Ceyhun Mahmudlu

Ceyhun Mahmudlu is a visiting professor at Cornell University, Department of Government. His research interest covers energy geopolitics, regional security, peace and conflict resolution, cyber security, nationalism and Islam in greater Caspian region. Ceyhun Mahmudlu is co-editor of Azerbaijani and Beyond: Perspectives on the Construction of National Identity, (Verlag Dr Köster, 2017) and co-author of Karabakh in 99 Questions (CBA, Baku, 2014). Currently, he is working on the book project State, Law and Islam in Azerbaijan (on changing religious policy in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan).

Ceyhun Mahmudlu is an author of number of policy briefs and scholarly articles. His recent scholarly works have appeared at Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review, Energies, Sustainability, Energy Strategy Review, Problems of Post-Communism, Middle East Policy and so on. Prior to Cornell, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Central Eurasian Studies of Indiana University. From 2012 to 2015, he was a founder and a director of Center for Security and Energy Research at Qafqaz University, Azerbaijan.