No 6(27) (2012)
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2012 – THE YEAR OF RUSSIAN HISTORY
10-17 753
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The article is devoted to an examination of a question of the reform of the state administration in the government of Feodor III and in the government of regent Sofia in the last quarter of XVII century. The author tries to find the parallels between the reforms of the state administration of Peter I and the reforms of the state administration of Feodor III and I and regent Sofia. The author tries to find, what were the reasons of the reforms and the results and significance of this phenomenon.
18-25 720
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This article is about the Cossacks’ participation in the Civil War, which ended 90 years ago. The author focuses on the Ural Cossack host, which represented a unique socio-economic phenomenon. In the article we can see that weighty objective reasons were impelled the Ural Cossacks to an uncompromising armed opposition with the Soviet power: their economic, political and moral values were incompatible with those rules, which the power inculcated by compulsion.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
26-33 691
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The article reviews the relations between Moldova and the EU at the current stage. Reasons for the strengthening of cooperation between Moldova and the EU in these years are being analyzed, as well as the problems that further development of cooperation can face. It is described how relations with the EU influence the prospects of Moldova’s participation in the integration process in the post- Soviet space.
34-39 581
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Correction of the assessments of Russian national interests in international low intensity conflicts is particularly relevant with regard to Russian policy in the the South Caucasus. Replacement of the ruling elites in Georgia expands the space for dialogue with Tbilisi, but the main trend in the foreign policy orientation of Georgia's - Euro- Atlantic integration - seems to remain unchanged. Due to the fact that "political legacy" of Saakashvili's government continues to influence Georgia's policy it is reasonable to refer to the possible strategy of indirect actions of Russia to win sympathies of the Georgian society and inhibit the "Atlantic" tendency “from below”.
40-46 860
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The article is dedicated to a wide range of issues related to the Russian energy policy in the period 1992-2012, including an overview of the national energy strategy with a focus on international aspects; Russia’s participation in multilateral energy organizations and initiatives; the Russia-EU energy dialogue; Russia’s energy relations with CIS countries, and approaches of the Russian government to the diversification of energy export routes.
47-53 889
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Conflict, as dealing with power, generally tends to be analysed in Russian sources through the prism of national interest and power play. Emerging new phenomena, such as terrorism, new/ asymmetric warfare, popular uprisings (e.g. Arab Spring), and the controversial notion of globalization, tend to be placed in realist frames of balancing, interest and state politics. This essay expands a constructivist contribution to explaining conflict by looking at the evolution of the image of the ‘other’ and stressing its importance as an element reflecting and cementing the conflict potential at a collective, public level. The argument links the evolution of the Other to its multilevel self-identities, formation of nation-state-self, increase in accessible information flows. By making a socio-historical cut, the essay suggests that conflict ‘others’ today have become more complex, which inhibits conflict resolution and leads us to reevaluate the often neglected role of constructivist analysis.
54-60 677
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The article examines recent trends in the development of the US-Japan political and defense alliance, including the sphere of operational planning and coordination. A special attention is drawn to the problem of interaction between the two countries in the area of Ballistic Missile Defense, the problem of procurement American fighters F-35, as well as the issue of relocation of the Futemma base in Okinawa. The author reviews the results of the recent US-Japan Summit, held in Washington on April 30, 2012.
61-67 510
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Magazine «Vestnik of the MGIMOUniversity » starts publication of series of articles, A. Podberezkin, dedicated to the development of ideas and create contours of the concept of the Eurasian air-space defense (EASD). The author acknowledges that the implementation of such a system today can seem like a fantastic idea, but not less fantastic in its time it seemed to the creation of the OSCE, and now – EUROPRO with the participation of Russia. Nevertheless, he insists that politically, economically and military-technically this idea can be real, unless, of course, to the implementation of the phased approach, «without fanaticism», taking into account the interests of the majority of the countries of Eurasia. At the same time, the growing weight of the uncertainties in international relations was created for humanity greater risks than traditional threats. The attention of the readers is the first of a planned series, in which justifies the main ideas of the research project.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
68-78 593
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The article describes new aspects in the development of contemporary international security situation and strategic stability. The author opines that the current phase of international relations tends to be rather chaotic and highly unpredictable in its evolution. He attempts to trace the influence of such unorthodox factors as polycentrical nature of the world, departure from exacerbated military confrontation, global terrorist threat on the formation of a principally novel model of strategic stability which substitutes the paradigms of the cold war era. The article dresses the list of specific proposals on the strengthening of military and political security worldwide.
79-93 681
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The article provides analysis of European security in the sphere of migration. It deals with the changes of the image of migration, of its role and positions. The special emphasis is made on the migration as a soft power.
