Turan Research Center

Emil Avdaliani is a Research Fellow at the Turan Research Center. He is a historian of the Silk Road and professor of international relations at the European University in Tbilisi, Georgia. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Oxford and PhD degree from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU). Dr. Avdaliani has published a number of books including his latest, “The Caucasian Silk Roads and Eurasian Connectivity, 500-1405: Trade, Culture, and Warfare in Transit,” released by Palgrave Macmillan.
Dr. Avdaliani also specializes in modern political and military developments in the South Caucasus and wider Eurasia with a particular focus on Iran, Turkey, and Russia. Dr. Avdaliani has worked for different international consulting companies and as a regional analyst covering Russia and its neighbours. He regularly publishes at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), the Jamestown Foundation and others. He speaks and writes in English, French, Russian, Mandarin, Farsi, and Kurmanji.