Research & Expertise

On November 28, the School of International Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the HSE University jointly with The Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund held a meeting as part of the ongoing seminar “Contemporary Area Studies” with Munhoz Svartman Eduardo, professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), on the topic “Brazil's International Cooperation in the Field of Defense: Main Goals and Partners”.

On April 11, a session entitled “Southeast Asia in the Context of Global Turbulence: Plans, Realities and Prospects, as part of Section IA Oriental Studies, XXIV Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, took place. Evgeny Kanaev (the moderator, HSE University), Tatiana Kolesnikova (SPB GUAP), Mikhail Terskikh (IMEMO RAS), Liu Xingtao (Shenyang University) and Dmitry Fedorenko (HSE University) participated in the session.The participants focused on major issues shaping politics, economy and security in Southeast Asia. Salient features of ASEAN policy amidst a new Cold War, the trans-national digital infrastructure, exemplified by the 5G Internet, as a priority of ASEAN Economic Community 2025, protectionism and free trade as part of policy of ASEAN and its member states, Chinese expert approaches to Southeast Asia from a Belt and Road Initiative Perspective were discussed in detail. The speakers offered recommendations on how to increase efficiency of Russia’s and China’s policies, as well as of China-Russia cooperation, in Southeast Asia. The presentations and the subsequent discussion demonstrate that Southeast Asia is increasing in significance for the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China. Russian and Chinese scholars will join efforts in producing recommendations on major directions, measures and mechanisms of goal setting and policies of their countries, to their collective advantage.   

On April 10, the session «India as a leading Power: Foreign policy initiatives and priorities» was held in an online format within the framework of the section «Oriental Studies» (heads: Dr. O.V. Volosyuk, Dr. T.V. Bordachev, Dr. A.N. Karneev). The moderator of the session was Dr. Olga Kharina, Research Fellow in the School of International Regional Studies.

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

Researchers and diplomats from 35 countries and eight Russian regional universities gathered at HSE University to discuss globalization in Asia and how it differs from what is taking place in Europe.