94-103 660
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Strategy of radical Islamist groups devotes increasing attention to the recruitment of supporters in the U.S. Attraction of the American citizens represents essential component in adaptation of these organizations to the mounting external pressure and contributes to the fulfilling of a set of various objectives. Recent record confirms emergence of the institutionalized system serving the outreach activities of the radical Islamists both on global and local levels. Participation of American citizens in dissemination of Jihadist publications and funding of illegal organizations as well as involvement in terrorist acts proves practical effect of these activities.
104-111 519
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The paper analyzes the impact of geography and security threats on the dynamics and forms of integration cooperation in the area of East Asia. In particular, it is concluded that both the institutional features of the integration in Asia Pacific, and approaches in the field of cooperation between local states have been largely predetermined by the system of military cooperation and military-political agreements, which were formed during the "cold war".
112-116 816
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The conservative People’s party led by M. Raho won in the general еlections in Spain in november 20, 2011. The spanish socialists went into opposition. There began a new stage in the political history of the country.
ECONOMICS
117-121 551
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The paper addresses key political economy dilemmas associated with the formation of the Common Economic Space (CES) by Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. Analysis is focused on alternative integration strategies, prospects of the CES enlargement, and elimination of trade and investment barriers. Unification of regulatory norms and technical standards using the EU experience as well as negotiating free trade agreements with the EU and countries of the Asia-Pacific are shown to be crucial for the future of the CES project.
122-124 562
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Not only have the effects of the global financial and economic crisis provoked the slowdown in economic growth in China. A Chinese government policy was also aimed at cooling the economy to remove the existing socio-economic imbalances. As a result of the crisis and the actions of the government of China's economic growth fell to a critical level. In this situation, the government of China has decided to launch a new program to stimulate the national economy. However, this program is qualitatively different from the incentive program of 2008-2009.
126-132 578
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The article analyses the export of capital from Russia in the international export of capital, primarily from emerging market countries, especially countries BRIСS. An attempt is made to reveal the characteristic features of the Russian model of export of the capital, its impact on the internal economic processes and the possibilities of its regulation.
134-136 500
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The article is devoted to interaction between capital outflow and external debt. We analyze the debt capital market in Russia in 2000s and provide a mechanics of crisis in 2008 – 2009. Based on the theory of R. Caballero and S. Panageas we offer a hypothesis concerning a reform in international reserves management. We believe Russian authorities should pay more attention to the regulation of capital outflow in a short period.
137-142 512
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This article analyses the outstanding features of Indian outward foreign direct investments, factors, which determine this process. Also this article examines the particularities of Indian transnational corporations’ behavior.
LAW
143-146 709
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The article covers the organizational and legal basics for Rossotrudnichestvo as well as its powers, objectives, activities. The author analyzes the activities of the Agency involving implementation of governmental programs in the field of international humanitarian cooperation, and highlights promising forms of work with expatriates.
147-153 843
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This article is dedicated to analysis of modern trends of the EU financial service integration processes development. The most important stages of financial integration legal framework development in the EU are considered chronologically. The article contains deep research of financial integration institutional basis transformation, greatly strengthened in the result of global financial crisis of 2008, which entailed the improvement of financial regulators.. The author raises some of the problems of financial and economic regulation and accentuates, that the EU is consistently improving its mechanism of financial services regulation each time becoming more efficient. Next stage of the reform will start in 2013, when important legislative initiatives in the EU financial sector shall be implemented.
154-158 670
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The author examines the influence of criminal policy on the formation of criminal proceedings measures of protection or rights and interests of citizens in the fight against crime. The leading role of criminal policy in the formation and imple-menting of the criminal proceedings policy is shown in the article. On the basis of the juridical content of the lawful politics the author is coming to the conclusion that one can judge about the content of the criminal proceedings policy of the state using the legislatively formulated principles of criminal proceedings. Such policy shows the attitude of the state power to the fight against criminal violations of the interests of individual, society and state, to the proceedings methods and measures of such fight and also to the guarantees against unfounded prosecution and conviction of citizens. First of all the implementation of the criminal proceedings policy depends on the level of the lawful awareness of the law enforcement recipients.
PHILOSOPHY
159-167 607
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The article is about the Theory of Symbols by second generation of Russian Symbolists and the Archetypal Theory. Both of theories were researched as related religious and philosophical forms of the XXth cent. Western civilization crisis reflection and as attempts to foresee the ways of European mentality transformation. Admitting common cultural genesis of the theories, the author determined Jungian Archetypal Theory in succession to the Theory of Symbols by Andrey Bely. Also the author traced development of several of the Russian Modern Anthropological ideas at the American Post-modern Cultural Anthropology.
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
168-171 566
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The problem of "soft power" is considered by the authors in the context of the linguistic-cultural, sociological, political and philosophical perspectives, providing a holistic view of today's complex process of intercultural interaction.
