Assel G Bitabar

Assel G Bitabar is a teaching professor at Maqsut Narikbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, and a fellow at the SAIS China Research Center, Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on the agency of Central Asian states in international relations and the mutual perceptions of these states and China. Fieldwork in China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan informs this research.