foreign policies of the European Union.
IRL5551 Petro Politics
This course provides a comprehensive study of the contemporary politics of oil via a critical analysis of the causes, dynamics and implications of the global quest for energy. The course lays special emphasis on the geopolitics of energy in the various oil-producing regions of the world and the interests of great powers in these regions. General theories, concepts, paradigms and models associated with international relations, economics, and security studies will be introduced to provide students with the analytical tools and knowledge necessary to comprehend the complex dynamics of energy politics and to facilitate an understanding of current developments in the field of energy. The course is designed to sharpen students' abilities in the area of geopolitical analysis by evaluating various strategies for constructing pipelines, accessing markets and forming strategic alliances between producing and consuming nations.
IRL5552 Central Asia-United States Relations
This is a graduate-level survey course on the development of Central Asia – US relations from 1991 to the present. At the outset, we will examine the mutual "discovery" of the United States and Central Asia by their opposite number, as well as the framing of the relationship in the context of realist, idealist, and neo-Marxist paradigms. We will further consider the interests that determine foreign policies of Central Asian states and that of the United States in the region, perceptions and decision-making processes, and the broader geopolitical context of Central Asia – US relations (with the focus on Russia, China, Afghanistan, Iran, and EU). A broad variety of topics will be discussed: American contribution to Kazakhstan's denuclearization, investments in the energy sector, development assistance, the post-9/11 security relationship, US military bases in Central Asia, US cultural influence on the region, and other issues. We will conclude by examining the likely trajectories for the development of these relationships in the coming decade.
IRL5555 Asian Security: Theory and Practice
The course aims to provide both an advanced theoretical knowledge of the current debates of security studies and to apply their paradigms to the study of Asian security at different levels of analysis: national, regional and global. An updated research of key issues in each region (Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Central Asia) will be combined with an in-depth consideration of various aspects of security: military (including nuclear), political, economic, environmental, societal and human.
IRL5558 Central Asia – Russia Relations
This graduate course provides a comprehensive and comparative overview and analysis of the political, economic and historical background of Russian – Central Asian relations throughout the Tsarist and Soviet periods and their reflection in cultural, political, strategic, economic, ethno-religious relations between the former Soviet Central Asian states and the Russian Federation. In doing so, the course provides a thorough methodological and analytical foundation of the cultural and demographic peculiarities of post-Soviet Russia and Central Asia, their foreign and domestic politics, economy, security. The bulk of the coursework will be devoted to investigating and discussing specific aspects of the Russian – Central Asian relations, such as nation building, language policies, minorities, separatism, interethnic conflicts, global security, democratization, as well as the influence of other global actors like the US, China, the EU, and the Muslim world on the interaction between Russia and the Central Asian states.
IRL5561 Emerging Powers and Markets
This course is designed to present students the evolution of the international system by looking at emerging powers and markets. In particular, the course will consider the conceptualization of 'emerging powers and markets' and the methodological bases for studying high-growth economies. An analytical review of social, political and legal frameworks for economic development will be used for comparing case studies.
IRL5563 Foreign Policy: Doctrines and Strategies
This course focuses on the doctrines and strategies adopted by states in foreign affairs. It aims to provide students both a comprehensive view of foreign policy making given the flexible constraints of the international system and an in-depth analysis of case studies. The course will mostly study major powers (USA, EU, Russia, China), but it will also consider a few examples of regional powers.
Internship (4 credits)
IRL5534 Internship in International Relations
The internship is designed to provide the student with a hands-on learning opportunity by in a consulate, the Foreign Ministry, an NGO, private company or other agency. A program of study and activities is collaboratively designed by the students' advisor and the participating agency. In the past, departmental internships have been pursued at the Foreign Ministry, US and UK consulates, the UN, the OSCE, and the EurAsEC.
Thesis requirements ( 6 credits)
IRL5525 Thesis II
Prerequisite: IRL5512 Thesis I
All Master's students have to write a M.A. thesis. The thesis topic must be approved in writing, first by the prospective thesis supervisor and then by the Thesis Supervisory Committee (Panel). The thesis research has to be supervised by a qualified KIMEP faculty. (For details, please see the CSS Guidelines for Master's Thesis.) In his/her M.A. thesis the student has to demonstrate that he/she can design and execute with competence a major piece of research. The length will vary with the nature of the topic, but it should be developed in 50-60 pages (double-spaced). This course, taught by an experienced instructor, is designed to help students to acquire necessary skills in writing their thesis and to organize their time and thesis materials. The course complements the guidance of students' thesis supervisor. By the end of the semester, students will have completed the introduction, the theoretical framework and the methodology (literature review and bibliography) and have prepared for the Thesis Proposal Defense.
IRL5526 Thesis III
Prerequisite: IRL5512Thesis I and IRL5525 Thesis II
This is the writing and finalization of the research thesis. Normally, by the end of the semester, students will have completed and submitted their thesis, and have it defended before the Thesis Defense Committee. The Thesis has to follow the formal requirements and standards as detailed in CSS Guidelines for Master's Thesis.
The program graduates may work in the following fields: diplomacy, international interaction consulting, regional studies, geopolitics, in public and private enterprises, NGOs, multinational companies, or as coordinators of various international projects. In addition, program graduates progress through the ranks of various international organization structures, such as UNO, OSCE, Red Cross International, WTO, Green Peace, League of Arab States, European Council, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Turkic Council, and many others.
Dennis Soltys, Ph. D. in Political Science
Adjunct Professor, Department of Public Administration/College of Social Sciences
Professor Dennis Soltys obtained his PhD from the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.
He has served on many KIMEP committees, especially concerning accreditations and quality assurance, and is currently the chair of the Department of Public Administration and International Development.
In his 15 years at KIMEP Dr. Soltys has taught a wide variety of courses, including graduate courses in research methods and thesis-writing, public policy of Kazakhstan, comparative education policy, and organization theory. He has publications in top international journals such as Journal of Central Asia, Comparative Education, International Journal (Canada) and Foreign Policy (USA), complemented by numerous conference papers published in Kazakhstan.
His main research interests include the cultural foundations and systemic design of public education in developed and transitional countries, development of civil society in transitional countries, and the public policy of Kazakhstan.
Email: dsoltys@kimep.kz
Research and Publications:
Soltys, D. (2017). Social transformation with conflict avoidance in Ukraine between the maidans of 2004 and 2014. Post-Soviet Affairs, USA, (submitted, September, 2017).
Soltys, D. (2017). The central role of humanities and social sciences education in powering economic innovation. Vcheni zapysky (Scientific Notes), Kyiv, (forthcoming, July 2017).
Christopher Bernard Primiano, Ph.D. (On leave for Spring 2021)
Department of International Relations and Regional Studies
Christopher B. Primiano is an assistant professor of international relations at KIMEP University. Chris is author of China, the UN and Human Rights: Implications for World Politics (Routledge Press).
In addition, his articles have appeared in Journal of Chinese Political Science, Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, East Asia, Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science, International Politics, China: An International Journal, China Report, and Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs.
He can be reached at c.primiano@kimep.kz
Da Hoon Chung, Ph.D.
BA (Sogang, Seoul), MA (Yale, USA), Ph.D (Peking 北京, China)
Dr. Da Hoon Chung joins KIMEP as research fellow for one academic year. Dr. Chung pursued her Ph.D. degree in Chinese politics and diplomacy at Peking University, China. She has a keen interest in the international relations of Asian countries which came from her global academic experience. She is expanding her view to encompass Eurasian Continent in recognition of the importance Central Asia and Russia plays in global politics, not to mention its role in the unification of the Korean Peninsula. She is currently working on North Korea-related research at the DPRK Strategy Center in KIMEP University.
