Vyacheslav Bondarenko is associated doctoral fellow at Max-Weber-Kolleg, Erfurt, and a research assistant at the German Maritime Museum (Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum), Bremerhaven. He holds a master’s degree in Sociology – European Societies from the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), where he wrote his master thesis on the shipbreaking industry using the world-systems approach. In addition, he has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom, as well as work experience as an economic analyst at various shipping companies in the City of London.
Vyacheslav’s academic interests lie within world-systems analysis and the shipping industry, which he continues to research as part of his PhD. In particular, he studies the role of the container shipping industry in uneven development and how it contributes to unbalanced globalisation. In doing so, he also analyzes Chinese shipping companies such as the state-owned company COSCO and the role of the “landlord port model” in port governance.
