The School of Politics and International Relations marks 30 years since Professor Richard Sakwa joined the University with an open lecture on the Canterbury campus.
Entitled ‘From Gorby to Corby: The Clash of New World Orders’, the lecture took place on Wednesday 20 September, 17.00, Sibson Lecture Theatre 3, followed by a drinks reception until 20.00 in Sibson Atrium.
This event was free and open to all.
His lecture reflected on, and tried to make sense of, the last 30 years of Russian, European and global politics, and his time at Kent in the last three decades.
Professor Sakwa joined the School of Politics and International Relations (POLIR) on 1 September 1987 from the University of Essex and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Since then, in numerous books, journal articles, chapters and edited works, he has written about the fall of the Soviet Union, the challenges facing post-communist Russia, the nature of the 1989 anti-revolutions, the turbulence in Europe, and developments in global politics. His latest book is Russia against the Rest: The Crisis of Post-Cold War Order (Cambridge University Press) and is due out on 31 October 2017.