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The course is designed to develop an advanced understanding of current and emerging trends of East Asia’s economic, political and security architecture through an extensive and interactive training. The curriculum includes an in-depth consideration of China’s and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) regional priorities and policies. The ultimate purpose of the course is to encourage students to grasp the complex interactions of policy, economy and security in East Asia with an emphasis on the role played by China and ASEAN in shaping the regional landscape.

The course is designed for graduate students by Professor Vladimir Evstigneev, Head of the International Finance Department.

The course is designed for graduate students by Associate Professor Tatiana Romanova and Lecturer Kirill Entin, the Department of International Economic Organizations and European Integration.

The course is designed to provide students with the working knowledge of the major issue areas surrounding transnational business and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in international relations and thus develop deeper understanding of the complexity of contemporary world politics.

The course aims to initiate an in-depth and comprehensive discussion on Russia’s policy in Asia-Pacific: its key priorities, trends and interim results along with issues and challenges it is currently encountering. The programme approaches the subject from an innovative perspective in order to encourage students’ conceptual thinking by means of an extensive and interactive training.

Aims of the course are: to conduct conceptual analyses and practical study of the US-Russia relations since the end of the Cold War; to explore structural problems and theoretical patterns of the US-Russia relations; to analyze evolution of the US-Russia relations during the last 20 years; provide prognosis of the US-Russia relations evolution for the short- and middle-term future.

The masters program on trade policy in Higher School of Economics (Moscow) the WTO-module is set to provide students with basic knowledge on modern Multilateral Trading System. As usual it includes the following themes: Basic Principles of the Multilateral Trading System and WTO Agreements; WTO Rules and their Application; Trade Negotiations: Theory and Practice; Regional (Preferential) Trade Agreements and WTO Rules; Future of the Multilateral Trading System. Since the beginning of this program an expert of WTO Secretariat is invited as a lecturer on selected issue of current trade policy.