Research

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

  • Stanko, John C.  2024.  “Role Theory, Non-Coercive Influence, and the Agency of Target States: The Case of Kazakhstan’s Ambassadorial Corps and the Russian Diplomatic Academy”.  Foreign Policy Analysis 20(3).  https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orae017.
    • Pre-print version for those without institutional access to FPA
  • Stanko, John C.  2022.  “The Future of Sino-Russian Relations in the Russian Far East: A Stable but Not Impervious Equilibrium”.  Global Studies Quarterly 2(4).  https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksac050. (Open access)

 

Public-Facing Scholarship

 

Selected Past and Upcoming Academic Presentations

  • “Degrees of Engagement: Foreign Policy Goals and the Internationalization of Education in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan” April 05, 2024, Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities Spring Symposium, Bloomington, IN, USA.
  • “The Russian Diplomatic Academy as Soft Power Resource: The Case of Kazakhstan’s Ambassadorial Corps” April 22, 2023, Harvard University Davis Center Graduate Student Conference on Central Asia, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • “Comparative Advantage or Resource Trap: The Linkages between National Ice Hockey Teams and the Development of Domestic Human Capital” April 14, 2023, Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, USA
  • “International Partnerships within Kazakhstan’s Higher Education System: Internationalization, but not Globalization” November 12, 2022, Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, USA.
  • “Examining Russian Influence on Kazakhstan via International Higher Education Partnerships” June 03, 2022, Wisconsin Russia Project Young Scholars Conference, Madison, WI, USA
  • “Kazakhstan’s Ambassadorial Corps: Toward an Independent Foreign Policy or Stuck in the Russian Diplomatic Track?”
    • March 25, 2022, World Politics Research Seminar, Bloomington, IN, USA
    • February 11, 2022, Association of Central Eurasian Students Conference, Bloomington, IN, USA
    • December 01, 2021, ASEEES Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, USA (remote)
  • “Kazakhstan’s National Hockey Teams as a Societal Mirror: International Soft Power Efforts and Domestic Geographic Inequality” October 16, 2021, Central Slavic Conference, St. Louis, MO, USA (remote)
  • “Economic Capabilities and Alliance Institutionalization: A Reexamination of Alternate Markets and the Imposition of Economic Sanctions” November 13, 2021, American Political Science Association International Studies/International Studies Association International Security Studies Section (IS-ISSS) Conference, Bloomington, IN, USA
  • “Motivations for Studying Chinese and Russian in Irkutsk” November 27, 2018, University of Kansas Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES) Brown Bag Talk, Lawrence, KS, USA (remote)
  • “Neighbors or Rivals?: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Central Asian Hegemony” March 23, 2018, Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Charlotte, NC USA
  • “A Twenty-First Century Albazin?: The Russian Far East and Russia-China Relations” October 21, 2017, Central Slavic Conference, St. Louis, MO, USA
  • “Democracy in Donetsk?: Findings of the Diplomacy Lab Project” December 06, 2016, KU CREES Brown Bag Talk, Lawrence, KS, USA

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