Assoc. Prof. Dr. Orkhan Valiyev is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science and Philosophy at Khazar University in Baku. He specialises in nationalism studies, political philosophy and political epistemology, with a regional focus on the South Caucasus and the Turkic world. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Sakarya University, an MA in Political Science from the Academy of Public Administration in Azerbaijan and a BA in Philosophy from Baku State University. His doctoral dissertation, on Azerbaijani nation-building in the Tsarist period (1850–1920), has been published in Turkish, Azerbaijani and Persian, and two further books, Identity (in Azerbaijani) and The Epistemology of Nationalism, are forthcoming. He has more than 40 publications in Azerbaijani, Turkish and English, including journal articles, book chapters and opinion pieces. He was Assistant Editor of the Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences from 2023 to 2025 and serves on the editorial boards of İmgelem and the Universal Journal of History and Culture.