We congratulate Egor Prokhin, an expert at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies at HSE University, and a lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, on being selected for the Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s Visiting Fellowship at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology.

The journal Naukozaciya, founded and developed by Latin America expert Ekaterina Kosevich, Candidate of Political Science and Senior Research Fellow at HSE University, has signed cooperation agreements with two Latin American research centers — the Observatório Rússia–América Latina at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, PUC Minas, Brazil) and the Centro de Estudios Tales de Mileto in Argentina.

The CCEIS invites senior students, undergraduates, and graduate students to apply for an internship at the CCEIS. The program will be interesting for students of international relations, world economy, area and oriental studies, law, history. Interns will participate in applied projects and in the development of new fundamental research.

Vitaly Yermakov, CCEIS expert, took part in the discussion "Transition to Net-Zero focusing on IEA’s recent report Net Zero by 2050", where he presented a report on the topic " Energy transition and Russia's low-carbon adaptation strategy".

On March 16, 2021, an online presentation of the monograph "Great Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Geoeconomics of Technological Sovereignty" was held. The author - Glenn Diesen, a Professor at the University of Southeastern Norway. <br />Two discussants participated in the online presentation: Vasily Kashin, CCEIS Deputy Director, and Maxim Suchkov, Director of the Center for Advanced American Studies, Institute of International Studies, MGIMO-University

Dmitry Suslov shared his view on the current state of bilateral Russia-US relations in an interview for  Observer Research Foundation.

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:<br />• Great power relations, new instruments and formats of great power competition (formal and informal sanctions, trade wars), rising powers<br />• Research on Geo-economics<br />• International Political Economy and the impact of US-China decoupling <br />• Foreign Policy Analysis• Foreign policy strategies of small and middle powers vis-a-vis great powers<br />• Asian Studies<br />• Chinese studies<br />• Chinese sociology (internal processes in Chinese society, trends, and problems)

Lev Sokolshchik (PhD, Candidate of Science, a research fellow of the Centre of Comprehensive European and International Studies of HSE) as a member of the organizer team took part in the Working Group of the preparation the Second Camp of The Arms Control Negotiation Academy (ACONA). The general agenda of the camp is a multilateral strategic stability in the contemporary world. Preparation for the project (January 11–15, 2021) has been in process from October 2020 in the format of regular online meetings, during which the event program was prepared, the expert board was formed, and research projects' drafts of the Fellows were carried out.

On December 4, the HSE Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) hosted a closed round table on “Russian-Finnish cooperation in the Arctic”. Finnish researchers from the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, the University of Oulu and the University of Tampere were invited to participate in the online conference.

Lev Sokolshchik (PhD, Candidate of Science, a research fellow of the Centre of Comprehensive European and International Studies of HSE) took part in an online discussion with NATO officials. Within the framework of the meeting, issues related to global and regional security, Russia–NATO relations, the strategic force balance in Europe, and the prospects for the NATO development as a military-political block were discussed.

Senior Research Fellow of CCEIS, Igor Makarov, took part in the scientific seminar “The Arctic Region: State Policy and Development in Conditions of Uncertainty”, which was organized by Valdai International Discussion Club.