"Analytical framework for evaluating digital diplomacy using network analysis and topic modeling: Comparing South Korea and Japan" in Information Processing & Management" (ISSN 2575-5102, Online: 2575-5110) (2019) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457318305260
"Chinese Leaders' Diplomatic Rhetoric and its Power," Contemporary Chinese Language and Culture Studies (Vol.39, Fall 2015)
"An Analysis of the Relationship Between the Thought of Guanzi (管子) and Contemporary Chinese Policy Focusing on the Case of Hujintao's Harmonious Society and Harmonious World," International Chinese Studies (Vol.16, Winter2013) (Chinese)
"Empirical Analysis of the Back and Forth Relationship Between China and the U.S. since 1989: Focusing on the Jiang Zemin and Bill Clinton's Cognitive Map," Korean System Dynamics Society (Vol.13, Fall 2012) (Korean)
International Relations; Northeast Asia; Chinese Foreign policy; North Korea
Gianluca Spezza, Ph.D. (On leave for Fall 2020)
Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations and Regional Studies
Dr. Gianluca Spezza completed his Ph.D. in international relations at the International Institute of Korean Studies, University of Central Lancashire (UK) at the end of 2017 under the guidance of professor Hazel Smith, a foremost expert on North Korea. His current research interests include North Korean society – particularly the education sector – and the relationship between North Korea and International Organizations, specifically UNICEF, UNDP, and UNESCO. Dr. Spezza is also interested in comparative analyses of North Korea vis-a-vis other totalitarian regimes, the national identity and national interest of the two Koreas, state compliance with international norms, and the influence of beliefs on politics. Aside from his academic work, he writes as a freelance analyst and op-ed writer for NK News and IRIN news. Since 2012, his work has on North Korea been either published or featured on The Guardian, BBC, Newsweek Korea, Business Insider, Asia Newsdesk, DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation), and Radio RAI (Italian National Broadcast). His publications include a chapter in the North Korea Atlas (Damdi, 2014), and a chapter in the forthcoming "De-demonizing North Korea", by NIAS Press in Copenhagen. Dr. Spezza also co-authored Icons of Rhetoric, a media-literary project on North Korean media and society, together with UK photographer Chris Barrett, in 2015. Dr. Spezza holds a Master in Contemporary History from the University of Torino, Italy, and a Master of Social Science in Asian Studies (IR) from the University of Turku, Finland.
JeongWon Bourdais Park, Ph.D, Associate Professor
BA (Ewha, Seoul), MPhil (Univ of Cambridge, UK), MSC and Ph.D (LSE, UK)
Books (research monographs):
2018: Regional Environmental Politics in Northeast Asia: Conflict and Cooperation (London: Routledge).
2018: Identity, Policy and Prosperity: Border nationality of the Korean diaspora and regional development in Northeast China (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan).
Academic journal articles:
2020: "Contestation and collaboration for water resources: comparing the emerging regional water governance of the Aral Sea, Irtysh River, and Mekong River," Journal of Asian and African Studies, [Sage Publications], forthcoming (co-authored/1st and corresponding author).
2020: "The Green Paradox: A Key Catalyst for Inter-governmental Organizations' Environmental Assistance to North Korea," North Korean Review [McFarland] Vol. 17 No.2 Fall, forthcoming (co-authored/1st and corresponding author).
2019: "Politicising the Manhwa Representations of the Comfort Women: with an Emphasis on the Angoulême International Festival Controversy," East Asia: an international quarterly (Springer) Vol. 35. No. 137. pp. 36-66.
2018: "The Strategic Duality and Convergence of China's Transition in the Global Climate Regime: 'From a Vetoing to a Leading Country'" Journal of Global and Area Studies, 2(1): 65-79.
2017: "Ethnic Relations in Northeast China: ethnic revival or de-ethnicization in the Korean diaspora?' European Journal of East Asian Studies (Brill Publishers) Vol.16. pp.36-66.
2017: "Sub- and Trans-national Actors in South Korea's Island Disputes: the cases of Dokdo and Ieodo" (co-authored/corresponding author), Asian Affairs: An American Review (Taylor and Francis) Vol.44 No.1 pp.9-29.
2016: "Out of the comfort zone, towards greener public development aid', Global Environmental Politics (MIT Press) Vol.16 No.4 pp.1-11.
2013: "The Evolution of Green Growth Policy: an unwelcome intrusion in global environmental governance?" East Asian Economic Review (formerly, The Journal of East Asian Economic Integration) (Korea Institute for International Economic Policy) Vol.17 No.2 pp.207-241.
2012: "The Stalemate over Multiculturalism in the United States: an analysis of migration policy reform during the Obama Administration', Journal of Multi-Cultural Contents Studies (Choong-Ang University: Seoul) Vol.13 pp.291-318.
2010: "The Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights on the Law of Property in England and Wales', Law and Policy Review Vol. 1 No. 1 pp.89-101 .
2010: "International Law on Water Resources and the Environment: beyond equitable utilization?', IFANS Review (Korea National Diplomatic Academy/The Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Vol. 17 No. 2 pp.95-126 .
Teaching courses:
IR Seminar on 'Environmental Politics, Development and Global Governance'
Asian Security: Theory and Practice
Social and Political Theory
Environmental politics; global governance; security studies; comparative regional politics; International Relations of Asia and the Pacific
Milen Nikolaev Filipov, Ph. D. in Public Communications and Information Sciences
Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communication/College of Social Sciences
Filipov. M. et. al. (2017). Do Bulgarian Schools Effectively Communicate with Their School Communities? Journal of School Public Relations, 37(2):163-202.
Filipov. M. (2016). Media Release – A Basic Genre in Public Relations. Journal of Contemporary Humanitaristics, 2016(1): 7-18. (co-authorship with Galya Hristozova).
Bahtiyar Kurambayev, Ph.D. Mass Communications
Kurambayev, B. (2017). Social Media Users Collectively Speak Up. Evidence from Central Asian Kyrgyz Republic. In S. Gordon. (Ed.), Online Communities as Agents of Change and Social Movements (pp. 44-66). Hershey, PA: IGI-Global.
Kurambayev, B. (2017). Bribery and Extortion in Kyrgyz Journalism or Simply Profitable Profession? Asia Pacific Media Educator, 27(1), 170-185.
Kurambayev, B., & Issenov, S. (2020). Aspiring Journalists Share Practical Obstacles in Journalism Professionalism. Journalism Practice. Available at https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2FWXRWHEZHXNQVXX5UEF/full?target=10.1080/17512786.2020.1864224
Kurambayev, B., & Freedman, E. (2020). Publish or Perish? The Steep, Steep Path for Central Asia Journalism and Mass Communication Faculty. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, Available at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077695820947259
Kurambayev, B., & Freedman, E. (2020). Ethics and Journalism in Central Asia: A Comparative Study of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Journal of Media Ethics, 35(1), 31-44.
Kurambayev, B. (2020). "The Causes and Consequences of Plagiarism by Journalists in Central Asia" Asian Studies Review, 44(4), 691-708
Kurambayev, B.; Sheffer, M.; & Stepaniuc, E. (2019)."An Investigation of Job Satisfaction of Journalists in Central Asian Kyrgyz Republic." Central Asian Affairs, 6(1), 47-67.
Kurambayev, B., & Chen, G. M. (2017). Offline Political Engagement Leads to Online Political Voice among Kyrgyzstan Bloggers. Media Asia, 44(3-4), 161-174.
Aigerim Kalybay, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics/College of Social Sciences
Aigerim Kalybay is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics. After graduating from L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University in 1998 she received a research fellow position at the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan. She worked at the Institute of Mathematics for six years, during which in 2002 she attained the degree of Candidate in Physical and Mathematical Sciences. In 2004 she received a grant from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for a two-year postgraduate study at the Luleå University of Technology, where she defended her PhD Thesis in 2006. In the same year she joined KIMEP.
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Courses taught: Mathematics for Business and Economics, Introduction to Statistics, Calculus, Quantitative methods for Economics, Quantitative Data Analysis, Statistical methods.
A. Kalybay, "One-dimensional differential Hardy inequality", Journal of Inequalities and Applications, 2017, 2017:21; http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13660-017-1293-3 (Published: January 2017).
A. Kalybay, D. Karatayeva, R. Oinarov, A. Temirkhanova, "Oscillation of a second order half-linear difference equation and the discrete Hardy inequality", Electronic Journal of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations, # 43, 2017, 1-16; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/ejqtde.2017.1.43 (Published: May 2017).
A. Kalybay, S. Shalginbayeva, "Additive estimates for discrete Hardy-type operators", Eurasian Mathematical Journal, Vol. 9, #2, 2018, 44-53 (Published: June 2018).
A. Kalybay, R. Oinarov, "Kernel operators and their boundedness from weighted Sobolev space to weighted Lebesgue space", Turkish Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 43, 2019, 301-315; http://dx.doi.10.3906/mat-1807-187 (Published: January 2019).
A. Kalybay, R. Oinarov, A. Temirkhanova, "Integral operators with two variable integration limits on the cone of monotone functions", Journal of Mathematical Inequalities, Vol. 13, #1, 2019, 1-16; http://dx.doi.10.7153/jmi-2019-13-01 (Published: March 2019).
A. Kalybay, R. Oinarov, "Estimates of a class of quasilinear integral operators on the set of nonnegative and nonnegative-monotone functions", Izvestiya: Mathematics, Vol. 83:2, 2019, 61–82; http://dx.doi.org/10.4213/im8613 (Published: March-April 2019).
A. Kalybay, "Weighted estimates for a class of quasilinear integral operators", Siberian Mathematical Journal, Vol. 60, # 2, 2019, 291–303; http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S0037446619020095 (Published: March-April 2019).
Kanat Kudaibergenov, Doctor of Science
Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics/College of Social Sciences
Kudaibergenov, K., (2016). On model-theoretic properties in the sense of Peretyat'kin, o-minimality, and mutually interpretable theories. Siberian Advances in Mathematics. ISSN: 1055-1344, vol. 26, No. 3, 190 – 195.
