Areas of Expertise

Diplomacy, Geopolitics, International Security, Foreign Trade and Economy, Geopolicy of AI

Teaching Interests

Modern Diplomacy, Geopolitics of AI, Energy Security

Research

More than 350 publications in the Ukrainian and International media, including

The Financial Times, Nikkei Asia, The Japan Times, and Yomiuri Shimbun.

Representative Publications

Nonlinear Waves in Dispersive and Dissipative Systems with Coupled Fields (1997), Addison, Wesley, Longman

Technology Transfer in the United States (2005), Kyiv, UNTEI

Energy Diplomacy (2008), Kyiv, Vishcha Shkola

Foreign Policy in Times of Transformations: how not to be left on the sidelines of history (2020) Kharkiv, Vivat

How to Build Relations with Asian Countries: economy, diplomacy, cultural peculiarities (2021), Kharkiv, Vivat

How Nations Reborn: experience of East Asia (2023), Kharkiv, Vivat

Japan: One million arigatou (2025) Kharkiv, Vivat

Age of Revisionism: International relations in times of war, uncertainty and insecurity (2026), Ibidem/Columbia University Press.

Education

MSc Kyiv State University, 1984

PhD, Kyiv State University, 1988

DrSci, Riga, Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1991

Estonia School of Diplomacy (2017-2020)

Previous Appointments

Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine (2017-2020)

Visiting Professor Kobe Gakuin University 2021-2024

Honorary Professor Borys Hrynchenko Kyiv University