Ramin Mansoori is a visiting scholar at the Global Studies Center and the Center for Governance and Markets (CGM) at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a former lecturer in the Chinese Language Department at Kabul University. His primary research interest includes comparative politics, the political history of Afghanistan, and the great power competition. As a contributor to CGM’s Afghanistan Project, Mansoori’s research primarily focuses on nation-building in Afghanistan and China’s Afghanistan policy.
Mansoori obtained his PhD in Comparative Politics from the School of International Studies, Peking University (2022). His dissertation is titled “On Nation-building in Afghanistan.” He holds an MA in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language from the School of Chinese as a Second Language and Education, Peking University (2016), and a BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Kabul University (2011).
