News

27 October 2020

Members of our faculty took part in an international research project to explore the consequences of the covid-19 pandemic for international politics in Eurasia. They have now published their findings in an open access article in Problems of Post-Communism, a highly-ranked peer reviewed journal.

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14 July 2020

Review of MGIMO Textbook “History of International Relations and Russian Foreign Policy in the 20th Century” in International Affairs Journal

International Affairs, a peer-reviewed journal ranked 4th globally by influence on the field, publishes a review of MGIMO Textbook “History of International Relations and Russian Foreign Policy in the 20th Century”

2 July 2020

Dean Troitskiy addresses the 2020 graduating cohort of SGIA students

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8 June 2020 MGIMO Vice-Rector for International Programs talks about this year’s admission possibilities for prospective international students

MGIMO Vice-Rector for International Programs talks about this year’s admission possibilities for prospective international students

A.Baykov, Vice-Rector for Graduate and International Programs, talks about this year’s admission possibilities for prospective students from abroad.

27 May 2020 A Conversation with John Lewis Gaddis

How does history play out at critical junctures? Can you study or teach history in a completely impartial way? These and other exciting questions were addressed in a conversation between the world renowned Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis and faculty members from leading universities in Moscow that SGIA helped organize.

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20 May 2020 Open Day online

SGIA just presented its English-medium programs in International Affairs, Politics, and Government. MGIMO Vice Rector Andrey Baykov, SGIA Dean Mikhail Troitskiy, Deputy Dean Anastasia Solomentseva, and Professor Christopher Korten discussed undergraduate training in English at MGIMO and the opportunities that MGIMO English-medium programs — undergraduate and graduate — provide to their students.

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18 May 2020 Study in English at MGIMO!

The Dean of MGIMO’s English-language bachelor's program in International Relations Mikhail Troitskiy was interviewed by the MGIMO press service.

25 March 2020 Why US-Russian arms control can succeed even in a climate of confrontation

Dean Mikhail Troitskiy publishes an article on the politics of U.S.-Russian arms control in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (March 2020 issue). He argues that arms control can only succeed when the parties do not expect each other to undertake surprise adversarial foreign policy maneuvers.

16 March 2020

A new series of alumni interviews is coming online. Check out what Ben Pegon, our 2019 distinguished alumnus, has to say about academics at SGIA and life in Moscow.

5 March 2020 US-Russian Workshop on Current Trends in Statecraft

We are gearing up our partnership with the Georgia Tech Sam Nunn School of International Affairs — collaboration is gathering momentum in joint research and teaching with the focus on new technologies in foreign policymaking.

7 February 2020 MGIMO and Cambridge Scholars Publish a Two-Volume History of International Relations and Russian Foreign Policy in the 20th Century

MGIMO and Cambridge Scholars Publish a Two-Volume History of International Relations and Russian Foreign Policy in the 20th Century

We congratulate the MGIMO Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia on publication of a two-volume textbook on History of International Relations and Russian Foreign Policy in the 20th Century.

4 February 2020

Our faculty and administrators attend an intense training week on English-Medium Instruction at Reading University — a Strategic Partner of MGIMO. A broad variety of subjects were covered, including Making lectures comprehensible in EMI context; Writing for Research; Effective Questioning in Teaching and Learning; Micro-teaching; and Interactive teaching. Inaugurated in January 2020, this program will benefit SGIA teachers and counselors who are now required to live up to high benchmarks of a leading British university.