Richard Sakwa
Professor Richard Sakwa joined the University of Kent in 1987, was promoted to a professorship in 1996 and was Head of School between 2001 and 2007, and in 2010 he once again took over as Head of School until 2014. While completing his doctorate on Moscow politics during the Russian Civil War (1918-21) he spent a year on a British Council scholarship at Moscow State University (1979-80), and then worked for two years in Moscow in the 'Mir' Science and Technology Publishing House. Before moving to Kent he lectured at the University of Essex and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Prof. Sakwa is a member of British Association for Slavic and East European Studies (BASEES), International Studies Association (ISA), British Association for Turkish Area Studies (BATAS).
Prof. Sakwa is Honorary Professor, Faculty of Political Science, Moscow State University. He was an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House (2002-20), a Senior Research Fellow at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics in Moscow (2014-2024), and a member of Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences (2002-2022).
Research interests
- Political developments in Russia
- International politics and the Second Cold War
- Multipolarity and global realignments
- Prospects for socialism
- Problems of European and global order
- The English School and international systems