After having reached the stage where Islamic civilization delivered optimum, it started declining. Nevertheless, in different epochs of history, some remarkable personalities emerged reclaiming functionality iḥyā; i.e., renaissance principle. In contemporary times, Mālek Bennabī and Syed Mawdūdī have phenomenally contributed to Muslim discourse. Both them critically examined pathology jumūd; te...

This paper proposes to augment the concept of a business resilience improving process by enlarging such a process with a dimension of external action that addresses the vaster frame of systemic resilience of our societies. To this aim, I propose to widen the concept of socio-technical system (STS) to human societies, based on the idea that the development and survival of human societies has nec...

In this paper we examine the linkage of male-dominant family law systems and levels of nation-state security and stability. We expect such societies to be predisposed to parasitical rent-seeking and inefficiency, combined with coercive conflict resolution, resulting in higher levels of violence within the society. We demonstrate empirically that states with inequitable family law also exhibit h...

The author of the article shares, on whole, conclusions reached by A.V. Smirnov. First, West, with its claims to universality own civilizational project and policy globalization, is not suitable for Russia. latter cannot be West due logic development culture (cultures). Russia expresses universal in form a project. Secondly, Russian philosophy, according speaker, many respects «secondary metaph...

The house is a microcosm of culture and civilization because the primary elements of society, individuals organized along with the family lines, are born, raised and educated in them. The strength of the institutions of the family and house denotes the strength of a society and the verve of its cultural and civilizational agenda. Similarly, frailties in the institutions of the family and house ...

The paper analyzes the changes in content of civilizational idea modern Russia. It is shown that substantive concern both traditional fluctuations between orientation to European and Eurasian development path, emergence new features, particular related environmental economic issues. At same time, there a reconfiguration regarding political discourses. There fusion identity with identity, which ...

The article examines the evolution of foreign policy Russian Federation since 1991. author links logic decisionmaking with features formation ruling elite’s strategic culture, which changes are associated domestic political processes. dominance imperial approach in was result a retreat from liberal-democratic transition mid-1990s. concepts “special civilizational path Russia”, “anti-Western and...