Evgeny Roshchin

MA in International Relations and European Studies, Central European University
MA in Sociology, European University at St. Petersburg
Kandidatskaya degree from Moscow State Institute of International Relations

Particularly, in his research he draws on Foucaultian genealogies and history of concepts approach as elaborated by
Quentin Skinner. From this perspective he tries to elucidate the processes that molded modern international politics and its key concepts. His PhD thesis focuses on the concept of friendship in international relations. The thesis investigates the history of the concept in the period between XVI and XIX centuries; it looks at the ways the concept was used in major treatises on political theory and in international treaties of Great Britain and the USA. Apart from that he is also studying the history of the concept in the Russian context. Particularly, in his research he draws on Foucaultian genealogies and history of concepts approach as elaborated by Quentin Skinner. From this perspective he tries to elucidate the processes that molded modern international politics and its key concepts. His PhD thesis focuses on the concept of friendship in international relations. The thesis investigates the history of the concept in the period between XVI and XIX centuries; it looks at the ways the concept was used in major treatises on political theory and in international treaties of Great Britain and the USA. Apart from that he is also studying the history of the concept in the Russian context.

In March 2008 he joined the Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change (University of Jyväskylä) led by Kari Palonen.

His recent publications include:

Evgeny Roshchin. Supplanting Love, Accepting Friendship: A History Of Russian Diplomatic Concepts, in Redescriptions. Yearbook of Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory, pp. 125-146

Ponyatie "Druzhba" v Kontexte Mezhdunarodnykh Otnoshenii, in O. Kharkhordin (ed.), Druzhba: Ocherki po Teorii Praktik (Sketches in the Theory of Practices), St. Petersburg: EUSP Press, 2009. pp. 290-423.

"The Concept of Friendship: From Princes to States" in European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 12 (4): 599-624.

Istoriya Ponyatiya Suverenitet v Rossii (The History of the Concept of Sovereignty in Russia), in N. Koposov, M. Krom, N. Potapova (eds.),
Historical Concepts and Political Ideas in Russia. St. Petersburg: EUSP
Press, Aletheia, 2006. pp. 190–230.