Conferences, Seminars, Invited Lectures
“Contemporary Geostrategies in South Caucasus and Central Asia,” Shanghaitech University, October 24, 2025. (Guest Lecture).
“Eurasia in a Multipolar World Order 2.0, ” Global European Studies in Asia:Bridging Perspectives in a New Era Conference, Shanghai Academy of Global Governance and Area Studies, October 19-25, 2025.
“Rebuilding Eurasian Interconnectivity China–Central Asia–West Asia Economic Corridor,” Turan-Astana University, September 24, 2025.
“Rebuilding Eurasian Interconnectivity China–Central Asia–West Asia Economic Corridor,” International Centre of Geopolitical Projection “East-West”, Astana, September 23, 2025.
“The US Geostrategy in the South Caucasus: Not Prioritized but Important Relations”, The 29th Annual ASN World Convention, the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, May 22-24, 2025.
“Multipolar World Order 2.0”, Ordre et (dés)ordres internationaux : entre stabilité et transformation, ICES, Franc, April 10, 2025.
“Book Discussion: Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations”, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, March 12, 2025.
“China’s BRI Geostrategy in Central Asia and South Caucasus”, ISA 2025 Annual Convention, Chicago, 2025.
“The US and India’s strategies in the South Caucasus and Central Asia”, International Webinar on CHANGING DIMENSIONS OF INDIA-AMERICAN RELATIONS AND GLOBAL POLITICS. Society for Social Empowerment, New Delhi. 2025.
“Eurasian continent in the Multipolar World Order 2.0 Stage”, Does China’s influence diminish in a multipolar world? Panel The Democracy Forum, 2024. (Click for the Video).
“China and Armenia: 15 Recommendations for the Future”, Achievements, problems and prospects of China-Armenia Cooperation in the New Era Online Conference, 2024.
“China and Eurasian continent in the Multipolar World Order 2.0 Stage”, International Studies Association, Northeast Annual Conference 2024, Baltimore.
Chaired the “Deterrence in a Changing World” panel at the International Studies Association’s Northeast Annual Conference, 2024.
“China’s Digital Silk Road Geostrategy and EAEU: Opportunities for GBA” Macao Polytechnic University, China 2024.
“China’s Digital Silk Road and Eurasian Economic Union’s Member States: Cooperation, Challenges and Opportunities David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, China 2024 (Public Lecture).
“China’s Belt and Road Initiative and South Caucasus in the Era of Geopolitical Changes,” David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, China 2024, (Guest Lecture).
“The Eurasian Continent in the Multipolar World Order 2.0 Stage,” University of Calicut, India, 2023, (Keynote Speech).
“The US Sanctions on China’s and Russia’s Advanced Technology Sectors: Decoupling and Coupling,” BACS 2023 Conference, King’s College London, 2023.
“The concept of Multipolar World Order 2.0 and China’s interests in Ukraine, Eurasia, and Cyberspace,” The European Union, Eurasian Economic Union and the Belt and Road: Perceptions, practices and risks in Eurasia, Corvinus University of Budapest, 2023(Keynote Speech).
“Multipolar World Order 2.0 Concept: China Colliding Interests in Ukraine, Eurasia, and Cyberspace,” Asia Prospect Forum (online), National Chung Hsing University, 2023.
“Comparative Analyses of International North-South Transport Corridor and China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia and South Caucasus,” 3rd HHRS Annual Conference on India and Central Asia, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 2023.
“China’s Digital Silk Road and Eurasian Economic Union: Challenges and Opportunities,” IV Eurasian Research on Modern China and Eurasia Conference, 2023.
“The Conjunction of the EAEU and the BRI,” Conference Organised by the Commissioner’s Office of China’s Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong SAR and Belt and Road General Chamber of Commerce, 2023.
Chaired Session-IX, “India’s Take Aways from the Covid-19 and the Emerging International Relations”, during the International Conference on India and Post Covid-19 International Relations: Prospects and Challenges, organized by Woxsen University, 2022.
