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Overview

Richard Sakwa is affiliated with the University of Kent in the United Kingdom and specializes in the social sciences, focusing primarily on political science and international relations. Their research spans 38 publications in social sciences, with significant contributions in subfields including political science and international relations, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, management science and operations research, and history.

Their scholarly work addresses a variety of themes, particularly within the context of international relations, Russian political economy, and geopolitical dynamics. The main topics explored in their research include:

  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Russia and Soviet political economy
  • Economic Sanctions and International Relations
  • Global Political and Economic Relations
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Eastern European Communism and Reforms
  • Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics

Sakwa has an extensive publication record, with recent papers such as:

  • Greater Russia: Is Moscow out to subvert the West? (2020) in International Politics
  • Heterarchy: Russian politics between chaos and control (2021) in Post-Soviet Affairs
  • Sad delusions: The decline and rise of Greater Europe (2021) in Journal of Eurasian Studies
  • Crisis of the International System and International Politics (2023) in Russia in Global Affairs
  • The international system and the clash of world orders (2024) in China International Strategy Review

The frequent co-authors found in Sakwa's research include:

  • Andrej Krickovic
  • Yuri Slezkine
  • Ivan Krastev
  • Martin Aust
  • Jan Sowa

Among the publication venues frequently featuring Sakwa's work are:

  • Russia in Global Affairs
  • Russian Politics
  • Journal of Eurasian Studies
  • New Perspectives
  • Journal of International Analytics

Sakwa has also authored books published by notable houses, including:

  • The Putin Paradox (2020), published by I.B.Tauris eBooks
  • The Culture of the Second Cold War (2025), published by Anthem Press eBooks
  • 22 Ideas to Fix the World (2020), published by New York University Press eBooks

Best Publications

  • Russian politics and society

    Richard Sakwa

  • Putin: Russia's Choice

    Richard Sakwa

  • Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands

    Richard Sakwa

  • The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession

    Richard Sakwa

  • ‘New Cold War’ or twenty years’ crisis? Russia and international politics

    Richard Sakwa

  • Gorbachev and His Reforms, 1985-1990

    Richard Sakwa

  • Russia Against the Rest: The Post-Cold War Crisis of World Order

    Richard Sakwa

  • The Dual State in Russia

    Richard Sakwa

  • The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

    Richard Sakwa

  • The Commonwealth of Independent States, 1991-1998: Stagnation and Survival

    Richard Sakwa;Mark Webber

  • The death of Europe? Continental fates after Ukraine

    Richard Sakwa

  • Soviet politics in perspective

    Richard Sakwa

  • Putin's Leadership: Character and Consequences

    Richard Sakwa

  • Putin Redux: Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia

    Richard Sakwa

  • Chechnya: From Past to Future

    Richard Sakwa

  • Eurasian integration : the view from within

    Piotr Dutkiewicz;Richard Sakwa

  • The Russian elections of December 1993

    Richard Sakwa

  • Russia's Identity: Between the ‘Domestic’ and the ‘International’

    Richard Sakwa

  • The quality of freedom : Khodorkovsky, Putin, and the Yukos affair

    Richard Sakwa

  • Russian politics and society: Second edition

    Richard Sakwa

  • Putin and the Oligarchs

    Richard Sakwa

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry E. Hale
Henry E. Hale George Washington University
Mark A. Webber
Mark A. Webber University of East Anglia

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