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COURSES OFFERED IN 20122013

ABOUT the FACULTY

EXAMPLES of DEFENDED M.A. THESES

ADMISSION and DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

STUDY RESOURCES and STUDENT LIFE at EUSP

FEES, EXPENSES and FINANCIAL AID

HOW to APPLY

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Division 1

POLITICS AND ECONOMY

Fall 2012

Security Threats in Eurasia: Armed Conflicts, Terrorism and Extremism

Comparative Political and Economic Development after Communism

Central Asia States: Making, Breaking and Remaking

Spring 2013

Regime Change in Post-Soviet Eurasia

Post-Soviet Political Economy

Russian Foreign Policy

The Political Economy of Energy in Eurasia

Division 2SOCIETY AND HISTORY

Fall 2012

Islam and Nationalism in Eurasia

Russian Political and Social History

Russian Media, Culture and Society

Doing Fieldwork in Russia

Siberia: An Introduction to the Region

Spring 2013 The Russian Empire: Sovereignty, Nationalism and Politics of Diversity

A World History of the Caucasus, 3000 B.C.E. 2013 C.E.

TEACHING MODULE IN KAZAN: EMPIRE AND ISLAM

Ethnicity and Culture in Soviet and Post-Soviet Tatarstan

Imperial Histories, Eurasian Political and Intellectual Controversies

THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE COURSE

IMAREScoursesofferedin2012

2013

APPLICATION DEADLINES:

April 30, 2012 to start in September 2012 or

October 30, 2012 to start in February 2013

Note: early admission is possible

Please also visit our website:

www.eu.spb.ru/imares

www.eu.spb.ru/international

To apply online go to www.eu.spb.ru/imares/apply

IMARES phone number: +7 812 5794402

EMAIL: [email protected]


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INTERNATIONAL MA IN RUSSIANAND EURASIAN STUDIES (IMARES)THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY

AT ST. PETERSBURG

Whether because of global energy concerns, regionaland ethnic conflicts, economic growth, migration, East-West relations, or political unpredictability, the Eurasianspace continues to attract international attention. The

International M.A. in Russian and Eurasian Studies(IMARES) at EUSP is designed to meet this strong inter-est by engaging the many analytical challenges posedtherein.

IMARES provides training in the politics, economy, so-ciety, and history of Russia and neighboring Eurasianstates. It combines the highest standards of teachingin English by Russian and international faculty with the

advantages of living in St. Petersburg, Russias culturalcapital. A separate teaching module on Empire andIslam is offered in Kazan, the city where Slavic and Tur-kic civilizations meet. We offer a comprehensive andvaried curriculum.

IMARES, an advanced graduate program for studentswho already hold a B.A. degree or its equivalent, offerstraining and research opportunities as well as firsthandexperience to get a close feel for Russia and the manyother countries in the wider region. In 1998 this programbegan as M.A. in Russian Studies. More than 270 inter-national students have taken our Russian Studies coursesand over 120 M.A. degrees have been awarded.

Over the years the program has hosted many distin-guished international faculty: Gerry Easter (Boston Col-

lege), M. Steven Fish (University of California-Berkeley),Henry Hale (George Washington University), Ted Hopf


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IMARESAdvisory

Council

(Ohio State University), Mary McAuley (Ford Founda-tion), Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University), MichaelUrban (University of CaliforniaSanta Cruz), DavidWoodruff (LSE), William Zimmerman (University ofMichigan), Brian Taylor, Renee de Nevers (University ofSyracuse), Jessica Allina-Pisano, University of Ottawa.

Our graduates work in such organizations as the USState Department, diplomatic missions, the EuropeanBank for Reconstruction and Development, Alfa Bank,Bloomberg, Shell, Carbon Capital Markets Ltd. Oth-ers have entered Ph.D. programs at Oxford University,Harvard University, Princeton University, George Ma-

son University, University of Washington, University ofChicago, Heidelberg University and more.

Harley Balzer, Georgetown University

Dominique Colas, Institut dEtudes Politiques de Paris

Alexander Etkind, Cambridge UniversityMarkku Kivinen, University of Helsinki

Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University

Michael Urban, University of California Santa Cruz

Alexei Yurchak, University of California Berkeley

The normal EUSP MA program takes 12 months. But in some countriesdomestic authorities recognize state degrees only. For those wishing toreceive the Russian Ministry of Education Masters Degree EUSP designeda State MA Degree Track. It includes additional residential and workloadrequirements to meet the formal governmental regulations for a two-yeardegree. To qualify for the Russian State MA Degree Track students will haveto take a third semester study (residence unit) at a reduced fee and a fourthnon-residence semester for dissertation writing.


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COURSES OFFERED IN 20122013

Each course consists of lectures and follow-updiscussion sessions

ach course counts for 8 ECTS credits All instruction is in English

Division 1Politics and

Economy

FALL 2012

Security Threats in Eurasia:

Armed Conflicts, Terrorism, and ExtremismEkaterina Stepanova

The course focuses on the origins of and trends in organizedpolitical violence (armed conflicts, terrorism), other forms of col-lective violence and political extremism in Eurasia, and their secu-rity implications. It employs multidisciplinary analytical frameworkcentred on the human security approach. While the main focusis on the post-Soviet space, the course provides an introductioninto global trends in armed conflicts and terrorism, the role of

radical nationalism, religious extremism and the new left andnew right extremism in armed violence, and the links betweenpolitical violence and organized crime. The following sectionsare structured on a case-study/regional basis and explore howthese issues manifest themselves in Russia, other states of theCaucasus and in the post-Soviet and the broader Central Asia,including the Afghanistan-Pakistan context. The course addressesthe role of both non-state and state actors in armed violence andconcludes by a section on conflict management and preventionstrategies and discussion of functional and legitimate ways of

countering violent extremism.

