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There are a number of independent laboratories in the institute: a Laboratory on Ideological
and Ideological-theoretical Aspects of US Foreign Policy, a Laboratory on
Encyclopedic Publications, a Laboratory on Structural Analysis and Models of
Military-political and Managerial Decisions, and a Laboratory on Applied Computer
Science.
The institute maintains a scientific archives and houses an academic Council on complex
study of US problems. It offers graduate work in the historical and economic
sciences. It maintains relations with a number of important international institutes
and with a large number of universities in the US and the world. The institute has
published a monthly journal since 1970 entitled SSHA: ekonomika, politika i
idelogiia. Dr. Georgii A. Arbatov, D, Hist. S., has been its Director since its
founding in 1967. Personnel: Deputy Directors: Bogdanov, Radomir G., since '75;
Kokoshin, Andrei A., C. Hist. S., D. Phil. S., since '84; Plekhanov, Sergei M.,
January '88; Prokhovskii, Anatolii A., July '88; and Spandarian, Viktor B.,
Apri'88. (See: Ruble, Vol. I., pp. 395-396.) (See also: A Scholars;
Guide. . .)
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8. European Studies Institute in Moscow.
Arbatov, Georgii A., D. Hist. S. Born in 1923 in Kherson. Russian historian and
economist. Corresponding member, 1970; academician, 1974--of the Economics
Department of the Academy. Academician of the new Department, Problems of
World Economics and International Relations, since August 1988. He graduated
from the Moscow Institute of International Relations in 1949. From 1949 to 1962,
he worked for the Foreign Literary Publishing House and for the journals Voprosy
filosofii, Kommunist, and Problemy mira i sotsializma. From 1962 to 1964, he
was head of a section of the Institute of World Economics and International
Relations of the AN SSSR and the RAN. From 1964 to 1967 he was a member of
the staff of the CC CPSU. Since 1967, he has been director of the USA and
Canada Institute in Moscow that was founded in 1967 to support research on the
history, international relations, economic policies, and the sociological and social
composition of the USA and Canada. He was a member of the Central Auditing
Committee of the CPSU from 1971 to 1976. He became a candidate member of the
CC CPSU in 1976 and a member of the CC CPSU in 1981. He was a deputy to the
9th and 10th Convocations of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. His works are on
foreign policy and international relations. He has been a member of the Presidium
since October 1988. (GSE 30, p. 16.)
Retrospect: Founded in 1988. The institute emphasizes study of European affairs and
foreign policy formation in Europe.
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Structure of the institute: The institute is organized into four Departments with sectors
and groups as follows:
(1.) the all-European processes Department with sectors on political problems of security in
Europe, limitation and reduction of armaments in Europe and NATO strategy, and
groups on commercial and economic ties and cultural and humanitarian cooperation;
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