RUBEN SAFRASTYAN

Full Member of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (Academician), Prof, PhD, Dr. Sci.

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Hon'ble Editorial Board Member, IJBST Journal Group

CURRENT POSITIONS:

Director of Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia; Holder of Chair of the World History and its Teaching Method, Armenian State Pedagogical University; Adjunct Professor, American University of Armenia; Founding Editor, Contemporary Eurasia: International Journal of Eurasian Geopolitics; Founding Editor and Head of Editorial Board, Turkic and Ottoman Studies.

CURRENT INTERNATIONAL POSITIONS (HONORARY):

Reviewer / Editorial Board Member, Inside Journal, Tirupati, India; Member of Advisory and Scientific Board, Brolly. Journal of Socıal Scıences, London Academic Publishing Ltd., London, UK; Member of Advisory Board, IJBST Journal Group, Coimbatore, India; Member of Editorial Board, History Research, a peer-reviewed open access journal published bimonthly in English-language, Science Publishing Group, New York, US; Member of the Scientific-Expert Council at Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission, Moscow, Russia; Member of Advisory Board, International Journal of Research and Humanities Studies, international, double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal in Arabic and English languages, San Francisco, USA; Member of Editorial Board, Russia and new States of Eurasia, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; Member of Editorial Board, Asiatiсa: Studies in Philosophy and Culture of Orient, Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia; Member of Editorial Board, Sociology and Anthropology: International Peer-Reviewed Journal, Horizon Research Publishing, Alhambra, USA; Senior Analyst, Wikistrat Inc., Washington, D.C., USA; Senior Fellow, New Westminster College, Vancouver, Canada.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP (INTERNATIONAL):

Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung-Alumni, Bonn, Deutschland; Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient für gegenwartsbezogene Forschung und

Dokumentation e.V (DAVO), Mainz, Deutschland; Fulbright Association, Washington D.C., USA.

SOME PAST POSITIONS:

Government Service:

Deputy Director, Department of Political Analysis, Administration of the President of Armenia; Senior Expert on International Relations, Department of Political Analysis and Information, Supreme Soviet of Armenia.

Diplomatic Service:

Counselor of the Embassy, Embassy of Armenia in Germany.

SOME GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

International Policy Fellowship, CEU – OSI, Hungary, Budapest; Fulbright Senior Scholarship, USA, Berkeley, UC Berkeley; Germany, Bochum, G. Foster Fellowship, A. von Humboldt Foundation, Ruhr University; The Program on Post-Communist Security Studies "Europe in Transition”, London University, King's College, Department of War Studies, UK, London.

SUPERVISION ON 16 DEFENDED PhD DISSERTATIONS.

ARMENIAN STATE AWARDS: “Certificate of honor”, National Assembly of Armenia; Medal “Garegin Njdeh”, Ministry of Defense; Medal “Movses Khorenatsi” for achievements in the field of Social Sciences.

PUBLIC HONOR:

Scientist of Year, “Iravunk” weekly.

MEMBER OF ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSIONS OF OSCE/ODIHR:

Russian Federation, Parliamentary Election (Samara); Kazakhstan, Presidential Election (Alma-Ata); Russian Federation, Presidential Election (Irkutsk); Kazakhstan, Parliamentary Election (Inder).

E-mail Address: ruben.safrastyan@fulbrightmail.org, rsafrastyan@aua.am

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