172-175 551
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The article addresses the sociopolitical and linguistic problems in choosing contact languages for communication in the post-Soviet space. The author analyses the factors that determine the status of a contact language and its impact on the choice of partners in political, economic and cultural spheres.
176-178 564
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In the article the author researches the Kamban system as an important means of communication as part of logistic system «Just in Time»; touches the history of the system; explains the essence of the method, elucidating the main rules of its using and analyzes cardinal problems that can be faced by some enterprise during adoption of this method in their production.
179-182 1826
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The article discusses the originality of communication processes in the Japanese culture-related originality of language and style of communication, the Japanese, both among themselves and with foreigners. The basic approaches of modern Japanese researchers in describing the features of communication processes in Japan, and their fundamental cultural and historical reasons.
183-186 670
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In the article, the author suggests an approach to the conceptualization of modernization problems that interprets them in the light of intercultural interaction. This approach helps particularly clear up the limits and framework of westernization specifying and making more precise the typology of modernization. In applying the approach to the analysis of Japanese modernization, the author brings about a hypothesis concerning mechanisms of cultural adaptation. These mechanisms contributed to reproduce some segments of Western pattern of modernization without destroying indigenous form of rationality and values. The author also makes an attempt to single out a set of basic ideas of such mechanisms in Japanese spiritual tradition.
187-189 593
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In the present article the issue of transformation of religious situation in Egypt after the 2011 revolution is being analyzed. Throughout centuries religion used to and continues to play tremendous role in the Egyptian society. However at the current transitory period conflict between secularly and religiously oriented forces has intensified. Abolishing the prohibition for religiously marked parties and movements to participate in political life of the country has questioned the future of Egypt as the conflict between secularists and religious conservatives has shifted to the political area.
190-192 678
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In the article features of the relations between such reality traditions and innovations in the aspect of modernization processes of the Russian society. The interrelation and the interdependence of these notions and spiritual traditions of Russian ethnos, as the main factors of counteraction to the destructive processes of social existence are defined. Spiritual traditions represent the mechanism of self-defense, self-organization and modifications of the society as a whole, so it can be regarded as the mechanism of succession and renovation. The article also indicates the necessity of radical rethinking of accepted values of modern civilization.
193-195 487
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The basic forms of modern missionary work Russian Orthodox Church, special features in the context of socio-cultural and political situation of the Orthodox believers and groups that exhibit a positive attitude toward the ideals of Orthodoxy. Critical of the Orthodox mission in negative manifestations of postmodernism in culture.
196-198 481
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In Polishchuk, M.L., Ph.D., professor of decades taught philosophy at MGIMO (University), led Philosophical Club. He is currently a Visiting Professor at several universities in the world the U.S., Israel, Western Europe, continued regular cooperation with (University). This publication is the author of the presentation on russian of his book "The Great inquiry. The philosophy of the balance of history." ( Moscow, the Canon Plus, 2012.)
199-202 454
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The author explores the features of intercultural interaction and intercultural communication from the standpoint of moral orientations, depending on the culture, language and national communication style.
203-205 582
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The contemporary specifics of modernization processes are analyzed in the article. There defined the significance of intercultural communication in the processes of interaction between religion organization and the elements of socio-cultural surrounding. And there are observed such reactions of religion organization to the modernization-effects, as character of social communication change and the transforming of the interaction with the main social institutes (family, state, institutes of economy).
206-210 480
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The article reveals the fundamental contradictions of the globalization processes that have growing influence on the content and form of intercultural communication in the modern world. The possibilities and prospects of historically new forms of cultural interaction and confrontation.
211-212 504
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The article offers the rationale for the synthesis of Hegel's doctrine of the creative content of the movement absolute spirit of unity with the terms of philosophy of Vladimir Soloviev. In light of this synthesis have a limited positivist and phenomenological conceptions of existence. Analysis conducted by the author allows us to characterize as unacceptable and theoretically hopeless attempts of suppression of religious and cultural unity of the Slavic world by euroantlantic forces.
213-215 445
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On the question whether the controversy in the field of philosophy in our time, the author responds negatively, for the following reasons: in the early ages of the real clash of interests could not be, because all the philosophers were inside understanding integrity of the world and their teaching is not consistent; today's thinkers have no more idea of the world that they could unify and give them a uniform basis for the formation of speculative concepts.
216-219 487
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The article highlights some of the key concepts in the analysis of the international process, the use of which requires a systematic semantic correctness. Demonstrated graphically and ideological phenomena arising from a breach of this requirement.
