Academic Profile
http://independentresearcher.academia.edu/DenisVolkov
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Sample Publications
Monograph: Russia's Turn to Persia: Orientalism in Diplomacy and Intelligence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Scholarly Interests
Russian Orientalism, History of Iran (the 19th and 20th centuries), Russian/Soviet foreign policy towards Iran, Economy of Iran (Energy sector)
PhD Thesis: “Oriental Studies and Foreign Policy: Russian/Soviet ‘Iranology’ and Russo-Iranian relations in late Imperial Russia and the early USSR"
PhD Thesis: “Oriental Studies and Foreign Policy: Russian/Soviet ‘Iranology’ and Russo-Iranian relations in late Imperial Russia and the early USSR"
Current Position
Head of the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, Professor, Leading Research Fellow,
HSE University