CERC Fellow
Dr Yuri Tsyganov

Dr. Yuri Tsyganov
CERC Fellow
University of Melbourne
Level 2, 234 Queensberry Street
Carlton Vic 3053 Australia
e-mail: iouri@unimelb.edu.au

Yuri Tsyganov's main areas of research include Russian political economy and North-East Asian regional developments.

He is currently participating in an ARC project on comparative studies of corruption in China, Russia and Central Europe, headed by Professor Leslie Holmes.

Yuri Tsyganov has also worked on a number of projects conducted by RURE-AS, including country updates on developments in 29 communist and post-communist countries for The SBS World Guide (7th and 8th eds), and a research project on the prospects for Sino-Russian partnership.

He has an extensive publications record in the areas of Chinese, North Asian, Korean and Russian studies.

In 1994-97 Yuri Tsyganov was a member of three research teams in the area of Korean studies, which were funded by the Korea Foundation.

In 1997 he was co-editor of and contributed a chapter to Russia and North-East Asia: Security and Economic Interdependence. The book was part of a joint project between the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the National Institute of Research Advancement (NIRA) in Tokyo.

His recent publications include "Russia and China: What is in the Pipeline?," in Russia and Asia: the Emerging Security Agenda (1999), a volume published within the framework of an international project conducted by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI); 2 articles on Sino-Russian relations in Russian and Euro-Asian Bulletin; "Political Background of the Economic Crisis in Russia," in V. Tikhomirov, ed., Anatomy of the 1998 Russian Crisis (1999). He is the author of Taiwan in Regional Security Structures of East Asia 1998).