Farkhod Tolipov

a political analyst, Director of non-state academic institution “Bilim qarvoni” (“Caravan of knowledge”), Candidate of Political Sciences, specialises in modern geopolitics, theory of international security, regional integration in Central Asia. He has been an intern in the NATO Defence College (Rome, 1997), Harvard University (USA, 1999), instructor at Georgia State University (USA, 2004). From 1998 to 2002, he worked in the Presidential Administration of Uzbekistan. Author of 80+ research publications in foreign and local academic periodicals, joint collections of articles and monographs. Author of monograph “Higher strategy of Uzbekistan amid geopolitical and ideological transformation of Central Asia”; co-author of collective monograph “Central Asia: geoeconomy, geopolitics, security.”