Kudaibergenov, K. (2017). The small index property and the cofinality of the automorphism group. Siberian Advances in Mathematics. ISSN: 1055-1344, vol. 27, No. 1, 1 – 15.
Kristopher White, Ph.D. Geography
Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration/College of Social Sciences
White, K.D. (2014). Nature and Economy in the Aral Sea Basin. In The Aral Sea: The Devastation and Partial Rehabilitation of a Great Lake Micklin, Philip; Aladin, N.V.; Plotnikov, Igor (Eds.) Springer Earth System Sciences series, Chapter 12 pp. 301-335. (Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag).
White, K.D. (2013). A geographical perspective on the Aral Sea crisis: Three interpretations of an image. Bulletin of Geography Socio-economic Series 21: 125-132.
Aliya Nurtaeva, Ph. D. in Chemistry
Dr. Nurtaeva holds an Honors Diploma (1974) and Candidate of Science degrees in Chemistry from Moscow State University (1979 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Oklahoma State University (1999). She has more than 30 years of teaching experience including at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Oklahoma State University, New Hamphire Technical College, Southern New Hampshire University. She has done research in Chemistry, Technology and Radiation Dosimetry at KazGU, Moscow State University, Oklahoma State University and the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda (USA) and registered 17 patents.
Nurseit Niyazbekov, Ph. D. Politics
Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations and Regional Studies/College of Social Sciences
Dr Nurseit Niyazbekov is an assistant professor in the Department of International Relations in KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He is researching and consulting various international media and think tanks in the areas of post-communist transitions, democratization, Central Asian state building and protest mobilization. He was a visiting research fellow at the University of Michigan and SciencePO. He obtained his PhD and MSc degrees in Politics and Sociology from the University of Oxford.
Nadeem Naqvi, Ph. D.
Professor, Department of Economics/College of Social Sciences, College of Social Sciences
Naqvi, N., & Egbert, H. (2015). Market-Dependent Domestic Production Set. Journal of Economics and Finance Education, 14 (1), 31-40
Naqvi, N. (2017). Production Possibility Frontier: New Concepts for Post-Crisis Economics Textbooks in Ploehn, Juergen and George Chobanov (Eds.), Sustainability and Welfare Policy in European Market Economies, Peter Lang, pp 11-12.
Gerald Pech, Doctorate of Economics
Associate Professor, Department of Economics/College of Social Sciences
Dean, College of Social Sciences
Gerald Pech held teaching and research positions at the Graduate School Bochum and Dortmund, the University of St Andrews, National University of Ireland in Galway, American University in Bulgaria and Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz. His fields of specialization are game theory, public economics and the economic analysis of institutions.
Francis Amagoh, Ph. D. in Public Policy and Administration
Professor, Department of Public Administration/College of Social Sciences
Amagoh, F. (2017). Healthcare in Kazakhstan in The Future of Healthcare in Developing Countries in Asia( Eds. C. Aspalter and K. Pribadi). London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
Amagoh, F., & Rahman, T. (2016). Tapping into the Potential of Academic Diaspora for Homeland Development: The Case of Nigeria. Journal of International Migration and Integration .Vol. 17 No. 1, 35-53.
Nygmet Ibadildin, Ph. D. in Political Science and International Relations
Chair of the Department of International Relations and Regional Studies, Department of International Relations and Regional Studies/College of Social Sciences
Nygmet Ibadildin graduated in 1995 from Kazakh State University with major in Philosophy. He made his Master of Arts in International relations in California State University at Fresno. He defended his PhD dissertation in 2011 in University of Tampere, School of Management. Title of dissertation is Role Of New And Old Institutional Framework In Combating The Resource Curse In Kazakhstan". Dissertation grade is Magna cum laude approbatur.
He was editor and journalist in the Energy of Kazakhstan magazine and in the newspaper Vremya Po form 1999-2002.
Worked in different schools in Kazakhstan and abroad.
Research interests are political economy of natural resources, institutional development, Post-Soviet institutions and discourse analysis.
Currently teaching in KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Ibadildin, N. (2012). Role of institutions in Kazakhstan in combating the resource curse: Transition from the Soviet legacy to something else. London: Lambert Academic Publishing.
Ibadildin, N. (2009). Oil and Authoritarianism in Kazakhstan, in Ostrov, B. (Ed.) From Silk Road to Oil Slick: Kazakhstan Reemergence to Modernity. Norwalk: EastBridge.
Charles McGrath, Nygmet Ibadildin. Kazakh Famine 1928-1932. Publication date.2018/5. Journal Ukrainian Policymaker, Volume 2, 2018: 12-19 DOI: 10.29202/up/2/2
Ken Harvey and Nygmet Ibadildin. Handbook of Research on Human Social Interaction in the Age of Mobile Devices, scheduled for publication in 2016 by IGI Global, Chapter Mobile Impacting All Phases of Business IGI Global 2016
Ken Harvey and Nygmet Ibadildin. Business and mobile: Rapid restructure required June 2016 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0469-6.ch014
Нефть и политика. Мировой опыт и Казахстан. Казакпарат: Алматы 2015 in Russian
Role Of New And Old Institutional Framework In Combating The Resource Curse In Kazakhstan. Acta Universitatis Tamperensis 1600, Tampere 2011
Role of institutions in Kazakhstan in combating the resource curse
Transition from the Soviet legacy to something else
Oil and Authoritarianism in Kazakhstan, Chapter for the book From Silk Road to Oil Slick: Kazakhstan Reemergence to Modernity, Edited by Ben Ostrov. Norwalk: EastBridge 2009
Resource Curse avoidance policies in Kazakhstan: issues, debates, difficulties in implementation in The Exploitation Of The Landscape Of Central And Inner Asia: Past, Present And Future Edited by Michael Gervers, Uradyn E. Bulag, Gillian Long, Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia, No. 9 Asian Institute, University of Toronto
Toronto, 2008
Kazakhstan. Article for the Routledge Encyclopedia of adolescence, 2007
"Concepts of Political Development and Modernization", Poisk, Research journal of the Ministry of education and science 2003, 4 (Part II)
"Concepts of Political Development and Modernization", Poisk, Research journal of the Ministry of education and science 2003, 4 (Part I)
"Historical and Country Lessons in Oil Development", Poisk , Research journal of the Ministry of education and science 2002 , 4
"Interdependence Of Oil And Politics In Kazakhstan", Poisk , Research journal of the Ministry of education and science 2002 , 3
"The Great Game. History and today", Vestnik Vishei Shkoly Kazakhstana, 2002, 1, Almaty
"World Best Practice for Petroleum Fund and Kazakhstan's Variant", Poisk , Research journal of the Ministry of education and science 1,2002, p.152-156
"Some Positive and Negative Aspects of Oil Development in Kazakhstan", Poisk , Research Journal of the Ministry of Education and Science №6, 2001, p.215-218
"International aspects of oil production in Kazakhstan", Kazakhstan and World Community: Collection of the Articles, edited by M. Zholdasbekov Almaty: Dyke-press, 2000. p.134-143
"What are the Price Determinants for Oil Markets" Materials of the International Conference held by Diplomatic Academy, Astana, January 18-19, 2001 TACIS, FINEK.
