?
Diplomacy After the Procedure. Why Foreign Policy Will Require Figures of a Special Kind
Russia in Global Affairs. 2022. Vol. 20. No. 2. P. 38–53.
What is the role of diplomacy in the crucial moments of international politics? As a rule, diplomacy gives way to the individual ability of leaders to objectively assess the balance of power and make decisions on the basis of such assessments. Filled with nostalgia, we look at the 19th century or the second half of the Cold War era as the triumph of diplomatic art. But this was nothing more than the result of the greatest stability ever in relations between the key powers, which rested on the order recognized by all. But the foundation of this order began to crumble due to the evolution of its constituent living organisms—states, and then even the most advanced diplomatic skills faced insurmountable difficulties.
Shishkina A., Issaev L., Journal of Globalization Studies 2026 Vol. 17 No. 1 P. 145–156
This article is aimed at discussing the global and regional aspects of Islamic modernization. The study discusses the transformation of ideas about the role of women in the public space by the case study on the North Caucasus. The attitudes of traditional society, the influence of Soviet power, the role of Islamization, both early and ...
Added: September 28, 2026
Diskin E., Закон 2026 № 1 С. 92–123
In the January Legal Chronicle our authors comment on several significant legal events that happened at the end of 2025: decisions of the Constitutional Court No. 31-P on the payment of dividends on preferred shares, No. 41-P on VAT, No. 46-P on the fate of seized property in bankruptcy cases; discussion in the EU Council ...
Added: September 28, 2026
Gribkova D. E., Вопросы государственного и муниципального управления 2026 № 3 С. 151–176
Global challenges, economic security risks, sociodemographic and environmental processes, and accelerating technological development are creating a fundamentally new context for Public Administration that demands knowledge-based decision-making. The growing interest in proactive and predictive governance has led to the active use of science and technology foresight. However, the governance of scientific and technological development still faces ...
Added: September 28, 2026
Dubravskiy P., Электоральная политика 2024 № 2 С. 2
The paper explores the phenomenon of populism in Latin America as represented by two prominent political figures: Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, and Javier Milei, President of Argentina. Both leaders embody different approaches to populism, using charismatic leadership and radical rhetoric to mobilize the population and challenge political elites. The paper analyzes the methods ...
Added: September 27, 2026
Dubravskiy P., Электоральная политика 2025 № 1 С. 1
The paper examines the key factors behind Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Special attention is given to sociopolitical shifts in American society, the effectiveness of the Republican campaign, the use of digital political technologies, and strategic outreach to key voter groups in swing states. The research data for the study includes ...
Added: September 27, 2026
Soloshcheva M., Российское китаеведение 2026 Vol. 14 No. 1 P. 6–23
This article examines the conceptualization of Chinese soft power and the implementation
of the PRC’s soft power strategy in Africa. First introduced into academic
discourse by American political scientist Joseph Nye in 1990, the concept was subsequently
adopted and critically re-evaluated by Chinese political theorists, most notably
Wang Huning, Yan Xuetong, Yang Shengping and Zhang Guozuo. The term has ...
Added: September 27, 2026
Micah Y.B. Zing, Alisa R. Shishkina, Международная аналитика 2026 Vol. 2 No. 17 P. 126–138
The article focuses on the Western mainstream media (WMM) discourse on Russia-Africa relations and how Russo-Western information confrontation affects the diplomatic dialogue between Russia and African states. Historically, the Soviet Union fostered a friendly relationship with the continent, characterised by solidarity and mutual respect. The collapse of the Soviet Union, the WMM discourse on Russian-African ...
Added: September 25, 2026
Maksimenko A., Дейнека О. С., Загладина А. Р., Гуманитарные, социально-экономические и общественные науки 2026 № 9
The aim of the study was to develop and psychometrically validate the Amoral Creativity Questionnaire and to assess its relationships with dark personality traits and corrupt intentions. The sample comprised 722 respondents (mean age 38.5 years, 56.1% female) residing in Russia. To assess convergent validity, measures of machiavellianism, subclinical psychopathy, covert narcissism, psychological superiority, social ...
Added: September 25, 2026
Diskin E., Russia in Global Affairs 2026 No. 3 P. 142–167
This article examines whether digital sovereignty can be sustained through domestic policy alone. Drawing on securitization theory, geoeconomics, the concept of weaponized interdependence, and regime complex theory, the article analyzes four cases: the U.S., the EU, China, and Russia. These actors confront different limitations on their control over the digital environment: insufficient regulation in the ...
Added: September 24, 2026
Maksimenko A., Дейнека О. С., Человеческий капитал 2026 Т. 213 № 9 С. 178–189
Currently, there is still a deficit of subtle measurement instruments that can be used to address the tasks of preventing corrupt behavior. The aim of the study was to adapt the Corrupt Intention Scale (CIS) to a Russian sample and to assess its psychometric properties. The study involved 531 respondents aged 18 to 77 years ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Alimpeev D., Knutov A., Ломако Анастасия Андреевна et al., ИНФРА-М, 2026.
Книга содержит уникальное по широте охвата и крайне подробное описание 18 наиболее популярных и значимых механизмов контрольно-надзорной деятельности, применяемых в зарубежной практике государственного управления: от способов регулирования государственного контроля и государственного рейтингования бизнеса до проверочных листов и использования беспилотных летательных аппаратов.
