Semen Yosypovych Appatov

Semen Yosypovich Appatov (January 24, 1930 – March 26, 2003) was a Ukrainian historian and political scientist who specialized in international relations, American foreign policy historiography, and European security dynamics. Doctor of historical sciences, professor (1982), Honored Science and Technology Figure of Ukraine (1993), member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (1964).

Biography He was born on January 24, 1930, in the city of Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast, in the family of a doctor.

He graduated from Odesa Secondary School No. 50 with a gold medal in 1947 and entered Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv at the Faculty of International Relations. In 1952, he graduated from the university, having received a diploma with honors and the specialty of historian-internationalist, referent-translator. After that he returned to Odesa. A separate Department of International Relations was set up in 1996 with Appatov as its first head; he led it until April 1999. Under his leadership the university developed into a recognized center for the study of international relations and foreign-policy analysis in Ukraine.

Appatov moved to the United States in 1999. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 26, 2003.

In 1986, as part of the Fulbright Program, he lectured on Soviet-American relations at the University of Pennsylvania and Tufts University. He also took part in conferences at Harvard University and at universities in New York City and Washington. That same year he became a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

In 1999, together with David Albright, he co-edited and published Ukraine and European Security, a volume bringing together views of North American, Western European, and Ukrainian security analysts on European security issues.

Selected publications Американская историография германской проблемы и политика США в Германии [American historiography of the German question and US policy in Germany]. Moscow: Международные отношения, 1966. США и Европа: общие проблемы американской континентальной политики [The USA and Europe: general problems of American continental policy]. Moscow: Мысль, 1979. Критический анализ американской историографии [Critical analysis of American historiography] (co-author). Kyiv, 1984. США: современная внешнеполитическая мысль [The USA: contemporary foreign policy thought] (co-author). Odesa, 1992.