Comparative Political and EconomicDevelopment after CommunismAlexei Pikulik

The course offers a broad overview of the economic transforma-tion literature with a distinct focus on the issues of simultaneous (re)making of political and economic institutions. From the theoretical


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standpoint, we will closely examine the theories of economicchange, state-making, the transformation of the welfare regimes,as well as the theories of political-regime change. Yet, we willeasily go way beyond the mainstream classics, and integrate thesomewhat 'bitter' theories of rents and rent-seeking, unequal sup-

ply of property rights by the state (state-capture, cronyism, pre-dation). Our primarily concern here is the main problem of post-communist transition: the interplay between the losers of change(those, whose interests are threatened by the transition) and thenew winners (those, whose interests are the 'partial transition').During the course, we will see how this interplay affected thepaths of institution building and how the external factors (mainly,the EU pressures) as well as the internal resource endowmentsand legacies of interdependencies, assisted the consolidationsof those paths. On the more empirical level, we will talk a lot

about corruption, state-capture and the phenomena of state'spredation, oligarchs and cronyism in the post-Soviet space withsome examples from Middle- East and Latin America. The coursepromises to leave the participants somewhat bitter, but well in-formed. Beyond the literature, we will watch documentaries inclass, and will have a guest.

Central Asia States: Making, Breakingand Remaking

Darya PushkinaThis course examines international, regional and domestic cross-roads for five Former Soviet Union countries of Central Asia: Ka-zakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan.Using some references to history we will analyze contemporarysituation in these countries and study the dilemmas of peace andconflict, resource politics and regional power balance. In orderto do this we will analyze complex political, environmental andsocial issues involved in contemporary Central Asia in the context

of international politics. The readings for the course consist ofgeneral international relations and comparative politics literatureon the relevant subjects such as state-making and state-breaking,national versus clan loyalties, development of natural resourcesand environmental problems, Islamic movements and regionalmigration as well as scholarly works that focus specifically onCentral Asia. In addition, we will look into some cross-nationalcomparisons (mostly from Africa) and examine the role and as-pirations of external actors in the region (including Russia, UnitedStates, China, Iran, Turkey and Afghanistan).


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SPRING 2013

Regime Change in Post-Soviet EurasiaVladimir Gelman

The course is focused on the emergence and development of po-litical systems of post-Soviet countries within the context of regimechanges and state-building. Starting with the collapse of the SovietUnion as a point of departure, the course traces the making andunmaking of major political institutions in these newly establishedstates by examining the impact of legacy of the past, the role ofdomestic political elites and international political and economicactors. Special attention is devoted to patterns of political continuityand changes under the new authoritarianism and after the waveof so-called color revolutions in post-Soviet Eurasia.

Post-Soviet Political EconomyAlexei Pikulik

The main goal of this course is to give students a broad perspectiveover the political economy of Post-Soviet space with a dominant fo-cus on Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. After reviewing the theoreticaldebate on the market-making, we dwell on the point of departureby investigating the essence of the Soviet political economy. Then,reviewing the debates in Washington/Post-Washington consen-sus regarding the reform agendas, we deal with the issue of theduality of political democratization and economic liberalization(focusing on the issues of state-transformation, public steering ofthe economy, public regulation, development and developmentaltraps, state-capture, undersupply of property rights, etc.) and revisitthe dominant structural and actor-oriented theories of transforma-tion. Having done so, we move into empirics of economic policiesand access the privatization, decentralization, financial and fiscalreforms, macroeconomic stabilization programs, making various

intra and inter-regional comparisons.

Russian Foreign PolicyNikita Lomagin

This course offers a comparative look at the making and implemen-tation of Russian Foreign Policy after the end of the Cold War andthe collapse of the Soviet Union. The course offers a combinationof two options. We shall begin with an investigation of the sourcesof the Russian conduct and analyze Russias foreign policy institu-

tions and priorities. We will examine several theoretical models thatfocus on the impact of different factors on Russian Foreign Policy:


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Division 2

Society andHistory

FALL 2012

Islam and Nationalism in EurasiaEduard Ponarin

After a brief survey of history of Islam and of theories of national-ism, this course will examine the interaction of nationalist andreligious movements in the Islamic Eurasia in the 19th centurythrough the present time. The course focuses on Inner Eurasiaand thus totally excludes the Islamic areas of South-East Asiaand Africa and virtually ignores the Middle East, except for the

areas historically related to Inner Eurasia. Neither does it coverthe Muslim issues in the European Union.

type of government, ideology, leadership politics, bureaucraticand interest group politics, the European security system, Russiashistoric borderlands and empire, and the international economicsystem. The second part of the course is aimed at close examina-tion of regional aspects of Russian Foreign Policy with particular

attention to relations with the West, newly independent states ofthe former Soviet Union, and the Far East.

The Political Economy of Energy in EurasiaYulia Vymyatnina

The course will introduce students to the changes in the systemof energy relations and the response to them in the public policydomain worldwide and in Eurasian countries in particular. Thereare several important dimensions in the energy sector that shape

the future of the global energy market. One dimension is politi-cal: both on supply and demand side key players in the marketsfor nonrenewable energy resources are countries with unstableand/or unfavorable political regimes. Another dimension, closelyrelated to the first, is increasing role of the state presence/con-trol in the energy market including nationalization of largest oiland gas companies, increased regulation of energy sector ac-tivities, increased international interdependence and necessityto develop coherent international energy policies. And the thirdimportant dimension is the increasing competition on the demand

side as the populated countries (India and China), growing atan unprecedented pace, demand more energy resources fortheir industrial growth. The trends transforming the world energymarkets and shaping its future will be discussed throughout thecourse using theories of the state, monopoly, regulation, publicchoice etc, and a number of case studies covering Eurasia, aswell as the most important cases outside of this region.


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Russian Political and Social HistorySergei Podbolotov

The first part of this course aims at tracing the evolution of formsof political and social organization preceding the emergence ofmodern Russia. Special attention will be given to changes in po-litical institutions, relations between rulers and their subjects, localgovernment, social strata, the Russian religious mind, and the ori-gins of patriotism and ethnicity. The second part gives an overviewof the development of the state and society in imperial Russia andthe Soviet Union. Specifically, it aims at providing a comparativeperspective on the processes of modernization in Russia and inthe rest of Europe. Discussion sessions will concentrate on majordebates about the key problems of modern Russian history.

