Rob Nalbandov

Rob Nalbandov

Ph.D.
Teaching Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator
Virtual

Biography

Dr. Robert Nalbandov is a Teaching Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator for the Flight Path program in security studies. His research interests include political science and international relations, broadly defined, US national security, and regional studies with a focus on Eurasia, the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr. Nalbandov teaches classes in the PKH Flight Path Security Studies program, including Introduction to Security Studies, American Foreign Policy, Senior Seminar in Security Studies, and Writing for Political Science. He earned his PhD in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations and European Studies from Central European University, Vienna, Austria, in 2008.

  • US national security
  • Regional studies
  • Intelligence
  • Globalization
  • Ph.D. in Political Science (International Relations & European Studies), Central European University, Vienna, Austria
  • Nalbandov, R., Cardoso, J.C., Rocha, A. (2023). “SDG 3 in the Caucasus Region and COVID-19 Pandemic Response in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.” In SDGs in Africa and the Middle East Region (Leal Filho, W., et al., eds). Springer.
  • Nalbandov, R. (2020). “Securitization of Migration in Europe.” População e Sociedade, 34, December 2020, 121-138.
  • Nalbandov, R. “From Donbass to Damascus: Russia on the Move,” in Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond (Anna Ohanyan, ed.) (2018). Georgetown University Press.
  • Nalbandov, R. Not By Bread Alone: Russia’s New Foreign Policy. University of Nebraska Press, 2016, ISBN: 978-1612347103.