Lecture by Professor Leszek Buszynski on 30 April at Moruya Golf Club, on: Ukraine: The Russian Invasion
Professor Leszek Buszynski will be at the Moruya Golf Club on Saturday April 30th from 3.00 pm to give a lecture and hold a 'Q and A' on this subject.
Leszek Buszynski is an Honorary Professor with the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra Australia. From 1994 to 2010, he was professor of International Relations in the Graduate School of International Relations at the International University of Japan. Prior to this appointment, he was director of the Graduate Program in Strategic Studies with Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University from 1988-1994. His first appointment was as a lecturer in the Political Science Department of the National University of Singapore where he taught from 1980-1987 A resident of Canberra where he grew up, he graduated from the ANU where he studied law and political science from 1969-1972; moving abroad he completed a master’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1975, and graduated with a Ph.D. from the same School in 1980. He initially worked on the Soviet Union and its foreign policy, and after its collapse he continued to work on Russian foreign policy publishing the following books. • Russian Foreign Policy after the Cold War, Praeger, 1996 • Gorbachev and Southeast Asia, Routledge, London, 1992 • Soviet Foreign Policy and Southeast Asia, Croom Helm, London, 1986 Articles on Russia in refereed journals include • Russia and North Korea’ Dilemmas and Interests,” Asian Survey, Vol. 49, No. 5, September/October 2009. • “Oil and Territory in Putin’s relations with China and Japan,” Pacific Review, Vol. 19. No. 3, September 2006 • “Russia and Southeast Asia: A new Relationship,” Contemporary Southeast Asia, vol. 28, no. 2, August 2006 • “Russia’s New Role in Central Asia,” Asian Survey, Vol. 45, No. 4, July/August 2005 • Russia and Northeast Asia; Aspirations and Reality," Pacific Review, vol. 13, no. 3, 2000. 2 • “Russia and the CIS in 2003, Regional Reconstruction,” Asian Survey, Vol. 54, No. 1, January/February 2004. • “Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States in 2002; going Separate Ways,” Asian Survey, Vol. 53, No. 1, January/February 2003. • Russia and the West: Towards Renewed Geopolitical Rivalry?" Survival, autumn 1995. More recently, he has turned his attention to Asia Pacific and now Indo Pacific security issues. He was coeditor with Do Thanh Hai of Maritime issues and Regional Order in the Indo Pacific Palgrave Macmillan 2021, and The South China Sea: from Regional Maritime Dispute to Geostrategic Competition (Routledge 2020). He was the sole author of The Geop