Russian Media, Culture and SocietySergey Erofeev

This series of cultural journeys will take you from music to film, fromimage to pop culture and from broadcasting to the heights of Rus-sian modernism and postmodernism. Attention will also be paid tothe phenomenon of St. Petersburg as the Russian cultural capital.The thematic breakdown is based on anticipated prior basic ac-quaintance of the disciplinarily heterogeneous audience with oneor more of the following fields: history, sociology, anthropology,political science, art history, and media and cultural studies. Thetwo main objectives of the course are: (1) to provide an overviewof the development of Russian ideology, media and cultural institu-tions, and their interplay with wider social and economic develop-ments while addressing the sociological theories of culture and cul-tural modernization; (2) to introduce an interdisciplinary approachto cultural analysis to students who will learn how to apply it to thestudy of contemporary Russian ideology and culture as well as tohigh and popular cultural industries in Russia and their relation

to post-Soviet Eurasian and international realities.

Siberia: An Introduction to the RegionEvgenii Golovko

The conquest, settlement, and industrial development of Siberiahas been one of the major projects of the Russian state for centu-ries. The course offers a history of the colonization of Siberia andof its development from the XVIII century to the Soviet industrial-ization, and the creation of the oil and gas industry. It provides

an introduction to the ethnic composition of peoples of Siberia,basic geography and political economy of the region.


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Doing Fieldwork in RussiaAnna Temkina and Elena Zdravomyslova

The course will introduce students to the main issues of field workin contemporary post-Soviet society. We will discuss cross cultur-al communication as the background of the fieldwork and specifyhow cultural differences frame the qualitative methodologies andresearch techniques. The focus will be on the access to the field,credibility and trust issues in the data collection, paradoxes ofinformed consent. Usual problematics of the qualitative researchwill be also covered: research question, strategies of the qualita-tive studies (life-story method, case study), data collection (ob-servation, interview) and basics of qualitative data analysis. Thecourse is based on the examples of empirical studies carried outin post Soviet period.

SPRING 2013

The Russian Empire: Sovereignty, Nationalismand Politics of DiversityAlexander Semyonov

This course will introduce students to one of the world historicempires. General questions of domination, diversity, connexity

(a definition of empire in a nutshell) will be refracted through thehistorical experience of the Russian Empire, which included con-quest and expansion, accommodation and resistance in the eth-nically and confessionally diverse population, crises of modernreforms and revolutions. Although histories of continental empiresare written to convey the sense of durability and persistence ofdynastic imperial rule, this course will pay special attention tomoments of crises and ruptures, including the rise of the challengeof modern nationalism, which proved to be productive contextsfor redefinition and realignment of Russian imperial politics and

political visions in the 19th and early 20th century.

A World History of the Caucasus,3000 B.C.E. 2013 C.E.Georgi Derlugian

Why not retell the whole span of world history taking as our obser-vation point the Caucasus rather than the usual hegemonic suspectsin the West? The vantage point is as good as it gets. Squeezed

between the grinding wheels of the Near Eastern agrarian empiresand the nomadic Great Steppe, the Caucasus remained always


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a tough rock to crack. The course takes you from the Bronze Agecharioteers to the Medieval roving Alans (whose name survives inEnglish and French) and to the Great Game fought between theRussian and British empires in the nineteenth century. And what hasthe Soviet modernization wrought on the Caucasus? Does it matter

that Stalin emerged from the Caucasus? What do Chechens havein common with ancient Spartans? Why are the Abkhazians stillmostly pagan? And where is located Europe's first officially Bud-dhist state? Why did the USSR begin collapsing in the Caucasus?Moreover, how all that history matters today in this global world?

TEACHING MODULE IN KAZAN: EMPIRE AND ISLAM

Starting from academic year 2009-10, IMARES features a spe-cial teaching module delivered in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan.This culturally rich and economically advanced region situatedbetween Moscow and the Ural mountains, is also the heart of anancient Islamic civilization, which has for centuries developed asa gateway between European and Turkic cultures. This moduleincludes a two-week trip to Kazan to study aspects of the Rus-

sian and Eurasian cultures, imperial and postimperial history andcontemporary moderate Islam. The module will consist of twointensive 4-credit courses (7 lectures and 7 follow-up discus-sion sessions each) plus a cultural program. Alongside the maincourse teachers, some distinguished regional experts and policyadvisors will contribute to the module.

MAY 2013

Ethnicity and Culture in Sovietand Post-Soviet TatarstanSergey Erofeev, Iskender Yasaveyev,Lilia Nizamova and Irina Kuznetsova-Morenko

The course is devoted to Tatarstan as a key region in the context ofethnic, language and media policies in the late Soviet Union andthe Russian Federation of the 1990s, also looking at the effects ofrecentralization since 2001. It will explore the idea of Euro-Islam

and cover the issues of co-existence and interaction of western and

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eastern cultures in a regional context. The development of Tataridentity as projected by the post-Soviet media as well as throughthe local pop music and state-sponsored arts and literature will alsobe discussed. This will be followed by an analysis of the mediaconstruction of national and regional social problems and the socio-

economic and political role of new cultural projects in Tatarstan.

Imperial Histories, Eurasian Politicaland Intellectual ControversiesMarina Mogilner and Iliya Gerasimov

The main themes of the course include Eurasia as a historical andanalytical concept; comparative post-colonialism; scientific author-ity and the politics of difference: Imperial Kazan University as the

Russian window to the East (ethnicity, race and nationality in thelocal academic discourses); interethnic dynamics in the imperial cit-ies (with focus on Kazan), including the development of the Jewishcommunities; the Eurasian idea and the challenges of moderniza-tion: Russian physical anthropology and the concept of mixedrace; interaction of the state and society and the role of intellectuals.

THE RUSSIAN

LANGUAGECOURSE(Fall and Spring

semesters)

This is an optional course. It covers all the basic aspects of thelanguage: pronunciation, grammar, reading, and writing. Classes

will focus mainly on everyday conversational language and ondeveloping communication skills. Russian mass media and discus-sions of hot political and social issues are an important part of thecourse. Placement tests are run early in September and Februaryto establish prospective students proficiency level. At the end ofthe course a final test may be administered and certificates areissued upon request. The standard load is 8 hours per week.


