Sergei Ivanovich CHERNYSHOV is one of the prominent Russian partologists. Partology is a branch of politology that studies processes of formation and functioning of political parties.
The area of his academic interests is the study of party systems and political parties in Europe, North and Latin Americas, South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand and the European Union. He studies processes connected with the formation of political parties, relations among them, with the government, civil society and businesses.
Research is carried out on the interfaces between politics, law and history and represents work on the actual issues of political system of a modern state. Under the academic guidance of S.I. Chernyshov a number of PhD theses have been written.
The results of academic studies have been summed up and presented in two monographs “Customs Policy and Legal Conflict” (1999) and “Party Systems of the European Union” (2008) as well as in over than forty articles published in Russian academic publications.
For more than thirty years, S.I. Chernyshov has been working in the sphere of politics and diplomacy in the central governing bodies of the USSR and the Russian Federation, including International Department of the CPSU Central Committee and Administration of the President of the RF.
S.I. Chernyshov is a highly qualified professor who skillfully combines his wide hands-on experience in politics with his knowledge of political theory and academic research.
S.I. Chernyshov has been awarded by the Order of Badge of Honor.
At present, he is professor at the Chair of Political Sciences of the Russian Friendship University.
He is also deputy editor -in-chief of the review “Issues of Politology” and Vice-president of the National Union of Politologists.