Глобальная и региональная безопасность и урегулирование конфликтов

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Courses - FALL/SPRING 2022

Professional Communication Language

Number of credits: 12 ECTS

Course period: Fall & Spring / 4 hours per week

Language of Instruction: English

Instructor: As. Professor Dmitriy Pobedash

Name of Institute: Ural Institute for Humanity Studies

E-mail: Dmitry.Pobedash@urfu.ru

Course description: The professional competence of the Master is integrative.  The Professional communication language (English, Russian) is studied as an applied discipline, which determines the goals and objectives of the course ensuring Master’s successful work in various fields of international political, economic, scientific, technical, informational, political, legal, and cultural fields. The most important goal of teaching Professional communication language is to develop students' professional communicative competence (linguistic, speech and socio-cultural), as well as the academic competency necessary for using English in educational and scientific activities. An integral part of the Master's system competence is an understanding of political texts and the ability to translate them. Ongoing activities of the Master are going to be carried out both in applied fields and in research areas. Most of them involve deskwork with primary sources written in foreign languages, and live communication with international contacts.

Megatrends and Global Issues

Number of credits: 4 ECTS

Course period: Fall / 2 hours per week

Language of Instruction: English

Instructor: As. Professor Igor Krasavin

Name of Institute: Ural Institute for Humanity Studies

E-mail: krasavin.igor@urfu.ru

Course description: The course is related to the main conceptions and approaches in international relations theory, concerning globalization and its governance. It is aimed at the understanding the key global issues, primarily politico-economic and socio-politic. The course addresses the global trade, global finances, theory and history of globalization, environment, migration, regionalism, and global governance. The following objectives are stated: to teach students various theories of globalization; to provide basic information and resources including statistics (reports of international organizations, national and international statistics) needed for comprehensive analysis; to grant the understand main obstacles on the way of sustainable development; to demonstrate how all this data can be used in practical and theoretical research of International Relations.

Global and Regional Security

Number of credits: 3 ECTS

Course period: Spring / 2 hours per week

Language of Instruction: English

Instructor: As. Professor Ekaterina Mikhaylenko

Name of Institute: Ural Institute for Humanity Studies

Office Phone: +7(343) 389-97-44

E-mail: earslanova@urfu.ru

Course description:n The course is an interdisciplinary survey covering the most pressing international security problems facing the world today. Such issues are stated via studying activities: what Security Studies are concerned with, what it means to be secure, and how something actually becomes a security issue. The course combines theories of Security Studies with the case studies of the actual challenges and threats towards global security. The four main objectives are raised: to teach students traditional and alternative social science theories for understanding contemporary international security problems; to provide the basic technical and scientific information needed to understand these problems; to explore the policy options that are available to decision-makers in the Russian Federation and other states; to give students the intellectual tools and desire to continue the studying of international and global security issues after the course is over.

International Conflicts and Contemporary Russian Strategy

Number of credits: 3 ECTS

Course period: Spring / 4 hours per week

Language of Instruction: English

Instructor: As. Professor Andrei Lyamzin, TA Nikolay Shabunevich

Name of Institute: Ural Institute of Humanities

E-mail: andrey.lyamzin@urfu.ru; n.a.shabunevich@urfu.ru

Course description: The course covers theoretical conflict issues such as: conflict, war, parties, causes, conflict dynamics and complexity, conflict process, peace agreement, reconciliation with a special focus on international conflict resolution premises and processes. The political challenges that the parties face in each stage of the conflict receives the particular attention, including the initiation to negotiate, the achievement of settlement and implementation of peace-building measures. A specific focus is given to peacebuilding facilitating actors and to spoilers of its successful implementation via looking at parties’ roles in the conflict. The regional context of the conflict, the position of third parties and international community are being highlighted. Besides, the course gives the rise to issues such as: the role of peacekeepers and civil society, security guarantees, and economic development. The course examines both the Russian international strategy in general and Russian strategic positioning towards contemporary and past international conflicts in particular.

