In October 2007 I study a Master in International Relations at the University of Cambridge. I received a Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest Scholarship and an admission from Trinity Hall.

It is a pity that I have to decline the offers from St. Andrews, Harvard and LSE, but I can’t split myself into four

St. Andrews is a great university, great surroundings, great beaches, great hills - and Scotland is a great place to live. For an undergraduate degree, St. Andrews is perfect and I regret that I didn’t apply there for my Bachelor’s degree.

Harvard’s program for Russian Studies is great of course. But I can’t afford it. I had about 30 Thousand US-Dollars in Loans, but the total sum is 110.000 US-Dollar and that would have been impossible. Hopefully I can study at Harvard during a later time for half a year or so, maybe during my PhD.

The London School of Economics is a great university as well and I was very impressed with their curriculum and the scholars there. I would have loved to study there, but since I want to do an in-depth-analysis of international institutions, I chose Cambridge over LSE. Nevertheless I would like to continue to work together with their research Institute, especially on Regional Economics.

At Cambridge I want to focus on current issues of International and European Law and Economic Trends that will change the world in the next few decades. I am thinking about writing my Master Thesis on G8 analysis or European Regional Politics.

Since new multilateral agreements are in a permanent stalemate, since an international currency crisis is quite unlikely and in any case will be adressed by regional frameworks (it is quite astonishing that the only “customer” of the IMF is Turkey), since the World Bank has lost ist reputation due to Wolfowitz, since there are countless proposals for G8 and UN reform on the table but it is quite unlikely that any of these reforms will be implemented any time soon, this field of studies is very promising.