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Yelena Zabortseva
Yelena Nikolayevna Zabortseva
Postgrad degree you are enrolled for PhD in Philosophy
Supervisor Pr. Graeme Gill
When started 2009
Full time or part time Full time
Profile of yourself Yelena Nikolayevna Zabortseva is a PhD researcher at the Government and international Relations Department of the University of Sydney. She holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from MGIMO (Moscow State Institute of International Affairs) and a Specialist’s Degree in International Economic Relations from Kazakh State Academy of Management. She has experience of research and teaching on Public Policy Regulation and International Investments in Russia and Kazakhstan. Her professional experience included work at position of a Head of International Relations Department at Agency on Financial Regulation of Kazakhstan. She has published on investment policies, competitiveness (with particular focus on Kazakhstan), globalisation, international conflicts resolution, and intercultural dialogs in the number of Kazakhstan’s and international journals and books.
Thesis topic or title Kazakhstan-Russia Relations (1991-2008)
Current Publications
  • "Transparency" and "Summits, Summit" in Encyclopedia of Global Studies. Ed. Helmut K. Anheier, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Victor Faessel. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2012. 1669-72. SAGE Reference Online. Web. 22 Mar. 2012
  • (2010) ‘Kazakhstan-Russia economic cooperation: strengths and weaknesses’, Vth KISI/IMEMO RAN Conference. ‘Economic and Financial Cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia in the realms of the Global Crisis” (Almaty, April 21, 2010)/ ed. by B. Sultanov, KISI, Almaty. [in Russian];
  • (2010) ‘The Investment and trade relations between Russia and Kazakhstan in 1991-2008’, 2010 BASEES Annual Conference electronic proceedings (University of Cambridge, UK)[in English];
  • (2010) ‘Cooperation between the CIS countries: a case of Kazakhstan-Russian partnership’, MGU Conference electronic proceedings, CIS panel (MGU, Moscow)[in Russian];
  • (2010) “Kazakhstan’s competitiveness: the rankings are lowered on one position”, International Business Magazine ‘Kazakhstan’, 1[in Russian/English];
  • (2010) ‘Positions of Kazakhstan in the Global Competitiveness Index 2009-2010 international rakings”, Analytic, 4.
  • (2010) ‘VVP Tamozhennogo Soyuza -2 trillion dollarov’. Interview with M.K. Litvinov, Minister- Counsellor of Kazakhstan to Russia, Express-K, 104, 12 June [in Russian];.
  • (2011) ‘Transformation of Russia-Kazakhstan Post-Soviet Political Relations’ in K.Nourzhanov, ed. Two Decades without the Soviet Union: Transformations in Eurasian Space. Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Conference of AACaPS, February 2011. Canberra, ANU [in English].
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