Shwan Jamal Azeez (Sharey)
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Social Sciences
- Ph.D. University of Kent, United Kingdom
M.A. University of Kurdistan Hewlêr, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
B.A. American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (Cum Laude) - Email: [email protected]
Profile
Shwan Jamal Azeez holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Kent, United Kingdom. He has previously served as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Kent and the University of Warsaw, and has taught at several institutions of higher education across the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS). Shwan is also a graduate of the first generation of AUIS alumni, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies with a minor in Economics and graduated Cum Laude.
His research examines the strategic governance of natural resources and their role in shaping political legitimacy, diplomatic engagement, and state-building processes in both de facto states and internationally recognised states.
Publications
- Azeez, S. J. (2025). Strategic resource utilisation in de facto states: Rojava’s journey towards sovereignty. Ethnopolitics, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2025.2518819
- Azeez, S. J., & Najjar, Z. (Eds.). (2015). Roundtable on the IDP crisis in Sulaimani Governorate: Registration, protection, and access to services (Report No. 1). Institute of Regional and International Studies & Civil Development Organization. https://auis.edu.krd/iris/publications/idp-crisis-sulaimani-governorate-registration-protection-access-services
- Azeez, S. J. (2012). Size of government and legal structure & security of property rights. In J. Hill (Ed.), The economic freedom of Iraq: An inquiry into the specific nature and causes of institutions (pp. 47–59). American University of Iraq, Sulaimani Press.
- Azeez, S. J. (2011). Bahrain’s political crisis: A new chapter for Iraqi foreign policy. Stimson Center. https://www.stimson.org/2011/bahrains-political-crisis-new-chapter-iraqi-foreign-policy/
