International cooperation
The teaching staff of the Department of International Relations maintains close academic ties with the following universities and research centers: Center for Information and Political Forecasting (USA), University of Warsaw (Poland), CEU (Hungary, Budapest), Sophia Antinopolis University (Nice, France), Central African Republic Research Center ( Corvinus University, Hungary), Free University of Brussels (Belgium), etc.
Students and teaching staff often have the opportunity to listen to lectures and attend master classes by professors and researchers from foreign scientific and educational institutions. Visiting professor from Columbia University Houman Sadri (2019), along with lecturing for master's and doctoral students, conducted master classes for teachers of the Faculty of International Relations.
In December 2022, offline meetings were held between PhD in political science Bavna Dave, senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS, University of London, and doctoral and master's students in the Department of International Relations. Dr. Dave has consulted on applying research methodology to master's and doctoral dissertations.
As part of the British Council InterLinks small grants program, doctoral students of the department in October – November 2022 listened to online lectures by the following members of the teaching staff of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London (SOAS, University of London):
- Dr. Tolga Sinmazdemir about research methodology, comparative method, and quantitative methods;
- Professor Phil Clark - “Researching ethnic relations in a multinational context: methodological, theoretical and comparative lessons from Rwanda and other countries”;
- Professor Roshana Bajpai - “Exploring government approaches to ethnic diversity: discourse analysis and beyond.”
Each online lecture was accompanied by a discussion where students had the opportunity to ask questions about the methodology of their dissertations.
On October 3-4, 2022, doctoral students of the Department of International Relations took part in the Nexus simulation training, organized by the Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia (CAREC), which was also attended by the EU Representative and the USAID Regional Project on Water and Environment.
In March 2023, Brian Carlson, a researcher at the Center for Security Studies in Zurich, Germany, held a discussion on current global security issues with representatives of the department's faculty.
In April 2023, teaching staff, doctoral and master's students of the department had the opportunity to listen to a lecture by the director of the Chinese Environmental Forum at the Wilson Center in Washington, USA, Jennifer Turner on problems of world politics.
Guest of the department, Professor D. Aptsuari, gave a lecture for teaching staff and young researchers of the Faculty of International Relations on the topic “Current processes in the global economy” on October 23, 2023.
In the 2023-2024 academic year, the visiting professor at the department is David Aptsiauri, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Professor at Beijing University of International Business and Economics (China), who lectures to undergraduates and advises doctoral students on conducting research on issues of the world economy and globalization.
Representatives of the department's teaching staff are active in participating in international projects. After the successful implementation of the project “Jean Monet Chair. European Diplomacy" in 2018-2021, project team consisting of Medeubaeva Zh.M., Zhanbulatova R.S., Kenzhalina G.Zh. won a research grant within the framework of the European Commission Erasmus+ project “Jean Monnet Center of Excellence EUROSOFT” (https://cloud.mail.ru/stock/iPduMUZogRUgTWr3LrC63vjf) for 2023-2026. In November 2023, according to the project implementation plan, the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence was opened at the Faculty of International Relations.
