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Beyond power and status: explaining Russia's accommodation to China's rise
19 November 2020, 1:00 pm鈥�2:30 pm
Join us for this event as part of the Politics and Sociology Seminar series, with Dr Marcin Kaczmarski
This event is free.
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Abstract: Russia鈥檚 accommodation to China鈥檚 rise seems to contradict the basic tenets that have characterized Moscow鈥檚 foreign policy since the mid-2000s: balancing against the concentration of power, maintaining a dominant position in the post-Soviet space, and rejecting the role of a 鈥榡unior partner鈥�. In order to explain this paradox, I will focus on the interplay between international and domestic factors, with particular emphasis on the role of regime survival and domestic interest coalitions.
About the Speaker
Dr Marcin Kaczmarski
Bio: Dr Marcin Kaczmarski is a Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. In his research, he focuses on Russia-China relations, Russia鈥檚 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, 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. He can be reached at marcin.kaczmarski@glasgow.ac.uk and followed on Twitter @M_Kaczmarski.