Asbed Kotchikian

Instructor of Political Science and Assistant Director of International Affairs Program

Tel: 850-645-7112
Office: BEL 225
Email: akotchikian@fsu.edu

Background:

Ph.D., Boston University, 2006. Area of research focuses on the way small and new states conduct foreign policy and the challenges they face in building statehood. How nationalism plays a role in developing and conducting foreign policy and national identity.

Research Agenda:

My research looks at the way small and newly independent countries operate within regional and international political frameworks, their role in international organizations and alliances as well as the domestic constraints they might face in conducting foreign policies. Current teaching and research interest focuses on the role of trans-national groups (diasporas) on the foreign and domestic socio-political processes of their countries of origin, focusing on Iran and the former Soviet Union.

Undergraduate Courses:

CPO3403: Politics in the Middle East
CPO3930: Understanding the Former Soviet Union

Graduate Courses:

CPO 5934: Central Eurasian Politics
INR 5934: Small States in the International System
CPO 5934: Nationalism between State and Nation
CPO 5934: Politics of Power in the Middle East
CPO 5934: Politics and Policy in Post Soviet States