A/Prof Stephen Fortescue

Research Summary

Associate Professor Stephen Fortescue's research is focused on Russian resource politics, particularly in the mining and metals industry. His most recent monograph, Russia’s Oil Barons and Metal Magnates, offers an analysis of the role of the so-called oligarchs in the post-Soviet Russian political economy. Other recent publications have examined particular sectors of the mining industry, as well as taxation in the resource sector. His current major project focuses on the Russian policy-making process, with a particular emphasis on business-related economic policy.

Research Areas: Russian politics, business and politics, resource politics

UNSW Research Profile

Teaching

Undergraduate courses on Politics and Business (Level 2) and Comparative Politics: Russia (Level 3).

Postgraduate Research Supervision
* Pipeline policies of Russia's Gazprom
* The Ethical Trade of Diamonds
* In search of the national interest: FDI policy under the Howard Government

Publications

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Policy-making for Russian Industry, Macmillan, London and Basingstoke, 1997

Russia’s Oil Barons and Metal Magnates. Oligarchs and the state in transition, Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2006

‘The Russian aluminium industry in transition’, Eurasian Geography and Economics, vol.47, no.1, 2006, pp.76-94

‘Die russische Metallindustrie unter Putin’, russlandanalysen (Forschungstelle Osteuropa, University of Bremen), No.119, 24 November 2006, pp.2-11 (in German)

‘Business-state negotiations and the reform of tax procedures in post-Yukos Russia’, Law in Context, vol.24, no.2, 2006, Special issue, Tax law and political institutions, pp.36-59

with Vesa Rautio, ‘Vom Arbeitslager zum Weltmarkfuehrer. Ein Firmenportraet der Buntmetallhuette’, OstEuropa, vol.57, no.6, 2007, pp.395-408 (in German)

‘Location decisions in the Russian aluminium industry’, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, vol.22, nos 1-2, 2008, pp.23-44

‘The Russian Law on Subsurface Resources: a policy marathon’, Post-Soviet Affairs, vol.25, no.2, April-June 2009, pp.160-184

‘The Russian steel industry, 1990-2009’, Eurasian Geography and Economics, vol.50, no.3, May-June 2009, pp.252-274

‘Die russischen Oligarchen in der Wirtschaftskrise’, russland-analysen (Forschungstelle Osteuropa, University of Bremen), no.182, 2009, pp.15-18
(reprinted as ‘The Russian oligarchs and the economic crisis’, Russian Analytical Digest, no.63, 7 July 2009, www.res.ethz.ch)

Other Information

Qualified to supervise Honours and postgraduate research on Soviet and Russian topics, particularly related to the domestic political process; on business-government relations; and resource politics.