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Countries with reserve currencies, sufficient fiscal capacity to implement soft fiscal policies, and access to global capital markets have the best chance of recovering from the coronavirus crisis. The rest may need external assistance. These are the conclusions drawn by Alexei Kireyev, leading IMF economist and visiting professor at HSE University’s School of World Economy.

The Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow invites applications for postdoctoral positions to play a key role in the Centre’s research projects in the following academic fields:
• Great power relations, new instruments and formats of great power competition (formal and informal sanctions, trade wars), rising powers
• Research on Geo-economics
• International Political Economy and the impact of US-China decoupling
• Foreign Policy Analysis• Foreign policy strategies of small and middle powers vis-a-vis great powers
• Asian Studies
• Chinese studies
• Chinese sociology (internal processes in Chinese society, trends, and problems)

On December 16-17, 2020, experts, diplomats, regional and oriental scholars from 36 countries and six regions of Russia met on the virtual platform of the Higher School of Economics to discuss new trends of regionalization and de-globalization in the world development. These trends were vividly manifested in Asia during the last year - the period of extraordinary upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lev Sokolshchik (PhD, Candidate of Science, a research fellow of the Centre of Comprehensive European and International Studies of HSE) as a member of the organizer team took part in the Working Group of the preparation the Second Camp of The Arms Control Negotiation Academy (ACONA). The general agenda of the camp is a multilateral strategic stability in the contemporary world. Preparation for the project (January 11–15, 2021) has been in process from October 2020 in the format of regular online meetings, during which the event program was prepared, the expert board was formed, and research projects' drafts of the Fellows were carried out.

On December 8, 2020, within the framework of the permanent online project “It’s worth talking about”, online meeting was held withAndrey Baklanov, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, the  State adviser of the Russian Federation of the first class, the Head of the research sector of the Middle East and North Africa of the School of International Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the HSE. The theme of the meeting was “Turkey: opponent or partner?” 

On 19-25 November the X Russian-Chinese School on International Relations was held on the basis of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs.

On Saturday, November 28, within the framework of the on-going online seminar “Contemporary Area Studies” the School of International Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of HSE University organized a discussion with Ramezan Ali Marvi, Assistant Professor of Economics, Allame Tabatab'i University, on the theme “Islamic Banking in Theory: Banks and the Real Economy”.

On November 18, within the framework of the permanent online project “It’s worth talking about”, in which leading regional experts discuss current problems with students, the eighth online meeting was held withAndrey Baklanov, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, the current state adviser of the Russian Federation of the first class, the head of the research sector of the Middle East and North Africa of the Department of Foreign Regional Studies at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the HSE.

On November, 19 the X International Russian-Chinese School on International Relations has officially opened. The event is held at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs. Although the School is held online this year, as well as the most of events this time, the atmosphere has been quite celebratory.

Timofey Bordachev, the scientific director of CCEIS, published an article "Imperial Restraint of Russia" at the Valdai Discussion Club, in which he analyzes the necessary transformations of the Russian policy in the post-Soviet region.