Department of International Relations and Diplomacy

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The appearance of independent Ukraine on the world political map created the need in trained experts ready to represent a new independent state on the world arena: diplomatic and consular representations of young Ukrainian state were opened all over the world, greatly expanded Ukraine’s participation in various international organizations, intensified international cooperation on regional and local levels.

Ivan Franko Lviv University promptly reacted to this by establishing the Faculty of International Relations in 1992. The Department of International Relations and Diplomacy (then it was named as the Department of Political Geography) was established at the same time and became the basis for the training of future diplomats and experts in international relations. The Department received its modern name in 2002 after the Department of the Country Studies and International Tourism became another sustainable structure of the Faculty (in 1996-2002 there was an integrated Department of International Relations and Country Studies).

During its existence the staff of the Department expanded from 5 to 26 members. Many of them are the graduates from the Faculty of International Relations of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Members of the Department defended 3 doctoral and 15 candidate (PhD) theses.

There are 3 professors, 19 associate professors and 4 assistant professors who provide the training of high-qualified experts in the field on international relations. And now together with the members of other Faculty Departments they constitute a unique Lviv scientific school in international relations studies which has being developed for about 25 years.

Responding to the imperative demands of our time Department regularly develops and introduces into curriculum and updates the courses covering different aspects of modern international relations and world politics.

From 2000 the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy became a basis for the training of the experts in a new specific field of International Relations – International Information Relations. While training the experts in this field an emphasis is laid on the methods and techniques of information and analytical support of decision-making, modern methods of collecting and processing of the information materials and data (which include new computer and program tools), methods of individual, group and social influence using communication tools.

Scientific interests of the Department members include a wide range of crucial issues of the modern International Relations. They are reflected in hundreds of scientific articles and dozens of scientific monographs and textbooks. Now the Department staff is developing a scientific problem Ukraine under transformation of the modern system of international relations. The project coordinator is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine, Professor Markiyan Malskyy, who chaired the Department from its foundation and till 2016. Now the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy is chaired by Professor Yurii Prysyazhnyuk.

 

Basic courses for Bachelors in International Relations provided by the Department staff:

  1. Foreign policy of Ukraine
  2. History of International Relations
  3. Foreign Policy of States of Africa, Asia, Pacific Basin Countries and Australia
  4. Foreign Policy of Commonwealth of Independent States
  5. Foreign Policy of States of North America and Latin America
  6. Theory of International Relations (Classic and Modern Theories)
  7. Modern Trends in International Relations
  8. Conflictology and the Theory of Negotiations
  9. Ukraine in International Organizations
  10. International Relations and World Politics
  11. Diplomatic and Consular Service of Ukraine
  12. Diplomatic Protocol and Etiquette
  13. Secret Diplomacy and Intelligence
  14. Decision-Making Theory
  15. Information and Analytical Support in International Relations
  16. Foreign Policy
  17. National and International Security

 

Basic courses for Bachelors in International Information Relations provided by the Department staff:

  1. Mathematics in the Modern Information Technologies
  2. System Analysis
  3. Applied Information Science
  4. Analysis of the States’ Foreign Policy
  5. Modern Information Systems and Technologies
  6. Information Security
  7. Computer Processing of the Data
  8. Information and Analytical Support in International Relations
  9. Theory and Practice of Communication
  10. Theory of Mass Communication
  11. Public Relations
  12. Election Technologies
  13. Theory and Practice of Advertising
  14. Basics of International Information Relations
  15. International Information Studies

Address:  19 Sichovykh Strlitsiv str., r. 206,  Lviv, Ukraine, 79000

Employees

Acting ChairpersonRostyslav RomaniukActing Chairperson
ProfessorMarkiyan MalskyyProfessor
ProfessorYuriy PrysiazhniukProfessor
Associate ProfessorSofiya FedynaAssociate Professor
Associate ProfessorRoman KalytchakAssociate Professor
Associate ProfessorMykhaylo KomarnytskyyAssociate Professor
Associate ProfessorPetro KuzykAssociate Professor
Associate ProfessorViktoriya MalyhaAssociate Professor
Associate ProfessorYuriy MorozAssociate Professor
Associate ProfessorSvitlana PykAssociate Professor
Associate ProfessorBorys SulymAssociate Professor
Associate ProfessorOlha TelenkoAssociate Professor
LecturerNataliya VladimirovaLecturer

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Students of the faculty are participants of the virtual international academic mobility program “Young Professional’s School – Intensive Modules in European Studies” of the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Latvia

05.01.2023 | 19:15

During the fall semester of the 2022-2023 academic year, students of the 3rd year of the Faculty of International Relations of our University Anna Bilyak, Yulia Brezden, Andriy Harasymyk, Yuriy Kuzyk, Stepan Maksymiv, Yuriy Khokhlov, Snizhana Fedorovych and 4th-year student Elizaveta Shevchenko took part in the virtual international academic mobility program “Young Professional’s School – Intensive Modules in European Studies” of the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Latvia (Riga). More

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The Faculty of International Relations celebrates the 30th anniversary

23.12.2022 | 18:36

On December 23, 2022, the conference “Tomorrow comes today: contours of future international relations” was held in the Assembly Hall of the University, dedicated to the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Faculty of International Relations of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and the Day of Ukrainian Diplomacy. Government representatives, leading Ukrainian diplomats, scientists, educators and the academic community of Lviv University took part in the celebrations.
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Ukrainian Day at University of Warsaw

15.12.2022 | 19:42

On December 12, 2022, the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations of the University of Warsaw (Poland) hosted the Ukrainian Day, which was attended by the Dean of the Faculty of International Relations of Lviv University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Professor Markiyan Malskyi and Associate Professor of the Department of European and regional studies Oksana Kraevska. More

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VI Youth Security Forum “Safe and stable Europe through the eyes of young people: Ukraine is a key element of the European security system”

05.11.2022 | 12:28

On November 4, the VI Youth Security Forum “Safe and stable Europe through the eyes of young people: Ukraine is a key element of the European security system” started its work. The forum was attended by students of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Yuriy Fedkovych National University of Chernivtsi and Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. More

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Workshop “Crisis Management in the Era of Continuous Competition”

02.10.2022 | 14:18

On September 30, the Faculty of International Relations of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv hosted a workshop “Crisis Management in the Age of Continuous Competition”, which was organized by the Center for International Security and Partnership with the support of the NATO Information and Documentation Center in Ukraine.
The students were addressed by Vitalijs Rakstins, defense adviser in Great Britain, director of the Department of Crisis Management of the Ministry of Defense of Latvia (2015-2021).
More information: https://www.ispc.org.ua/archives/34008

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