Dr Sergey Utkin

Visiting Research Fellow
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Vita

Sergey Utkin is Visiting Research Fellow at the IFSH since July 2025, working in the European Peace and Security Orders research area. From 2022 to2024, he was associate professor of international politics at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. Prior to that, Sergey Utkin worked at Moscow-based think-tanks, primarily the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, while teaching occasional university courses on political science and European integration. In 2006, he received his PhD degree in political science (international relations) from IMEMO for his thesis on Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU. In 2002, Sergey Utkin graduated from the Moscow Pedagogical State University, School of History.

Research profile

Sergey Utkin’s research interests include:

  • Russia-West relations
  • foreign policy instruments
  • policies of the EU and NATO
  • global governance and international organisations

Sergey Utkin is currently working on a book which will represent a comprehensive analysis of the ongoing process of Russia-West decoupling. This work was started at the University of Southern Denmark and received support of the Carlsberg Foundation for the year 2024.

Memberships & professional activities

  • Editorial Board member of the Security and Human Rights Journal
  • Fellow 2025/26, Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study

Selected Publications

  • Utkin, Sergey. 2023.
    A Deep Divide: The Long-Term EU-Russia Decoupling.
     In: Clingendael Spectator, Series - Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs
  • Utkin, Sergey. 2022. Suspicious Neighbour: Russia’s Role in the Quest for the EU’s Strategic Autonomy. European Foreign Affairs Review 27 (Special Issue): 121-137. DOI: 10.54648/eerr2022014.
  • Utkin, Sergey . 2021. Unrealised Potential: The EU and Russia in Regional Multilateral Institutions. In: The Routledge Handbook of EU-Russia Relations. Structures, Actors, Issues, edited by Tatiana Romanova , Maxine David , 460-470. London : Routledge .
  • Utkin, Sergey . 2019. New Nations – New Interests: The Foreign Policy of Post-Soviet States. In: What Has Remained of the USSR. Exploring the Erosion of the Post-Soviet Space, edited by Arkady Moshes , András Rácz , 65-82. Helsinki : Finnish Institute of International Affairs. .
  • Utkin, Sergey . 2018. Multilateralism in Russian Foreign Policy: A Toolbox for the Future. In: OSCE Yearbook 2017, edited by Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg/ IFSH , 51-64. Baden-Baden : Nomos .
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