Emil Aslan

Emil Aslan (aka Souleimanov; born 19 November 1978 in Yerevan) is a Czech political scientist and university lecturer.

Aslan was born in Yerevan. He graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical University (1997, B.A. in studies of German language), Charles University (1999, B.A. equivalent in German Studies and Russian Studies; 2001, M.A. in International Relations: Institute of Political Studies; 2005, Ph.D. in International Relations), Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (2004, LL.M.). He was Fulbright Visiting scholar at Harvard University.

Since 2004 he lectures at the Charles University; currently an associate professor at the Department of Security Studies, Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences. Additionally. In 2018 he took the post of research director at Institute of International Relations Prague. He has provided dozens of analyses to the Czech Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defence, as well as the NATO. His analyses have frequently appeared in CACI Analyst. He is a columnist and media commentator.

His area of expertise of interests consist of: security and asymmetric conflict (civil war and ethnic conflict; small wars; insurgency and counter-insurgency, radicalization), especially in Central Asia and Caucasus; particularly the ethnography/micro-dynamics of political violence, with emphasis on asymmetric warfare; politics of memory; qualitative methods.

He speaks Russian, Czech, Armenian, English, German, Slovak, Turkish, Azerbaijani and has passive knowledge of Crimean Tatar, French, Italian.

• Souleimanov, E. (2017). How Socio-Cultural Codes Shaped Violent Mobilization and Pro-Insurgent Support in the Chechen Wars. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-52916-5.
• Souleimanov, E. (2017). The North Caucasus Insurgency: Dead or Alive? Carlisle Barracks. PA: U.S. Army War College Press & Strategic Studies Institute.
• Souleimanov, E.; Aliyev, Huseyn (2014). The Individual Disengagement of Avengers, Nationalists, and Jihadists: Why Ex-Militants Choose to Abandon Violence in the North Caucasus. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Souleimanov, E. (2013). Understanding Ethnopolitical Conflict: Karabakh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia Wars Reconsidered. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Souleimanov, E. (2007). An Endless War: The Russian-Chechen Conflict in Perspective. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.