Alisher Faizullaev’s research offers an original and integrative approach to diplomacy and negotiation grounded in embodied practice, psychology, phenomenology, and symbolic interaction. He examines diplomacy as an experiential, interactional, and relational phenomenon, focusing on how diplomatic actors perceive, interpret, enact, and transform situations. A central part of his work is the analysis of negotiation as a core diplomatic practice and a primary mode through which diplomatic interaction becomes visible and consequential.
His research pays particular attention to the lived experience of individual diplomats as field players operating within complex interpersonal, organizational, and international environments. He analyzes how they navigate Self and Other dynamics, symbolic insult, narrative framing, tacit bargaining, embodied negotiation, diplomatic presence, and the human aspects of social diplomacy.
Across these themes, Faizullaev explores how meaning, perception, identity, emotion, embodiment, and symbolic communication shape diplomatic conduct and negotiation outcomes. His work connects micro-level interpersonal processes with broader international contexts, offering analytical tools for understanding diplomacy not simply as institutional activity or statecraft but as a human practice embedded in social, cultural, and everyday interaction.
Alisher Faizullaev 