"Some Implications of the Recent Constitutional Changes in Kazakhstan", Working Papers. Symposium: Politics, Economics and Ideology in Kazakhstan, Research Center Almaty, Kazakhstan, KIMEP, 1999, pp. 130-134
"Philosophy and Idealism" Poisk , Research Journal of the Ministry of Education and Science 1999, 1, p.194-199, Almaty,
"Realist, Interdependent and World Systems theories as Explanatory Models of International Relations" Higher Education in Kazakhstan. 1999, 1, pp.119-124, Almaty
"The Economic Miracle and Its Rational Explanations" Poisk, Research Journal of the Ministry of Education and Science. 1998, 3, pp.198-201, Almaty,
"Philosophy as an Apophatic Phenomenon of the Consciousness" Mysl, Republican journal on social and political issues 1998, 6, pp.18-23, Almaty,
"Liberalization in Kazakhstan. Part 1.", Vestnik Vishei Shkoly Kazakhstana ,1998, 4, pp.135-141, Almaty
"Liberalization in Kazakhstan. Part 2.", Vestnik Vishei Shkoly Kazakhstana 1998, 5, pp.94-106, Almaty
"Truth. Beauty and Common Good", Mysl, Republican journal on social and political issues
1998, 6, pp.36-38, Almaty,
"Some Peculiarities of Philosophical Discourse", Poisk , Research Journal of the Ministry of Education and Science 1998, 3, pp.191-192, Almaty,
"Relationship between Political and Military Elites in Russia", Vestnik Vishei shkoly Kazakhstana, 1996, 4, pp. 65-70, Almaty
"Kataphatic Definition of Philosophy", Methodical Recommendations Almaty, "Kazakh Universiteti", 1997 pp.3-17
"Economic and Political relations of Kazakhstan with Russia, China and United States", Vestnik Vishei Shkoly Kazakhstana , 1997, 4, pp.75-82, Almaty
"Sino-American Relations" Materials of the First International Scientific Conference on the Role of Sociology, October 23-24 1996, pp.158-167, Almaty, 1997
"Kataphatic Definition of Philosophy" Vestnik Vishei Shkoly Kazakhstana , 1996, 5, pp.114-124, Almaty
"Apophatic Definition of Philosophy", Vestnik Vishei Shkoly Kazakhstana 1996, 4, pp. 71-81, Almaty
US Patent PCT/US 2013/049188 Bentonite collars for wellbore casings Craig Benson, Ivan Kornienko, Nygmet Ibadildin – US Patent App. 13/542,390, 2012 WO 2014008325 A1 United States Patent US009080419B2 (12) (10) Patent No.: US 9,080,419 Date of Patent: Jul. 14, 2015
Номер патента: 30703. Узел обсадной трубы и способ изоляции зазора между обсадной трубой и стенкой ствола скважины.. Опубликовано: 15.12.2015. Авторы: Бэнсон Крэг Х., Ибадильдин Ныгмет Амангельдинович, Корниенко Иван Викторович
МПК: E21B 43/10, C09K 3/18, E21B 17/01
Kazakhstan Patent No16322, Е21В 33/14, 14.10.2005
Сушко Сергей Михайлович, Бегун Анатолий Данилович, Ибадильдин Ныгмет Амангендинович, Корниенко Иван Викторович. Способ заканчивания технологических скважин и конструкция герметизирующего стакана
Kazakhstan Patent No15117, 15.12.2004 Цирельсон Людмила Екимовна, Ибадильдин Ныгмет Амангендинович Способ лечения диарейных заболеваний
Kazakhstan Patent No 14313, 05.05.2004 Цирельсон Людмила Екимовна, Ибадильдин Ныгмет Амангендинович Способ получения адсорбирующего средства из коллоидных глин
Kazakhstan Patent No 13071, 15.05.2003 Бухман Михаил Александрович, Ибадильдин Ныгмет Амангендинович Распылительная сушилка
Sholpan Kozhamkulova, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Media and Communications/College of Social Sciences
Currently, Sholpan is on leave to study towards her PhD in Journalism Studies at the University of Maryland. Sholpan Kozhamkulova graduated from Kazakh National University with a BA in Journalism in 2000. She earned an MA in Translation Theory from Abylay Khan Kazakh State University in 2002, an MA in Journalism and Public Affairs from the American University in Washington DC in 2004 and a PhD in Political Communications from KazNU in 2008. Her career includes work as an editor at "Aykos" and teaching positions at Abylay Khan University and KazNU.
Saltanat Kazhimuratova, M.A. in International Journalism
Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communication/College of Social Sciences
A professional journalist, experienced university professor, worked as an editor in the newspapers and magazines, taught Journalism courses at universities. Was a visiting scholar in the J-School at Michigan State University, USA and Lund University in Sweden. Is a member of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Was awarded an "Y. Altynsarin" medal by the Ministry of Education of Kazakhstan for the remarkable contribution to teaching and upbringing the young generation. "The Best Faculty of the AY 2016-2017".
Frederick Emrich, MA in Media Arts
Assistant Professor/ Department of Media and Communication/College of Social Sciences
Frederick Emrich earned BA in Media Arts and an MA in Media arts from the University of Arizona. His previous appointments were as Sessional Lecturer at Carleton University, as Consultant on Web Site Redesign with the Soros Foundation Kazakhstan and as researcher for the Credibility Project at the American Library Association. He also was an editor for the Information Commons Project at the American Library Association.
Alma Kudebayeva, Ph. D.
Kudebayeva A., (2018) "Chronic Poverty in Kazakhstan" CERGE-EI Working Paper Series 627, Prague.
Barrientos, A., and Kudebayeva, A., (2018) "Social Transfers and Women's Labour Supply in Kyrgyzstan" IZA Institute of Labor Economics, GLM|LIC Working Paper No. 41
Kudebayeva, A., Barrientos, A., (2017) "A Decade of Poverty Reduction in Kazakhstan 2001-2009: growth and/or redistribution? " Journal of International Development, 29, 1166–1186.
Kudebayeva, A., Janbaouva A., (2017) "Multidimensional Poverty: An Application to Kazakhstan" Central Asia Business Journal, Vol.8, No.1 Summer2017.
Barrientos, A., and Kudebayeva, A., (2015) "Social Transfers and Women's Labour Supply in Kyrgyzstan" Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper No. 215. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2704450 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2704450 .
Brück, T., Esenaliev, D., Kroeger, A., Kudebayeva, A., Mirkasimov, B., Steiner, S. (2014) "Household Survey Data for Research on Well-Being and Behavior in Central Asia" Journal of Comparative Economics, 42, 819-835.
Nickolay Povetkin, MA in Economics
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics/College of Social Sciences
Nickolay Povetkin earned a Diploma in English language teaching from Ablay-Khan Kazakhstan State University in 2000 and an MA in Economics from KIMEP University in 2002. He joined KIMEP in 2002.
Altay Mussurov, Ph. D.
Dr. Altay Mussurov obtained his doctorate in Economics from the University of Wales. Before joining KIMEP, he worked as a consultant for the World Bank and then as a tutorial leader at the LSE Summer School, after which he was a research associate at Sheffield University. He has taught courses in macroeconomics, development economics and labor economics, and he is also involved in supporting the internship program. His recent research focuses on questions concerning marital sorting and compensation for danger. In a project supported by the International Development Research Centre (Canada), he examined questions concerning employment decisions and earnings in the formal and informal wage employment.
Eldar Madumarov, Doctorate in Economics
Chair, Department of Economics/College of Social Sciences
Alimbekov, A., Madumarov, E., & Pech, G. (2017). Sequencing in Customs Union Formation: Theory and Application to the Eurasian Economic Union. Journal of Economic Integration 32.
Madumarov, E. (2008) External Factors of Economic Growth: Transition Economies of the Baltics and Central Asia. VDM Verlag, Saarbrücken, August 2008. (Book).
Leon Taylor, Ph.D. in Economics
Taylor, L., Coats, R. M., & Dalton, Th. (2006) Economics and the Easter Island metaphor. Rapa Nui Journal 20:2. 97-110.
Taylor, L., Johnson, J., & Pecquet, G. M.(2007). Gains from trade in 'dirty' industries: Lawrence Summers' memo revisited. Cato Journal 27:3. 397-410.
Aliya Kabdiyeva, MPhil
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration/College of Social Sciences
Kabdiyeva, A. (2015). Development of NGOs in Kazakhstan. European Journal of Business and Social Sciences 4 (2), pp. 159-169.
Dixon, J., Kabdiyeva A. (2014). Collaboration between the State and NGOs in Kazakhstan. International Journal of Community and Cooperative Studies 1(1), pp. 27-41.
Saule Emrich-Bakenova, Ph.D. in Public Policy
• Doctor of Philosophy, Public Policy, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
• Master of Study in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
• Master of Public Administration, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, SUNY, New York, U.S.A.
– Janus-Faced Dysfunctional Law: Case of Kazakhstan's Socioeconomic Support to Refugee Community. Central Asia and Caucus: Journal of Social and Political Studies March: 125-135. 2015
– Mapping the Legislation, Policies and Programmes on Child Labour and Youth Employment in Kazakhstan. ILO-IPEC. 2012.
– Study on Self-Reliance Opportunities for Urban Refugees in Kazakhstan. UNHCR. 2011.
– Sex-workers in Kazakhstan Seek Legalization and Regulation of Their Trade, A EurasiaNet commentary, 2016. http://www.eurasianet.org/node/80201
– Kazakhstan: New Labor Code Squeezes Older Workers, A EurasiaNet commentary (with Frederick Emrich). 2016. http://www.eurasianet.org/node/80201
Azhar Baisakalova, Ph. D.
DBA, Adjunct
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration/College of Social Sciences
Baisakalova A.B. (2015). Grounded Action Research: Systems Thinking Approach to Promoting CSR in Kazakhstan. Abstracts of the Papers Presented at the ISSS2015 International Conference "Governing the Anthropocene: The greatest challenge for systems thinking in practice?" pp.131-132. Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 2-7 August, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-906740-13-9.
Baisakalova A.B. (2016). Responsible Business and Social Entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan. Chapter in the book: The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise (ed. Wayne Visser), v. 2, 78-83. Greenleaf Publishing. ISBN-13: 978-1-78353-462-3.
