Dr. Scott N. Romaniuk is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Asia Studies, part of the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies at Corvinus University of Budapest. He has previously served as a Newton International Fellow of the British Academy, Visiting Fellow at the International Centre for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales, and Associate Professor of International Relations at Euclid University. He has also held research affiliations as a Non-Resident Fellow at the Taiwan Centre for Security Studies, a Non-Resident Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Studies of South and South-East Asian Societies at Kazi Nazrul University, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the China Institute, University of Alberta. Dr. Romaniuk earned his PhD in International Studies from the University of Trento and holds master’s degrees in Terrorism, Crime and Global Security from Staffordshire University and in Political Research from the University of Aberdeen. His research sits at the intersection of international relations, geopolitics, and critical security studies, with regional expertise in the Indo-Pacific, Middle East, and Africa. He focuses on terrorism, political violence, and non-traditional security issues, as well as the governance of emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, and their implications for great power politics and global security architectures.
His recent publications include articles in the Malaysian Journal of Syariah and Law and Armed Forces & Society, with forthcoming work in Asian Perspective. He is the lead editor of Handbook of Terrorist and Insurgent Groups: A Global Survey of Threats, Tactics, and Characteristics (CRC Press, 2024) and co-editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Geopolitics and Security in the Indo-Pacific (Springer, forthcoming 2025).