Dr. 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. 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 in 2022. He holds a MA in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language and Education 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). Dr Mansoori’s PhD dissertation is titled “On Nation-building in Afghanistan” and was written in Chinese Mandarin.