Assistant Professor of International Studies, University of Nottingham
Nicholas Ross Smith is an Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Nottingham’s Ningbo campus in China. His main research areas include geopolitics in Eastern Europe (and more broadly, regional settings), EU foreign policy, Russian foreign policy, democratisation, and International Relations theory. He has published a number of journal articles, essays and commentaries on these topics (and others) and also has published a book which looks at EU-Russian relations and the Ukraine crisis (with Edward Elgar).
Hong Kong protests: history lessons for Beijing from British colonial era uprising
Aug 15, 2019 17:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views
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