<Title language-id="en_US">Professor Tetsuya Toyoda started a course of lectures at FEFU

3 сентября 2012 - Новости ДВФУ

The course of occupations of the Japanese professor with students of School of regional and international researches within the Visiting Professors program will last nearly two weeks.

The next series of visiting international professor lectures started on Monday at the School of Regional and International Studies. The current university guest is professor of Akita International University (Japan), Dr. Tetsuya Toyoda. His lecture series is entitled “The formation of the East-Asian community and the first aspects of international relations in the region".

Each day of his visit, future specialists in political science, regional studies and international relations are being invited to interesting discussions in English about intergovernmental organizations in East-Asian countries, the perspectives of regional integration, politics in East-Asian countries, and Russian national and regional interests. At the end of the course series students will write an essay on topics selected by the professor, and the students will then receive certificates for completing this special School of Regional and International Studies course.

Dr. Toyoda’s first lecture was devoted to the history and prerequisites of forming intergovernmental organizations in East Asia. Students easily named all the participants of the APEC, ASEAN, APT (ASEAN+3), EU, NAFTA, MercoSur and other institutes.

“Special attention was paid to the terms ‘Asian-Pacific’ and ‘East-Asian’ and the difference between them: the first one includes the UD+SA, but the second one does not. For me it was an interesting specification,” - Ms. Anna Leontyeva a specialist in political science said. “I would also like to note that Dr. Toyoda spoke excellent and understandable English – no one had difficulties understanding his lecture".

At the end of the lecture, the professor shared his thoughts about the integration of Russia in Asian-Pacific Rim. “In recent years, there has been a tendency of forming more and more intergovernmental organizations and institutes in East Asia. Russia is an important part and a key stakeholder of the balancing of the whole region. But regional integration shouldn’t be treated too seriously; otherwise a country may lose a part of its sovereignty. That is why governments of China, Korea and Japan are very careful with this matter".