Dr. Orkhan Valiyev is an Associate Professor at Khazar University, specializing in national studies, political philosophy, and political epistemology. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Sakarya University under the Turkish Scholarship Program, with a dissertation titled Nation-Building Process in Azerbaijan during the Tsarist Period: 1850–1920.
Dr. Valiyev completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Trakya University in 2021 and was a visiting researcher at Sakarya University’s Center for Diaspora Studies in 2022. He serves as an Associate Fellow at the Center for Strategic Research and Analysis (CESRAN), Assistant Editor of the Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Associate Editor of The Rest: Journal of Politics and Development.
His research focuses on the South Caucasus and the Turkic World. He has authored over 30 publications across multiple languages and is the author of the textbook Introduction to Azerbaijani National Studies (2024).