Anastas VANGELI
Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Science
Fields of research:
Comparative political change • (post)communism • New Silk Road diplomacy
Anastas Vangeli is currently a second year doctoral researcher at the Graduate School for Social Research at the Polish Academy of Science (PAN) in Warsaw, and a Claussen-Simon PfD Fellow at the Trajectories of Change Program of the ZEIT – Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius. He is also a research assistant at the Cross-National Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program (CONSIRT). Vangeli’s current work looks at the different trajectories political change and convergence during and after the rule of communist parties, with particular focus on China and Eastern Europe. Vangeli holds master degrees from the Central European University, Budapest (Nationalism Studies, awarded Distinction, 2009) and Renmin University of China, Beijing (Chinese Politics, 2013). He has also worked for and collaborated with a number of think-tanks and research networks in Europe, Asia and North America; and has published both in academic and research outlets and in the press.
anastas.vangeli@gmail.com