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)