Aida Aidarova is a full-time Instructor in the General Education department and a part-time Instructor in the International and Comparative Politics department at the American University of Central Asia. She holds a Master of Arts in Politics and Security from the OSCE Academy in Bishkek (2013, Kyrgyzstan) and a specialized degree in International Relations from International Ata-Turk Ala-Too University (2012, Kyrgyzstan).
Aida joined AUCA in 2020 as an Instructor. She has worked as a Program Coordinator of development projects at the Embassy of Japan in the Kyrgyz Republic and as a Senior Political Assistant at the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek.
- Crisis Management, Border Disputes and Migration
- Deconstructionist approach to research in Central Asia
- Feminism and Feminist Analysis
- Postcolonial studies
- State-building, nationalism, and ethnicities in Central Asia
- Payám Foroughi, Aida Aidarova, Pal Dunay and Colleen Wood (2024), “Central Asia Under Multiple Crises,” in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia, Dominic Heaney, ed., London: Routledge, 8 pp.
- Pal Dunay and Aida Aidarova (2023), “Climate Change and Its Mitigation in Eastern Europe, Russian and the South Caucasus,” in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia, Dominic Heaney, ed., London: Routledge, pp. 08-14.
- Payám Foroughi, Aida Aidarova, and Galina Kolodzinskaia, “Kyrgyzstan: History”, in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia (2022), Dominic Heaney, ed., London: Routledge, pp. 241-251.
- Aida Aidarova (2021) The OSCE Field Missions in Weak States: Tackling Symptoms or the Disease? International Organizations and State Failure Prevention: The Dilemma of the OSCE Operations in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan 1998–2017. By Steve Schlegel. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2019. 369 pp. Slavic Review, Volume 79 Issue 4, Cambridge University Press
- Aida Aidarova (2020) The Communist Party of China and Marxism 1921–1985. A Self-Portrait, Europe-Asia Studies, 72:4, 756-758
- Payam Foroughi & Aida Aidarova (2018) The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy. Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR, Europe-Asia Studies, 70:8
- Guidelines for International Observers on the Election of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic on 15 October 2017
- First Year Seminar I, II: Philosophy and English Composition
- Governance of Environment and Sustainability
- Introduction to Political Theory