Dr Oybek Madiyev

About

Dr Oybek Madiyev is a Senior Research Fellow at the Conflict Analysis Research Centre, Comparative Politics Group, and Global Europe Centre, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent. He first joined the school in 2014 to pursue his PhD in International Relations. After completing his doctoral degree in 2018 he held positions as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (2018-2021) and a Lecturer in Comparative Politics (2021-2022), convening the popular East European Politics (POLI6180), Post-Communist Russia (POLI5790), Europe and the World (POLI5660), and The European Union in the Word (POLI8310) courses at this school.

His interdisciplinary research combines areas such as comparative political economy, political history, international relations, and international political economy. In his work he explores trade policies of the major powers such as Russia, China, US, the European Union, and Japan in the post-Soviet sphere. It critically assesses the endogenous factors in the contemporary international economic cooperation and the role of state-society relations.

His book published in 2021 (also in 2022) examines the development of Uzbekistan’s international relations since the collapse of the Soviet Union and explores how concentration of power in the state contributes to the way in which foreign policy is conducted. He has also published policy-focused work related to labour migration and the Eurasian Economic Union.

Oybek is one of the organisers and key members of the London Central Asia Research Network.