Richard Sakwa


Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent. He writes books about Russian and Eastern European communist and post-communist politics.

Career

Sakwa is currently Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent. From 2001 to 2007 he was also the head of the University's Politics and International Relations department. He has published on Soviet, Russian and post-communist affairs, and has written and edited several books and articles on the subject.
Sakwa was also a participant of Valdai Discussion Club, an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a member of the Advisory Boards of the Institute of Law and Public Policy in Moscow and a member of Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.

Reception

Michael Rochlitz, an associate fellow at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, described his book Putin Redux as 'detailed, balanced and sober'. His book Frontline Ukraine, interprets Russian military intervention in Ukraine as a reaction by Russia to eastwards expansion of NATO and a symptom of the breakdown of the post-Cold War European security order. The book was well-received by the US dissident Noam Chomsky, historian Paul Robinson and political scientist Serhiy Kudelia. The Ukrainian-British academic Taras Kuzio, however, criticised Sakwa for what he saw as pro-Russian bias and lack of expertise on Ukraine.

Published works

Books