General Information

The Foreign Policy Research Institute of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (hereafter referred to as ‘the Institute’) was established on the 20 April 2006 by the Decree of the Rector of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine with the aim to conduct scientific research in the field of international relations, foreign policy and international security.

The Foreign Policy Research Institute is directly run by Professor, Doctor of Political Sciences Grygoriy Perepelytsia.

The Institute’s main goals:

- to provide a complex study of Ukraine's and other countries' foreign policy, applied problems of international relations and international security;

- to develop the conceptual principles of Ukraine's foreign policy, practical recommendations and forecasts for solving urgent problems of contemporary international relations and Ukraine's foreign policy, to facilitate its openness and predictability;

- to participate in the implementation of international scientific and educational programs in the field of international relations, foreign policy and international security.

The Institute fulfils tasks associated with current matters of Ukraine’s foreign policy on individual instructions of the management of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

Scientific research lines:

-         foreign policy of Ukraine: priority lines, strategies and implementation tools;

-         problems in the international relations and science of conflicts;

-         international security.

The Institute involves highly qualified specialists and experts from offices and organizations for the purpose of conducting scientific research.

Forms of the Institute's activities:

-         conducting scientific research both on the Institute’s own initiative and at the request of Ukraine's state institutions;

-         enforcement and implementation of scientific projects, scientific and educational programmes;

-         conducting the expert evaluation of the drafts of both legislative and other national and international normative documents in the sphere of foreign policy and international security;

-         consulting both governmental and non-governmental organizations;

-         publishing monographies and analytical reports;

-         popularizing the topics corresponding to the Institute's lines of activities in the mass-media;

-         publishing of the year-book “Ukraine’s Foreign Policy: Strategic Evaluations, Prognoses and Priorities” and the quarterly almanac “International Review”;

-         holding the conferences, public lectures, seminars and round-tables on core topics of the Institute.

International Co-operation:

The Institute closely co-operates with Ukraine’s analytical centres and scientific institutions, as well as maintains connections with foreign research institutions. The Institute is involved in international research projects and events in the field of international policy and security and takes lead in the implementation of urgent international initiatives. To develop close cooperation with foreign analytical centres and scientific institutions of the same category is one of the main tasks of the Institute in the field of international cooperation.

The main periodicals of the Institute are as follows:

- the year-book “Ukraine’s Foreign Policy: Strategic Evaluations, Prognoses and Priorities”;

The year-book “Ukraine’s Foreign Policy: Strategic Evaluations, Prognoses and Priorities” does not represent an official position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Its goal is to provide a complex analysis of Ukraine's foreign policy, its key tendencies inherent to in the current year, and to present possible scenarios of their development, as well as to determine the priority lines when enforcing the country’s foreign political course. The prognosticative value of the publication predominantly is in the possibility of taking a look in the future based on the complex evaluation of the past, seeing the consequences of taken political decisions, foreseeing future challenges and making suggestions of the timely preventive measures.

The scientific-analytical part of the year-book, presented as conclusions and evaluations of the leading experts in the international relations, is joined with the informative materials supplied by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. The book is called to stimulate Ukraine’s both politicum and scientific community to enter into discussion and to look for ways of solving foreign policy problems as well as of improving the country’s foreign policy activities. The year-book is designed for a broad variety of national and foreign experts, academics, Ukrainian diplomatic corps, Ukraine’s Embassies abroad and foreign missions to Ukraine, along with the readers interested in foreign policy and international relations.

The year-book is published in the Ukrainian and English languages.

The quarterly almanac “International Review” is a specialized publication designed for the experts, diplomats and a broad variety of readers interested in the problems of Ukraine’s foreign policy, international relations and international security. The publication includes the current analysis of the international processes, events and trends of international life, as well as decisions made by the country’s leaders in the sphere of foreign policy and security.

The almanac provides its publishing space to leading Ukrainian and foreign experts in political science and international relations for their coverage of the urgent problems and current international and associated with the foreign policy internal political issues. Expert evaluations and analysis of the most important topics and events of international life happened in the course of the quarter can be found on the pages of the relevant issue.

The aim of the quarterly almanac is to make a broad variety of readers both in Ukraine and abroad familiar with international and political processes taking place in the country and in the world, to facilitate the openness and predictability of Ukraine’s foreign policy.

The almanac is published in the Ukrainian and English languages.