Mykola Kapitonenko is director of the Center for International Studies, an NGO, specializing at regional security studies and foreign policy of Ukraine. He is also an Associate Professor at the Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University.
In 2001 he graduated from the Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National Shevchenko University. He defended Ph.D. (candidate) thesis in 2004. He worked as Assistant Professor from 2001, as Associate Professor of the International Relations and Foreign Policy Department from 2006. From 2001 – Executive Director of the Center of international relations studies (CIRS). In 2005 he lectured courses on conflictology and ethnic conflicts in the Iowa state University (USA). Specializes in conflictology and theory of negotiations, history of international relations, actual problems of foreign policy of Ukraine, theory of international relations. The winner of the Kyiv National Shevchenko University premium, 2004, and of the traineeship of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for young scientists.
He’s been managing a number of analytical projects, and he’s an author of a textbook on international conflict studies, a monograph on power factor in international politics, and more than 60 articles on various foreign policy and security issues.
