リチャード・サクワ(Richard Sakwa、1953年-)は、イギリスの政治学者。専門は、ロシア政治。
ロンドン・スクール・オブ・エコノミクス卒業後、バーミンガム大学で博士号取得。1996年からケント大学教授。
著書 単著 Soviet Communists in Power: A Study of Moscow during the Civil War, 1918-21, (Macmillan, 1988). Soviet Politics: An Introduction, (Routledge, 1989, 2nd ed., 1998). Gorbachev and his Reforms, 1985-1990, (Philip Allan, 1990). Russian Politics and Society, (Routledge, 1993, 2nd ed., 1996, 3rd ed., 2002, 4th ed., 2008). Postcommunism, (Open University Press, 1999). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991, (Routledge, 1999). Putin: Russia's Choice, (Routledge, 2004, 2nd ed., 2008).
編著 The Experience of Democratization in Eastern Europe: Selected Papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995, (Macmillan, 1999). Chechnya: from Past to Future, (Anthem Press, 2005).
共編著
Contemporary Europe, co-edited with Anne Stevens, (Macmillan, 2000, 2nd ed., 2006). Contextualizing Secession: Normative Studies in Comparative Perspective, co-edited by Bruno Coppieters, (Oxford University Press, 2003). Developments in Russian Politics 6, co-edited with Stephen White and Zvi Gitelman, (Palgrave, 2005).