Status of Institute

IMEMO has been founded by the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Institute is a non-profit organization which acts within the Charter of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Principles of Activities

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:

• teories 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 partisipation 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.

Department of science and innovation

• Section of Science and Innovation
• Section of Innovation Policy

Department of Economic Theory

• Section for the Institutional Frame of Economy
• Section for the Analysis of the Economic Role of the State in a Market Economy
• Section of Financial Markets Theories

Center for International Security

• Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies
  • Section for Non-Proliferation and Arms Limitation
  • Group of Information Security Problems
• Department of Military and Economic Security Research
  • Sector of Military Economy and Innovations
  • Group of Military and Economic Globalization Processes
• Section of Military-Political Analysis and Research Projects

Center for Comparative Socio-Economic and Political Studies

• Department for Comparative Political Studies
  • Section for Analysis of Political Change and Identity
• Department for Complex Socio-Economic Research
  • Section for Social Policy and Labour Market Studies
  • Section for Social and Economic Development and Migration Processes Studies

Center for European Studies

• Section of European Countries’ Economy
• Section of the EU Studies

Center for North American Studies

• Sector of US Foreign and Domestic Policy
• US Economic Research Group

Center for Asia Pacific Studies

• Sector of Economy and Politics of China
• Group of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems
• Group of Economics and Politics of Japan
• Group on South Asia and Indian Ocean

Center for the Middle East Studies

• Group on Common Problems in the Region
• Regional Relations Study Group

Center for Industrial and Investment Studies

• Section for Corporate Governance and Investment Problems
• Section for Structural Policy and Competitiveness
• Group for Commodity Markets and Business Services Analysis
• Group for Services Market Analysis

Center for post-Soviet Studies

• Section for Central Asia
• Section for the Caucasus
• Section for Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine
• Section for “Russia and the new states of Eurasia”

Center for Energy Research

• World Economy and Policy Forecasting Sector
• Group Training of Long-Term Strategic Forecast

Center for Situational Analysis

• Group for Strategic Assessment
• Group for Analysis of the Current Economic Problems

The Center for Strategic Planning Studies

• Section of Strategic Planning Methodology
• Group of Risk Assessment

Center for Development and Modernization Studies

• Section for Social and Labour Relations and Social Mobility
• Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South
• Group of Theoretical Problems of Modernization
• Group of Economic Problems

Center for Research in Transitional Economies

• Sector of Research of Economic Behavior of Enterprises
• Group of the Interaction between Enterprises and Banks
• Group for Survey Statistics Analysis
• Group for Publishing the Russian Economic Barometer

Department of Global Economic Problems and Foreign Economic Policy

• Section for the Foreign Economic Policy
• Section for the International Monetary and Financial Relations
• Section for the Global Economic Problems

Department of International Capital Markets

Department of International Political Problems

• Section of Systemic Problems of International Relations
• Sector of International Organizations and Global Political Regulation
• Group of Institutional Problems of International Relations
• Group on Peace and Conflict Studies

Department for European Political Studies

• Section for Political Aspects of European Integration
• Section for Regional Issues and Conflicts

Scientific-publishing Department

• Editorial and Publishing Preparation Sector of the Journal "World Economy and International Relations"
  • Group of organizational and legal support for the journal "World Economy and International Relations"
• Group of book publications

Section for Political Theory

• Section of Planning and Organization of Scientific Researches
• Department of Information Management of Scientific Research
• Department of International Scientific Contacts
• International Conferences Sector
• Department of Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies
• Department of Information Technologies