По каждому механизму проводится анализ моделей его применения в различных странах мира. Выводы иллюстрируются более ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Hermida Rivera H., Genovese F., International Interactions 2022 Vol. 48 No. 5 P. 897–935
The political economy literature on international bailouts has repeatedly shown that the domestic politics of rescued countries influence international bailout compliance. However, we know less about the domestic politics of bailout negotiations, and especially the type of conditions negotiated by governments of more developed countries with strong ties to international lenders. This paper puts forward ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Hermida Rivera H., Public Choice 2025 Vol. 203 P. 493–501
This note shows that under the unrestricted domain, there exists a choice liberal and Nash implementable social choice rule if and only if there are at least three players and the outcome set is at least twice as large as the player set. A social choice rule is choice liberal if and only if for ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Hermida Rivera H., Kerman T., Journal of Public Economic Theory 2025 Vol. 27 No. 3 P. 1–7
This paper introduces a novel binary stability property for voting rules—called binary self-selectivity—by which a society considering whether to replace its voting rule using itself in pairwise elections will choose not to do so. In Theorem 1, we show that a neutral voting rule is binary self-selective if and only if it is universally self-selective. ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Hermida Rivera H., Games and Economic Behavior 2025 Vol. 153 P. 541–553
In this paper, I characterize minimal stable voting rules and minimal self-stable constitutions (i.e., pairs of voting rules) for societies in which only power matters. To do so, I first let players' preference profiles over voting rules satisfy four natural axioms commonly used in the analysis of power: non-dominance, anonymity, null player, and swing player. ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Костелянец С. В., Денисова Т. С., Азия и Африка сегодня 2026 № 4 С. 26–38
The M23 armed group’s resurgence in eastern DRC (2021–2026) has destabilized Central Africa and triggered a severe Kinshasa-Kigali crisis. This study explores the causes of M23’s return, its evolution into a quasi-state entity, and the failure of international conflict resolution. Based on UN and NGO reports, and applying the rebel governance framework, the analysis reveals ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Лавренченко М. Л., В кн.: Восточная Европа в древности и средневековье. Чтения памяти члена-корреспондента АН СССР В.Т. Пашуто. Выпуск XXXVIII. Будущее в настоящем: предсказания, знамения, видения, сны.: М.: ИВИ РАН, 2026. С. 109–114.
The article examines the use of the lexeme *veremya* (*vremya*) — in the sense of "possible future conditions" — in the treaties of the Rurikid princes found in the Kievan Chronicle and in treaties of the 13th and 14th centuries. ...
Added: August 19, 2026
Лавренченко М. Л., Древнейшие государства Восточной Европы 2025 С. 125–139
The article examines the status and functions of peace mediators in conflicts of the pre-Mongol Rus’ based on materials of three chronicles: the Primary Chronicle, the Kievan Chronicle (according to the Hypatian and similar manuscripts) and the First Novgorodian Chronicle. Among mediators of this period, two main groups can be distinguished: (1) the closest younger ...
Added: August 15, 2026
Medakin S., Диалог со временем 2026 № 95 С. 409–422
The article analyses the phenomenon of positive representation in Soviet caricatures devoted to international relations. Both the peculiarities of the artistic and political phenomenon itself, atypical for the history of political caricatures, and its close connection with the foreign policy agenda, ideology, and the legacy of Soviet propaganda of the 1920s-1950s are studied. Visual sources ...
Added: June 22, 2026
Аракчеев В. А., Российская история 2024 № 1 С. 31–48
The article is a critical analysis of K.Y. Yerusalimsky's hypothesis and a polemic with him on the problems of enserfment and migration in Russia in the late XVI–first half of the XVII century. It is shown that the complex structure of Russian society predetermined nonlinear forms of enserfment of peasants. The understanding of such phenomena ...
Added: June 11, 2026
Izotov V., Кардаш Н. В., Современная Европа 2026 № 2 С. 108–119
The article examines the issue of hybrid wars in the context of the confrontation between Turkey and the Republic of Cyprus within the geopolitical subsystem of the Eastern Mediterrane an. The authors, relying in part on sources little known outside the Greek-Cypriot research dis course, describe and classify the methods of Turkey’s hybrid warfare against ...
Added: May 25, 2026
Marina M. Panikar, Beloshitskaya N., Polar Journal 2026 Vol. 16 No. 1 P. 145–161
The article attempts to explore the process of formation of a new sphere of relations between the USSR and the countries of the Arctic region in the period from 1986 to 1990. The April Plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee in 1985 laid the groundwork for a profound transformation in both the domestic and ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Alexandrov B., Nouvelles assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires 2025 No. 3 P. 123–125
The article offers a commented edition of a fragment of the Hittite-Assyrian diplomatic correspondence of the 13th century B.C. ...
Added: March 1, 2026
Akhunova O., Classical Philology 2026 Vol. 121 No. 1 P. 84–93
In this article I attempt to answer the question: why and on what basis does Pindar compare Hieron with king Cinyras? Pindar marks three points of similarity: in the “portrait” of Cinyras these points are “favorite of Apollo” and “priest of Aphrodite”; the third point is indicated only in the “portrait” of Hieron – this is ...
Added: January 21, 2026