2004 - Honored Worker of Science and Technology; 2009 - corresponding member of the Ukrainian Political Sciences Academy; 2016 - Honorary Doctor of the "Lower Danube" University Galati, Romania 2015, 2016 - the laureate of the media rankings "100 most influential personalities in Odessa" held by Forum of Journalists; 2016 – Order of Merit (Ukraine) III degree Scientific activity I.N. Koval - founder of the Odessa International Studies Research School (founder of the foreign affairs history school was Academic S.I. Appatov, Odessa); As a specialist - expert in the field of international relations, I.N. Koval passed scientific training and conducted lectures at universities abroad: 1989 - scientific training and a course of lectures at Goucher College Baltimore, United States; 1993 - Fulbright Program for scientific research and lectures at Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, United States; 1994, 2005 - scientific training for foreign policy study in the post-Soviet states at Kennan Institute Washington D.C., United States. 2001- new training courses development at the University of Maryland, College Park United States I.N. Koval is a member of international scientific societies and organizations: 1987 - Ukrainian Association of Political Science; 1992 - The association of foreign affairs researchers of the CIS countries 1993 - The Association of International Studies (US); 1994 - The Association of in-depth Slavic Studies (US); Under the scientific direction of I.N. Koval three doctoral, fifteen PhD thesis was defended; more than 80 research papers was published in scientific journals of Ukraine, US, Germany, Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland and Hungary. Major works "A critical analysis of the American bourgeois historiography: US East European policy concept." Odessa, 1984; "The United States: modern foreign policy thought. American political science concept of the 80s analysis", Odessa, 1992; «Ukraine and European Security », London- New York, 1999; "The last “Cold War" battle: Eastern European superpowers policy in concepts of political science" (80th - 90th), Odessa, 1999; "Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine: global and regional dimensions" Odessa, 2008; "International relations and policy of the states in terms of global transformations: analysis of modern political thought" Odessa, 2016 References 1955 births Ukrainian academicians Academic staff of Odesa University Living people