Emilian Kavalski

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

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

• The Guanxi of Relational International Theory (2021)
• Central Asia and the Rise of Normative Powers: Contextualizing the Security Governance of the European Union, China, and India (2012)
• India and Central Asia: The Mythmaking and International Relations of a Rising Power (2009)
• Extending the European Security Community: Constructing Peace in the Balkans (2008)

• The Ashgate Research Companion to Chinese Foreign Policy (2016)
• Stable Outside, Fragile Inside? Post-Soviet Statehood in Central Asia (2016)
• China and the Global Politics of Regionalization (2016)
• World Politics at the Edge of Chaos: Reflections on Complexity and Global Life (2015)
• Encounters with World Affairs: An Introduction to International Relations (2015)
• The New Central Asia: The Regional Impact of International Actors (2010)

• The Routledge Handbook on Global China (2025) with Maximilian Mayer, Marina Rudyak, and Xin Zhang
• China’s Rise and Rethinking International Relations Theory (2022) with Chengxin Pan
• Posthuman Dialogues in International Relations (2021) with Erika Cudworth and Stephen Hobden
• Defunct Federalisms: Critical Perspectives on Federal Failure (2016) with Magdalena Zolkos
• Power Transition in Asia(2016) with David Walton
• Asian Thought on China's Changing International Relations (2014) with Niv Horesh

• Emilian Kavalski publications indexed by Google Scholar