Prof. Yana Leksyutina Lecturer Courses taught: Central Asia and China

Prof. Yana Leksyutina is a Chief Researcher at the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Full Professor at the School of International Relations of Saint-Petersburg State University. She holds a PhD in Political Science (2008), Doctor of Political Sciences Degree (2013), an Accreditation to Supervise Research (Docent, 2012), and an honorary title of Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2018). Prof. Leksyutina is an author of over 180 research publications on China’s foreign policy, Sino-Russian relations, Sino-U.S. relations, IR and security in the Asia Pacific, Arctic, global governance.

Recent publications:
Book chapters:

– Leksyutina, Y.V., Zhang, J. (2022). Interests of Non-Arctic Asian States in the Region. In: Pak, E.V., Krivtsov, A.I., Zagrebelnaya, N.S. (eds) The Handbook of the Arctic. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-9250-5_6-1

– Leksyutina, Y. (2022). China’s Economic Outreach in the South Caucasus // Stability Risks and New Conflict Management Platforms in the South Caucasus/ Ed. by Frederic Labarre and George Niculescu. Vienna, March 2022. P. 25-44. Available at: www.bundesheer.at/publikation-1120)

– Leksyutina, Y.V. (2022). China’s Participation in Energy Cooperation with Russia in the Arctic. In: Salygin, V.I. (eds) Energy of the Russian Arctic. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. PP. 125-140. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-2817-8_7 

– Leksyutina, Y.V. (2023). Russia's Turn to the East. In: Lagutina, M., Tsvetkova, N., & Sergunin, A. (Eds.). (2023). The Routledge Handbook of Russian International Relations Studies (1st ed.). London: Routledge. P. 287-298. DOI: 10.4324/9781003257264

Journal articles:

– Leksyutina, Ya.V. (2024). Chinese Policy in Central Asia in the Estimation of Chinese Experts. Russia in Global Affairs, 22(2), pp. 141–154. DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2024-22-2-141-154. Available at: https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/chinese-policy-in-central-asia/

– Leksyutina, Y. (2024). China in Central Asia’s “Green” Energy Sector, Problemy Dalnego Vostoka, no. 2, pp. 144-156. DOI: 10.31857/S0131281224020115 (in Russ.)

– Leksyutina, Ya.V. (2024). The Drivers of the EU’s Central Asia Policy in the Context of the New Great Game, Ojkumena. Regional Researches, no.  2, pp. 41–32. DOI: 10.24866/1998-6785/2024-2/24-32 (In Russ.)

– Leksyutina, Ya.V. (2024). On the Dual International Identity of Contemporary China. Journal of International Analytics, 15(1), pp. 63-76. DOI: 10.46272/2587-8476-2024-15-1-63-76 (In Russ.)

– Leksyutina, Ya.V. (2023). China’s Political and Economic Engagement with Central Asia in the “Post-Pandemic” Period: Towards a New Quality, China in World and Regional Politics. History and Modernity (Ed. by E. I. Safronova), Moscow: RAS. In-t Daln. Vostoka, pp. 77-87.  DOI: 10.48647/ICCA.2023.16.55.007 (In Russ.)

– Leksyutina, Y. (2022). Strategy and Tactics of Taiwan’s Foreign Policy against the Background of Aggravated Tensions with China, Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, vol. 92, suppl. 14, pp. S1367–S1376. DOI: 10.1134/S1019331622200072