Foreign Policy Analysis

Number of credits: 3 ECTS

Course period: Fall / 2 hours per week

Language of Instruction: English

Instructor: As. Professor Natalya Kozykina

Name of Institute: Ural Institute for Humanity Studies

E-mail: n.v.kozykina@urfu.ru

Course description: The professional competence of the Master is integrative. Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) is studied as an applied discipline, which determines the goals and objectives of the course ensuring Master’s successful work in various fields of international political, economic, scientific, technical, informational, political, legal and cultural fields. The main objective is to make it easier for students to learn how to apply approaches from FPA as analytical frameworks to analyze a foreign policy decision. The course deals with the issues in foreign policy making from a broad comparative perspective. It studies the ways states formulate their foreign policies and how these policies are implemented. The course also examines the determinants of foreign policy decisions (the decision environment, psychological factors, international factors, and domestic influences), how states interact and why foreign policy choices may differ between states. It analyzes not only the political system but also cultural and historical factors that influence the foreign policy decision-making. It covers the levels, actors and processes involved in foreign policy making; promotes critical engagement with the key texts in the field and thus aims to equip the students with the analytical tools that are necessary to interpret the actions of states in international politics. By providing students with adequate knowledge in the main debates and concepts of FPA, this course aims to prepare the foundation for advanced research and study in this field. Throughout the course, students will also be able to develop their skills in methodological reading and in critical analysis and reflection.

Diplomacy Practice

Number of credits: 3 ECTS

Course period: Fall/ 2 hours per week

Language of Instruction: English

Instructor: As. Professor Ekaterina Mikhaylenko

Name of Institute: Ural Institute for Humanity Studies

E-mail: earslanova@urfu.ru

Course description: The course is a simulation of the NPT Review Conference. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), negotiated during the 1960s, was opened for signature in 1968 and entered into force in 1970. It is, and has been since its inception, a key cornerstone in all international nuclear disarmament efforts for more than 30 years. The review process built into the NPT, involves a five-yearly meeting of the NPT member states to "review the progress of the Treaty" and thus reviews the progress of nuclear non-proliferation. The states parties meet every five years at a Review Conference (or RevCon) to assess the implementation of the treaty. There is a Preparatory Committee (or PrepCom) conference that meets for two weeks in the three years leading up to the Review Conference. In preparation for the 2020 Review Conference, there are three PrepComs: in 2017 (Vienna), 2018 (Geneva), and 2019 (New York). The Review Conferences always take place in New York. During the PrepComs, many working papers are tabled, and the Chairman drafts a Final Summary statement, but none of these documents are binding. Rather, these statements, working papers, summaries, and reports are to be used as assessment tools at the Review Conference. Only the Review Conferences produce a consensus document. NGOs have become significant, visible, and important players at these conferences, and we have included the materials that they have circulated at these conferences as well.  The course will be presented in lectures supplemented with PowerPoint presentations. Short questions, comments and remarks from the students are welcomed during the lecture. The lectures are devoted to the rules and procedures of NPT Rev Conference and NPT PrepComs. The seminars will be organized in simulation way, all students should work as real diplomats in UN.

Regional Organizations of the post-Soviet Area

Number of credits: 3 ECTS

Course period: Spring/ 2 hours per week

Language of Instruction: English

Instructor: As. Professor Andrey Lyamzin

Name of Institute: Ural Institute for Humanity Studies

E-mail: andrey.lyamzin@urfu.ru

Course description: The course focuses on the study of regional organizations that have emerged after the collapse of the USSR. The course has three main objectives: 1) to address the examination of the struggle between the main international actors and the differences in development strategies in the post-soviet area; 2) to provide the specific information on the structure of regional organizations and their areas and goals; 3) to give the intellectual tools and inspiration to continue the studying of the post-Soviet area.

Educational Internship, Research Work (the obtaining of research work skills)        

Number of credits: 15 ECTS

Course period: Fall/Spring

Language of Instruction: English

Instructor: Professor Valery Mikhaylenko

Name of Institute: Ural Institute for Humanity Studies

E-mail: Valery.Mikhaylenko@urfu.ru

Internship description: Internship — is an important part of the educational process, which provides the practical acquaintance of students with their future professional activities. Internship will help students to get knowledge of how the research is created.  The purpose of the research practice is the formation of practical skills in conducting research work. In order to achieve this goal students are going to provide the analysis and systematization of information to prepare scientific paper. At the end of internship, students are expected to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

  • skills of scientific discussion;
  • skills of work with reference books,
  • the ability of working with scientific databases,
  • the critical evaluation of the available research methods.

Internship is held at UrFU. During the internship students are working with the scientific supervisor.

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