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The round table, which held as a part of the 4th International Conference “The world majority in the contemporary international realities: from fragmentation to new institutionalization”, its discussion and outcomes, can be rightfully regarded as a major breakthrough in conceptualizing the substance and tasks of contemporary Regional Studies.

On December 2, 2022, School of Regional Studies Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University held the session "The Middle East in the Confrontation between the West and Russia" within the framework of the 4th International Conference “The world majority in the contemporary international realities: from fragmentation to new institutionalization”.

On December 1-2, the School of Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University in partnership with the Institute of Oriental Studies, the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia, the Institute of Latin America, and the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences held the 4th International Conference “The world majority in the contemporary international realities: from fragmentation to new institutionalization”.

Leonid M. Grigoryev, Academic Supervisor, Professor of the School of World Economy, took part in the program “Economics and Finance” with Alexei Mamontov on modern trends in the development of the world economy.

On November 22, 2022, the School of Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University within the framework of the permanent online seminars “Contemporary Area Studies”, with the support of the Russian Middle East Association, organized the 58th online seminar with an the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of International Journalism, Associate Professor of the Department of World Economy of MGIMO Dr. Dr. Nigyar Masumova. 

The authoritative journal Latin American Perspectives, USA (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Scopus Q1/Q2) published the article “Russian Foreign Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Twenty-first Century” by Ekaterina Kosevich, PhD in Political Science, Senior Researcher of the International Laboratory for World Order and New Regionalism Studies and Associate Professor of International Relations.

Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics A. Likhacheva took part in the IX International macroeconomic seminar “Economic security and sustainability of the EAEU countries: opportunities for the state and business”.

On 11 November, the Department of International Relations and the International Laboratory on World Order Studies and New Regionalism of the Higher School of Economics held the 35th Eurasian Online Seminar with Dr Michael Tai, Fellow of the Royal Asian Society of Great Britain and Ireland and research fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Malaya. The topic of his presentation was “What factors determine trust between states? The case of US-China relations".

The Department of International Relations together with the International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism and the Bulgarian Club held a seminar on the topic “The EU and the US – What is the State of our Union” on Thursday, November 17, 2022 (17:00 MSK). The seminar was conducted byElena Poptodorova. She served twice as the Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to the USA (from 2002 to 2008 and from 2010 to 2016.), and is the Vice President of the Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA).

Academics and students of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs and of the School of Foreign Languages were presented with a unique lecture from His Excellency Frank Hans Dannenberg Castellanos, Ambassador of the Dominican Republic in Moscow. His frank assessments on the position of Latin American countries and their relations with Russia have set the stage for future cooperation between HSE and countries of the Caribbean Basin.