Gulnara Dadabayeva
Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and Regional Studies
Phone: 270-42-79, 270-42-88 ext. 3077
Office:129 /ac
E-Mail: dgulnara@kimep.kz
D.Sc. (Historical Sciences), Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi, Kazakhstan
2005 – present, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, KIMEP, Kazakhstan
1987 – 2005, Lecturer, Department of History, in Kazakh National University named after al-Farabi, Kazakhstan
Primary teaching areas and teaching experience:
History of Kazakhstan, "Nation-state building in Asian Republics of Soviet Union" "Government and Politics in Central Asia", "Central Asian – Russian Relations", "History of Diplomacy from 1648 to 1815", "History of Diplomacy from 1815 to 1945"
Nationalism and nation-state building processes in modern Central Asia.
Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Nationalism and Language Issues. The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, vol. 37 no. 2 2010, Brill The Netherland, ISSN 1075-1262, e-ISSN 1876-3324 (co-author A. Adibayeva)
Kazakh Nationalism in Eurasian Context. History Research, vol.2, Number 7, July 2012. USA, David Publishing Company, ISSN 2159-550X, ISSN 2159-5518.
El Nasionalismo Kazajo en el Contexto Eurasia Tico, Eurasiatica Revista Online Sobre Asia Central, 2011, 2
Post-Crisis World: The Chinese Factor in The Transformation of Kazakhstan" , co-author A. Adibayeva (submitted for publication by Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (USA)
Problems of Refugees from Central Asia as Consequences of Stalin's Modernization [Проблема Беженцев из Центральной Азии, как Последствия Сталинской Модернизации], Vestnik KazNU, Seriya Istoricheskaya, 2009, 2 (31): С. 11-18
Nationalism in Modern Kazakhstan Language Policy, Otan Tarihy, 2009, 2: 54-63
The Peculiarities of "Russification Processes" in SovietRepublics and Kazakh Language Problems [Особенности Процесса «Русификации» в Советских Республиках и Проблемы Казахского Языка], Аlash, 2009, 1 (22): 104 – 111
Kazakhstan – Russian relations in 2000-s geopolitical context (p. 21-27)// Kazakh civilization, # 3, 2012.
"Great Powers Politics in Central Asia in 2000-s: The New "Great Game"? // KazNU Herald [Вест. КазНУ, сер ист.] – 2013 – №3 (70).- с. 96-103.
"Mackinder's legacy today: new challenges for Kazakhstan and Central Asia" in Central Asia in International Relations, ed. by Nick Megoran & Sevara Sharapova, Hirst and Co, London, 2013. (co–author A. Adibayeva)
Государственная языковая политика в независимом Казахстане: внешне- и внутриполитические факторы.(с. 270-282) –/ Центральная Азия. Традиции и современность. Под ред. А.О. Чубарьяна. Институт всеобщей истории РАН РК.- Москва, 2011.- 330 с. ISBN 978-5-94067-326-2.
Нациестроительство в Центральной Азии: от советских наций к постсоветским нациям-государствам.(с. 295-317) /Центральная Азия. Традиции и современность. Под ред. А.О. Чубарьяна. Институт всеобщей истории РАН РК.- Москва, 2011.- 330 с. ISBN 978-5-94067-326-2.
Kazakhstan during civil war [Казахстан в годы гражданской войны] //History of Kazakhstan since ancient times to nowadays [История Казахстана с древнейших времен до наших дней (курс лекций)]. – Алматы: Уш Киян, 2003. – С. 360-382.
The Modern History of the World [Новейшая История Мира (Учебник для 9 классов 12-летних Школ)], (with G. Kokebayeva, M.Baisymakova), Mektep, Almaty, 2011
The Modern History of the World (Reading Materials Collection), [Новейшая История Мира] (Хрестоматия для 12-летних Школ), (with G. Kokebayeva, M.Baisymakova), Mektep, Almaty, 2011
Russia and Kazakhstan: Searching for a New Partnership in 2000s, The Dragon and the Bear: Strategic Choices of China and Russia, 11th Aleksanteri Conference, Helsinki, Finland, November 2011
Kazakh Nationalism in Eurasian Context, CESS XII Annual Conference, Ohio State University, USA, September 2011
Nationalism Issues in Language Policy of Modern Kazakhstan, ICCEES XIII World Congress, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010
The Issues of Nationalism in Kazakhstan Language Policy, Osnovnite Problemi na Sovremenna Nauka, International Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2009: 29-34
The Establishment of State Nationalism in Independent Kazakhstan, Strategiczne Pytania Awiatowej Nauki, International Conference, Przemysl, Poland, 2009: 72-78
Involvement in academic and professional associations:
Member of "Kazakhstan Historians" Association.
Member of Central Eurasian Studies Society (USA).
Phone: 270 42 79/88, ext 3077
Office: 129 Valikhanov bld.
Aigul Adibayeva
Associate Dean, College of Social Sciences
Candidate of Science
Office: 130/ac
E-Mail: aigula@kimep.kz
Assistant Professor/Associate Dean/College of Social Sciences
Candidate of Science in Political Science, Almaty State University named of Abay, Kazakhstan, 2009
Areas: Political Science, International Relations
Teaching experience: 12 years
Courses taught at KIMEP:
-Fundamentals of Political Science
-Foreign Policy of Kazakhstan
-Russia-Central Asia Relations
-Ethics in International Affairs.
– Management of International Organizations
Research experience involves the following areas: Central Asian integration, issues in foreign policy of Kazakhstan, political and economic situation in Turkmenistan, Caspian region.
Joint Research and Curriculum Development Project "Excellence in Teaching on Global Business and International Relations" with Agder University (Norway), with support from the Norwegian Centre for Cooperation in Education (SIU) in May 2012-2014; curricular development and teaching the course of "Ethics in IA".
A. Adibayeva, D. Saari, A. Tleuzhanova (2016). To the Question of Legal Regulations of International Trade in the Context of Multi-dimensional Diplomacy. International Economic Law, issue 1, Moscow, November, 2016.
J. Melich, A. Adibayeva. Nation-building and Cultural Policy in Kazakhstan. European Scientific Journal, ISSN: 1857 – 7431, December 2013, special edition, vol. 2, pp.265-279.
G. Dadabayeva, A. Adibayeva: A Post-Crisis World: The Chinese Factor in the Transformation of Kazakhstan. Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Villanova University, Villanova PA, issue XXXVII no. 2, 2013.
"Kazakhstani-Turkmenistan Relations at Modern Stage", chapter in the edited book Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan. Scarecrow Press Inc. Lanham, Toronto, 2012.
A. Adibayeva (co-authored with G. Dadabayeva). "H. Mackinder's Legacy Today: New Challenges for Kazakhstan and Central Asia", – a chapter in the edited book: H. Mackinder and the International Relations in Central Asia (Editor: Nick Megoran)//Published by: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd., London, ISBN-13: 978-1849042437/ December 2012.
A. Adibayeva, (co-authored with G. Dadabayeva) "Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Nationalism and Language Issues", published in peer-reviewed journal The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, volume 37, No.2, 2010, p. 127-141. – BRILL, the Netherland.
Phone +7(727) 270-43-12 (ext. 3189)
Office: 205 A Valikhanov bld.
Nargis Kassenova (On leave for AY 2020-2021)
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Associate Professor / Director of Central Asian Studies Center
PhD in Political Science, Nagoya University, Japan, 2006
MA in Political Science, Nagoya University, Japan, 2001
2008-2010, EU-Central Asian Monitoring (EUCAM) project
2005-2006, Asia Barometer Survey Project
Selected involvement in public service activities
Chair of the Board of Trustees of Soros Foundation – Kazakhstan, 2011 – present;
Member of the Board of Trustees of Soros Foundation – Kazakhstan, 2009-2011.
