Erlan Karin Author

Erlan Karin is a Kazakhstani politician, and has been an assistant to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan since 2020. He has held posts in several Kazakh agencies over the past two decades, including as Deputy Director of the Institute of the Russia and China; Director of the Central Asian Agency of Political Research; Director of the Centre for Counterterrorism; Head of the Department of Internal Policy of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan; and Director of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies. He has also been Chairman of the Board of Qazaqstan, the country’s national broadcasting corporation. He holds a doctoral degree in Political Science from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty. Since July 2020, he has been a Visiting Professor at The American University in Washington, DC. Previously, he was an Honorary Professor at the International Institute of International Studies in Shanghai. His previous book The Soldiers of the Caliphate: Anatomy of a Terrorist Group, was published in Kazakhstan in 2016.