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Georgi Derlugian, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology,Northwestern University, Chicago. Professor Derluguianreceived doctoral degrees from the Soviet Academy of Sci-ences in 1990 and SUNY Binghamton in 1995. Areasof interest include historical sociology, ethnic wars, andworld-systems analysis. Before coming to Northwestern,Derluguian taught at the University of Michigan. His mono-graph Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-Systems Biography(University of Chicago Press, 2005)

was awarded an honorable mentioning by the PoliticalSociology Section of the ASA and listed among Books ofthe Year by the Times Literary Supplement (1 December2006). Recent theoretical work focused on the syntheticunderstanding of capitalism and the dynamics of state so-cialism. The field research dealt with guerrilla wars and ter-rorism in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Currently writinga monograph about the transformation of Chechnya into abase of Islamic militancy.

Sergey Erofeev, PhD (Sociology, Kazan State University),M.A. (Sociology, 1994, University of Kent at Canterbury,UK). Executive Director of the IMARES program, Director ofthe Center for the Sociology of Culture, Kazan State Uni-versity. A professionally trained musician, later becoming ascholar of society and culture, Dr. Erofeev has wide experi-ence of coordinating international projects funded by theEuropean Unions Tempus and INTAS schemes, the FordFoundation, the Open Society Institute, the USA Departmentof State etc. Author and editor of books and articles on cul-tural theory and post-Soviet cultural transition, he has spentresearch periods at the University of Wales, UK (2000-01)and the University of Washington (2007-08). In 2003-07he served as the Vice-Provost for International Affairs of aleading Russian state university. Research interests: the so-

ciology of culture, education, media, the arts, inter-ethniccommunication.

ABOUT THE FACULTY


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Vladimir Gelman, PhD (Political Science, St. PetersburgState University). Professor, Department of Political Scienceand Sociology at EUSP. He was a visiting professor atCentral European University, Budapest and the Universityof Texas at Austin and research fellow at the University of

Essex, Harvard University, University of Notre Dame, andWissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung. He is au-thor and/or editor of twenty books in Russian and in Eng-lish, including Making and Breaking Democratic Transitions:The Comparative Politics of Russias Regions(Rowman andLittlefield, 2003), Resource Curse and Post-Soviet Eurasia(Lexington Books, 2010), and The Politics of Sub-NationalAuthoritarianism in Russia(Ashgate, 2010). He has also au-thored or co-authored more than 120 articles, which werepublished in Europe-Asia Studies, International Political Sci-ence Review, International Journal of Urban and RegionalResearch, Post-Soviet Affairs, Communist and Post-Commu-nist Studies, Democratization, as well as in numerous editedvolumes in English, German, and Russian. Research interests:contemporary Russian and post-Soviet politics in theoreticaland comparative perspective. Research interests: contem-porary Russian and post-Soviet politics in theoretical and

comparative perspective.

Evgenii Golovko, PhD (Institute for Linguistic Studies, Rus-sian Academy of Sciences). Professor of the EUSP De-partment of Anthropology; Chair of the Department of theLanguages of the Russian Federation, Institute for LinguisticStudies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Profes-sor at the Department of Philology, St. Petersburg State

University, and at the Institute for the Peoples of the North,the Hertzen Pedagogical University. He is co-author of thebooks Russian Old-Settlers of Siberia: The Social and Sym-bolic Aspects of Self-Identification(Moscow, 2004); So-ciolinguistics and the Sociology of Language(St. Petersburg2004); of dictionaries, grammars, and articles (in Russianand English) on native Siberian languages and on the socialanthropology of Siberia and Alaska. In 19931996 and19971998 Golovko conducted research at the University

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Alaska, the University of California Berkeley, the Universityof Tokyo, the University of Kyoto, the University of Osaka,Amsterdam University, Leiden University. Research interests:languages and peoples of Siberia and Alaska; languageand culture change; identity and ethnicity issues; ethnic

minorities; language policies.

Nikita Lomagin, Doctor of Sciences (St. PetersburgInstitute of History). Professor of World Economy atSt. Petersburg State University. Author of introductions in Rus-sian to IR Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis(2001) and toInternational Organizations(1999). Author of In the Wrenchof Hunger. The Blockade of Leningrad: An Account of Ger-man and NKVD Intelligence Documents(St. Petersburg,2001), The Unknown Blockade(St. Petersburg, 2002),Blockade of Leningrad(Moscow, 2005), Soldiers at War:German Propaganda and Soviet Army Morale during theBattle of Leningrad, 1941-44(Pittsburgh, 1998), and TheSiege of Leningrad(co-author, forthcoming, Yale UniversityPress). Author of chapters in Russia as Russia, Re-EmergingGreat Power, Dimensions of Security under Putin(Routledge,

2005, and Palgrave and Macmillan, 2007). He has pub-lished articles and working papers on Russian Foreign PolicyinJournal of St. Petersburg State University, Pro et Contra,LUT,Journal of University of Michigan, GSPIA. ResearchFellow at the University of Michigan Law School (1995),GSPIA (1996), University of Limerick (1997), College ofEurope (1998), George Washington University (1998), theFinnish Institute of International Relations (2000). Post-doc-toral fellow at Harvard University, the Davis Center (2002).

Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.Research interests: contemporary Russian foreign policy, in-ternational organizations, modern Russian history.

Alexei Pikulik, PhD (Political and Social Science, Euro-pean University Institute, Florence, Italy), M.A. in Sociologyand Social Anthropology (Central European University,Budapest). Graduated from the Belarusian State Univer-

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University (Vilnius, Lithuania). He is the author of articlesdedicated to the political economy of contemporary Be-larus and Belarus-EU relations. Research interests: compara-tive political economy; varieties of capitalism; institutionalchange in the post-Soviet setting, contemporary autocratic

regimes and political economy of the rentier-states.

Sergei Podbolotov, PhD (St. Petersburg State University).Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Sciences and So-ciology, EUSP. Formerly an associate professor at the Depart-ment of History, St. Petersburg State University; author of articleson Russian right-wing political parties in the early 1900s. Re-cipient of IREX awards for research stays at Stanford and at theHarriman Institute of Columbia University. Research interests:modern political history of Russia, political parties during theRussian revolution, Russian nationalist and right-wing move-ments in the beginning of the 20th century.

