Department of International Relations, Faculty of International Relation, Political Science and Sociology,
Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University,
2, Dvoryanska, Odesa, Ukraine, 65082

Tel. (+380 482) 63 32 59; fax (+380 482) 68 72 84,

ORCID ID: Igor Koval
Google Scholar: Igor Koval

Main Courses:

1. History of International Relations
2. US Foreign Policy.
3. Introduction to the Profession International Relations.

• 2010 – 2020 – Rector of Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University.
• 2001 – Professor, Department of International Relations.
• 2000 – Doctor of Political Sciences, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine. Title of Doctoral Thesis (specialty 23.00.04 – Political Problems of International Systems and Global Development): “Conceptualization of the US East European Politics at the Beginning of the Global Transformation Process”.
• 1999 - 2015 – Chief of the Department of International Relations, Institute of Social Sciences.
• 1996-2010 – Director of the Institute of Social Sciences, Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University.
• 1987-1996 – Associate Professor of the Department of New and Contemporary History, Faculty of History.

Member of editorial staff: Scientific journal “International and Political Studies” (Odesa, Ukraine)

Mother tongue: Ukrainian, Russian. Other languages: English, Polish.

Membership in associations: Ukrainian Association of Political Sciences (1987). CIS Association of International Studies (1992). International Studies Association (USA, 1991). American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (USA, 1993).

He was awarded the Order of Merit of the 3rd degree, and he has an honorary title "Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine". Honorary Professor at the University of Galati (Romania). Kennan Institute alumni association of Ukraine (member of Board since 2002). Corresponding Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Political Sciences (2009). Member of the Union of Rectors of Ukraine. Member of the Board of Education and Science of Odessa Regional State Administration. Member of the Expert Council of the State Accreditation Commission of Ukraine in Philosophy, Political and Social Sciences.

List of the main publications:

