В учебнике рассматриваются конфликты и войны как социально-политические явления: различные теории, концепции, типологии как международных, так и внутригосударственных политических конфликтов с международными последствиями. Анализируется теория и практика миротворчества, разнообразные формы вмешательства государств и международных организаций в конфликты и их урегулирование. Рассматривается политика ООН, ОБСЕ, НАТО, ЕС, СНГ, ОДКБ и других международных организаций в отношении конфликтов. Учебник содержит подробный политологический ...

The author represented Stalinism as a model of social constructivism, analyzed basic features of this type of dictatorship. New trends in Russian and  international historiography of the problem are under consideration. ...

The author investigates a phenomenon of development of ideologies in a historical context. So the transition of the academic historiography from positivistic methodology to methodology of the linguistic analysis is considered. Linguistic analysis is presented by the theory of speech asts and history of concepts. Accordingly, ideologies appear as cognitive mechanisms and simultaneously cognitive political ...

The author represented Stalinism as a model of social constructivism, analyzed basic features of this type of dictatorship. New trends in Russian and  international historiography of the problem are under consideration. ...

: Explanation – as a process and as a result of knowledge – depends on ways and methods of organization of this activity. Positivistic canon produces two classes of the problems for political explanation: the evaluative categorization and elimination (the will of) political subjects. Methodology in political science is not reducible to the methodology in ...

This piece is a reaction to a series of articles on the state of IR discipline, which was started in previous issues of this journal. The authors emphasise problems of IR theory in Russia (insufficient attention to the current IR trends as well ideologisation of theories and methods, which leads to numerous difficulties of integration of ...

The crisis of European integration has led to a sharp contradiction of trends of regionalization and consolidation of the EU. In these circumstances, there is the deepening of German-Polish partnership on international arena. Cooperation of two states especially effective on post-Soviet space. For Polish diplomacy cooperation with Germany takes a chance to improving their status ...

The article focuses on student-centered teaching as one of the prominent features of education today. Based on literature analysis some principles of student-centered education have been summarised and classified in terms of content, methods, and values. The experience of the international “English for Academics” project illustrates how these principles may work in practice. ...

The article introduces a special issue on studying EU-Russian relations. It overviews Russian- and English-language academic research to identify whether there is sufficient dialogue on issues studied, theories applied and categories used for a transnational epistemic community to emerge. This latter would allow the academic world to better contribute to the resolution of the present crisis in EU-Russian relations. Although ...

Многочисленные исследования массовых коммуникаций заставляют предположить, что развитие онлайн медиа и конкуренция проблем за место в повестке дня должны способствовать рассеиванию внимания людей и СМИ между множеством разных вопросов. Однако это происходит далеко не всегда. Например, в кризисных ситуациях отдельные события могут занимать значительное место в повестке дня. В статье предложена методология расчета коэффициента концентрации ...

The article shows how difficult is to resist the modern arguments of constructivism, defending realism. The onslaught of constructivism comes both from scientific theories and from the social and cultural practice. The most significant arguments in favor of constructivism are based on the Umwelt analysis coming from theoretical biology, and on enactivism as a popular ...

Barry Buzan - author of numerous articles and monographs. The most famous of his works : "People, states and Fear : An Agenda for International Security Studies in the Post-Cold War Era", "From International to World Society?: English School Theory and the Social structure of Globalization" ect. He comes from unusual  but equally simple idea: ...

In the Soviet Union of the 1920s, the most prominent avant-garde artists were eager children's book illustrators. Reaching a mass audience of unformed, malleable young people appealed to their commitment to an art manifesto based on the creation of a new kind of person for the revolutionary age. At the same time, the opportunity to ...

В учебном курсе представлены основные теоретические положения международной конфликтологии. Приводится значительное количество примеров из мировой практики последних лет, обозначена официальная позиция МИД РФ по наиболее значимым международным спорам. Особое внимание уделено вопросам управления конфликтами, их предотвращения и урегулирования, а также актуальным проблемам современности — миграционным кризисам и информационным войнам. Курс дополнен различными заданиями для самостоятельной ...

В течение последних десятилетий региональная архитектура Восточной Азии претерпела существенные изменения, особенно после Азиатского финансового кризиса 1997-1998 гг. В статье рассматривается формирование новой региональной структуры – Восточно-Азиатского саммита (ВАС). Проанализированы взгляды стран-участниц относительно возможностей нового интеграционного объединения и мотивы их вступления в ВАС. Отдельное внимание уделено вопросу взаимодействия различных организаций, создаваемых под эгидой АСЕАН, со ...

Traditionally the processes of globalization and the issues of world politics related to hegemony are studied separately in the scientific literature. In this article the authors propose the synthesis of both of these approaches based on the model of transactional and innovative economy spatially structured as a system of “global gateways”.  The globalization is conceived in ...

The phenomenon of communication as a manifestation of complexity of interacting creatures. Communication is considered not as a privilege of a human being; it is shown that it is rooted in the world of living nature, it has an evolutionary origins. Communicative complexity is exposed by such concepts as flexibility, constructing, intersubjectivity, participatory sense-making, empathy, ...

This paper attempts to ascertain the role of public diplomacy in the East Asian region and focuses on the civilization potentials of Russia and China in the region.  Dialogue of civilizations, based not on conflict of cultures, values, but on movement to mutual understanding, collaboration and even to the process of harmonization of civilization, is ...

The sanctions issue is one of the most urgent and acute topics on the international agenda. However, despite huge attention from the academic community, it is sluggishly inscribed in the broader theoretical layer of the science of international relations. In this study, an attempt is made to outline the theoretical and methodological framework for the ...

The article aims to investigate the interrelations between current crisis of economic globalization, on the one hand, and decay of USA hegemony and escalation of international conflicts, on the other hand. For this purpose we provide synthesis of theories of hegemony within neoliberalism, neorealism and world-system approach based on theory of transactional economy (D. North) and theory of megalopolises-“global ...

В статье дано подробное описание развития отношений между Ливией и Суданом в период сотрудничества и конфронтации авторитарных режимов М. Каддафи и Дж. Нимейри (1969–1985) и последовавшей за свержением Нимейри разрядки (1985–1989); предложена периодизация двусторонних отношений на формальном (дипломатическом) и неформальном (реальном) уровнях. Автор выявляет мотивации руководства обеих стран, причины конфликта, его движущие силы и основные ...