A young scholars’ conference

TNC in World Politics and World Economy: Problems, Trends, Prospects

Conference Program.

Welcoming Address: V.G. Baranovsky, Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences, IMEMO Deputy Director.

Guest Speaker: S.A. Afontsev (IMEMO, Leading researcher, Cand. Sc.-Econ.) – TNC and Global Governance.

Economic Panel.

1. A. Kuznetsov (IMEMO, Research fellow, Cand. Sc.-Econ.) – Russia’s Emerging Model of TNC: Promising but Lagging behind.
2. D.Alyoshin (MGIMO University, Cand. Sc. –Econ.) – State Policy towards FDI Inflow: Theoretical Aspects.
3. T. Mirzoyan (IMEMO post-graduate student) – The Role of TNC in the Countries’ Economies and their Foreign Economic Activities: FDI or Traditional Export-Import Transactions?
4. R. Shevelenkov (IMEMO post-graduate student) – Banking Innovations: Global Trends.
5. S. Gladky (IMEMO post-graduate student) –TNC Investments in Power Engineering: Competition for Markets.
6. A. Lebedev (IMEMO post-graduate student) –Transnational Corporations and Public-Private Partnership.
7. M. Milto (IMEMO post-graduate student) – Transnational Projects for Natural Gas Supplies to India, their Role in Energy Security of South Asia.
8. S. Noskov (IMEMO post- graduate student) – TNC and International Financial Organizations in Utilities.
9. A. Yefanov (IMEMO post-graduate student) – TNC in Telecommunication Business.
10. Ye. Bolotova (IMEMO post-graduate student) – TNC Impact on the Expansion of Information Markets of Developed and Developing Countries.

Panel of Political Science

1. F. Voitolovsky (IMEMO, Research fellow, Cand. Sc.- Political Sc.) – Indirect Influence of TNC on Foreign Policy Decision- Making in the USA.
2. T. Andreyeva (IMEMO, Research fellow, Cand. Sc.- Political Sc.) – European Military Integration and Weapons Market.
3. A. Fenenko (Academic International Forum on International Relations, Institute of International Security Problems, Senior researcher, Cand. Sc.- Hist.) – The US Concepts of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: the Role of TNC.
4. I. Danilin (IMEMO, Senior researcher, Cand. Sc.- Political Sc.) – The US R&D Policy: Basic Concepts of Interaction between TNC and the State.
5. I. Juse (IMEMO Research fellow, Cand. Sc.- Political Sc.) – Political Risks of Transnational Corporations.
6. Ye. Glushenkova (IMEMO Research fellow, Cand. Sc.- Political Sc.) – Environmental NGO and TNC: Global Opponents.
7. Yu. Balashov (Nizhni Novgorod State University, Deputy Dean, Cand. Sc.- Hist.) – TNC Activities in the Middle East: Ethno-Political Perspective.
8. A. Belyantsev (Nizhni Novgorod State University, Associate Professor, Cand. Sc.- Hist.,Phil.) – TNC Policy towards Information Security.
9. A. Blokhina (Nizhni Novgorod State University, Cand. Sc. –Hist.) – TNC Impact on the Economy and Politics of the Countries of Central-East Europe.
10. A Korotyshev (Nizhni Novgorod State University, post-graduate student) – Impact of Transnational Oil Corporations on Economic Relations between Russia and Azerbaijan.

The proceedings of the Conference are to be included in the book “TNC in World Politics and World Economy: Problems, Trends, Prospects”. M.: IMEMO, 2005. 130 p.