STATUS RERUM

ПОЛОЖЕНИЕДЕЛ

Alexander Buzgalin

On That Side of Multiculturalism. Futurism as an Aufheben of Conservatism: Looking for Alternatives of Multiculturalism

The article is devoted to analyze some specialties of contemporary conservative ideology, connected with so name«permanent values»; first of all the institutions of religion and family are explored. Growths of the level of secularizationof society and global changes in the European policy in the last 30 year of the 20th cen. were completed by the fall of the Church political influence and by the rejection of the traditional interpretation of marriage like a union of man andwoman. The contemporary conservative ideology adopted this notion. Under the pretence of plural sexuality Europeanstates implant unified, sexually indifferent and bureaucratized model of private life regulation.

Key words:

Europe, conservatism, liberalism, ideology, values, Christianity, secularity, emancipation, unisexual marriage, rights of sexual minorities

 

Mikhail Delyagin

Twilight of universal dream.

Why the USA again should become America

Painful failures of the USA on Middle East, their evident inability to constrain assured expansions of influence of China, increase of pressure in the global economy American and leaning it, no less than many other things the phenomena bring in the agenda a attention to the question on inevitability of a basic change today's “the world order”, based on American — any more it is so much domination, how many leadership.

Key words:

USA, Russia, global competition, world leadership, the modern world order

 

RES PUBLICA

ОБЩЕЕ ДЕЛО, ГОСУДАРСТВО, РЕСПУБЛИКА

Yuri Knyazev

Burning Necessity. About Planning of National Economy

The author emphasizes, that the economic development of contemporary Russia demonstrates the week aspects of neoliberal economic model. This model can’t change the out-dated structure of national economy. State is the only subject which is able to do it using mechanisms of public private partnership. This activity needs to be coordinated from the only center. Really, it means to re-establish the public planning, which is to be able non to destroy the basic structures of market econ-omy, but to supplement it.

Key words:

market economy, public planning, modernization, industry, industrialization, de-industrialization, public economic policy, Russia, public policy in science and technologies development

 

Vitaly Darenskiy

A problem or Resource of Civilization?

About the Social Abundance of High Education

The author considers the problem of social abundance of high education. The phenomenon of this abundance is interpreting here as a process of new civilization construction. The author also promises the concept of “nonpragmatic education”, which are corresponded in this case to cultural context of human self-realization in posteconomical society. Special attention in article devotes to interpreting the phenomenon of “post-soviet” education activity as a representation of social crisis.

Key words:

high education, social abundance, non-pragmatic education, human resource, civilization, social crisis.

 

Vladislav Zhukovsky

Break with Reality.

Practical Aftermath of Economical Policy of Medvedev’s Government

The article brings up an issue of the enlarging depressive and recessionary trends in the Russian de-industrialized, exportoriented, low value-added economy. Government actions exacerbates macroeconomic imbalances and distortions, facilitating sprawl recessionary trends in the economy, industry and financial system. Russia risks to undergo from the rank of eternally developing economies to the rank of permanently underdeveloped and uncompetitive economies.

Key words:

Russia, economy, crisis, recession, industrial decline, ruble, oil, de-industrialization, de-offshorization, currency board, deoffshorization, desintegration, unequal foreign trade exchange, capital outflow, structural liquidity crisis, money deficit

 

THEATRUM MUNDI

МИРОВАЯАРЕНА

Zoya Kuznetsova

Stable Instability. World crisis and economic politics of Czech Republic

The article is devoted to the influence of world economic crisis to the situation of Czech national economy. The author emphasizes, that although the country successfully survived the “1st wave” of the crisis, in 2012 the “2nd wave” appeared, which tangibly worsted the situation. Although the national economy is in the better situation, than it takes place in the most part of the other new members of the European Union, the economic growth can renewed not before 2015, and this is the optimistic scenario.

Key words:

Czech Republic, economy, European Union, Eastern Europe, world economic crisis, gross domestic product, external debt, national competiveness, corruption, economic growth

 

N. Martynenko

Process of Political Modernization in Iran

The article is devoted to analyze some tendencies of political system development of modern Iran. The author thinks that the country is in the situation of slow, but constant modernization now. From one side, the development of democratic elements in the margins of Islamic regime itself is an obvious fact. From the other side, the author demonstrates the tendency to percept some Western values by Iranian elites. The modernizing development strictly depends of many interior and exterior influences. Anyway, now Iran continues to exist like a non-Western society.

