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Yemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional StabilityYemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional Stability
Wednesday 19 November 2008
Yemen presents a 'perfect storm' of problems for Western governments confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically...

Key Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack ObamaKey Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack Obama
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Chatham House experts offer their perspectives on the key foreign policy and economic challenges facing the new administration. The following...

Economic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' MeasuresEconomic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' Measures
Wednesday 15 October 2008
A new paper by Chatham House says that the once-in-a-century economic meltdown means that OECD countries' simultaneous collapse in...

Prospects for Georgian Civil Society
November, 2008
This is a summary of a meeting held at Chatham House on 10 November 2008.

Business and Human Rights: Closing the Gaps
November, 2008
This is a summary of the International Law Discussion Group meeting held on 6 November 2008 at Chatham House.

Reflections on Russia and the West
November, 2008
Those concerned with policy-making towards Russia must determine how best to listen to the country's changing conversation with itself,...

Yemen: Fear of Failure
November, 2008
Yemen presents a potent combination of problems for policy-makers confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically important...

 

 

Professor Richard Sakwa

Professor Richard Sakwa

Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme

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Expertise

  • Russian politics
  • Eurasian regimes and comparative regime change
  • Eurasian international relations
  • European politics
  • Comparative democratisation

Projects

  • Analysis of Putin's leadership
  • Patterns of change in the CIS; development of the CIS as an organisation
  • Khodorkovsky and the Yukos case
  • Russia and Europe; Russian foreign policy
  • Regime politics in the contemporary world

Recent Publications

  • Russian Politics and Society, fourth edition, London: Routledge, 2008.
  • Putin: Russia's Choice, second edition, London: Routledge, 2007.
  • Developments in Russian Politics 6, co-editor with Stephen White and Zvi Gitelman, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
  • Chechnya: From Past to Future (ed), London, Anthem Press; Sterling, VA, Stylus Publishers, 2005.
  • Putin: Russia's Choice, London and New York, Routledge, 2004.
  • Contextualising Secession: Normative Studies in a Comparative Perspective, ed with Bruno Coppieters, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Russian Politics and Society, third edition, London and New York, Routledge, 2002.

Experience

1987-Date Professor (from 1 October 1996; Reader from 1 January 1995; Senior Lecturer from 1 October 1991) in Russian and European Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent
1986-1987 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, Board of Studies in Politics

Broadcast Experience

Extensive

Languages

Russian (broadcast standard)