Igor Koval

Igor Koval or Ihor Koval (Ukrainian: Iгор Миколайович Коваль, born February 27, 1955, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian political scientist on international relations, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, corresponding member of the Ukrainian Academy of Political Sciences, Rector of Odessa University.

Igor Koval
Igor Nikolayevich Koval

Biography

Ihor Koval was born February 27, 1955, in Odessa and graduated high school №3 (known also as Mariinsky Gymnasium)[1] in 1972. He graduated from the historical faculty of I.I. Mechnikov OSU (1978). Historian, teacher of history and social science. He defended his thesis in Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. (1982). Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary History (1978-1983); Senior Lecturer, Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Acting Deputy Dean of the History Faculty of I.I. Mechnikov ONU (1987-1996).

Since 1996 - Director of the Social Sciences Institute at Mechnikov ONU.[2] He defended his doctoral thesis on "The conceptual design of the United States Eastern European policy at the beginning of global transformation process" at the World Economy and International Relations Institute at Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences. He received the Doctor of Political Sciences degree in 2000 and in 2001 became a Professor. In 2010 he was elected as a rector of the I.I. Mechnikov Odessa National University (ONU).

In 2015, by the decision of the University staff Ivan Koval was re-elected for a second term as a rector of ONU. Under the leadership of Rector Koval put into operation a new seven-story 6500 square meters academic building of the university (2013). Thanks to an investment strategy for the first time in the country's independence history it was in Mechnikov University where 90 families of University employees received state housing (2013). In 2010, the university launched a publishing house that produces up to 500 scientific and methodical literature units annually. In 2015 on the 150th anniversary of the ONU, University's history Museum was opened. Today, 28 scientific schools and 20 research laboratories are working at Mechnikov ONU.

Social activity

1998 - 2004 - Igor Koval became Advisor of the Odessa Regional State Administration Chairman; 1997 - Director of the Odessa’s applied social sciences program; 1997 - 1998 - Coordinator of the European research program in the framework of the EU TEMPUS-TACIC program; since 1999 - head of the scientific seminar on international relations theory of history and historiography at the House of Scientists (Odessa); 1995 - political media expert analyst.

Titles and awards
  • 2004 - Honored Worker of Science and Technology;[3]
  • 2009 - corresponding member of the Ukrainian Political Sciences Academy;
  • 2016 - Honorary Doctor of the "Lower Danube" University Galati, Romania
  • 2015, 2016 - the laureate of the media rankings "100 most influential personalities in Odessa" held by Forum of Journalists;
  • 2016 – Order of Merit (Ukraine) III degree [4]

Scientific activity

I.N. Koval - founder of the Odessa International Studies Research School (founder of the foreign affairs history school was Academic S.I. Appatov, Odessa); As a specialist - expert in the field of international relations,[5] I.N. Koval passed scientific training and conducted lectures at universities abroad:

I.N. Koval is a member of international scientific societies and organizations:[7]

  • 1987 - Ukrainian Association of Political Science;
  • 1992 - The association of foreign affairs researchers of the CIS countries
  • 1993 - The Association of International Studies (USA);
  • 1994 - The Association of in-depth Slavic Studies (USA);

Under the scientific direction of I.N. Koval three doctoral, fifteen PhD thesis was defended; more than 80 research papers was published in scientific journals of Ukraine, USA, Germany, Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland and Hungary.

Major works
"A critical analysis of the American bourgeois historiography: US East European policy concept." Odessa, 1984;[8]
"The United States: modern foreign policy thought. American political science concept of the 80s analysis", Odessa, 1992;[9]
«Ukraine and European Security », London- New York, 1999;
"The last “Cold War" battle: Eastern European superpowers policy in concepts of political science" (80th - 90th), Odessa, 1999;[10]
"Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine: global and regional dimensions" Odessa, 2008;
"International relations and policy of the states in terms of global transformations: analysis of modern political thought" Odessa, 2016
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References
  1. Одесская Мариинская гимназия красочно отметила 145-летний юбилей
  2. Игорь Коваль, профессор, доктор наук, директор Института социальных наук ОНУ им. Мечникова: «Необходим хотя бы минимальный консенсус в обществе»
  3. Достояние Одессы: Игорь Коваль
  4. Президент Украины наградил сотрудников Одесского национального университета орденами и званиями
  5. "«Парадоксы президентских выборов 2016» - ректор Игорь Коваль". Archived from the original on 2017-02-01. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
  6. № 8 (2082) жовтень 2010 р
  7. В Одессе завершилась Международная научная конференция «Социальная политика и механизмы интеграции Украинского общества»
  8. Критический анализ американской буржуазной историографии: концепции восточно-европейской политики США
  9. США:СОВРЕМЕННАЯ ВНЕШНЕПОЛИТИЧЕСКАЯ МЫСЛЬ : АНАЛИЗ КОНЦЕПЦИЙ АМЕРИКАН. ПОЛИТОЛОГИИ 80-Х ГОДОВ / С.И. АППАТОВ, В.В. ГЛЕБОВ, И.Н. КОВАЛЬ, П.Я. РАЙНОВ
  10. Коваль Игорь Николаевич - Последняя битва "Холодной войны": восточноевропейская политика сверхдержав в концепциях зарубежно...
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