Institute for African Studies
Институт Африки Российской академии наук | |
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| Established | 1959 |
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| Director | Irina Abramova |
Administrative staff | 115 |
| Postgraduates | General history; Ethnography; Ethnology and anthropology; History of international relations and foreign policy; Global economy |
| Address | 123001, 30/1, Spiridonovka street , , |
| Website | http://www.inafran.ru |
Institute for African Studies (Russian: Институт Африки) is a research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which conducts comprehensive studies of Africa.
History[edit]
The Institute for African Studies (IAS) at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) was founded in October 1959.The Institute is the base organization for the activities of the RAS Scientific Council on problems of Africa at the Department of global problems and international relations.
The first Director of the Institute became its founder Ivan Potekhin. Later the Institute was headed by member of the Academy of Sciences Prof. Vasily Solodovnikov and Prof. Anatoly Gromyko. Since 1992, the Institute was headed by academician Prof. Alexei Vassiliev. Since 2016, the Director of the Institute - Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Economic sciences, Prof. Irina Abramova.
The scientific activity of the IAS is carried out in accordance with the priority directions of fundamental research established by the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences and enshrined in the Institute’s Statute.
The Instutite has 10 research Centres and the Department of Scientific Information and International Relations, Postgraduate Studies Department, Editing and Publishing Department. .[1] [2]
The IAS publishes the scientific journal "Asia and Africa today".[3]
Research Areas[edit]
- The global problems of modernity and Africa
- Evolution of political systems of the continent's states in the context of world political processes
- Political leadership in Africa
- Africa and Russia in international relations
- Strategic interests of leading powers in Africa and competition for local resources
- Economic and socio-political development of African countries in condunction with Russia's national interests
- Trade, investment, scientific and technical ties between Russia and Africa; migration inside and from African states
- Population and developmental issues in the global and regional contexts
- African component of world history.[4]
Structural Divisions[edit]
- Centre for Global and Strategic Studies;
- Centre for Transition Economy Studies;
- Centre for the Study of the Russian-African Relations and African States' Foreign Policy;
- Centre for North African and African Horn Studies;
- Centre for Tropical African Studies;
- Centre for Southern Africa Studies;
- Centre for History and Cultural Anthropology;
- Centre for Sociological and Political Sciences Studies;
- Centre of Information and International Relations;
- Centre for Civilizational and Regional Studies;
- Laboratory for Geo-Economic Analysis;
- Group of Gender Studies[1]
Leadership[edit]
- Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prof. D.Sc. Alexey Vasiliev, Honorary President
- Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prof. D.Sc. Irina Abramova, Director, Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prof. D.Sc. Dmitriy Bondarenko, Deputy Director
- Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prof. D.Sc. Leonid Fituni, Deputy Director
- Dr. Marina Amvrosova, Academic Secretary[5]
Leading Researchers[edit]
- Alexei Vasiliev, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, honorary President of the IAS
- Irina Abramova, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Corresponding member of the RAS, Director; member of the Presidium of the RAS
- Dmitry Bondarenko, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding member of RAS, Deputy Director
- Leonid Fituni, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Corresponding member of RAS, Deputy Director of the IAS
- Larisa Andreeva, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the RAS
- Renat Bekkin, Doctor of Economics, Professor of the RAS
- Yury Kobishchanov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, chief researcher
- Evgeny Korendyasov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, head of the Center for the study of Russian-African relations, Ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation
- Andrey Korotayev, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, leading researcher
- Anatoliy Savateev, Doctor of Historical Sciences, leading researcher
- Igor Sledzevsky, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Director of the Center for civilizational and regional studies
- Vladimir Shubin, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, chief researcher.[6]
International Cooperation[edit]
Institute for African Studies maintains a wide network of contacts on the international arena. The Institute actively cooperates with foreign research institutions. Joint activities include participation in research projects, conducting international expeditions, conferences and seminars, receiving partners from abroad, membership in international associations Arabists and Africanists, cultural interaction. There are contacts with universities in African countries such as Benin, DRC, Zambia, côte d'ivoire, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Africa, as well as with reserch centers for African Studies in foreign countries. The Institute organises various activities, its frequent guests are representatives of embassies of African countries in Moscow. In addition to the updated materials on its website, the IAS distributes the annual edition of "African Studies in Russia" to the world centers for African studies. Thus, the Institute gain international popularity.[7]
Library[edit]
The library of the Institute of African studies is a unique collection of scientific and reference literature on Africa in the Russian Federation and the CIS countries. Its collections include nearly 120 thousand units. Books, pamphlets, dissertations, periodicals in Russian and foreign languages cover the problems of Africa and the Arab world.[2]
References[edit]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Research Centres". Institute for African Studies. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Institute foe African Studies". me-kono.eu. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
- ↑ "Asia and Africa today". Institute for African Studies. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
- ↑ "Research projects". Institute for African Studies. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
- ↑ "The Administration of the Institute". Institute for African Studies. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
- ↑ "Сотрудники Института". Institute for African Studies. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
- ↑ "Russian Institute for African Studies, 1995 Report". University of Pensnsylvania- African Studies Center. 1995. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
