Post-modernism and recent critical theory has sought to deconstruct the role of particular ‘Great Traditions’ and ‘Grand Narratives’ as privileged accounts of world affairs, contemporary and historical. In spite of this, such narratives, even if poorly understood, remain at the heart of much public debate and continue to shape national and global policies. These traditions, linked to elements o...

The study examines the relationship between the structure of cross-national relations and the dyadic cultural similarity of 19 countries over 10 years, based on the assumption that patterns of interaction between state, private sector, and civil society actors influence national cultures. The relations analyzed include trade, military alliances, IGO memberships, phone calls, and military confli...

The borderline territory serves a double purpose, being simultaneously zones of cultural contact and barriers–administrative often civilizational. This ambivalence frequently affects area inhabitants turning them into hostages border management regimes outside projections concerning their civilizational status, the authenticity forms culture representation. In case Birobidzhan, we are dealing w...

The article is devoted to the analysis of sociolinguistic project "Word Year" as a mechanism for formation ofsocial knowledge. Regular data from monitoring studies lexemes that denote phenomena and processes are in focusof public attention allow us take them into account while forming strategic communication overcome inter-civilizationalchallenges.

In contrast to the previous optimistic forecasts of ruling elite in late USSR and new Russia about how our country's relations with West will develop positively after collapse Soviet Union socialist system Eastern Europe, Russia's successful entry into Western community; triumphalist sentiments itself regarding "collapse communism", victory cold war role Russia, which has lost its as a superpow...