Key words:

Iran, political system, Islamic Republic, theocracy, non-Western society, ayatollah, Shia Islam, traditional values, West, westernization

 

Grigory Kosach

Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Eyes of Historian

The article is devoted to analyze the prehistory and the historical sources of Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The author connects acuteness of this conflict with the fact of incompleteness of the nation-building process in the cases of Israelis and Palestinian Arabs. In this situation every of two communities appeals to its “own” national “heroes” and “symbols”; this fact explains the aggressive character of the struggle.

Key words:

Israel, Palestine, Arab-Israeli conflict, Palestinian people, Israelis, Arabs, Jews, Hebrews, nation-building, national consciousness

 

Dina Malysheva

Perspectives of Central Asia.

Finishing the ISAF Operation in Afghanistan

The article is devoted to analyze the possible scenarios of situation development in the Central Asia countries after the future withdrawal of ISAF troops from Afghanistan. The author marks the potential vectors of threats, analyzes opportunities of every country of the region to counteract these threats. She emphasizes, that now the security of Central Asia countries can be really guarantied only by Russian Federation and Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) structures.

Key words:

Afghanistan, Central Asia, Taliban, regional security, ISAF, NATO, CSTO, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Russia, China, Kazakhstan

 

MODUS VIVENDI

ОБРАЗЖИЗНИ

Vladislav Loskutov, Zhanna Tikhonova

What is the Essense of “The Late Capitalism”?

The authors try to correlate the theoretical models of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin with the specialties of the contemporary capitalist mode of production. They argue the idea, that the contemporary capitalism (i.e. the “capitalism of managers”) is not capitalism in the classical sense of the term. This “late capitalism” can be defined like a result of the general crisis of capitalism (or the “dying capitalism” following the conception of V. Lenin).

Key words:

capitalism, late capitalism, management, Marxism, imperialism, crisis of capitalism, contemporary economy, Karl Marx, F. Engels, V. Lenin

 

TERRA INCOGNITA

НЕИЗВЕДАННАЯЗЕМЛЯ

Arseny Zamost’yanov

Governor of Malorossiya. What was Aspired and what Was Reached by General Pyotr Rumyantsev?

The article is devoted to analyze the last period of administrative activity of the great Russian general Pyotr Rumyantsev (1725—1796). The author emphasizes the prominent part of his administrative and military reforms of Russianadministration in Malorossiya (modern Ukraine) and the influence of these reforms to the development of Russian-

Ukrainian communications.

Key words:

Pyotr Rumyantsev, Russian Empire, history of Russia, history of the 18th century, Malorossiya, Ukraine, imperial administration, Zaporozhian Cossacks, Ukrainian nobility, Catherine the Great

 

Vyacheslav Vasiliev

Mouvement for Independence of Scotland.

Retrospective Analysis and Contemporary Situation

The article is devoted to analyze origins, causes and development of the independence movement in Scotland. The author analyzes historical, confessional, economical and geopolitical aspects of Anglo-Scottish conflict. With consideration for results of Referendum of 2014 measures to resolve the Anglo-Scottish contradictions are proposed.

Key words:

Scotland, Great Britain, Scottish separatism, Scottish National Party, Referendum for independence of Scotland, Anglo-Scottish contradictions, devolution, origins of Scottish separatism, history of Scotland, history of England

 

MARGINALIA

ЗАМЕТКИНАПОЛЯХ

Yadviga Yaskevich

Communicative Rationality. Its Part in Economy, Policy and in Adoption of Administrative Decisions

In article specifics of rationalism in communicative practicing, policy, economy comes to light. The thesis about need of valuable turn for adoption of administrative decisions locates.

Key words:

communicative rationality, decision-making, policy, rationality, synergetic picture of the world, management, valuable approach, economy

 

Natalia Avdonina

Rhetoric of War

The article is devoted to analyze the rhetoric used by US media (on the example of “The New Yorker”) and Soviet media (the case of “Ogonyok”). The author concludes, that the differences between the two types of rhetoric were not very sensible. Both magazines used the same discourse of menace and enemy, responsibility to defend and to prevent.

Key words:

military rhetoric, image formation, Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979 – 1989), NATO war in Afghanistan, war and media, USSR, USA, J. Bush, Leonid Brezhnev, world security

 

Olga Suvorova

Universe of Political Feast

Professor of MGU Olga Suvorova emphasizes the general character of the research in his review devoted to the monograph of I. Lavrikova from Tver. The scholar analyzes not only political aspects, but esthetical and social and cultural aspects of political feast.

Key words:

feast, politics, society, political ideology, political system, culture, recreation, political consciousness, interdisciplinary analysis