Oleg Kocherov

Year and Place of Birth

Born in Nizhny Novgorod, in 1993.

Education

• 2010–2015 – N.A. Dobrolubov State Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod, Faculty of Translation and Interpreting.
• 2015–2018 – Postgraduate education at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences (23.00.04 – Political Problems of International Relations, Global and Regional Development).

Field of Studies

• Chinese foreign policy and geopolitics;
• Chinese political philosophy and strategic culture;
• war ethics;
• the China-Japan-Korea triangle;
• East Asian left libertarian thought.

Professional appointments

• 2016 – till present – Junior Research Fellow at the Department of Oriental Philosophies, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences.

List of publications

Papers:

• “Kitaiskaya strategicheskaya kultura i Dao de czin [Chinese Strategic Culture and the Tao Te Ching]”. Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenia [International Relations], 2 (2019): 31–47.

• "Igrovaya geopolitika: 'Upravleniye khaosom' Velikoy shakhmatnoy doski protiv 'Postroeniya poryadka' Velikoy doski weytsi [Playing Geopolitics: 'Management of Chaos' in the Grand Chess Board Versus 'Establishing Order' on the Great Weiqi Board]." Vek Globalizatsii [Age of Globalization], 2(26)(2018): 57-71. DOI:10.30884/vglob/2018.02.05
• “Geopolitika velikoy doski veitsi [Geopolitics of the Grand Weiqi Board]” Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenia [International Relations], 2 (2018): 193–204.
• “Etica voiny Mo Di [Mo Di’s Ethics of Warfare]” Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenia [International Relations], 3 (2018): 40–54.

Participation at congresses and conferences

• 2018, August 14 – Speaker at the XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing (invited session “Confucian Self-Cultivation as a Path Towards Being Human Conceptions Related to National, Global, and Human Security”, paper: "Harmonizing the Game Universe: Weiqi as a Tool for Self-Cultivation").

• 2017, August 8 – Second Sinological Development Charitable Foundation Summer Program, Peking University (Paper: “The Game of Weiqi as a Philosophical and Cultural Matrix of Chinese Civilization”).

• 2016, August 1 – First Sinological Development Charitable Foundation Summer Program, Peking University (Paper: “Chinese Understanding on the Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention”, co-authored by Dr. Marcia Schmaltz, Dr. Makar Taran, Ying Jingcai).