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Biological and Social Phases of Big History and Universal Evolution: Similarities, Differences, and the Growth of Complexity
Journal of Big History. 2025. Vol. 8. No. 3. P. 1–51.
In this paper, Grinin et al. survey general similarities and differences between biological and social macroevolution and phases of Big History. The comparison of biological and social evolution is an important but (regrettably) understudied subject. The authors have endeavored to make a systematic comparison between biological and social evolution at different levels of analysis and in various aspects. They have formulated a considerable number of general principles and rules of evolution, and worked to develop a common terminology to describe some key processes in biological and social evolution. In particular, Grinin et al. have introduced the notion of ‘social aromorphosis’ to describe the process of widely diffused social innovation that enhances the complexity, adaptability, integrity, and interconnectedness of a society or social system. This work has convinced the authors that it might be possible to find mathematical models that can describe important features of both biological and social macroevolution. In the Appendix the authors consider a concrete mathematical model that they deem capable of describing important features of both biological and social macroevolution.
Chernov D., Nesmashnyi A., Safranchuk I. et al., International Interactions 2026 Vol. 52 No. 4 P. 661–686
The determinants of foreign interventions, be they military interventions or other forms of foreign involvement, are important for modern international relations and conflict studies. Nevertheless, major methodological problems with the analysis are often overlooked. This paper proposes modeling interventions as a two-stage decision-making process. The first stage determines whether a specific target state is intervenable ...
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Galimullin E. Z., Алексеев Д. В., Вестник МГИМО Университета 2026 Т. 19 № 3 С. 142–163
The return of Donald Trump to the White House has exposed a growing mismatch between the United States’ “America First” policy and its established role as the principal coordinator of transatlantic sanctions. This article examines how US–EU sanctions coordination changed in 2025 and assesses whether these changes represent temporary policy divergence or a more systemic ...
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Курылев К. П., Degterev D. A., Грачиков Е. Н. et al., Постсоветские исследования 2022 Т. 5 № 7 С. 754–763
This article is based on the understanding of the results of a one-name methodological
seminar organized and conducted by the Department of Theory and History of International Relations
of the Russian Academy of Sciences on September 8, 2022, in which the issues of the nature and
features of the USSR foreign policy for the period from 1971 to ...
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Амара Д., Degterev D. A., Эгамов Б., Проблемы национальной стратегии 2022 № 2(71) С. 76–101
The article presents an analysis of the UN personnel, engaged in African peacekeeping operations, from the perspective of emerging blocks of the «collective West» and the «collective non-West». The rationale for choosing the UN African peacekeeping missions as the subject for the study is that they are the most numerous, multi-format, expensive, and lethal ones ...
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Lukin A., Telos 2026 Vol. 2026 No. 215 P. 11–41
The year 2026 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the beginning in China of the “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” – an unprecedented political campaign both in its duration and in the tragic nature of its results and consequences. Despite the publication of numerous books and articles devoted to it in various countries around the world, its ...
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Talking about the [same] revolution? A comparative analysis of main datasets of revolutionary events
Guseinov R., Ustyuzhanin V., Korotayev A., Defence and peace economics 2026 P. 1–31
We conduct a comparative analysis of the main datasets on revolutionary events, including The Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO, versions 1.3 and 2.1), Cross-National Time-Series (CNTS), Revolutionary Episodes Dataset by Mark Beissinger, Revolutionary Database by HSE University (CSRA), and Historical Regime Data (HRD). To compare these sources systematically, we develop several complementary empirical instruments designed to identify and interpret differences across datasets. We ...
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Aleshin D., Бирюков Е. С., Булатов А. С. et al., Аспект Пресс, 2025.
Учебное пособие подготовлено коллективом российских экономистов-международников, преимущественно из МГИМО. Оно посвящено анализу особенностей незападных экономических систем, а также участия данных стран в международных экономических отношениях.
Структурно учебное пособие состоит из трех разделов и 23 глав. Первый раздел посвящен различным аспектам методологии анализа незападных экономических систем. Приводятся как современные западные концепции классификации экономических систем, так и критические, а также незападные подходы к развитию (в том числе периферийная ...
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Degterev D. A., Степанова В. С., Международное право и международные организации 2025 № 3 С. 93–109
The issues of monetary cooperation between France and the member states of the West African Monetary Union (WAMU) have received wide coverage in academic literature. However, the phenomenon of the CFA franc as the "last colonial currency" of Africa is considered mainly in a journalistic vein, in a political and historical context, less often – ...
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Degterev D. A., Кирикова Т. Н., Россия и мир: научный диалог 2025 № 4 С. 37–57
This study focuses on the African policy of the Trump administration during his second term. The authors analyze why the formal framework for strategic planning in Africa proved too restrictive for the new US administration. Particular attention is paid to the consistent decline in international aid as a part of US African strategy. During Trump’s ...
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Pozanenko A., Социологические исследования 2026 № 6 С. 64–71
Due to persistent territorial socio-economic imbalances, some residents of Russian villages and small towns leave for a long time to work without changing their place of permanent residence. Such internal temporary labor migration is referred to by some researchers as otkhodnichestvo, and migrants as otkhodniks, by analogy with the pre–revolutionary and early Soviet migration of ...
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Degterev D. A., Абрамова Е. А., Россия и современный мир 2025 № 1(126) С. 77–99
The process of sovereignization initiated in the Sahel countries with the
formation of the Alliance of Sahel States (ASS) in September 2023, followed by the
establishment of the Confederation of the Sahel Alliance in July 2024, has extended into
the humanitarian sphere, including information sovereignty – and more broadly, value
sovereignty. In this context, the residual yet still significant ...