Eduard Ponarin, PhD (University of Michigan). Professor, De-partment of Political Science and Sociology at EUSP. EduardPonarin graduated from the Leningrad State University inPsychology and holds a PhD in Sociology from the Uni-versity of Michigan. He teaches courses on data analysisand nationalism. He has written on Estonian, Ukrainian, andRussian nationalism and the relationship between Islam andnationalism in the Muslim republics of the Russian Federa-tion. He is also a specialist in application of statistics to socialscience problems.

Darya Pushkina, PhD in International Relations and Com-parative Politics (University of Maryland, USA), M.A. inGovernment and Politics (University of Maryland, USA),B.A. Phi Beta Kappa in Political Science (Reed College,USA). Associate Professor of International Relations andPolitical Science and Associate Dean for International Stu-dents, Smolny Institute (St. Petersburg State University andBard College). Dr. Pushkina is a specialist in international

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Russian Federation. Dr. Pushkina has taught at Reed Col-lege in 2001-2006, at the American University of Romein 2007-2008 and has been working at Smolny Institute(the only higher education institution in RF that grants dualAmerican-Russian degrees) in 2006-2007 and from fall

2008 through present. Dr. Pushkina has been actively in-volved in several international research projects, includingRussian Littoral Project, US State Department Democratiza-tion Project, UMD Minorities at Risk Project, British Acad-emy: Specialist Group on Ethnopolitics. She is the authorof several scholarly articles published in the United States,United Kingdom, Italy and Russian Federation. Dr. Pushkinais currently working on the book on UN Peacekeeping inCivil Wars. The project focuses on the evaluation of relativeeffectiveness of UN peacekeeping missions in Civil Warsand attempts to contribute to both academic research onthis issue and offer practical policy-making advice.

Alexander M. Semyonov, PhD in history, associate profes-sor of history and political science, Smolny Institute of LiberalArts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, founder

and editor of the international scholarly journal Ab Imperio.Semyonov has recently taught as associate visiting professorat the University of Michigan and University of Chicago. Hisrecent publications include: Empire Speaks Out: Languagesof Rationalization and Self-Description in the Russian Empire(Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2009); Russian Sociology in ImperialContext, George Steinmetz, ed., Sociology and Empire(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming in 2010).

Ekaterina Stepanova, Doctor of Sciences (Political Sci-ence, 2011, IMEMO/Russian Academy of Sciences);PhD (History, 1998, Moscow State University). Dr Ekat-erina Stepanova heads Peace and Conflict Studies Unitand is a lead researcher at the Institute of World Economyand International Relations (IMEMO), Moscow. In 2011,she teaches at the European University in Saint Petersburgand is a visiting lecturer at the European Peace Univer-

sity, Austria. She serves on editorial boards of two SSCIjournals(Terrorism and Political Violence and The Interna-


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tional Journal of Conflict and Violence) and of SecurityIndex (Taylor&Francis journal). In 2007-2009, she wason leave from IMEMO to lead the Armed Conflicts andConflict Management Program at Stockholm InternationalPeace Research Institute (SIPRI). Dr Stepanova is the au-

thor of six monographs, including Terrorism in AsymmetricalConflict: Ideological and Structural Aspects (Oxford Uni-versity Press, 2008). The latest of her co-edited volumes isTerrorism: Patterns of Internationalization (Sage, 2009). In2003, she worked as a visiting researcher on armed con-flict and terrorism at SIPRI, Stockholm and in 1995-2000as a researcher at the Moscow center of the CarnegieEndowment for International Peace. She has held severalRussian research fellowships, was twice a MacArthur Re-search Fellow (2003 and 2000), and a MacArthur NGOFellow at King's College, University of London (1998).

Anna Temkina, PhD (Helsinki University). Professor, De-partment of Political Sciences and Sociology, EUSP. Visitingprofessor at the universities of Tampere, Helsinki, Joensuu,Minsk, Vilnus; instructor at more than 10 summer schools.Author of Russia in Transition: the Case of New CollectiveActors and New Collective Actions (Helsinki, 1997) and ofmore than 100 research articles, reviews, reports and otherpublications in the field of gender studies and research onsexuality. Winner of the MacArthur foundation individualresearch grants competition (1997), Research Fellowship,Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2004). Co-di-rector, Nordic Research School in Interdisciplinary GenderStudies Ph.D. courses, the course Transnational Feminism

and Local Perspectives: Theories, Practices and AnalyticalApproaches, St. Petersburg (2006). She participated inthe following research projects: Soft Security, Sexualityand Reproductive Health, Discrimination in the Sphereof Reproductive Rights, New Everyday Life in Russia,Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity, Sexual and Reproduc-tive Practices, Gender Studies in Transnational Context.Research interests: research of the gender culture, sexual-ity, private sphere and reproductive health in post-Soviet

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Yulia Vymyatnina, PhD (Economics, St.Petersburg StateUniversity). Michail Manevich Professor, Department of Eco-nomics, EUSP. Visiting researcher, Bank of Finland Institutefor Transition Economies (2010), visiting research fellow,School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University

College London (2010), visiting researcher, NottinghamTrent University (2004, 2005). Author of a number of pa-pers on Russian monetary policy and macroeconomicmodeling that appeared in such journals as EconomicModelling, Research in International Business and Finance.Co-author of the European edition of workbook to accom-pany Economics by G.N.Mankiw. She has been a co-director of educational projects for re-training of universitylecturers since 2001 with the latest project devoted to theissues of sustainability of economic growth under resourcecurse. Research interests: macroeconomic policy, mone-tary policy, political economy, national income distribution.

