From April 22 to 26, Ekaterina Sarycheva and Polina Nechetova, fourth-year students of Samara University in the field of International Relations, had an internship at Georgy Arbatov Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. During the internship, they had an opportunity to discuss the topics of their final qualifying works with the country’s best experts in the field of American studies, and also attended the International Conference “The USA and the Changing Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific Region”, organized by Georgy Arbatov Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies in partnership with Institute of China and Contemporary …