Foreign Policy and Diplomacy Department

Educational process at the Foreign Policy and Diplomacy Department is provided by 21 lecturers: 7 professors (Prof M. Bilousov, Prof I. Burakovsky, Prof S. Vidniansky, Prof V. Vasylenko, Prof V. Kysil, Prof P. Martynenko, Prof O. Vasiliev); 5 associate professors (Mr A. Zlenko, Mr S. Berezovenko, Ms N. Kolesnichenko-Bratun,
Mr R. Natroshvili, Ms I. Pokrovska); 3 PhD-holders (Mr I. Baranetsky,
Mr V. Cherednichenko, Mr I. Zhovkva)

Head of Department – associate professor Grygoriy Khomenko PhD (History).

Heads of Departments-General, personnel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and other state and academic institutions bearing on Ukraine’s foreign political course implementation take part in an educational process. The Ambassadors of Ukraine and other countries are involved to lecture delivering. Lectures and group discussions are held in 15 general and 22 special courses of the Department. Learning assistance literature inclusive of course schedules, educational programmes, schedules of seminar is available for all the general and special courses which are held with the use of technical aid.

The lecturers of the Department composed educational programmes and texts for 4 special courses: Urgent Problems of Today’s International Relations and Ukraine’s Practical Diplomacy: Traditions and Innovations by Prof M. Bilousov; Ukraine’s Foreign Economic Policy by Prof I. Burakovsky; International Scientific and Technical Co-operation by Prof O. Vasiliev. Aiming to train top-qualified specialists including professional diplomats and practitioners for governmental, non-governmental and private institutions bearing on foreign relations execution the Department introduced 2 specializations: 

І. “Ukraine's foreign policy and national security.” 

·        Military and Technical Co-operation Policy.

·        Strategic Partnership in Ukraine's Foreign Policy.

·        Process of Taking Foreign Political Decisions in Ukraine.

·        Ukraine in the Processes of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation of Weapons.

·        Ukraine in Universal and Regional International Organizations.

·        Law of International Relations.

·        Religion and Diplomacy.

·        Ukraine’s Information Security.

·        Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic Policy.

·        Ukraine’s Diplomatic Missions and Diaspora.

IІ. “Economic Diplomacy.”

Course specification:

·        Legal Regulation of Foreign Economic Activity.

·        Multilateral Economic Diplomacy.

·        Military and Technical Co-operation Policy.

·        Export Control Policy.

·         WTO and Ukraine.

·        Scientific and Technical Co-operation in Ukraine’s Foreign Policy (or Ukraine’s Foreign Economic Policy.)

·        Energy Preparedness.

·        Peculiarities of Diplomatic Work at the WTO.

·        International Economic Organizations.

·        International Business.

All the specialization trainees get field experience and training in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine or related embassies. The best trainees of the Department’s specializations gain opportunities to get trained or to work on their term papers or theses in foreign libraries. The Department’s lecturers conduct extensive scientific activity in the frame of the Department’s complex research topic: “Ukraine’s Foreign Policy in the Context of Current Integration Processes.” The lecturers of the Department composed and published monographies, sections of monographies, manuals such as:

R. Natroshvili, Georgia'sIntergrationStrategyintheCircumstancesofEconomicTransformation [Text] = Інтеграційна стратегія Грузії в умовах економічної трансформації [Текст] / Натрошвілі Р.Н. – Kyiv: 2007. – 20 p. – (in Ukrainian.)

2.     S. Vidniansky, UkraineintheUN: 60 YearsofTakingPartinSolvingtheInternationalProblems [Text]: (in collaboration) = Україна в ООН: 60 років участі у розв’язанні міжнародних проблем: [Текст] / Віднянський С.В. (у співавторстві). – Kyiv: 2006. – (in Ukrainian.)

3.     S. Vidniansky, Ukraine: Political History. Beginning of XX-XXI [Text]: (in collaboration) = Україна: політична історія. Початок ХХ-ХХІ ст. [Текст] / Віднянський С.В. (у співавторстві). – Kyiv: 2007. – (in Ukrainian.)

S. Vidniansky, Process of State Formation in Ukraine: 1991-2006 [Text]: (in collaboration) = Державотворчий процес в Україні: 1991-2006 рр. [Текст] / Віднянський С.В. (у співавторстві). – Kyiv: Naukova Dumka 2007. – (in Ukrainian.) – 910 p.

V. Kysil, International Private Law [Text] = Міжнародне приватне право [Текст] / Кисіль В.І. – Kyiv: 2005. – (in Ukrainian.)

M. Bilousov, International Relations and Foreign Policy (1945 – 70s) [Text, separate sections] / M.Bilousov, I. Pokrovska. = Міжнародні відносини і зовнішня політика (1945-70-ті роки) [Текст, окремі розділи] / Білоусов М.М., Покровська І.С. – Кyiv: 1998. – (in Ukrainian.)

M. Bilousov, Ukraine’s Diplomatic Encyclopaedia [Text, separate articles] = Дипломатична енциклопедія України [Текст, окремі статті] / Білоусов М.М. – Кyiv: 2004. – (in Ukrainian.)

I. Pokrovska, Ukraine’s Diplomatic Encyclopaedia [Text, separate articles] = Дипломатична енциклопедія України [Текст, окремі статті] / Покровська І.С. – Кyiv: 2004. – (in Ukrainian.)

V. Vasylenko, Principles of the Theory of International Law [Text] = Основи теорії міжнародного права [Текст] / Василенко В.А. – Кyiv: 1998. – (in Ukrainian.)