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Russia’s quest for global influence - Assessing Russian inroads in the Asia-Pacific
Abstract: Russia’s presence and influence are expanding in the Asia-Pacific region. The workshop will explore Russia’s assertive power projection in North-East Asia and strategic interests with regards Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and the Pacific Arctic. It will also assess Russia’s growing hard and soft power influence in the wider Asia-Pacific region, and notably its multifaceted engagement with countries like Vietnam, India or Indonesia. The workshop will discuss where Russian interests intersect, and sometimes compete, with China’s, as well as outline policy implications for the United States and its allies.
Agenda:
Vasily KashinHSE University Russia
Sergey RadchenkoCardiff University
Biographies
Chair: Mathieu BoulegueResearch Fellow, Russia and Eurasia ProgrammeChatham House
Before joining Chatham House, Mathieu was a partner at the risk management and strategic research consultancy AESMA, where he worked as director of Eurasian affairs.In his research, Mathieu focuses particularly on Eurasian security and defence issues as well as on Russia’s domestic and foreign policy.Having trained as a policy and security analyst in the field of post-Soviet affairs, Mathieu regularly publishes articles and papers on Eurasian security & foreign policy questions.He is also a frequent invited speaker at conferences and events around the world.He graduated from Sciences Po Toulouse in France and King’s College London (M.A. International Conflict Studies).
Chair: Yu JieSenior Research Fellow on China Asia-Pacific Programme, Chatham House
Dr Yu Jie is senior research fellow on China in the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House, focusing on the decision-making process of Chinese foreign policy as well as China’s economic diplomacy. She speaks and writes frequently at major media outlets such as BBC and Financial Times; and regularly briefs senior policy practitioners from the G7 member governments, the UK Cabinet Office and the Silk Road Fund in Beijing, as well as major FTSE 100 corporates. Yu Jie has testified at the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and International Trade Committee, and was also head of China Foresight at LSE IDEAS.
Vasiliy Kashin Deputy Director, Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS)Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Dr. Vasily Kashin. Born 1973, Moscow, graduated from from the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Moscow state university in 1996, later worked in the the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Vedomosti business newspaper, in the Russian Information Agency RIA Novosti as deputy chief of Beijing office and as a senior research fellow in CAST, a Moscow-based defense industry consultancy. Currently Dr. Kashin works for Higher School of Economics as deputy director, Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS).
Natasha KuhrtLecturer, International Peace & SecurityDepartment of War Studies, King's College, London
Natasha Kuhrt is Lecturer in International Peace & Security in the Dept of War Studies, King's College London, UK. She holds a PhD from UCL on Russian Policy Towards China and Japan. Her research interests include international law, conflict, and intervention, as well a regional focus on Russian foreign and security policies, particularly in Asia, on which she has published widely. She is co-convenor of the British International Studies Association Working Group on Russian & Eurasian Security.
Olga PuzanovaDirector of Undergraduate Studies in International RelationsSenior Lecturer in History of East Asia & Japanese Politics and EconomyHigher School of Economics, Moscow
Olga Puzanova is Director of Undergraduate Studies in International Relations and Senior Lecturer in History of East Asia & Japanese Politics and Economy at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow. She took her first degree at Moscow State Institute of Foreign Affairs (MGIMO) University, Moscow (2011), received a Master’s degree in Modern Japanese Studies from the University of Oxford in 2014, and took a Doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2021. She has written and co-authored publications on Russo-Japanese relations and Japan's foreign policy. Her most recent publications include: Contemplating a Russia-Japan Rapprochement (Survival, 2020); Whose Kurils? (National Interest, 2020), Russia’s policy towards Japan and Regional Security in the Asia-Pacific (Asian Politics and Policy, 2018); Japan's Eurasian Diplomacy: Successes and Failures (1997-2017) (Journal of Eurasian Studies, 2018).
Marcin KaczmarskiLecturer, Security StudiesSchool of Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Glasgow
Dr Marcin Kaczmarski is a Lecturer in Security Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. In his research, he focuses on Russia-China relations, Russia’s foreign and security policy, comparative regionalism, and the role of rising powers in international politics. Marcin is the author of Russia-China relations in the post-crisis international order (Routledge 2015) and published articles in leading academic journals, including International Affairs, Survival, International Politics and Europe-Asia Studies. He was a visiting scholar at the Chengchi University in Taiwan, the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center in Japan, the Aleksanteri Institute in Finland, the Kennan Institute in Washington, DC, and the Shanghai International Studies University in China. Prior to joining the University of Glasgow, he combined research and teaching at the University of Warsaw with policy-oriented analysis for the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki and the Centre for Eastern Studies in Warsaw.
Sergey RadchenkoProfessor, International Relations, Cardiff UniversityPublic Policy Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Ekaterina KoldunovaActing Director, ASEAN CentreAssociate Professor, Department of Asian and African StudiesMoscow State Institute of International RelationsMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
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