Making Global Knowledge in Local Contexts: The Politics of International Relations and Policy Advice in Russia - Paperback

by Katarzyna Kaczmarska (Author)

This book draws on extensive ethnographic research undertaken in Russia to show how the wider sociopolitical context shapes knowledge about international politics and influences scholars' engagement with the policy world.

Author Biography

Katarzyna Kaczmarska is a lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the School of Social and Political Science, the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her work on International Relations theory, the sociology of IR knowledge and post-Soviet politics appeared in International Studies Review, Journal of International Relations and Development, International Relations and Problems of Post Communism. Before joining the University of Edinburgh, she was Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University (2016-19). She spent two years conducting fieldwork in Moscow and St Petersburg. In Russia, she was affiliated with St Petersburg State University. She obtained her PhD in 2015 from Aberystwyth University for research on the representations of international politics in Anglophone and Russian academic and policy discourses.