The Geopolitics of Energy and Critical Raw Materials in the South Caucasus and Central Asia Connectivity, Power, and Global Competition

Agha Bayramov is an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and editor of the Hague Research Institute for Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia. He was a research fellow in the Center for Eastern European Studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 2022. He has delivered several invited guest lectures and training sessions including a session on energy security and critical raw materials cooperation for the Clingendael Institute's diplomatic programme for junior diplomats from Central Asia and Mongolia.

Mustafa Ali Sezal is an independent researcher who teaches full-time as a lecturer at the Department of International Relations and International Organization, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His research interests include critical security studies, European foreign and security policy, European defence industry, and technoscientific politics.