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institute employs 209 scholars of whom 19 hold doctoral degrees and 125 hold
candidate degrees. The institute maintains a small branch in St. Petersburg. Institute
Structure: Institute scholars work in sections of modern problems, international
relations of African states, social and economic problems of African countries,
history, and language study. It coordinates its work with the Institute of Oriental
Studies. The institute is structured in five major Departments, a scientific archives
and an editorial and publications Department. It maintains groups on mathematical
modeling, the study of capitalism in Africa, statistics, an analysis of the economic
mechanism, African religions, law, and human rights.
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The Departments of the institute include:
(1.) the international problems Department with sectors on problems of countries of
Southern Africa and one on analyzing international conflicts;
(2.) the economic studies Department with sectors on the study of productive forces,
financial-economic problems, present-day global problems, and agrarian problems;
(3.) the Soviet-African economic and scientific-technical cooperation Department with
sectors on cooperation between the USSR Land African countries and applied
economic research;
(4.) the individual countries studies department with sectors on the Arab countries, the
tropical African countries, the socialist-oriented countries, systems analysis of social
structures of the countries of West Africa, and groups on the problems of countries
of the Horn of Africa land information and regional studies;
(5.) the social, political and ideological problems Department with sectors on the social
development of African countries, ideology and political problems, nationality and
cultural problems, and documentation and scientific information.
Research thrusts of the institute: Under A. A. Gromyko, “Africa in the World Community”;
economic cooperation between the Soviet Union and the developing African States
under G. V. Smirnov, L. N. Aksiuk, Iurii M. Osipov, E. L. Simonov; control over
exports in the African countries under G. V. Smirnov, S. A. Bessonov, G. I.
Ruinstein; cooperation in raw materials extraction under L. N. Aksiuk; capitalist
development in African countries under L. V. Goncharov; problems of economic
development in Africa under Iurii M. Osipov and S. A. Bessonov; social and class
structures and revolutionary processes in Africa under G. B. Starushenko, A. M.
Vasil’ev; global processes and relationships between socialist and developing
countries under V. B. Kokorev, N. D. Kosukhin, and A. A. Tkachenko; ongoing
processes in the Third World and East European countries under V. I. Goncharov,
L. V. Goncharov, A. M. Vasil’ev , G. B Starushenko, and L. I. Aleksandrovkaia
(aya), and forecasting of economic and scientific-technical development of African
countries in five-year increments from 1991 to 2005 under M. M. Golanskii, S. A.
Bessonov, and Iurii M. Osipov. The institute maintains relationships with a number
of organizations around the world that include UCLA and the Center for Strategic
and International Studies (USA); some 40 African studies centers; the Institute of
Arab studies in Aix-en-Provence; the Italian-African Institute in Italy. The Institute
publishes Narody Azii i Afriki and Azia i Afriki segodnia. Director Gromyko,
Anatoli A., D. Hist. S., since 1976. Scientific Personnel: Director Gromyko,
Anatoli A., D. Hist. S., since '76; Deputy Directors: Asoian, Boris R., C. Hist. S.,
since '83; Goncharov, Leonard V., C. Econ. S., since '60; Starushenko, Gleb B.,
D. Iur. S., since '66; Vasiliev, Aleksei M., since '83. (See: Ruble, Vol. I., pp.
379-381. An excellent discussion of the Africa Institute.) (See also: A
Scholars’ Guide.)
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