Kuvshinov A.V. Some issues of cooperation between the Emergency Ministry of the Russian Federation and the International Civil Defence Organization in the sphere of disaster management

Abstract: The research subject is the main directions of cooperation between the Emergency Ministry of the Russian Federation and the International Civil Defence Organization (ICDO) since the foundation of the Ministry in the early 1990s. The research object is the cooperation between the Russian Federation (the Emergency Ministry) and the ICDO in the sphere of disaster management. The author considers such aspects of the topic as the establishment of cooperation between the Emergency Ministry and the ICDO in the spheres of humanitarian cooperation and personnel training. Special attention is given to the role and the importance of the work of the Russian Ministry in the development of the ICDO’s projects. The author applies the method of system analysis and the principle of historicism, which help detect the most significant elements of the organizations’ interdependency and interrelation. The author concludes that the cooperation of the Russian Federations with international organizations in disaster management is one of the most important and significant factors of the formation and functioning of the modern international relations system and the maintenance of global and regional security in the 21st century. The article demonstrates that in the modern polycentric international relations system no country can remain uninvolved in the solution of the urgent global problems and industrial disasters management. The author carries out the complex analysis of the main directions of cooperation between the Emergency Ministry and the International Civil Defence Organization in the context of evolution of their formation and activity. The paper detects and systematizes the factors, influencing and defining the Emergency Ministry’s policy in the spheres of disaster management and emergency responses, the peculiarities and the character of interrelations between the organizations’ structures. 

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