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Methodology of Political Analysis

The main goal of the course is to provide students with applicable knowledge in conducting policy-relevant and task-oriented analysis of international affairs, focused on strategies of states and their interactions. The ability to perform such a kind of analysis relies on an understanding of basic cognitive and psychological limitations, as well as on proficiency in applying relevant theories and models to overcome them.

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Great Powers and Regional Subsystems in World Politics

The course aimed at providing comprehensive knowledge of global and regional structural trends in the framework of contemporary world order formation. The emphasis is on objective and subjective factors that determine the formation and consolidation of new regional subsystems – in our case, around the United States and the Russian Federation. Since the US is a global power with global projection of its influence, special attention is given to American structural projects, and the world order model.

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Megatrends and Global Contemporary Development

The course “Megatrends and Global Contemporary Development” aims to provide knowledge of current global trends that determine the developments in a changing global environment. In addition, it analyses the key parameters of the contemporary international political system, and the role of its main actors. It deals with approaches, tools and mechanisms of political influences in IR. Special attention is paid to the new principles and norms of interstate interactions and non-state actors. Global influences are analyzed with regard to their interaction with domestic contexts in Russia.

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Governance of International Migration

The aim of the course is to provide students with foundational knowledge and sound understanding of what international migration is and recent trends of policies and practices that exist in the field, to introduce students to theories and challenges of Migration, and to orient students to proceed with field research on the basis of their received knowledge. This course examines international migration from both theoretical and empirical perspectives; this provides students with an understanding of the factors behind current trends in international population movements, as well as their impacts on the migrants themselves and the countries of origin and destination.

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