1. The last battle of the Cold War: Eastern European policy of superpowers in the concepts of foreign political science (80's - early 90's). Odessa: Astroprint, 1999. (in Russian).
2. Critical analysis of American bourgeois historiography: Concepts of the East European Policy of the USA. Kiev - Odessa: Higher school, 1984. (in Russian).
3. USA: contemporary foreign policy thought. Analysis of the Concepts of American Political Science in the 80s. Odessa: Logos, 1992. (in Russian).
4. Ukraine and European security: collective monograph. London - New York, 1999.
5. European state security: problems and concepts of the 1990s: collective monograph. Katowice, 1997. (in English and Polish).
6. Eastern and Central Europe, and NATO expansion. Hamburg, 1997.
7. Ukraine and European security. London - New York, 1999.
8. American "neorealism": entering the 21st century. Concepts and methods. In USA and the world of the XXI century: monograph / ed. Y. Pahomov, I. Koval, S. Shergin and other, 22-30. К.: Center for free press,2013. (in Ukrainian). 
9. Political science: a textbook for students of higher educational institutions / ed. I. M. Koval. Kharkiv: Folio, 2012. (in Ukrainian).
10. Historical psychology: origins and the present state / ed. I. M. Koval. Odessa: Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, 2012. (in Russian).
11. Velvet Revolutions. In Geopolitics: Encyclopedia, 599-522. Kiev, 2012. (in Ukrainian).
12. Collection of thoughts and knowledge of the glow: [preface]. In Two centuries of service to the book. History of the Scientific Library of the Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, 1817-2017 / ed. M. V. Alekseyenko, M. O. Podrezova, O. V. Polevshchikova, V. P. Spring, V. V.Samodurov, 8-10. Odessa: Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, 2017. (in Ukrainian).
13. Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Ukraine / Ed. I. Koval, O. Brusylovska, V. Dubovyk. Odessa: Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, 2017.
14. Bookmarks of European bibliophiles in the collections of the university library: album-catalog / ed. I. M. Koval, M. O. Podrezova. Odessa: Astroprint, 2017. (in Ukrainian).
15. The United States and the New East European Agenda: An Assessment of American Political Scientists. In International relations and the policy of states in the conditions of global transformations: the analysis of modern political thought / ed. I. M. Koval, O. I. Brusylovska. 346-354. Odessa: Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, 2016. (in Ukrainian).
16. "Ukrainian crisis" in the context of the geopolitical realities of our time. In Korean Studies in Eastern Europe: Contemporary and Prospects: Scientific Edition, 72-76. Kiev-Seoul: Kyiv University, 2016. (in Ukrainian).
17. Education in the 21st Century Classical University: A Public Value or a Business Project. In A Classical University in the Context of Challenges of the Age: A Scientific Edition, 43-49. Kyiv: Kyiv University, 2016. (in Ukrainian).
18. Post-communist transformation after 2004: cases of Poland and Hungary (co-author O. Brusylovska). In: Man, Soсiety, Politics: Topical Challenges of the Modernity. Lviv-Torun: Liha-Pres, 2019, 56-71.
19. Russian Politics toward Ukraine: Was there Ever a Strategic Partnership? (co-author O. Brusylovska). In Przeglad Strategiczny, №12, 2019, 131-144.
20. Introduction. Conclusions. In: Prospects of Development in EU Politics: Global and Regional Dimensions / ed. I. M. Koval, O. I. Brusylovska. Odesa: Odessa Mechnikov National University Press, 2019.
21. Exploring of the Borders Nature in Contemporary Europe. Review of Monograph. International and Political Studies 32 (2019): 291-295.
22. O. I. Brusylovska, V. A. Dubovyk, І. M. Koval (eds.). Black Sea Region at World Politics: Actors, Factors, and Scenarios of the Future: monograph. Odesa: ONU, 2020. (Introduction; Conclusions).
23. Book review “Baltic-Black Sea Regionalisms. Patchworks and Networks of Europe's Eastern Margins”. Rhetoric and Communications, Issue 43, April 2020, p. 137-141. (in English).
24. Professors of Odessa National University named after I. I. Mechnikov / ed. І. M. Koval, Vol. 1. Rectors (1865-2020), Odesa, ONU, 2020.
25. Professors of Odessa National University named after I. I. Mechnikov / ed. І. M. Koval, Vol. 2. Professors (2005-2020), Odesa, ONU, 2020.
26. Graduates of the Odessa National University named after I. I. Mechnikov / ed. І. M. Koval. Odesa, ONU, 2020.
27. Scribbles, doctors, professors of the Odessa National University named after I.I. Mechnikov / ed. І. M. Koval. Odesa, ONU, 2020.

International conferences, seminars, schools:

Internship at Gaucher College (Baltimore, 1989). Fulbright scholarship for conducting research and lecturing at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, 1993). The Kennan Institute (Washington, 1994 and 1996), an in-depth study of the policy of the superpowers. University of Maryland (College Park, 1996). International Conference "Trade and Economic Relations of Ukraine and Latin America: State and Prospects" (Montevideo, 2016). International Scientific Conference "Classic University in the Context of Challenges of the Age" (Kyiv, 2016). International scientific conference "Korean Studies in Eastern Europe: Contemporary and Prospects" (Kyiv, 2016). International round table "New world (des) order: Ukrainian context". Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars (Washington, 2016). International scientific conference "Social and political transformations in Central and Eastern Europe (1917-2017): factors, achievements, problems" (Odesa, 2017). XIV European Conference on Social and Behavioral Sciences of the International Association of Social Science Research (Odesa, 2017). International Round Table "The Legacy of the President Clinton" (Washington, 2017). European project: a collapse? strategy? breakthrough? (Sydney, February 4-5, 2019). International Round Table "Strategic Forecasting in Contemporary International Relations" (Washington, 2019). Scientific and Practical Seminar of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine “Ukrainian - American Relations: Agenda for 2020” (Kyiv, 2019). Modern University in the Context of Global Turbulence (Buenos Aires, 2019). IV Appatov’s Readings (Odesa, 2020). 75th Science Conference of the Professors and Scientific Workshops (Odesa, 2020). Co-head of three TEMPUS projects.