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Change and Continuity in Russian-US Academic Exchange Programmes. A Temporal Analysis. 1946-2015.

Student: Kosmodemyanskaya Kristina

Supervisor: Mahama Tawat

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Political Analysis and Public Policy (Master)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2016

This master's thesis "Change and Continuity in Russian-US Academic Exchange Programmes. A Temporal Analysis. 1946-2015" is devoted to study an evolution, transformation and persistence of the Institution of Academic Exchange between the US and Russia since its emergence till date. Especially it is focused on state academic exchange programmes between the two countries. It is believed that unstable interaction between Russia and the US on foreign policy issues affects the transformation of the Institution of international academic exchange established between the two countries. With this research we proved that it is true. The academic exchange institution in US-Russian cooperation was established by a political decision, so the situation in foreign policy has a strong influence on it. In addition, we demonstrated that the process is more complicated than it seems, using a theory of path dependence. Namely, we traced policy continuation and policy changes during the chosen period (1946-2015) and understood how it influences on the analyzed institution. We found that the evolution of academic exchange institution between the US and Russia takes place in a cyclic model, which includes a rise and fall against the background of changing foreign policy.

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