Institute of International Politics and Economics organised one-day doctoral seminar aimed at providing the IIPE`s young researchers (PhD students) with a forum to present and discuss their research designs, and an opportunity to get feedback from and exchange comments with established researchers. Each PhD student was invited to present her/his preliminary research design, and then IIPE`s deputy director for research and heads of IIPE`s research centres gave their comments with guidelines how to improve the presented theoretical and methodological framework.