Institute of World Economy and International Relations
The Institute of World Economy and International Relations (Russian: Институт мировой экономики и международных отношений), or IMEMO, is a leading independent research institute based in Moscow, Russia. On August 2015 the Institute has changed its name to the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations to commemorate the name of its former director academician Yevgeny Primakov, who led the Institute from 1985 till 1989.
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| Established | 1956 |
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Field of research | Economics, Political Science, International Relations |
| Director | Fyodor Voytolovskiy |
| Location | Moscow, Russia 55.6747°N 37.5613°E |
| Affiliations | Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Website | imemo |
Founded in 1956 as a successor to the earlier Institute of World Economy and Politics (1925–1948), the institute is a non-profit organization acting within the Charter of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Soon after the establishment, the Institute gained the reputation of an important center of integrated fundamental and applied socio-economic, political and policy-oriented research on the analysis of the main trends of world development; and the Institute is unique in this way in our country. As time went by, the Institute gave birth to a series of problem-regional research institutions – the Institute for the USA and Canadian Studies, the Institute for African Studies, the Institute of the International Labor Movement, etc. However, IMEMO still remains one-of-a-kind in terms of the scale and complexity of the research on the scientific issues by the analytical center.
The Institute employs more than 318 researchers. Among them there are: 7 Members of the Academy of Sciences
It publishes the academic journal World Economy and International Relations.
IMEMO is the organizer of the international summit "Primakov Readings".
About the institute
The mission of the Institute is the elaboration of a reliable analytical basis for political decision-making. The Institute cooperates with federal and regional government bodies, mass media, major public and private companies. In its research, IMEMO takes an independent and uncommitted position.
The Institute carries out fundamental and applied researches in the following areas:
- theories of the world economy and international relations, new model of the global economic and political development;
- long-term institutional and structural changes in the world economy and in the international labour division, role and place of Russia in these processes;
- social factor and modern socio-political institutes in the world development;
- globalization and regional integration, optimization of Russia participation in the international economic relations;
- rends and prospects of innovation development as a major factor of the economic growth;
- economic, political and social development of the overseas countries and regions;
- formation and evolution of the system of international relations, Russian role and place in it;
- international security and Russian national security;
- prevention and resolution of international conflicts, prevention of international terrorism;
- long- and short-term forecasts of global development.
IMEMO also takes an active part in:
- expert consulting on legislation, government policies, entrepreneurial strategies;
- world market research;
- consulting of Russian administrative and executive bodies;
- organizing and holding conferences and workshops, carrying out international study projects, maintaining links with international and foreign research institutions.
Primakov Readings
"Primakov Readings" – is the international summit aimed at promoting dialogue on current global trends in the world economy, international politics and security among high-ranking experts, diplomats and decision-makers from around the Globe named in honor of the academician Yevgeny Primakov. The summit takes place annually in Moscow and is organized by IMEMO.
Divisions
- Department of Science and Innovation
- Department of Global Economic Problems and Foreign Economic Policy
- Department of Economic Theory
- World Economy Forecasting Section
- Department of International Capital Markets
- Center for Industrial and Investment Studies
- Center for Energy Research
- Center for Research in Transitional Economies
- Agribusiness Center
- Group for Analysis of Price formation, Inflation and Taxation
- Section of Economic Modeling
- Department of International Politics
- Section for Political Theory
- Center for International Security
- Center for North American Studies
- Center for European Studies
- Department for European Political Studies
- Center for Asia Pacific Studies
- Center for Development and Modernization Studies
- Center for Comparative Socio-Economic and Socio-Political Studies
Direction
Directors of the Institute
- 1956–1965: Anoushavan Arzoumanian
- 1965–1966: Vladimir Aboltin (acting)
- 1966–1982: Nikolai N. Inozemtsev
- 1983–1985: Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev
- 1985–1989: Yevgeny Primakov
- 1989–2000: Vladlen Martynov
- 2000–2006: Nodari Simoniya
- 2006-2017: Alexander Dynkin (since 2016 - President)
- Since 2017: Fyodor G. Voitolovsky
External links
- Official website
(in English and Russian)
Further reading
- Cherkasov, Pjotr (2004). ИМЭМО. Портрет на фоне эпохи [IMEMO. Portrait against the background of the epoch] (PDF) (in Russian). Moscow: Ves Mir. ISBN 5-7777-0279-1.