Akbar Tursunov (Institute of World Economy and International relations)

Submitted:  12/02/96

Akbar Tursunov
Chief, Dept. of International Relations
Institute of World Economy and Intl. Relations
Academy of Sciences
Aini Street, 44
Dushanbe 734024
Tajikistan

Phones:  23 27 32 (office)
         36 49 31 (home)
FAX:
Email:   akbar@mec.sas.upenn.edu

Areas of research expertise: International relations. The comparative 
politics of Central Asia. The history and theory of Central Asian 
Civilizations. Irano-Islamica. The methodology of History. Iranian 
peoples. 

Languages: Russian, Persian (Dari), Uzbek (Kyrgyz, Kazakh and Turkmen) 
English, French, Arabic and Turkish.