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Абрамова Е. А., Degterev D. A., Актуальные проблемы Европы 2025 № 4(128) С. 154–173
In the process of rapid changes in the geopolitical situation in
the Sahel region, it is not only the reconfiguration of the balance of power that
deserves attention, but also the formation of a regional security complex, the core of which is the Alliance of Sahel States (ASS – Mali, Niger and Burkina
Faso). This study proposes a model ...
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Degterev D. A., Федоров А. В., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Политология 2025 Т. 27 № 4 С. 713–733
In recent years, the agenda of reparations to Africa by Western countries for the crimes of the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism has been gaining increasing popularity in both academic and political discourse. The study analyzes contemporary discourse in both political, legal and economic terms, as well as the representation of this issue in Russian ...
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Cham: Springer, 2026.
In this ambitious two-volume open access collection of essays, a diverse group of scholars worldwide reflects on the past, present and future of the (comparative) regionalism research program. Volume I provides building blocks for regionalism studies in the coming years by indicating what a pluralistic theoretical and methodological toolbox to study regions could look like, ...
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Strelnikova I., Агафонов Д. И., Анализ и прогноз. Журнал ИМЭМО РАН 2026 № 1 С. 97–110
Арктический регион, занимавший особое положение в дискурсе международно-политической науки на протяжении более чем 10 лет, поэтапно приобретал различные и зачастую диаметрально противоположные образы на страницах зарубежных и русскоязычных исследований. Долгое время основой исключительно мирного и конструктивного взаимодействия арктических держав в этой части света служило успешное функционирование главного регионального форума – Арктического совета, призванного содействовать международному ...
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Routledge, 2025.
Negative images of Africa, which define the continent as being riven with poverty, crime, or war, are increasingly being challenged. Examples of soft power, such as Nigeria’s Nollywood, athletic successes in Kenya, Rwanda’s commercial diplomacy, and South Africa’s liberal constitution, are all reasserting African agency and shaping more positive understandings of the continent.
This book considers ...
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Абрамова И. О., Аду Я. Н., Анише Т. Э. et al., Институт Африки РАН, 2025.
Данная монография посвящена анализу концепции суверенитета африканских государств как в теоретическом, так и практическом ключе. Рассматриваются экономический, ментальный, языковой и культурный, информационный и образовательный аспекты африканского суверенитета. Исследуется роль региональных интеграционных группировок, а также внешних акторов в контексте суверенизации Африки. Особое внимание уделяется роли РФ в укре- плении суверенитета стран континента.
Монография формирует целостное представление по ...
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Suleymanov I., Science Diplomacy Review 2026 Vol. 7 No. 2 P. 3–14
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Sizova A., Барнаул: Алтайский государственный педагогический университет, 2026.
В сборник включены научные статьи, посвященные различным аспектам социально-экономической и культурной истории Сибири в контексте внутренней и внешней политики России. Сборник посвящен 70-летию со дня рождения известного ученого, педагога, просветителя и общественного деятеля, доктора исторических наук, профессора Александра Владимировича Старцева (1956–2019).
Сборник предназначен для специалистов в области отечественного исторического сибиреведения, а также всех, кто интересуется историей ...
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Kazantseva A. V., A.V. Toropova, Khusnutdinova E. K. et al., ВАВИЛОВСКИЙ ЖУРНАЛ ГЕНЕТИКИ И СЕЛЕКЦИИ, Федеральный исследовательский центр Институт цитологии и генетики Сибирского отделения Российской академии наук» (ИЦиГ СО РАН) (Новосибирск) 2025 Vol. 30 No. 3 P. 470–481
The development of musical abilities, including absolute pitch, musical memory, rhythm sense, and musicality, at a high degree is determined by a hereditary component (up to 68 %). The studies implementing a genome-wide linkage and association approach to musical aptitude have revealed more than 100 genetic loci. This spectrum is comprised of the genes encoding ...
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What is the relationship between biodiversity and the frequency of financial crises? Global evidence
Stolbov M., Shchepeleva M., Parfenov D., Economics Letters 2025 Vol. 250 Article 112259
The paper studies the relationship between the state of world’s biodiversity proxied by the Living Planet Index and the frequency of financial crises, conditional on global economic growth and the total number of biodiversity-related environmental policy instruments, during 1970–2018. We find that the increased frequency of banking crises as well as triple crises, i.e. simultaneously ...
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Medvedev A., Alekseenko N., Kuramagomedov B. et al., United Nations Environment Programme, 2025.
The Atlas of Environmental Change for the Kyrgyz Republic has been developed using global, regional and national datasets, spanning six decades using both historical information and the latest satellite technology. It provides detailed information on the environment focusing on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, progress towards the three Rio Conventions and SDG 6 and SDG15. The ...
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Vallverdú J., Alshanskaia E., BioNanoScience 2025 Vol. 15 Article 406
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have predominantly mirrored neurotypical brain architectures (NBA), optimizing for efficiency, predictability, and standardized cognitive patterns. However, non-neurotypical brains (NNB) exhibit unique neurochemical, hormonal, and functional mechanisms that underpin divergent thinking, creativity, and alternative problem-solving strategies. Drawing from evolutionary biology, we emphasize how neurodiversity serves as a critical mechanism for adaptability, survival, ...
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Balaban M., Региональные исследования 2025 № 4(86) С. 24–37
High heterogeneity of the conditions of socio-economic and demographic development within the territory of Russia has led to the emergence and consolidation of differences in population changes. In this paper we propose one of the possible variants of typology of territorial units of Russia according to the peculiarities of demographic dynamics for more than half ...
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