Within the framework of the annual academic conference series "Russia in a Globalizing World", the the Institute of Economics (IE RAS) organized
the international conference "Russia in the Multipolar World Configuration" dedicated to the 50
th anniversary of the Department "The International Economic and Political Studies" (named the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System before 1990) held
on October 28-29, 2010 (Moscow, Presidium of the RAS, Leninsky avenue, 32a, Blue Hall).
Objective of the conference was to provide comprehensive multi-level analysis of transformation processes in Russia and in the neighborhood belt countries, to work out principal directions of economic and political cooperation with neighbor states in the emerging multipolar world configuration.
Major themes discussed at the conference:
- Russian foreign economic strategy under conditions of the current financial crisis, globalization and intellectualization of world economic flows.
- Place and role of neighbor states in Russian geopolitical and geo-economics strategy,
- Perspectives of integration groupings development in post-Soviet space,
- Russia, EU and the CIS: is cooperation possible within the framework of this triangle
Working languages of the conference – Russian, English.
As participants of the conference representatives of legislative and executive authorities of the RF, international organizations and embassies of the foreign states in RF, research officers of profile academic institutions of RF, the CIS, Central and South-Eastern Europe, Eastern and South-Eastern Asia as well as mass media representatives were invited.
As outcome of the conference publication of a set of research papers is scheduled. For accepted applications, full text versions of reports (up to 40,000 characters) shall be submitted to the Organizing committee
by November 15, 2010.
Contact phones and emails of the Organizing Committee:
Lyudmila Perevezentseva, Assistant to Director, DIEPS IE RAS
+7 499 128 67 80 (phone); +7 499 120 83 71 (fax)
319@transecon.ru
Tatyana Litvinenko, Head of International Relations Department, IE RAS
+7 499 128 88 71 (phone/fax)
tat_litvinenko@mail.ru
Tatyana Sokolova, Academic Secretary, DIEPS IE RAS
+7 499 128 91 57; + 7 915 035 12 69
sokolova99@mail.ru
Postal address: 42a, Novocheryomushkinstaya ul., Moscow, Russia, 117418