Elena Zdravomyslova, PhD (Sociology, Institute of Sociol-ogy of the Russian Academy of Sciences). Co-director ofthe Gender Studies Program at EUSP. The author of Para-

digms of Western Sociology of Social Movements (in Rus-sian,1994). Co-editor of Biographical Research in EasternEurope: Altered lives and broken biographies (2003), InSearch of Sexuality (in Russian, 2002), A Reader in theFeminist Theory (in Russian, 2000) and Civil Society inNorthern Europe (in Russian, 1997). She also publishedarticles in International Sociology and ForschungsjournalNeue Soziale Bewegungen and in edited volumes. Recipi-ent of IREX grant for research at the University of California,

Berkeley, and of a fellowship at the Center for AdvancedStudies in Behavioural Sciences at Stanford. Visiting Profes-sor at Universitaet Bochum, Germany (1998). Researchinterests: gender studies, biographical methods, Russiantransformation, political sociology, social movements,stratification analysis, gender studies..


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Iliya Gerasimov, Ph.D. (Rutgers University), M.A. (CentralEuropean University), editor of the international Ab Imperiojournal based at Kazan.

Research interests include new imperial history, social and eco-nomic history of the Russian empire, ethnic crime and the an-thropology of violence, studies of the new generation of Russianintelligentsia and the politics of modernity.

Irina Kuznetsova-Morenko, PhD (Kazan State University).

She does research and teaches in ethnicity and religion, mediaand education. She specifically concentrates on the media rep-resentations of Islam and Islamophobia.

Marina Mogilner, Ph.D. (Rutgers University), M.A. (CentralEuropean University), editor of the Ab Imperiojournal.

Specializes in the imperial history of Russia of the 1920th centu-ries, new imperial history of post-Soviet space, history of physicalanthropology in Russia, Russian radicalism of the early twentiethcentury and Russian-Jewish history.

Lilia Nizamova, PhD (Kazan State University).

Specializes in the study of ethnicity, nationalism and multicultural-

ism. She has done research based on the qualitative analysis ofthe media disources.

Iskender Yasaveyev, Doctor of Sciences, sociology (Ka-zan State University), Deputy Director of the Center for theSociology of Culture at Kazan State University.

Works in the area of the sociology of social problems. Author ofbooks on the application of the constructivist approaches to theanalysis of the post-Soviet media.

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EXAMPLES OF DEFENDED M.A. THESES

An Atmosphere of Reconciliation: A Theory of the Reso-lution of Modern Ethnic Conflicts Based on the Trans-caucasian Conflicts

Swedish Firms in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1992-99: TheSearch for a Protected Environment in a Market Economy

Sources, Perspectives and Implications of Political Ex-tremism in Russia: A Study of Russian National Unity andthe National Bolshevik Party

The Constitution of the Subject in Stalinist Russia duringthe 1930s

Explaining the Civil War in Tajikistan

Democracy on $5 a Day: Why Open Political SystemsSurvive in Some Poor Countries

A Comparative Analysis of Post-Imperial Policies(France in the Post-World-War Period and Russia afterthe Breakup of the Soviet Union)

Germany, Russia and 9/11 Coalition. A Social Con-structivist Account on Foreign Policy Behavior.

Gender Representation and the Soviet Woman: the Cri-sis of Female Identity in Late Soviet Cinema

Analyzing Regime Change in Post-Soviet Space: AComparative Approach

The Current State of US-Russian Relations: Cooperationor Standoff?

The Weakness of Civil Society in Russia: The Effect ofState-Society Relationships and Foreign Aid on the Ca-pacity and Autonomy of Environmental NGOs

The Energy Empire? Gazprom as an Instrument of Rus-sian Foreign Policy in the Near Abroad

Lessons from Late Imperial Russias Jewish Policies

Financial Behavior Adjusted: The Interaction of Cultureand Economic Institutions in Russia

Energy as a Russian Foreign Policy Tool and the KharkivAgreement


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Climate Change and Violent Conflict: The Case of Cen-tral Asia

Nationalism and Identity Construction in Post-SovietRussia: Disappointments, Resentments, and the Pursuitof Prestige

The Potential Radicalization of Crimean Tatars: A Two-Pronged Approach to Counter Violent Islamism

Nationalism and Islam in Chechnya and Tatarstan

The Realpolitik of Natural Resources: The Practice ofEnergy Policy in the Russian Federation

Becoming a Diaspora? The Meaning of the Borderin Biographies of Russians-Speakers in Narva, Estonia

The Position of Sino-Russian Relations and Energy Rela-tions in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

The Resource Curse and Russian Modernization

Tattoos and Criminality: A Study on the Origins and Usesof Tattoos in Criminal Subcultures

Unholy Roads: Human Trafficking, Organized Crime,and its Dangerous Linkages in the Post-Soviet World

Excavating the Wall between East and West: Collabo-ration in Theory and Methodology among Western and

Russian Archaeology The Politics of Parity: Placing the New START Treaty in

Context

Russian Voucher Privatization: An Attempt to Create aCountry of Proprietors Overnight

Dont Touch the President. Two Countries Same Story.State control on the media and the censorship of satirein Russia and Italy.

To Live in the World of Ideas: Defining Gustav ShpetsHermeneutic Phenomenology

The Role of The Finnish Tatar Diaspora in Tatarstan-Finn-ish Business and Cultural Relations

The Politics on the Breakaway Regions: a Possible Con-straining Factor in Saakashvilis Modernization Plan?

Prospects for Abkhazia: Roles of the OSCE and EU

An Analysis of Foreign Policy in the Context of Russia's

Grand Strategies (1815-2008) Islam, Islamism and Islamic Revival


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Degree

requirements

ADMISSION and DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

In addition to registering for two residence units (one foreach semester) an IMARES student must take at least sixcourses during the year (48 ECTS credits).

The program consists of two divisions:

Politics and Economy

Society and History.

It is recommended that students choose their major areaand observe the 4+2 configuration, accordingly:

at least four courses in the students major area ofinterest;

at least two courses in the minor area.Please note that language courses do not count to-wards course requirements.

The applicants must hold minimum a BA degree by the

date of enrolment. Having some prior knowledge of Rus-sian is an advantage in terms of everyday life, however,the Program is designed to encourage the participationof those who have not studied the language before.IMARES welcomes students from all arts and humanitiesbackgrounds; to apply, one need not hold a degree inRussian, Soviet, or East European Studies. IMARES ma-jor requirement is that students be highly motivated, and

also devoted to and capable of rigorous study. Letters ofrecommendation, grade-point averages and transcriptsof previous academic work, statements of purpose thatdescribe research interests, professional experience,personal achievements, and scholarly potential are alltaken into account when admission decisions are made.