“China’s Digital Silk Road and Eurasian Economic Union: Challenges and Opportunities,” AGF Seminar, Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong, 2022.
“China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Central Asia,” CSHK Seminar, City University of Hong Kong, 2022.
“China, Colliding Interests in Ukraine, Eurasia, and Cyberspace in the Era of Multipolar World Order 2.0,” Hong Kong Baptist University, 2022 (Public Lecture).
“China’s Belt and Road Initiative and South Caucasus in the Era of Ukraine War and Multipolar World Order 2.0,” Seminar, Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong, 2022.
“China’s Belt and Road Initiative and South Caucasus in the Era Multipolar World Order 2.0,” BACS 2022 Conference, University of Oxford, 2022
“China’s Belt and Road Initiative and South Caucasus in the Era of Ukraine War,” Webinar, National Academy of Development and Strategy, Renmin University of China, 2022.
“China’s Pivot Towards Eurasia in the Era of Changing World Order,” Eastern Economic Forum, Vladivostok, 2021.
Moderated a panel discussion at the 4th International Workshop on Geopolitics of Small States, which was co-organised by the International Political Science Association and the Russian-Armenian University, 2021.
“Sino-Russian Geopolitical Cooperation in Eurasia: The Conjunction of the EAEU and the BRI,” China’s Rise/Asia’s Responses Conference, University of Helsinki, 2021.
“The conjunction of the Eurasian Economic Union and Belt and Road Initiative in the Era of Changing World Order,” during the XXIV International Academic Conference “China, Chinese Civilization and the World: History, Modernity, and Future Prospects”, Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Science, 2021.
“China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Middle East,” “7th International Forum on Asia and the Middle East” Shanghai International Studies University, 2021.
“Presentation of Working Paper on New Great Power Competition in Central Asia,” Tillotoma Foundation, India, 2021.
“The South Caucasus, Great Powers and Belt and Road Initiative: View from Yerevan,” Webinar: Colliding Interests in Eurasia: The South Caucasus, the Belt and Road, and Covid-19, Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, September 8, 2020.
“China’s BRI and its Influence on Changing World Order,” 5th International Conference on International System, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran, February 17, 18, 2020.
“Sino-Iranian Uneasy Cooperation After the Signing of the JCPOA in the Era of the BRI,” Book presentation/Iran in the International System: Between Great Powers and Great Ideas, International Institute for Peace, January 30, 2020, Vienna, Austria.
“China’s BRI and Armenia: Thoughts and Recommendations.” Conference on the Dialogue between Young Scientists of China and the Countries of Eurasia. The Good Neighborliness, Friendship, and Cooperation Commission of the Shanghai Cooperation and Social Development Strategy Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing, China, December 5, 2019.
“Goals, Influence and Security Factor of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative,” Belt and Road Initiative – Geopolitical Reality” Conference, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, September 14-16, 2019.
“The Prospects of Developments of Sino-Armenian Political and Military Cooperation in the Framework of BRI: Thoughts and Recommendations,” Joint East Asia Studies Conference, Edinburgh University, Scotland. September 4-6, 2019.
“China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Armenia,” Global Political Forum I, Istanbul Gedik University, Turkey, July 29-30, 2019.
“The Security factor of the Chinese BRI,” International scientific and expert forum “Primakov Readings-2019,” Round Table “Crisis Conflicts of the Future: A View of Young Scientists,” Primakov Centre and IMEMO, Moscow, June 7–12, 2019.
“Prospects for Sino-Armenian cooperation in the financial-banking sphere,” The Annual Conference of the British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS-2018), King’s College London, Great Britain, September 12-14, 2018.
“Belt and Road Initiative and Prospects for Sino-Armenian Cooperation,” 4-th China and the Middle East Conference, Nevshehir Haci Bektas Veli University, Turkey, 20-22 June 2018.