Central Asia in Global Politics
Fundamentals of International Relations
Russia-Central Asia Relations
Undergraduate Seminar in International Relations (Japan in Global Politics)
US-Kazakhstan Relations
Central Asian security; Asian security; Eurasian geopolitics; Eurasian energy security; political development in Central Asia
Central Asia: Contemporary Security Challenges and Sources of State Resilience, (with Alessandro Frigerio), Security and Human Rights, 2013, 24
Kazakhstan and Eurasian Economic Integration: Quick Start, Mixed Results and Uncertain Future, Russie.Nei.Visions Reports No.14, Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), Paris, November 2012
Kazakhstan: Constructing Identity in a Post-Soviet Society, (with Scott Spehr), Asian Ethnicity, 2012, 13(2)
Prospects and Hurdles in EU-Kazakhstan Energy Cooperation, EUCAM Commentary, November, 2011
The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Central Asia and Its Implications for the EU Engagement, EUCAM Working Paper, October 2009, 5
Beyond Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policies: EU's Central Asia Strategies, EU4seas project papers, October, 2009
The Gas Crisis and the Financial Crisis: The Impact on EU-Central Asia Relations in the Energy Sphere, ISS Opinion, European Union Institute for Security Studies, April, 2009
Kazakhstan and the South Caucasus Corridor in the Wake of the Georgia-Russia War, EUCAM Policy Brief, January, 2009, 3
Kazakhstan and Eurasian Economic Integration: Quick Start, Mixed Results and Uncertain Future, in Eurasian Economic Integration: Law, Policy and Politics, Rilka Dragneva and Kataryna Wolszuk (Eds), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2013
EU-Central Asia Bilateral Cooperation, in The European Union in Central Asia, Alexander Warkotch (Ed), Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2010
Central Asian Regional Security Cooperation: Constraints and Prospects, in Security Sector Reform in Central Asia: Exploring Needs and Possibilities, Merjin Hartog (Ed), Greenwood Papers, Groningen: The Centre for European Security Studies (CESS), 2010
The SCO Energy Club: Purpose and Prospects, Petroleum Politics of the Caspian, Indra Overland, Heidi Kjaernet and Andrea Herschman Kendall-Taylor (Eds), Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2009
China as an Emerging Donor in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, Understanding Russia and the New Independent States, Thomas Gomart and Tatiana Kastueva-Jean (Eds), Russie.Nei.Visions, Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), Paris, France, 2009
Japan's Hesitant Embrace of Central Asia: Will There Be a Strategy?, in Great Powers and Regional Integration in Central Asia: A Local Perspective, Mario Esteban and Nicolas de Pedro (Eds), Fundacion Alternatives, Madrid, Spain, 2009
Russia and China in Central Asia: Soft Power Policy Instruments in Comparative Perspective, The Dragon and the Bear: Strategic Choices of China and Russia, 11th Aleksanteri Conference, Helsinki, Finland, November 9-11, 2011
Kazakhstan's Regional Economic Ambitions and Eurasian Customs Union, The Eurasian Trade Task Force Roundtable, French Institute of International Affairs (IFRI), Paris, France, October 17, 2011
Russia and China: Stabilizers or Destabilizers in Central Asia?, IFRI Breakfast Debate with Bobo Lo and Didier Chaudet, Paris, France, June 25, 2011
Kazakhstan's Foreign and Regional Policies, REP Seminar on Kazakhstan's Chairmanship of OSCE and Prospects for Democracy and Human Rights, Chatham House, UK, December 17, 2010
Solving the Energy Puzzle: Regional and European Energy Security, Reviewing EU Policy toward Central Asia: Meeting the Upcoming Challenges, Berlin, Germany, November 11, 2010
Kazakhstan's Political Development and Social Democratic Values, EU and Central Asia: Roles and Prospects, Almaty, Kazakhstan, November 6-7, 2010
Central Asian Regional Security Cooperation: Constraints and Prospects, Security Sector Reform in Central Asia, Almaty, Kazakhstan, September 24-25, 2009
Phone: 270-42 84, ext. 3078
Office: 116 Valikhanov bld
E-mail: nargis@kimep.kz
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Savage Factory Gun Wins Hickory Shoot. Savage 6mmBR Ships This Week.
Nice article. But we that must have .25 group are sick individuals, I'm in the club.
Just went thru it with 6.5Creedmoot on Remington 700 SSA factory barrel, it would shoot, but it would, COPPER up,I it called it PENNY. Finally, it smooth out, and clean up easily. Shooting under 3/8 with Bergers 135gr CHB and RL16.
Strongly agree. I have had Savages that we at best ok shooters. New barrels from both Shilen and Criterion have worked wonders. They're both quite good and well worth the money to fix otherwise insoluble problems.
That's one of the nifty features of the Savages. A fellow with a barrel nut wrench and some headspace gauges can do himself a whole lot of good. The prefits from Northland are a good thing.
how do we know if we have bad barrel, or we just didnt find good load (jet)?


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Omar Treviño Morales
Occupation Leader of Los Zetas
Role Drug lord
Name Omar Morales
Weight 240 lb (110 kg)
Born January 26, 1974 (age 41) (1974-01-26) Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Other names L-42Z-42OmarOscar Trevino MoralesComandante Forty TwoAlejandro Trevino Morales
Relatives Miguel Trevino Morales (Brother)Jose Trevino Morales (Brother)
Siblings Miguel Trevino Morales, Jose Trevino Morales
Predecessor Miguel Trevino Morales
Nuevas im genes del traslado del z 42 omar trevi o morales
Óscar Omar Treviño Morales (born January 26, 1974) is a convicted Mexican drug lord and former leader of Los Zetas, a criminal organization. He was one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords. His brother is Miguel Treviño Morales, a former leader of the group. The authorities believe he was the successor of his brother, who was arrested on July 15, 2013.
Presentan a omar trevi o morales el z 42 l der de los zetas
Morales is allegedly responsible for several abductions and murders committed in Nuevo Laredo between 2005 and 2006 and the supply source for multi-kilogram loads of cocaine smuggled from Mexico to the United States.
He was charged in a 2008 federal indictment in the U.S. District of Columbia, and the U.S. Department of State is currently offering a reward of up to $5 million USD for information leading to his arrest and/or conviction. On 24 March 2010, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned him under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (sometimes referred to simply as the "Kingpin Act"), for his involvement in drug trafficking along with fifty-three other international criminals and ten foreign entities. The act prohibited U.S. citizens and companies from doing any kind of business activity with him, and virtually froze all his assets in the U.S.
At around 4:00 a.m. on March 4, 2015, Treviño Morales was captured inside a residence in Fuentes del Valle, an upper-class neighborhood in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, by the Federal Police and the Mexican Army. Not a single shot was fired in the operation. In a nearby neighborhood, authorities arrested his financial operator Carlos Arturo Jiménez Encinas, along with four other people. Four days later he was transferred to the Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1, a maximum-security prison in Almoloya de Juárez, State of Mexico. He was formally charged in a federal court in Toluca, State of Mexico on March 13 for money laundering and for violating Mexico's Federal Law of Firearms and Explosives.
On 23 March 2015, Ramiro Pérez Moreno (alias "El Rana" or "The Frog"), a potential successor of "Z-42", was captured along with 4 other men. He was arrested in possession of 6 kilos of cocaine and marijuana, rifles and one hand grenade.
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In high school, more than anything I wanted a Tablet PC. Yes, one running Windows XP with a stylus that everyone seems to hate so very much now. I ended up getting one, a Toshiba M405, which was the first in a string of Tablet PC purchases. Speed School started a Tablet PC program the year I entered and I was very involved in making it successful. I co-founded the Student Tablet User Group and created software that was specifically designed to work with digital ink content. I also managed to have a class project focused on handwriting recognition and my thesis was based on algorithmic organization of digital ink. Not all of my work was based around pen enabled input. My capstone project was a touch enabled card game engine that was built on top of Microsoft Surface technologies.
At this point, I have four Tablet PCs which are essentially being used as Laptops. Thanks to Google, I now have a Galaxy Tab 10.1 running Honeycomb 3.1. In the past, I was not a huge fan of Java development, specifically Eclipse, but that has since changed. My use of AppEngine as a web based development platform along with Android application development and some other small side projects, it has become one of my most used programming languages. PHP and C# are still used for many of my projects, but Java provides unmatched flexibility.
The past is always interesting to talk about, but my real concern now is the future. The success of the iPad can not be viewed as a bad thing for the general public, but personally I am not a fan. While I realize that for some people the iPad provides the integrated experience they want, it will always be lacking in certain areas. The best explanation that I have heard is that it takes a day to master the use of an iPad while you will still be learning how to use an Android tablet even after weeks of use. I agree with that statement and must assert that it is a good thing. Android provides a flexible and open architecture that allows for a more dynamic computing experience.
The real issue to me from a productivity standpoint can be best summarized in a single question. Can it run Eclipse? I think this is a good benchmark to determine the level of productivity that you can have on a device. Since Eclipse is based on Java, it can in theory run anywhere. The complexity and scale of Eclipse makes it a sizable application that can run slow even on modern computers. Eclipse will never run on the iPad. The real question for me is not if it will run on an Android Tablet, but will it run on the Chrome Book that I am expecting in the mail soon. The core issue here is productivity and the question can be re-framed. Does a "windows" based computing environment provide the most productive computing environment? I would argue that for certain tasks the command line is the most productive. Just as the command line is still a tool of power users a, windowed environment may turn into the same type of tool.
The future will be in the clouds, probably more than anyone expects. It seems silly to have so much computing power in your pocket (considering battery life) when it could simply be offloaded to another location (that includes an AC adapter). The devices that we use in our day-to-day lives will simply turn into I/O devices, providing screens and various means of input (keyboards, touch, pen, and voice). From this respect I think the "windows" interface has only a few years left (I'll pick the arbitrary number of 4) before the vast majority of computing is performed using other interface constructs. The concept of the traditional window simply does not scale properly to the dozens of screens we are surrounded with.
