Scholar & Educator gallery

With Professor Thomas Schelling, Nobel Laureate in Economics and pioneer of negotiation and game theory research, at the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2008.

With Professor Alexander Wendt, one of the founders of Constructivism in International Relations theory, 2012.

With Professor Frederick Starr, founder of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University and a leading scholar in Central Asian studies.

With Professor Nicholas Onuf, one of the founders of Constructivism in International Relations Theory — the scholar who coined the term itself, 2015.

With Professor Stanley Krippner (Saybrook University, past President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology) and Fran Macy (Founder and Director, Center for Safe Energy, former Director of the Association for Humanistic Psychology), 1992.

With distinguished professors of international relations and negotiation (from the left): Dr. Ole Wæver (University of Copenhagen), Dr. Bill Zartman (Johns Hopkins University), and Dr. Guy Olivier Faure (Sorbonne University). The Hague, Netherlands, 2016.

With the late Professor Herbert Kelman (1927-2022) in his office at Harvard University, 2011.

With Professor Shigeki Hakamada (Aoyama Gakuin University) in his house in Tokyo, Japan, 2005.

Talk at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University, 2012.

Talk at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 1990.

At Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 2024.

Talk at the University of California, San Diego, 1989.

Speaking at the Kazakh-British Technical University during the CAMCA (Central Asia-Mongolia-Caucasus-Afghanistan) Academy meeting, 2023.

The last day of the International Studies Association Annual Convention, Chicago, 2025.

Pre-workshop reception at the Program on Negotiation (PON), Harvard Law School, 2011.

The author with his newly published book “Diplomacy for Professionals and Everyone” (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022).

Seminar at Webster University in Tashkent.

At Georgetown University as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar, 2012.

Speaking at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, 2022.

Lecture at the Westminster International University in Tashkent.

Delivering a public lecture on Nasreddin Afandi and strategic thin

Receiving the “Spirit of UWED” Award from the Rector of the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Senator Sodiq Safoev, 2026.

With the students of UWED — participants of the course “Diplomacy and Negotiation”, 2025.