The article is devoted to the study of structure Iranian political elite and contours a new intra-elite balance that may arise after departure Ali Khamenei from post supreme leader. author tries identify those problems challenges threatens socio-political system Islamic Republic in current turbulent period, when, on one hand, global economic crisis growing, other Yalta-Potsdam international rel...

This paper argues that the benefits of international institutions accrue disproportionately to pairs of states that find cooperation most difficult. It determines which states achieve the greatest gains from these institutions by identifying a central reason that states fail to cooperate in international relations: they fear being “held up” by other states for political concessions. Political h...

The article focuses on the features of political process in Ukraine. It is argued that a form functioning system society space and time, also reflects real interaction subjects public policy. demonstrated conceptual principles theory methods studying processes are sufficiently represented native foreign scientific literature. However, certain problems development Ukraine remain rather uncovered...