Dr Marcin Kaczmarski

  • Senior Lecturer in Security Studies (Political & International Studies)

Biography

Marcin is a Lecturer in Security Studies at 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. 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. Prior to joining the University of Glasgow, Marcin combined research and teaching at the University of Warsaw with policy-oriented analysis for the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki and the Centre for Eastern Studies in Warsaw. He can be reached at marcin.kaczmarski@glasgow.ac.uk and followed on Twitter @M_Kaczmarski.

Research interests

  • Russia-China relations
  • Russia's foreign and security policy
  • great-power regionalism
  • rising powers in the international order

 

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 28.

2024

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2024) The Russia-China entente: implications for the transatlantic community. In: Hamilton, Daniel S. and Renouard, Joe (eds.) The Transatlantic Community and China in the Age of Disruption. Partners, Competitors, Rivals. Series: Routledge series on global order studies. Routledge.

2023

Silvan, Kristiina and Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2023) Russia’s approach to connectivity in Asia: from cooperation to coercion. East Asia, (doi: 10.1007/s12140-023-09404-w) (Early Online Publication)

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2023) Fragmented cooperation: The role of state-owned and private companies in Sino-Russian energy collaboration. Asian Perspective, 47(3), pp. 393-413. (doi: 10.1353/apr.2023.a905231)

2022

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2022) Domestic politics: a forgotten factor in the Russian-Chinese relationship. In: Kirchberger, Sarah, Sinjen, Svenja and Wörmer, Nils (eds.) Russia-China Relations: Emerging Alliance or Eternal Rivals? Springer: Cham, pp. 59-71. ISBN 9783030970116 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-97012-3_4)

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2022) Russian foreign policy in a time of rising U.S.-China competition. In: Tellis, Ashley J., Szalwinski, Alison and Wills, Michael (eds.) Strategic Asia 2021–22: Navigating Tumultuous Times in the Indo-Pacific. Series: Strategic Asia. The National Bureau of Asian Research. ISBN 9781939131690

2021

Bossuyt, Fabienne and Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2021) Russia and China between cooperation and competition at the regional and global level. Introduction. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 62(5-6), pp. 539-556. (doi: 10.1080/15387216.2021.2023363)

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478, Sutter, Robert, Korolev, Alexander, Stoner, Kathryn E. and Reilly, James (2021) Book Review Roundtable: Kathryn E. Stoner’s Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order and James Reilly’s Orchestration: China’s Economic Statecraft Across Asia and Europe. Asia Policy, 16(4), pp. 217-241. [Book Review]

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 and Siddi, Marco (2021) The EU and China in Central Asian energy geopolitics. In: Bossuyt, Fabienne and Dessein, Bart (eds.) The European Union, China and Central Asia: Global and Regional Cooperation in a New Era. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9781003022336

2020

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2020) The Sino-Russian relationship and the West. Survival, 62(6), pp. 199-212. (doi: 10.1080/00396338.2020.1851101)

2019

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2019) Russia-China relations in Central Asia: why is there a surprising absence of rivalry? Open Forum,

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2019) Greater Eurasia: it's great-power status, stupid! In: Korosteleva, E., Paikin, Z. and Paduano, S. (eds.) Five Years After Maidan: Toward a Greater Eurasia? LSE IDEAS, pp. 10-17.

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478, Jakóbowski, Jakub and Kardaś, Szymon (2019) The Effects of China's Economic Expansion on Eastern Partnership Countries. Working Paper. EU-STRAT.

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2019) Convergence or divergence? Visions of world order and the Russian-Chinese relationship. European Politics and Society, 20(2), pp. 207-224. (doi: 10.1080/23745118.2018.1545185)

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2019) Russia and China in global governance. In: Paral Dal, Emel and Erşen, Emre (eds.) Russia in the Changing International System. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 95-112. ISBN 9783030218317 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-21832-4_6)

2018

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2018) The Sino-Russian relationship: fellow travellers in the West-dominated world. China Quarterly, 236, pp. 1197-1205. (doi: 10.1017/S0305741018001649)

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478, Katz, Mark N. and Tiilikainen, Teija (2018) The Sino-Russian and US-Russian Relationships: Current Developments and Future Trends. FIIA Report 57, December 2018. Project Report. Finnish Institute of International Affairs.

