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(2.) the general problems of Western Europe Department with sectors on Western European
integration and social and political problems and a group on economic analysis;
(3.) the applied research Department with groups on ecological security and management in
theory and practice, and
(4.) the economics and politics of Western European countries.
There are independent sectors on the role of Europe in the modern world, information
services, and an inter-Departmental group on military and political integration.
The institute has a staff of 43 researchers of whom five hold the doctoral and 21 hold the
candidate degree. One corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciencies
is on the staff. The institute has established relations with the Atlantic Council of the
United States, the Institute of East-West Security Problems at Stanford University;
the School of Advanced International Studies of the Iohns Hopkins University, the
British Academy; the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the International
Institute for Strategic Studies; the Royal College of Great Britain, the Aspen
Institute; the Economic Research Institute and European Academy; the Research
Institute of Peace Problems and Security Policy; the Kiel Institute for Economic
Research; the Institute of Federal Industry in Germany; the Institute of Politology
and the Institute of Europe of the University of Amsterdam; the Center for European
Political Studies in Belgium; the Council of Europe in France; the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute, and the Institute of Europe in Finland.
Director Dr. Vitalii V. Zhurkin, D. Hist. S., since 1988.
(See: A Scholars’ Guide. . .)
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9. World Institute in Moscow. (Formerly Peace Institute)
Located at 23 Profwouznaia (aya) st. GSP-7, Moscow, 117859, tel. 128-93-
89, fax: 310-70-27. Directed by Professor Aleksandr K. Kislov.
Retrospect: This institute was founded in 1990 from the Scientific Council for the Study
of Problems of Peace and Disarmament that had been established in 1979. It is under
the Directorship of Dr. Aleksandr K. Kislov, D. Hist. S. The institute has three
major sponsors: the AN SSSR, the GKNT, and the Soviet Peace Committee. It is
not organized in any traditional way and maintains a very small staff, in 1992
consisting of seven researchers, of whom three held doctoral and three held candidate
degrees. Its staff is working on problems of the conversion of military
production to civilian production, the problems of an international security system,
peace and disarmament, and other such matters. The institute has established relations
with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the Center for Marine
Policy in the USA, with the Transnational Foundation for Research of Peace
Problems and the Future (Sweden), and the Pacific Institute for the Study of
Environmental Development and Security in the USA. (See: A Scholars’
Guide. . .)
(1997 listing)
Institutions and Organizations of the Department: this is the latest list of
institutes and other units under the direct or research supervisory
control of the department.
1. Institute of Africa (IAf RAS)
30/1, Spiridonovka st., K-1, Moscow, 103001
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