Global and Regional Systems Department

Global and Regional Systems Department

Head of Department – Professor Sergiy Shergin PhD (Politics).

Department’s staff consists of 3 professors, 7 associate professors and 2 senior lecturers all holding PhDs in Politics and History.

Managing personnel and senior officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, leading foreign affairs experts and academicians from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, lecturers from Ukraine’s leading higher education institutions are involved into an educational process.

The Department provides for lecturing in specialist subjects of pre-requisite and variable syllabi along with specialization in the sphere of Regional and National Studies.

The pre-requisite syllabus consists of the subjects with the content concerning the scientific and theoretical aspects of the world politics and international political process, the variable syllabus consists of the subjects with the content concerning the complex issues of geopolitical development of the countries pertaining to the main regions of the World (exclusive of Europe).

Course specification of the Global and Regional Systems Department:

·        Globalization and Global Management;

·        Political Science of International Relations;

·        International Relations Theory;

·        Analysis and;

·        Principles of Regional and National Studies;

·        International Organizations;

·        International Security Systems;

·        Asia-Pacific Region;

·        Africa and Latin America.

Aiming to deepen and broaden the professional background as well as gaining professional skills the Department arranges and conducts a specialization in the sphere of Regional and National Studies on a selective basis. This specialization’s subjective part consists of the subjects whose studying is aimed at solving specific tasks of diplomatic service system and counselling Ukraine’s state power bodies on urgent issues of regional policy and international organizations activity.

·        Commonwealth of Independent States;

·        UN in Today’s World;

·        World’s Migration Processes;

·        Eurasia’s International Organizations;

·        China’s Foreign Policy;

·        India’s Foreign Policy;

·        Arab World and Globalization;

·        Integration Processes in the Arab World.

APR in conditions set by integration and globalization;

Foreign Policy and Diplomacy of the Countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The Department’s research work resulted in published monographs and manuals:

G. Kostenko, Theoretical Aspects of the Strategy of Society and State Military Security [Text] = Теоретичні аспекти стратегії воєнної безпеки суспільства і держави [Текст] / Костенко Г. ф. – Kyiv: 2003. – (in Ukrainian.)

V. Khonin, Theory of International Relations. General [Text] = Теорія міжнародних відносин [Текст] / Хонін В. M. – Kyiv: Academ-Press, 2005. – 456p. – (in Ukrainian.) – ISBN 966-95941-2-X.

S. Shergin, Today’s Global Studies: Leading Concepts and Modern Practice [Text]: Manual / V. Bebyk, S. Shergin, L. Dehteryova = Сучасна глобалістика: провідні концепції та модерна практика [Текст]: Навчальний посібник / Бебик В.M., Шергін С.O., Дегтерьова Л.О. – Kyiv: University Ukraine, 2006. – 208 p. – (in Ukrainian.) – ISBN 966-388-105-4.

S. Shergin, Ukraine’s Foreign Policy in 2006: Strategic Evaluations, Prognoses and Priorities [Text]: separate articles = Зовнішня політика України 2006: стратегічні оцінки, прогнози та пріоритети [Текст]: окремі статті / Під ред. Г.M.Перепелиці. – Kyiv: 2007. – (in Ukrainian.)

Covering the issues of international relations, politics and security the Department’s lecturers get their articles published in periodicals – Foreign Affairs, Strategic Panorama, Urgent Issues of International Relations, Viche, the Tribune.

The Department’s activity is aimed entirely at training the specialists in the sphere of currents issues of international relations, international security, global and regional development along with the trainees getting a solid professional theoretical background as well as the skills for its practical application.

The use of credit system is an important factor for improving the learning process according to the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) standards in the framework of Bologna process.