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2018) Russian-Chinese relations in Eurasia: harmonization or subordination? Discussion Paper. Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki.

Jakóbowski, Jakub, Popławski, Konrad and Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2018) The Silk Railroad: the EU-China rail connections: background, actors, interests. Discussion Paper. Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw.

2017

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2017) Non-western visions of regionalism: China's New Silk Road and Russia's Eurasian Economic Union. International Affairs, 93(6), pp. 1357-1376. (doi: 10.1093/ia/iix182)

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2017) Russia-China relations and the West. Working Paper. Centre for Transatlantic Relations.

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2017) Two ways of influence-building: the Eurasian Economic Union and the One Belt, One Road initiative. Europe-Asia Studies, 69(7), pp. 1027-1046. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2017.1373270)

2016

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2016) 'Silk globalisation'. China's vision of international order. Discussion Paper. Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw.

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2016) The asymmetric partnership? Russia’s turn to China. International Politics, 53(3), pp. 415-434. (doi: 10.1057/ip.2016.7)

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2016) An essential partner in the background. Europe in China's policy during the rule of Xi Jinping. Discussion Paper. Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw.

Kuhrt, Natasha and Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2016) Introduction to special issue: Violence in the Post-Soviet Space. Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, 2(2), pp. 1-10.

Kuhrt, Natasha and Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2016) Special Issue: Violence in the Post-Soviet Space [Guest Editors]. Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, 2(2),

2015

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2015) Russia-China Relations in the Post-Crisis International Order. Series: BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies, 101. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9781138796591

2014

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2014) Domestic power relations and Russia's foreign policy. Demokratizatsiya, 22(3), pp. 383-409.

This list was generated on Mon Nov 3 14:23:16 2025 GMT.
Jump to: Articles | Books | Book Sections | Book Reviews | Research Reports or Papers
Number of items: 28.

Articles

Silvan, Kristiina and Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2023) Russia’s approach to connectivity in Asia: from cooperation to coercion. East Asia, (doi: 10.1007/s12140-023-09404-w) (Early Online Publication)

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2023) Fragmented cooperation: The role of state-owned and private companies in Sino-Russian energy collaboration. Asian Perspective, 47(3), pp. 393-413. (doi: 10.1353/apr.2023.a905231)

Bossuyt, Fabienne and Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2021) Russia and China between cooperation and competition at the regional and global level. Introduction. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 62(5-6), pp. 539-556. (doi: 10.1080/15387216.2021.2023363)

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2020) The Sino-Russian relationship and the West. Survival, 62(6), pp. 199-212. (doi: 10.1080/00396338.2020.1851101)

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2019) Russia-China relations in Central Asia: why is there a surprising absence of rivalry? Open Forum,

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2019) Convergence or divergence? Visions of world order and the Russian-Chinese relationship. European Politics and Society, 20(2), pp. 207-224. (doi: 10.1080/23745118.2018.1545185)

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2018) The Sino-Russian relationship: fellow travellers in the West-dominated world. China Quarterly, 236, pp. 1197-1205. (doi: 10.1017/S0305741018001649)

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2017) Non-western visions of regionalism: China's New Silk Road and Russia's Eurasian Economic Union. International Affairs, 93(6), pp. 1357-1376. (doi: 10.1093/ia/iix182)

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2017) Two ways of influence-building: the Eurasian Economic Union and the One Belt, One Road initiative. Europe-Asia Studies, 69(7), pp. 1027-1046. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2017.1373270)

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2016) The asymmetric partnership? Russia’s turn to China. International Politics, 53(3), pp. 415-434. (doi: 10.1057/ip.2016.7)

Kuhrt, Natasha and Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2016) Introduction to special issue: Violence in the Post-Soviet Space. Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, 2(2), pp. 1-10.

