The monograph Regions in the Contemporary World: the Global Turbulence and Its Impact on Asia edited by the WEIR faculty has been published

In January 2022, the collective monograph entitled Regions in the Contemporary World: the Global Turbulence and Its Impact on Asia / Ed. by E. Kanaev, S. Luzyanin, A. Baklanov, V. Vishnyakovawas published. The monograph is an outcome of the II International Conference “East and West in the New Transformation Phase: Asia Encountering the Challenges of Deglobalization”, organized by the World Economy and International Affairs faculty, HSE University, on December 16-17, 2020. It is the second issue of the book from the “Regions in the Contemporary World” series (the first monograph entitled Regions in the Contemporary World: Globalization and Asia (in Russian) was published in 2020. It demonstrates that conferences on regional studies with outcomes as academic monographs are held regularly at the World Economy and International Affairs faculty

The monograph was published in English. Its chapters are logically organized around the research question raised in the Introduction: will Asia be able to take on the initiative from the “collective West” to drive the globalization process? Responding to it, Part I classifies and summarizes the key global trends and assesses their influence on Asian countries. Part II analyses the on-going processes in Asian countries and regions, while Part III reveals the specificity of cooperation between Asian countries and states of other regions. In Conclusion, its authors clarify what the processes analyzed in the book mean for the development of International Regional Studies as a self-sufficient field of expertize.

The analysis performed by the authors of the monograph is comprehensive and, most importantly, seamless. It responds to the priorities and prospective plans of the World Economy and International Affairs faculty.

Hopefully, the monograph will become part of the academic and methodological support kit – research, teaching and project-mentor – of the WEIR faculty divisions. Specifically, it responds to the prospective plans of the School of International Regional Studies (SIRS) in making the School an international teaching and expert center of excellence. To perform this task, it is important not only to carry out a comprehensive research focusing on different regions, but also to develop its efficient methodology with an emphasis on promoting Russia’s interests in foreign markets and upgrade the training of highly qualified International Regional Studies specialists who will support Russia’s projects abroad