“China’s Diplomacy on Iran’s Nuclear Crisis in the UNSC,” International Peace Studies Conference Vienna, Academic Council on the United Nations System, International Institute for Peace, Vienna, Austria, May 29, 2018.
“The One Belt, One Road Initiative from the Perspective of China’s National Security,” Lomonosov Readings- 2018 Conference, Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, April 18, 2018.
“Comparative Analyses of Iran’s and the DPRK’s Nuclear Issues in the UNSC,” The 5th International Conference of Young Scholars in the field of Korean Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, April 20, 2018.
“Rethinking the Strategy of Russia’s Return to Global Big Policy,” Clashing Visions: Russian Foreign Policy in the Age of Xi and Trump, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Great Britain, May 26, 2017.
“China’s Policy on Iranian Nuclear Issue (2000-2015),” Third Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies, Pembroke College, Cambridge University, Great Britain, April 11, 2017.
“China’s Policy on Iranian Nuclear Issue: Cooperation and Disagreements with Russia and the US,” The 3rd China and The Middle East Conference: Asia to the Middle East: Asianization of the Middle East with Economic Characteristics? Shanghai University, China June 7-8, 2017.
“China’s Role on Iran’s Nuclear Issue: Views from Beijing and Tehran,” Conference Dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of Iran and the Caucasus, Brill Publishers, Armenia, October 23, 2016.
“Russia-China Cooperation Regarding the DPRK’s Nuclear Issue in the UNSC,” The 4th International Conference of Young Scholars “New Generation in Korean Studies,” Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, April 29, 2016.
“China’s Position on UN Peacekeeping Operations (2000-2013),” The Problems of Social and Political Developments of the Modern Eastern Countries Conference, Institute of Asian and
African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, April 16, 2015.
“China’s Policy on the DPRK’s Nuclear Proliferation Issue in the UNSC (2000-2013),” The New European Research on Contemporary China, Delegation of the European Union to China, Beijing, China, 2-4 July 2014.
CONFERENCES/SEMINARS, COURSES ORGANISED
Book Presentation: Book Presentation: Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations, 2024.
V Eurasian Research on Modern China and Eurasia, China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research, 2023.
Book Presentation: China and Eurasian Powers in a Multipolar World Order 2.0: Security, Diplomacy, Economy and Cyberspace, 2023.
IV Eurasian Research on Modern China and Eurasia, China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research, 2022.
Armenia and China: Rethinking 30th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations, China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Researc, 2022.
III Eurasian Research on Modern China and Eurasia,” China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research and Russian-Armenian University, 2021.
Book Presentation: China and Eurasia: Rethinking Cooperation and Contradictions in the Era of Changing World Order, 2021.
Rethinking China’s Rise under the Governance of the CPC: Achievements, Initiatives and Prospects, China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic research and Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences, 2021.
II Eurasian Research on China and Eurasia Conference, China-Eurasia’ Council for Political and Strategic Research Foundation and Yerevan State University, 2019.
Academic Seminar Europe Goes Silk Road through Armenia, China-Eurasia’ Council for Political and Strategic Research Foundation and Austrian Europe Goes Silk Road, July 19, 2019.
Rethinking China’s Foreign Policy and Economy-2019, Course, China-Eurasia’ Council for Political and Strategic Research and Armenian State University of Economics, Yerevan, Armenia, June 14-20, 2019.
Academic Seminar Iran and the Changing World Order, China-Eurasia’ Council for Political and Strategic Research, 2019.
China’s One Belt One Road and Armenia, China-Eurasia’ Council for Political and Strategic Research, 2018.
Rethinking China’s Foreign Policy-2018, Course, China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research and Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences, September 20-25, 2018.
Rethinking China’s Foreign Policy-2017, Course, China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research, September 20-25, 2018.
First Online Conference of Young Researchers from the Armenian Diaspora in the Field of Humanities, Ministry of Diaspora of Armenia, The Armenian Community of China and China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research, 2017.
Online Conference of Armenian Researchers and Students in China, Nanjing China, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017.
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