Successful private enterprises are sponsors of today’s liberalism. The process of globalization is backed-up by transnational corporations.70 per cent of global trade is controlled by 500 TNC, meanwhile 400 TNC control up to 50 per cent of the total of FDI. Over 63,000 companies that by all means can be referred to as transnationals operate as intermediaries who make possible the international trade and financial flows.

The Institute for Transnational Corporations was established in 1999 with the purpose to study the mechanism of private capital circulation in the modern world economy.

The research program of the Institute is designed to match the global challenges that are especially manifest in the activity of transnational corporations (TNC).

The Institute was set up by a group of alumni of the Department of International Economic Relations of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs.