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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.
Vasily KashinHSE University Russia
Sergey RadchenkoCardiff University
Biographies
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
Dr Ekaterina Koldunova is Acting Director of ASEAN Centre and Associate Professor at the Department of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, the MFA of Russia. She holds a Ph.D. (Cand. Polit. Sc.) in International Relations. Dr. Koldunova has published in Russian, English, Italian and Chinese on regional transformations and security, international relations in Asia, Russian foreign policy in Asia, political systems of Southeast Asian states. She is author and co-author of Security in East Asia: New Challenges (Moscow: Navona, 2010, in Russian), Socio-Political Thought, High Technologies and Science Development in the Major Asian Countries (with Sergei Lunev, Moscow: Academia, 2015, in Russian), Framing Asian Studies: Geopolitics and Institutions (Singapore: ISEAS, 2018, co-edited with Albert Tzeng and William L. Richter). She has contributed to peer-reviewed journals such as International Relations, Asian Survey, International Studies Perspectives, Russian Politics and Law and Journal of Political Power. The Asia Pacific Bulletin of the East-West Center, East Asia Forum, CSCAP Regional Security Outlook, PONARS Eurasia feature her op-ed comments and articles.
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