Research & Expertise

On 28 November 2025, an expert and academic seminar entitled “International Cooperation on Climate Change: Current State and Future Prospects” was held. The event was organised by the Institute for Macroeconomic and Regional Studies (Uzbekistan) in cooperation with the Institute for Economics of Natural Resources and Climate Change at HSE University, with the support of Gazprombank.

On October 22, 2025, HSE University hosted an open meeting with representatives of the Chinese news agency Xinhua, led by Sun Zhiping, Chief of Staff to the Director General. Participants discussed current challenges in journalism and the operational specifics of news agencies in today’s media landscape. Many students took the opportunity to ask questions and practise speaking Mandarin. The visit was organised by the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs in collaboration with the HSE Institute of Media and the TASS news agency.

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 November 11, 2024, during Economist Day in Russia, Maxim Reshetnikov, Russian Minister of Economic Development, spoke to students of the HSE Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs about Russia’s foreign economic activities, how the country managed to withstand unprecedented sanctions pressure, and the current state of its development.

Chaired by Dmitri Bondarenko, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Africa, and Director of theInternational Centre of Anthropology at the HSEFaculty of Humanities, the Dissertation Council comprises prominent Russian Orientalists and Africanists from HSE University and other leading institutions.

has been hosted by HSE on June 28th, 2021.

On March 12, 2021 the School of Asian Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, held the conference ‘Women in The East: History, Society, Science’ for the first time.

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)

Any student or 2020 graduate of a Russian or international university is eligible to take part in the Student Research Paper Competition. Papers can be submitted from September 1 to October 15. The competition has been held at HSE University since 2003.