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The World Today - October issueThe World Today - October issue
Monday 6 October 2008
The current financial crisis should come as no surprise, writes Dr Paola Subacchi in this month's The World Today....

Somali Piracy: A Growing Issue for Africa and the International CommunitySomali Piracy: A Growing Issue for Africa and the International Community
Thursday 2 October 2008
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has more than doubled in 2008 and threatens to disrupt international trade and...

Six Perspectives on the Georgia ConflictSix Perspectives on the Georgia Conflict
Tuesday 30 September 2008
Six new briefing notes from the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House offer analysis and insight on the...

Making Sense of the EU Climate Change Package
October, 2008
The EU is currently at a hectic stage in the development of its internal climate change policies. Having proposed...

Piracy in Somalia: Threatening Global Trade, Feeding Local Wars
October, 2008
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has more than doubled in 2008; so far over 60 ships have been...

Alternative Management Models and Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable Forest Use in the Democratic Republic of Congo
October, 2008
Download Paper here (French version) This is a report of a meeting, Alternative Management Models and Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable...

After the Battle: What the August War will mean for Russia's Domestic Politics
September, 2008
The true driver of Russia's foreign agenda is the domestic situation. The Russian ruling class has returned to a...

 

 

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)