All degree-seeking students must submit a Masters Essayfor the evaluation by two faculty members, one being

the academic advisor. Each essay, generally resultingfrom research undertaken for a seminar or a colloquium,

MastersEssay

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Courses fromthe Russian

program andthe transfer of

Credits

Two courses in a field other than language, from theother international programs or those taught in Russian,may be accepted for IMARES. All courses publishedon the EUSP Course List except those listed under the

Department of Economics, qualify for credit transfer. Toacquire transfer credits, students must fulfill respectivecourse requirements.

NB: The language of instruction in EUSP outside inter-national MA programs is Russian. For credit-transfercourses students will have to produce an acceptablecourse paper (essay) of direct relevance to Russian his-tory, politics, culture and society, the USSR, Eurasia or

the post-Communist states. The paper can be submittedeither in Russian or in English.

must be sponsored by a EUSP faculty member and bean original piece of research, interpretation, or analysisbased, at least in part, on primary source materials. Es-says must be from 15,000 to 20,000 words in length,fully footnoted, and include bibliographies. They must bewithin the students major area of interest. Essays must besubmitted by the designated deadline.

TimeConstraints

It is expected that students in the IMARES program com-plete all the degree requirements during one academicyear. However, certain exceptions can be made forthose who wish to improve their command of Russianand thus would opt to complete all the requirements

over the period of two years. Such students will haveto register for two full residence units in the first year andfor extended residence in the following year.

Those graduate students who do not wish to enroll in theM.A. degree program at EUSP, may choose to applyfor the Certificate Program in Russian and Eurasian Stud-ies for one or two semesters. Advanced undergraduates

may be considered for enrollment in the Certificate Pro-

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gram as well; very strong recommendations from facultymembers at the students home institution in the field ofRussian studies are essential for admission. Those en-rolled in the Certificate Program will be expected toregister for full residence units and to take at least threeclasses per semester.

When applying to the Certificate Program, please fol-low all the instructions in the How to Apply section ofthis brochure, but state at the beginning of your state-ment of purpose that you are applying only for a Certifi-cate, and mention the semester (Fall or Spring) in whichyou would like to enroll.

STUDY RESOURCES and STUDENT LIFE at EUSP

Students and scholars who come to IMARES have attheir disposal one of the finest collections of recent Eng-lish language books and journals in Russia, arguably

the best in St. Petersburg. EUSP holdings, all referencedin a computerized catalogue, are concentrated in thefields of history, economics, political science, sociology,anthropology and philosophy. The University conductsan active exchange program with libraries in the UnitedStates and acquires new material on a regular basis.EUSP also has an expanding Russian language collec-tion, where acquisitions are made in accordance with

syllabi requirements.

The EUSPLibrary

St. PetersburgLibraries

In addition to the EUSP library, students at IMAREScan draw on the unique resources of Russias northerncapital. The famous Russian National Library, the centralrepository of the Russian Empire, has the most impressivecollection of pre-1917 Russian-language publications.The objective of its Soviet era collection was to have

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St. PetersburgArchives

Those wishing to do research dealing with originalsources will find EUSP more than welcoming. The deanof the EUSP History Department is a former head of theImperial Archive of St. Petersburg; other professors ofhistory at EUSP are members of the governing boards ofarchives offering post-revolutionary sources. The EUSPfaculty offer guides for archival sources upon request.

also houses an extensive collection of contemporarysources in foreign languages. Another good opportu-nity to consult modern scholarly works is offered by theLibrary of the Academy of Sciences.

Student lifeat EUSP

Through the many special programs and events it spon-sors, the distinguished visiting scholars and guest speak-ers it hosts, its special facilities and location in the culturalcapital of Russia, EUSP offers a multifaceted environmentwhich can enrich a students graduate experience farbeyond what the classroom alone can provide. EUSPstrongly encourages interaction between its students

and faculty. The student lounge of IMARES is openall day and most evenings during the week. Traditionalforms of rich Russian social life mix with Western aca-demic habits: the famous Friday Interdisciplinary Semi-nar, diverse discussion groups, happy hours, holidayparties and other social gatherings provide a congenialatmosphere for informal and lively contact. Internationalstudents profit greatly from their daily interaction withtheir Russian counterparts.


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The academic fees for the two-semester M.A. program in2012-2013 will be 15,000 US dollars (7,500 US dol-lars per semester payable during the first four weeksof each semester). Paying for one residence unit (onesemester study on-campus) allows the student to take upto five courses during the semester of registration plus at-tend language courses. Extended residence, which canbe granted after two semesters of full residence, involvesthe payment of50%of the standard semester fee. Single

course registration is also available. Such registration forthe academic year 20122013 will cost $2,500.

A few places are provided at the EUSP dormitory in thecenter of the city, but more commonly arrangements aremade for those who wish to rent a room from Russianfamilies or share an apartment with other students. Thecost of living in St. Petersburg is still substantially lowerthan the cost of living in Moscow. As of September 2011,prices for an average separate bedroom in a centrallylocated apartment start at $350 per month. Rent for anon-shared apartment at a semi-periphery of the citystarts from $500. Overall estimated living expenses for10 months, including lodging, food, local transportation,books and study materials range from $6,500 to $8,000on a moderate budget.

FEES, EXPENSES and FINANCIAL AID

Financial Aid Given the current condition of Russian governmentalspending on education, and the relevant regulations,Russian financial aid is available only to Russian citi-zens and permanent residents. Some limited financialaid may be available from the EUSP based on the ap-plicants need.

It is a good idea to get in touch with our Alumni As-

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All applicants:

www.iefa.org(International Education FinancialAid Database)

www.rotary.org(Rotary Foundation Ambassado-

rial Scholarships)

US citizens:

www.fulbright.org(Fulbright Post BaccalaureateFellowships program)

www.iie.org/gilman(Benjamin A. Gilman Interna-tional Scholarship Program)

www.irex.org(IREXs USA-Russia Young Leaders

program) www.finaid.org/otheraid/exchange.phtml#abroad

NB: For the first time in Russia, in July 2011 EUSPsinternational programs were granted the respec-tive status of the U.S. Department of Education forstudent loans programs.

