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							| Rafis ABAZOV (Dr., Centre for Social Research, The NationalAcademy of Science of Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan) | Mehrdad HAGHAYEGHI (Professor Dr., Southwest Missouri State University, USA) |  
							| Firdövsiyye AHMEDOVA (Associate Professor, Academy of State Administration, Azerbaijan) | Daniel HERADSTVEIT (Professor Dr., Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway) |  
							| Shirin AKINER (Dr., University of London, SOAS, UK) | Ablet KAMALOV (Associate Professor, Institute of Oriental Studies, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan) |  
							| John ANDERSON (Professor Dr., University of St Andrews, UK) | Michael KASER (Professor Dr., Oxford University, UK) |  
							| Çiğdem BALIM (Dr., Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, IndianaUniversity, Bloomington, USA) | Shoshana KELLER (Professor Dr., Hamilton College, UK) |  
							| Stephen BLANK (Professor Dr., Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, USA) | Sergey KLYASHTORNYI (Professor Dr., Institute of Orientalism, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation) |  
							| Guram CHIKOVANI (Professor Dr., Rector, Tbilisi Institute of Asia-Africa, Georgia) | Abbas MALEKI (Dr., Director-General, International Institute for Caspian Studies, Tehran, Iran) |  
							| Svante E. CORNELL (Dr., Deputy Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University, USA) | Hasan Bülent PAKSOY (Professor Dr., Baker College, USA) |  
							| Robert M. CUTLER (Dr., Institute of European & Russian Studies, Carleton University, UK) | Gabriele RASULY-PALECZEK (Professor Dr., Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria) |  
							| Rahile DAWUT (Dr., Xinjiang University, China) | Uli SCHAMILOGLU (Professor Dr., University of Washington, Wisconsin, USA) |  
							| Georgi M. DERLUGIAN (Professor Dr., Northwestern University, USA) | Nazif M. SHAHRANI (Professor Dr., Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, IndianaUniversity, Bloomington, USA) |  
							| Mohammad-Reza DJALILI (Professor Dr., Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland/İsviçre) | Farkhod TOLIPOV (Dr., Head of Department of International Relations, The University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Uzbekistan) |  
							| Moshe GAMMER (Dr., Tel Aviv University, İsrael) | Stina TORJESEN (Dr., Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway) |  
							| Musa GASIMLI (Professor Dr., Baku State University, Azerbaijan) | Muhammad Tahir TURKMEN (RFE / RL, Turkmenistan) |  
							| Gregory GLEASON (Professor Dr., University of New Mexico, USA) | Resul YALÇIN (Dr., University of Bonn, Germany) |  |