Ramin Mansoori

Dr. Ramin Mansoori is a research scholar at the Center for Governance and Markets (CGM), supported by the Pittsburgh Network for Threatened Scholars (PiNTS) at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Mansoori 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 completion. As a contributor to CGM’s Afghanistan Project, Dr. Mansoori’s research will primarily be focusing on Nation-building in Afghanistan, and China’s Afghanistan policy.

Dr. Mansoori obtained his PhD in Comparative Politics from the School of International Studies, Peking University (01/2022). Dr. Mansoori’s PhD dissertation is titled “On Nation-building in Afghanistan” and was written in Chinese Mandarin. He holds a MA in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language from the School of Chinese as a Second Language and Education, Peking University (07/2016), and a BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Kabul University (03/2008-12/2011). Dr. Mansoori also complete a 3 Semesters of Chinese Language and Culture Studies at the Taiyuan University  of Technology (09/2009-01/2011).