The Institute of World Economy and International Relations (), or IMEMO, is a leading independent research institute based in Moscow, Russia. On August 2015 the Institute has changed its name to the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations to commemorate the name of its former director academician Yevgeny Primakov, who led the Institute from 1985 till 1989. Founded in 1956 as a successor to the earlier Institute of World Economy and Politics (1925–1948), the institute is a non-profit organization acting within the Charter of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Soon after the establishment, the Institute gained the reputation of an important center of integrated fundamental and applied socio-economic, political and policy-oriented research on the analysis of the main trends of world development; and the Institute is unique in this way in our country. As time went by, the Institute gave birth to a series of problem-regional research institutions – the Institute for the USA and Canadian Studies, the Institute for African Studies, the Institute of the International Labor Movement, etc. However, IMEMO still remains one-of-a-kind in terms of the scale and complexity of the research on the scientific issues by the analytical center. The Institute employs more than 318 researchers. Among them there are: 7 Members of the Academy of Sciences It publishes the academic journal World Economy and International Relations. IMEMO is the organizer of the international summit "Primakov Readings". About the institute The mission of the Institute is the elaboration of a reliable analytical basis for political decision-making. The Institute cooperates with federal and regional government bodies, mass media, major public and private companies. In its research, IMEMO takes an independent and uncommitted position. The Institute carries out fundamental and applied researches in the following areas: theories of the world economy and international relations, new model of the global economic and political development; long-term institutional and structural changes in the world economy and in the international labour division, role and place of Russia in these processes; social factor and modern socio-political institutes in the world development; globalization and regional integration, optimization of Russia participation in the international economic relations; rends and prospects of innovation development as a major factor of the economic growth; economic, political and social development of the overseas countries and regions; formation and evolution of the system of international relations, Russian role and place in it; international security and Russian national security; prevention