Discussions about the applicability of civilizational approach in political science correlate with methodological and discursive rethinking linear philosophical interpretive projects. The search for new epistemological ontological optics modern constructions is largely focused on value-symbolic parameters underlying approach. paradigm one conceptual schemes theory, which makes it possible to in...

a response to the problem of irans backwardness preoccupied the minds of intellectual and political forces. since irans failure from russia while different domestic and external factors caused to defeat, differend and even contending views concerning irans backwardness played a key role in these failures. these diverse and contending views which arised at first in compilation of laws and establ...

1. Sustainable Development Concept: Russian Realities 1.1 Specific Features of Women’s Position 1.2 Women’s Position as an Indicator of Crisis of Patriarchal Culture 2. Gender Grounds for the Development of World Culture 3. Specific Features of Russia 4. Expectations and Prospects 4.1 Democratization through “Feminization” 4.2 Family and Gender Policy 4.3 Russia as a Multinational State 5. Prac...

Extract The articles in this issue address and illustrate elements that are essential for furthering the current understanding of Russia's embeddedness international musical culture long nineteenth century: exchange musicians repertoires; social political conditions which these exchanges took place; range mediators, from aristocratic patrons to professionals; methods movement; ways Russia was i...

Economists have long recognized that institutions shape incentives and therefore have an enormous influence on economic growth, but economists have only recently been concerned with understanding the forces that may hinder the emergence of efficient institutions. Because of a lack of secure property rights—the rule of law—many countries remain poor. This paper addresses one issue pertinent to i...

(Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia) CASE Visiting Fellow, UC Berkeley November 2008 Civil-Military Relations in Russia. Field Report Civil-military relations Civil-military relations are a very important issue for the modern Russian politics. Russia’s location and geopolitical situation required it to participate in multiple wars and conflicts over some 323 years to maintain ...