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Center for Asia-Pacific Studies IMEMO: Creating a New Analytical Paradigm.
In the present political and economic trends, a timely exercise is the elaboration on a new research direction, namely studies of regionalism, both in theoretical and practical dimensions, within an active phase of globalization. Center for Asia-Pacific Studies (SAPS), Institute of World Economy and International Relations, does this with the focus upon the Asia-Pacific region developing its own approach.
The result has been three monographs in which critical Asia-Pacific issues seen through the prism of this approach were scrutinized.1) At present, the fourth monograph is being prepared.2) Besides, this approach has been tested during numerous conferences and round-table discussions both in Russia and in beyond.