Mobile phones have introduces the concept of the "app" which is best described as an application that has full screen interfaces that provide a focused computing experience. While this is a useful construct, I do not believe it is the most ideal. Personally I am waiting for an immersive augmented reality heads up display to become my primary interface into the digital world. This concept strays far from the slate based tablets that are rapidly growing in popularity. Android is the most likely platform to embrace all forms of input (keyboards, touch, pen, and voice), which puts it in the best position for the future. Android also provides a highly flexible way to have the same application target multiple computing interfaces and hardware types. Windows also has all of theses features and Windows 8 may extends Microsoft's dominance for another 10 years. Apple will continue its success, but based on their approach can not change the world by themselves.
The real trick to become the next paradigm in computing is to become transparent. In the future, it will seem silly to say, "I'm going to go use the computer" because there will be dozens of computers around you at all times. I'm already surrounded by half a dozed computing devices and this number will only increase. The future I want to see will be ruled by open source and therefore ruled by no single individual or company. The question about tablet computing and the future is the wrong question. There will simply be computing and the entire range of devices must be supported and integrated using the cloud.
While I have decided to keep Track and Field Clipboard closed source, I will reveal a little bit about how I created it. I keep all of my source code for all of my projects in a Subversion repository. Since I always strive to create the highest qualify software, this is definitely a powerful tool. It also provides a great way to keep backups of my code secure. As a data geek, I also appreciate all of the information that is captured by using a version control system. I used StatSVN to generate a report based on the repository.
As you can see from the chart below, I began coding on Monday May 30,2011. The majority of the code was written in the first three days of the project. This work mostly consisted of building the model that was use to represent the field events and participants. This code would have likely taken longer to create if I did not include the Simple XML third party library. Unlike the XML serialization capabilities built into .NET and C#, Java has no built in way to quickly and easily serialize objects into XML. While I could have used binary serialization, that had the possibility of causing problems in the future.
Using the Simple library was so quick and easy, I will likely use it in some other Java based applications that require some trivial XML parsing capabilities. The most attractive feature of Simple is the fact that it is very small. The APK for Track and Field Clipboard is only 156k, which has the library bundled with it. Other libraries were in the multiple megabyte range by themselves.
Android provides a variety of ways to store data persistently. I settled on using files and not an SQLite database to dramatically simplify the process. The process involves writing and reading the serialized object's XML to and from a file. Initial testing on this approach was very promising. The file was read using an AsyncTask and then the appropriate Activity was launched. Since all of the manipulations to the object were being performed in a single activity, this approach worked perfectly. When the activity was paused, another AsyncTask was dispatched to save the object back to the file so nothing would be lost. While I did have some performance issues, it turned out those were primarily cause by having the debugger attached to my device.
The weekly activity graph for this project is very interesting since the project is only a week old. The number of commits peaked and then fell indicating that the application was starting to stabilize. Since the project was a straight forward application there were very few stumbling blocks that I encountered during the process.
At the moment, I am currently between the end of my college career and the start of my first full time job. This means I have had several weeks (and still have several weeks more) where I can decided how to spend my time. Unlike many geeks, I am not a night person. I tend to wake up fairly early and do not stay up late into the morning hours. I have code commits as early as 9 AM and they only go as late as 2 PM. The drop in the number of commits in the later hours is likely when I was hungry and tended to take a break from coding. My lunch breaks were obviously much shorter. The graph reveals my peek productivity times: after lunch and before I go to bed.
This is obviously a very new project and I am confident that there are still a number of bugs in the code. There are also some simple features that did not make it into the initial release. Spending the past week creating this application has been my form of relaxing. Learning how to write an application that targets Honeycomb was definitely worth my time and effort.
It is a fairly simple idea and I had even talked about it before, but this past week I decided to actually build it. As someone who has been around Track and Field meets since I was very young, it was a perfect opportunity for me to build an application for an Android Honeycomb tablet. The basic idea is to replace the clipboard, paper, and pencil used to record scores for field events with a tablet.
When Google gave a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to everyone attending Google IO (including myself) there was a less than subtle nudge to "go forth and create apps." Not wanting to spend all of my time playing Angry Birds and now Plants vs Zombies, I decided to actually build a fully functional and useful application.
While I have one other application on the market and another long term project that has an Android component, I wanted to specifically focus on Honeycomb. While the application I build could have targeted phones, that was not my goal. The use case for a small screen is far less attractive, but the biggest motivation for only focusing on Honeycomb was simply to learn some of the new APIs and methodologies. I have spent some time working with the compatibility API for fragments and developing a pure Honeycomb application seemed like a more enjoyable activity.
Now a little bit about the application itself. I finally settled on the name Track and Field Clipboard for the application. Breaking with my long tradition of open sourcing my side projects, I have decided to keep this application close source. However, it is available for free on the Android Market. There is the possibility of me adding some advanced features in a paid version of the application if it gains some adoption.
The application is designed to be very easy to use. You create an event, add participants, and then record marks. The field events that are supported include Discus, Shot Put, Javelin, Long Jump, and Triple Jump. High Jump and Pole Vault are not supported since the rules for those competitions are significantly different and more complex.
The main benefit of using this application as opposed to an analog piece of paper is the automation that it provides. If the competition has flights, the athletes that qualify for the finals along with the order is automatically determined. Each participants best mark is highlighted to provide an accurate summary of the results at the current moment. Additionally, each participants current place is also available along with a view that summarizes the results. After you have finished with the event, the results can be emailed.
My goal here is to have this application just be slightly ahead of its time. There is not a large adoption of Android Tablet users at track meets yet, but with some luck that may change in the next year.
I need to thank Cassie for her help with the graphics (as always). I also need to thank my father for helping me work out some of the details to make sure they matched what would be expected by the user. He also served as my first actual user at the Bluegrass State Games yesterday.
In the end, my goal is to help bring technology into a new area and provide a good user experience. Hopefully I can find some users. More likely, I hope some users can find my app.


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Sometimes discarding or letting go of seemingly efficient LMSs which significantly fail to meet business needs, provides a fresh start and changes the game to produce far better returns. Studies have shown that companies are systematically changing LMSs into newer and better suited learning systems to support newer learner needs and business demands.But how do you make the assessment if it's time to make the change? How do you avoid the risks and implement far better solutions?
What are the common moans and complaints based on studies about LMSs, their cousins LCMSs, Knowledge Management and Performance Support systems?
Where are the fracture points between learners' and business needs, and the capabilities and strategies of LMSs, etc.?
How do you conduct, collect and present data to determine if it's time to let go or replace your LMSs?
What important strategies must you plan and prepare to implement the change?
How do you ensure that the new solutions will meet new learner and business needs?
What are models and examples of learning systems that are highly flexible, affordable and creative that allows learners to go through discovery, play, and structured learning?
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Whitechapel: Our music is a new era of corruption
Unlike most of their peers, Tennessee hard-hitters Whitechapel have consistently managed to deliver heavier than heavy tunes. Despite being lumped in, perhaps unfairly, with the deathcore movement, they are one of the few bands from that original group that have not strayed an iota from their crushing sound. We caught up with guitarist Alex Wade for a quick chat before the sextet decimated London for a second night running, in support of Trivium.
AA: Let's get this out of the way right at the start: Should we call you a deathcore band?
Alex: Deathcore, death metal, metal we don't really care. We just like to play metal!
AA: So the new album is called 'A New Era Of Corruption'. What was the thinking behind that?
Alex: Yeah, the title is 'A New Era Of Corruption' which is a line from the song 'Possession', off the 'This Is Exile' album, and it will be out in June. We thought it'd be cool to being in a flavour from 'This Is Exile' for the old fans. I feel like the title reflects the state of music we're in today with so many up and coming extreme metal acts – I feel like our music is a new era of corruption.
AA: Jason Suecof is producing this one, and he's got quite a stellar catalogue under his belt already. What makes him so good?
Alex: He's definitely a nutcase but in a very good way and we're very happy with the way the album came out. I feel his production input really helped a lot with the way our music is made and the way the songs came out. He's a very serious producer and musician, especially a very killer guitar player, and has lots of ideas for riffs and leads. He actually did a few leads for us and I find that with every band he records he puts his little twist on it, one way or another. When it's time to get down and do the work he's definitely ready. So I'm really happy with 'A New Era of Corruption', it's my favourite album thus far and it is better than 'This Is Exile'. It'll please 'Exile' fans, but it'll gain us new fans as well.
AA: You've also been doing webisodes on the band's youtube channel. Was it weird for the band to have a camera in their face the whole time they were working on the new record?