Kuhrt, Natasha and Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2016) Special Issue: Violence in the Post-Soviet Space [Guest Editors]. Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, 2(2),

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2014) Domestic power relations and Russia's foreign policy. Demokratizatsiya, 22(3), pp. 383-409.

Books

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2015) Russia-China Relations in the Post-Crisis International Order. Series: BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies, 101. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9781138796591

Book Sections

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2024) The Russia-China entente: implications for the transatlantic community. In: Hamilton, Daniel S. and Renouard, Joe (eds.) The Transatlantic Community and China in the Age of Disruption. Partners, Competitors, Rivals. Series: Routledge series on global order studies. Routledge.

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2022) Domestic politics: a forgotten factor in the Russian-Chinese relationship. In: Kirchberger, Sarah, Sinjen, Svenja and Wörmer, Nils (eds.) Russia-China Relations: Emerging Alliance or Eternal Rivals? Springer: Cham, pp. 59-71. ISBN 9783030970116 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-97012-3_4)

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2022) Russian foreign policy in a time of rising U.S.-China competition. In: Tellis, Ashley J., Szalwinski, Alison and Wills, Michael (eds.) Strategic Asia 2021–22: Navigating Tumultuous Times in the Indo-Pacific. Series: Strategic Asia. The National Bureau of Asian Research. ISBN 9781939131690

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 and Siddi, Marco (2021) The EU and China in Central Asian energy geopolitics. In: Bossuyt, Fabienne and Dessein, Bart (eds.) The European Union, China and Central Asia: Global and Regional Cooperation in a New Era. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9781003022336

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2019) Greater Eurasia: it's great-power status, stupid! In: Korosteleva, E., Paikin, Z. and Paduano, S. (eds.) Five Years After Maidan: Toward a Greater Eurasia? LSE IDEAS, pp. 10-17.

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2019) Russia and China in global governance. In: Paral Dal, Emel and Erşen, Emre (eds.) Russia in the Changing International System. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 95-112. ISBN 9783030218317 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-21832-4_6)

Book Reviews

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478, Sutter, Robert, Korolev, Alexander, Stoner, Kathryn E. and Reilly, James (2021) Book Review Roundtable: Kathryn E. Stoner’s Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order and James Reilly’s Orchestration: China’s Economic Statecraft Across Asia and Europe. Asia Policy, 16(4), pp. 217-241. [Book Review]

Research Reports or Papers

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478, Jakóbowski, Jakub and Kardaś, Szymon (2019) The Effects of China's Economic Expansion on Eastern Partnership Countries. Working Paper. EU-STRAT.

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478, Katz, Mark N. and Tiilikainen, Teija (2018) The Sino-Russian and US-Russian Relationships: Current Developments and Future Trends. FIIA Report 57, December 2018. Project Report. Finnish Institute of International Affairs.

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2018) Russian-Chinese relations in Eurasia: harmonization or subordination? Discussion Paper. Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki.

Jakóbowski, Jakub, Popławski, Konrad and Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2018) The Silk Railroad: the EU-China rail connections: background, actors, interests. Discussion Paper. Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw.

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2017) Russia-China relations and the West. Working Paper. Centre for Transatlantic Relations.

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2016) 'Silk globalisation'. China's vision of international order. Discussion Paper. Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw.

Kaczmarski, Marcin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-4478 (2016) An essential partner in the background. Europe in China's policy during the rule of Xi Jinping. Discussion Paper. Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw.

This list was generated on Mon Nov 3 14:23:16 2025 GMT.

Supervision

Marcin is available for supervision on topics relating to:

  • Russia's foreign and security policy
  • China's foreign policy
  • rising powers in the international order
  • great-power regionalism

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