Мозаика страноведческих исследований в макрорегиональном контексте

Сравнительная политика. 2025. Т. 16. № 2. С. 6–25.

Gaman-Golutvina O. V.

The article is devoted to the characterization of the macro-regional context of case-oriented regional studies in the subject field of political comparative studies. The case-study format, as an in-depth study of a single case in order to understand a specific object or even a class of similar objects, is a consideration of a specific object "in the moment." This type of research is characterized by obtaining information rich in details and details about the parameters and characteristics of the phenomenon under study and is based on a non-experimental type of evidence based on observation. One of the common formats of comparative research is to compare countries located within the same region (sometimes it is a macroregion, sometimes it is an entire continent), or to compare (macro) regions with similar entities. With a variety of territorial configurations and a variety of interpretations of the concept of a macroregion in comparative political science, along with the above-mentioned interpretations, the division by continents/continents and the historical and cultural division by cardinal directions also retain their importance. East-West, North-South. Elements of such a comparison are presented in this issue of Comparative Politics, which contains articles analyzing a number of aspects of Western, Latin American, and African politics. The presented cases in the logic of the correlation of the general, special and singular contribute to the formation of small fragments of a multifaceted picture of world politics in its regional diversity.

 

Keywords: макрорегион, Африка, Латинская Америка, региональные исследования, case study, regional studies, macroregion, Latin America, african, case-study