Alex: I'm the one who does all the webisode stuff, so if they have a problem with me getting a camera in their face, screw them! (laughs) It's something I like doing and it's fun to do. I'm no Spielberg but I like messing around and I know fans like watching the webisodes because when my favourite bands post webisodes I'm very intrigued and I really like to watch them.
AA: Do you think that people will hear the new album and finally stop straitjacketing you as a deathcore band?
Alex: We just do what we do man. We come from a young generation and we grew up listening to old-school bands like Suffocation but also Killswitch Engage and Unearth who have the more breakdown style riffing. I mean, take the whole headbanging thing we do for instance. We didn't sit down and think we should synchronise our headbanging and stuff, it's just the natural flow of the music and how the music makes you feel, you know? A lot of people say we coined the term 'bodybang' because we're not just headbanging with our heads, we're headbanging with our whole body. It's kind of like our bodies are on the same metronome and we feel it at the same time so we naturally know when to headbang or bodybang or whatever the hell you want to call it.
AA: Right now you're a bit in limbo – album recorded and ready but not out for a while yet, and you're out on the road. What's going through your mind? Are you nervous about how the new record will received?
Alex: I'm not really nervous, I'm confident. I think it's the best material and best production we've had till date, so I'm just really excited to get it out there and get people's perspective on it. We've been playing the first single 'The Darkest Day Of Man' for a while now and we've been getting a really good reception on that from the crowd – people are really enjoying it and saying it's super heavy. That's what we were going for: we weren't trying to stray from our sound or anything like that. We were on the Mayhem tour with Cannibal Corpse and Slayer and these are bands that have been doing it for 20 years. They're still around because they stuck to their sound. Bands that sell out and change their sound are gone in like 5 years, you know?
So we started this brutal, crushing sound on 'This Is Exile' and that's something we need to stick to for future albums because it'll let us build our fanbase and let our fans appreciate what we do because we keep putting our records that sound consistent for them, instead of trying to sell out and be a one hit wonder or something like that.
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Discipline Construction
SAA has one National Key Discipline, two Zhejiang Provincial Key Disciplines. Mechanics is a major discipline, which offers programs for doctoral degrees. SAA and its brother colleges have nine subordinate subjects together:Guidance Navigation & Control and Spatial Information Technology offer programs for doctoral degrees, the other seven offer programs for master's degrees. In addition, they have Engineering Mechanics which consists of two research directions, engineering mechanics and aerospace engineering, both of them offer programs for Bachelor degrees.
Solid Mechanics/Engineering Mechanics
This subject belongs to the Mechanics Specialty, which was founded in 1958, was one of the earliest Mechanics Specialty in China. Wang Rendong, Xie Yiquan and other famous Mechanical experts established Mechanics Departments and Engineering Mechanics Research Department, which developed to Engineering Mechanics Institute afterward. After the combination with teaching and research section in 2006, it was renamed "Institute of Applied Mechanics". The Solid Mechanics became Provincial Key Discipline in 2003, and became National Key Discipline in 2007. The engineering mechanics became Provincial Key Discipline in 2009. There are 26 faculty members in SAA. They are well known for their excellent overall qualities, high academic standards, rich practical experiences, and strong innovative spirits. There are 2 academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 National Scholar of Thousand-man Project, 1 Changjiang Scholar, 4 "excellent talents of the new century", 11 professors, 13 associate professors. 80% of them have a doctoral degree. In the past 6 years, SAA has experienced rapid development: it has undertaken many state-level, large-scaled research projects, and has yielded fruitful results both in education and research. There are more than 150 state-level research projects in total, of which 28 projects are from National Science Fundation of China,3 of them are key projects; 1 project is from National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars; 4 National "973" Projects; 5 "863" Projects and some military defense projects. The total amount of research funds accumulated to 40 million RMB yuans. There are about 500 journal or conference papers in total, of which more than 200 are indexed by SCI. Over near 6 year's development, the Institute of Applied Mechanics has trained large quantities of high-level qualified scientists and technicians with wide ranges of knowledge and strong ability of adaptability. The Institute of Applied Mechanics has trained more than of 90 masters, more than of 20 doctors, 8 post-doctoral program scholars. Many graduates have produced excellent results in teaching and researching.
Under the leadership of academician Yang Wei and Zhu Weiqiu, according to the team construction, base construction, major construction and talents construction, we are working at distinct research directions and have many outstanding achievements.
Our overall development objectives are as follows: in 4 years, we will import 4 excellent talents every year, make an effort to take more major project based on aeronautics and astronautics and high-speed train, and arrive world-class level on some important research directions.
Fluid Engineering
The Institute of Fluid Engineering (IFE) in Zhejiang University has more than 40 years research and teaching experience in fluid engineering. Its strong and broad technical foundation provides opportunities in both engineering practice and scientific research. Our undergraduate program is designed to provide students with the fundamental scientific training in the fields of fluid and solid mechanics, as well as the detailed engineering education for immediate entry into the job market. Our graduate program offers masters and doctoral degrees in Fluid Mechanics and Fluid machinery & fluid engineering, as well as post-doctorate program available. Professor Shao Xuemin is the current superintendent. At present, there are 14 faculty and staff members, more than 100 undergraduate and 30 graduate students are registered in our institute.
In the latest three years, the institute undertook more than 30 projects covering multiphase fluid mechanics, industrial fluid mechanics, turbulent theory and experiment, computational fluid mechanics, modern fluid experimental measuring techniques, and micro-fluid mechanics. These projects were supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, other ministries and provinces. The researches undertaken by the members of the institute contain two aspects. One is the research of fundamental theory. It mainly includes subjects of turbulent theory & experiment, multiphase flow, etc. The other is engineering application research, which applies the theory of fluid mechanics, numerical computation method and modern experimental measuring technique into engineering problems. The research targets are quality optimization of the products and industrial applications.
Key Contributions:
The institute has obtained 3 national awards and more than 10 provincial and ministry awards. Among them, "Research and application of internal flow of theory of centrifugal fans and computer aided design system" and "Development and application of extractor fan for nitrogen fertilizer production" won the 1st and 3rd National Scientific and Technological Advance Awards; "High pressure centrifugal fans for iron melting" won 3rd National Invention Award; "Theory of the coherent structure generation and evolution and its control" won the 2nd Science and Technology Progress Awards of Zhejiang Province. The institute has published 18 books and over 500 papers in national and international kernel journals.
Aeronautical and Astronautical Science and Technology
ZJU sets up three second MA programme under the Aeronautical and astronautical science and technology with agreement in 2005, which are flight vehicle design, aerospace propulsion theory and engineering, aerospace mechanics engineering. Simultaneously, two DA programme are built such as aerospace information technology, aeronautical electric and control. In addition, a second DA programme named navigation, guidance and control has already developed under the control science and engineering.
The research team includes Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Sciences (Rong-jun Sheng), Cheung Kong Chair Professor (Yao Zheng), Qiushi Professor (Hua Meng) and so on. Currently, there are more than 30 faculty members, including 1 member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Sciences, 1 Cheung Kong Chair Professor, 1 ZJU Qiu-shi Professor, 11 professors, 11 associate professors, 8 assistant professors and 2 part-time members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The overall object of the discipline is combined with the national high technology development strategy requirements, tracing the national and international development front. The studies are focused on the advanced science problems, such as the new flight vehicle design, new propulsion technology, navigation, guidance and control, aerospace information technology and aeronautical electric technology and so on. The research fields of the discipline are among flight overall design and analysis, hypersonic technology, unmanned flight vehicle technology, hypersonic numerical simulations, new propulsion technology, advanced aeronautical mechanics theory and technique, automatic flight control technique and equipment of small unmanned flight vehicle, aerospace intelligent robot cooperation control technique and system, aerospace computation engineering, distributed display and virtual reality, infrared image process, technology of deep space survey, and so on.
Recently, we carried out deep and system researches on the related fields. These research jobs are supported by the national natural science fund, the national funds for distinguished young scientists, the national defense 973 funds, the national defense 863 funds and so on. The total funds are more than 150 million RMB. In three years, 134 papers have been published in the national or international journals and conferences. Among them, more then 80 papers are index by SCI or EI. Part of faculty has joined several national major projects directed by the 3rd Institute of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp., 1st and 5th Institute of China Aerospace Science Corp.. Hypersonic aerodynamic and supersonic combustion experiment facilities are under construction. In 2008, the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Aerospace Numerical Simulations and Verifications (B) was established.
Though this discipline in ZJU is built later than others, it is one of top in the universities under the ministry of education, and facing opportunity for its fast developments. During the research process, the discipline development will focus on the basic application problems in the projects, and be combined with special application requirements. To further promote the discipline development, the university and college have adopted various measures to enlarge the research team, extend the approaches to research projects, and improve the education environment and infrastructure.