Finnish citizens:

www.eu.spb.ru/imares, www.koneensaatio.fi(Kone Foundation special scholarships for EUSP)

German citizens:

www.daad.deDAAD (Deutscher AkademischerAustausch Dienst)

www.toepfer-fvs.de/toepfer-stipendium.html(Alfred-Toepfer-Stipendium)

www.studienstiftung.de/osteuropa.html(Stipendi-enprogramm Metropolen in Osteuropa, AlfriedKrupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung)

www.eidam-und-partner.de/stipendium.php(Eidam & Partner Auslandsstipendium)

www.haniel-stiftung.de/deu/cont_03_01_04.htm(Go East - Studium & Praktikum in Osteuropa)

www.studienstiftung.de/haniel.html, www.haniel-stiftung.de/index.htm(Haniel-Stipendienprogramm)


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It is possible to apply online by going tohttp://www.eu.spb.ru/imares/apply

Word application forms can also be downloadedfrom www.eu.spb.ru/imares or requested by e-mailfrom [email protected]

Applications should include:

1. A completed and signed application form;2. Your statement of purpose (not more than 500 words);3. Two letters of recommendation from academics

who are closely acquainted with your academicwork;

4. Certified transcripts of previous undergraduateand graduate studies, with grade-point averages;

5. Your Curriculum Vitae.

Please state whether you are applying for the wholedegree program or for the Certificate of Study

HOW TO APPLY

British citizens:

www.pcdl.ypla.gov.uk(Professional and CareerDevelopment Loans at Young Peoples LearningAgency)

Norwegian citizens:

www.forskningsradet.no(Research Council ofNorway)

www.lanekassen.no(State Educational Loan Fund)

Swedish citizens:

www.si.se(Visby Scholarships)

www.csn.se/en/2.743(CSN, a Swedish gov-ernment agency)


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Classes begin during the first week of September in theFall Term and the first week of February in the SpringTerm. Applicants can choose the starting date. Theyhave to meet the deadline for submitting applicationsaccordingly:

April 30, 2012 to start in September 2012 orOctober 30, 2012 to start in February 2013

Note: early admission is possible

Please also visit our website:

www.eu.spb.ru/imareswww.eu.spb.ru/international

STARTING DATES ANDAPPLICATION DEADLINES

You can send all the above, including a scannedtranscript of studies, by e-mail to [email protected] this case please ask your referee to email theirrecommendation letters directly.

Alternatively, you can post your application to the ad-dress below:

International MA in Russian and Eurasian Studies(IMARES) European University at St. Petersburg, 3 Gaga-rinskaia Street, 191187 St. Petersburg, RUSSIA

Note: The use of a courier postal service is highlyrecommended. For regular service, allow three to

four weeks for delivery. IMARES phone number is+7 (812) 5794402


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IMARES STAFF

EUSP also hosts other international programs:

MARCA Petropolitana: MA in Russian Culture and the Arts ENERPO: MA in Energy Politics in Eurasia USSR (Undergraduate Spring Semester in Russia

for BA students) Summer schools in Russian Studies and Energy Issues Academic/research affiliations Other Russian language training

For additional information please visit out websitewww.eu.spb.ru/international

IMARES executive directorDr. Sergey [email protected]

International programs administratorMs. Anna [email protected]

International programs administratorMs. Polina [email protected]

International programs administratorMs. Varia [email protected]


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The European University at St. Petersburgis a non-state (private) graduate college set up in 1995for the purpose of advancing training and research ineconomics, anthropology, history, political science, so-ciology, and history of the arts.

Five important points about the European Universityat St. Petersburg (EUSP)

1. The EUSP has greater independence from the Rus-sian governmental bureaucracy than most other Rus-sian universities. This independence is important for bothintellectual and political reasons. Universities in Russiawere traditionally under the control of the government,

to the extent of questions of the content of instruction andresearch, political ideology, and administration.

2. At the EUSP a higher proportion of faculty havedegrees from prominent Western universities than at anyother university in Russia. The university employs Russianswith PhDs from such recognized schools as the Univer-sity of California, Berkeley; the University of Michigan,Ann Arbor; Cambridge University (UK); Helsinki Univer-

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3. The EUSP has a commitment to the integrationof Russian scholarship with scholarship in Europe andAmerica. Against the background of Russian scholar-

ships continuing isolation from the West, this is a fun-damentally important position.

4. The EUSP encourages mobility but combats thebrain drain. Rather than promoting the departure ofgraduate students to the West, EUSP invites Westernstudents to come and study in Russia. The InternationalMA in Russian Studies is the ONLY permanent programat the graduate level in Russia that offers degrees insociology, political science and cultural studies to stu-dents from the United States, Canada and Europe (12to 26 students annually). Both international and Russianstudents enjoy the advantages of studying in a truly in-ternational setting.

5. The EUSP is a decisive agent of innovation andchange, introducing and disseminating new standards

and practices in the Russian educational system.The mission of the University is to satisfy societal needs inraising and expanding professional qualification of spe-cialists and in developing of their creative and scholarlypotential on the basis of achievements of Russian andinternational experience and cooperation.


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International MA in Russianand Eurasian Studies (IMARES)European University at St. Petersburg3 Gagarinskaia Street191187 St. Petersburg, RUSSIA

Tel./Fax: +7(812) 579 4402

MA in Russian Culture

and the Arts

Professional academic training History of art and architecture, music andliterature Imperial and Soviet heritage On-site classes in the Hermit-age and the Russian Museum Diverse experience in Russian cultural life

All instruction in English Intensive Russian language classes (optional)

www.eu.spb.ru/marca

MA in Energy Politicsin Eurasia

Studying at a compact, internationally renowned private university in Rus-sia devoted solely to the social sciences Interdisciplinary curricula withunparalleled breadth of courses that tailor education to specific needs

Teaching by Russias major figures in political science, political economy,

and public policy Excellent preparation for further research work or forcareers in education, public administration, the private sector.

www.eu.spb.ru/enerpo