SCIENCE STUDIES
220-225 634
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Circular migration has become a characterisitc feature of contemporary science developing in the era of globalization. The role of circular migration to the USA and EU countries is also increasing for the Russian science. As opposed to simple «brain drain» from Russia circular migration does not involve any losses for the Russian state since returning back circular migrants bring with them new knowledge and practices that they have studied abroad. This paper contains the analysis of the materials of empirical study of the attitudes of Russian scientists towards the circular migration as well as the study of the phenomenon of «simultaneous work in different countries».
226-236 714
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At the end of XX - beginning of XXI century due to accelerating the transition of the world economy to the innovative way of development, "knowledge" has become a direct force of production, significantly increased the role of human capital as the main factor in future economic growth and competitiveness of modern states. In turn, developed and developing countries, faced with a shortage of personnel in high-tech industries and the "brain drain", modernize their immigration policy to attract highly qualified foreign personnel from all over the world and to secure its own intellectual resources. The article examines recent changes in the modern migration policy in Germany, which has become, on the one hand, more selective to different categories of workers, and on the other hand - more open for skilled personnel, especially from developing countries. The purpose of this policy is primarily to cover the shortage of skilled personnel in the national labor market by attracting foreign specialists.
238-241 627
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The article is dedicated to studying the factor of intellectual emigration from Russia to Israel. Historical preconditions are examined, and its various tendencies in different times are learned. The author tries to analyze “brain drain” from Russia to Israel and gives recommendations on formulating Russian state policy for the purpose of current Russian intellectual migration flow to Israel reduction.
PSYCHOLOGY
242-249 614
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The article offers a socialpsychological perspective on the process of shaping national science culture, which determines the peculiarities of scientific research in different countries. This point of view allows to determine the causes for emergence of national scientific cultures and provides instruments to describe them. The author applies the three-level scheme for describing cultures, developed by D. Oyserman and coauthors, and attempts to analyze the distal level of the Russian scientific culture, constituted by the influence of the Russian cultural tradition, which forms the context for the work of Russian scientists.
SOCIOLOGY
250-257 569
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The author analyses the transformations of the morality in today's complex society. On the example in the changes in value orientations of modern Russian youth is shown that the growth of social irresponsibility is a serious challenge for the country's development.
PHILOLOGY
259-264 646
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The article concerns one of the basic Anglo-Saxon linguocultural concepts Stiff Upper Lip, which is an integral part of English national character. The analysis of such factors as geographic, historic, cultural and physiological ones gives a chance to delve into the essence of the concept and explain its importance for English culture.
THE RUSSIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE WORLD
265-269 545
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The article reviews evolution of modern university, which has acquired a new political function and a reaction to this development of education policy in Russia. Authors argue that the strategy of catch-up development might be successful in case of Russian higher education system and its potential on the global competitive education market.
270-276 657
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The article reviews the content of academic discourse on higher education and globalization. It posits that according to the discourse under globalization the higher education has developed such properties as being transnational, self organizing through networks and commercialized. It also stresses that strategic development and stratification of universities are best understood through the concept of university as a positional good. For the Russian higher education the article suggests moving away from ideas of new public management to governance. Such a step should provide for internationalization of Russian higher education while preserving it as a public good with its national character and traditions.
277-281 890
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The article analyses the complex of issues connected with the system of higher education in Turkey. It emphasizes the facts how it was integrated into Bologna system. There are also the prospects of the system given and analyzed. What is more, the article draws analogies with Russia and scrutinizes them.
282-286 1014
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The article analyses main problems of Russian tertiary education including its international dimension and specific national characteristics. The author suggests possible ways of solving these challenges in order to improve the quality of education in this country, and evaluates prospects of Russian universities to become leaders in providing educational services.
NEW VISION
Twenty Years of Building International Relations on the Territory of the CIS: the Polish Perspective
287-296 830
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The article presents the main issues of international relations in the post-soviet area since the collapse of the Soviet Union, perceived by Polish political scientists as critical to the modern structure of relations in the region. Russia's foreign policy towards the CIS countries is the main aspects of discussion. The following issues relate to the bilateral relations with Russia, and domestic situation of former Soviet countries, as well as the institutionalization of cooperation within the CIS.
297-301 622
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This article analyzes established procedure of inheritance of a share in a share capital of a limited liability company, detection of the problem differences between the moment of transfer of a share in a share capital of a limited liability company to the heirs of a deceased participant from the moment of transfer of rights and duties оf a participant to the heirs.
MGIMO GOLDEN FUND
BOOK REVIEWS
SCIENTIFIC LIFE
328-329 480
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The article deals with modern approaches towards the concept of time in different languages and cultures. The author sums up new data found by Russian cognitive metaphor researchers.
ISSN 2071-8160 (Print)
ISSN 2541-9099 (Online)
ISSN 2541-9099 (Online)
