Elkhan Nuriyev

Elkhan Nuriyev

Leipzig University

Elkhan Nuriyev is an Eastern Europe-Global Area (EEGA) fellow at Leipzig University. From 2019 to 2020, he was a Humboldt senior fellow at the Center for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin. He is a global energy associate at the Brussels Energy Club and a senior expert on Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia at L&M Political Risk and Strategy Advisory in Vienna. Born in Azerbaijan, he is also a long-time expert member of the Partnership for Peace (PfP) Consortium’s Study Group on Regional Stability in the South Caucasus at the George C Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. He received his PhD in political science from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1996.

Articles by Elkhan Nuriyev

Geopolitics

China, Russia and the EU: Forging a Cooperative Relationship in the Eastern Partnership Region

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Moscow is receptive to the Belt and Road Initiative because it promotes multipolarity and bolsters China as counterbalance to US hegemony.