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Chair/discussant: Dr Natasha Kuhrt, Department of War Studies
Speakers:
Dr Marcin Kaczmarski, Lecturer in Security Studies, University of Glasgow
Dr. Elizabeth Wishnick, Professor of Political Science, Montclair State University, and Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
The panel will explore the state of the rapprochement between China and Russia, whose relations have steadily improved since 1989, to the extent that some are calling the relationship an alliance. Panelists will explore both the drivers and the limitations of the relationship, going beyond the often superficial analyses in the media to show the shared understandings underlying the relationship, but equally showing the areas where tensions remain.
Bios
Dr Marcin Kaczmarski is a Lecturer in Security Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences. He is based in the Central and East European Studies subject area. 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, International Politics and Europe-Asia Studies
Dr. Elizabeth Wishnick, Professor of Political Science, Montclair State University, and Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Professor Wishnick’s research focuses on Chinese foreign policy and non-traditional security. Her current book project, China’s Risk: Oil, Water, Food and Regional Security (Columbia University Press, 2016) addresses the security and foreign policy consequences for the Asia-Pacific region of oil, water and food risks in China. She is also writing a study on China’s interests and goals in the Arctic for the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College, where she also published three studies on great power relations in Central Asia. Professor Wishnick is the author of Mending Fences: The Evolution of Moscow’s China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014 and 2001).
Dr Natasha Kuhrt is a Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King's College London, UK. Her research interests include international law, conflict, and intervention, as well a regional focus on Russian foreign and security policies, particularly in Asia. Dr Kuhrt is the author of Russian Policy Towards China and Japan: the Yeltsin and Putin Periods, (Routledge 2011). She is co-convenor of the War Studies Russian & Eurasian Security Group, and also co-convenes the British International Studies Association (BISA) Working Group on Russian & Eurasian Security.