- Professor of International Relations, Tampere University
EMILIAN KAVALSKI is Professor of Global Politics at Tampere University (Finland), the Book Series Editor for Routledge's "Rethinking Asia and International Relations" series, the Central and West Asia Regional Editor for Asian Studies Review. Emilian has worked at Aalborg University (Denmark), Academia Sinica (Taiwan), the American Center for Indian Studies (India), the Institute for Social Justice at the Australian Catholic University (Sydney), the Center for International Studies and Development at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland), Osaka University (Japan), the Rachel Carson Center (Germany), the National Taiwan University, Ruhr University-Bochum (Germany), Western Sydney University (Australia), the University of Nottingham Ningbo (China), and the University of Alberta (Canada). His work explores the interconnections between the simultaneous decentring of International Relations by post-Western perspectives and non-anthropocentric approaches. Emilian is the author of four books, most recently: The Guanxi of Relational International Theory (Routledge 2018) and he is the editor of eleven volumes, including World Politics at the Edge of Chaos (State University of New York Press, 2016).
Experience
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2025–presentProfessor of International Relations, Tampere University
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2021–2025NAWA Chair Professor, Jagiellonian University in Krakow
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2018–2021Li Dak Sum Chair Professor, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
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2014–2018Research Associate Professor, Australian Catholic University
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2008–2013Senior Lecturer, Western Sydney University
Education
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2006Loughborough University, International Relations
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