Professor Sakwa joined the School 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 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 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).
Past PhD Students
Oleksiy Bondarenko - Regional Politics in Sverdlovsk: A Case Study Federal Bargaining and Regionalism in Post-Communist Russia
Huawei Zheng - The Eurasian Economic Union as an Order-Making Actor in the Post-Soviet Space: Exploring the Actorness-Order Nexus
Morvan Lallouet - Being a Liberal in Contemporary Russia: The Case of Alexei Navalny
Camille-Renaud Merlen - Russia and the post-sovereign world
Zach Paikin - Liberal Order in Crisis? Post-Cold War Russia and the Evolution of International Society
Ronald Long Ki Yeung - The change of Strategic Culture of Taiwan: A Content Analysis
Member of British Association for Slavic and East European Studies (BASEES), International Studies Association (ISA), British Association for Turkish Area Studies (BATAS).
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