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France and Sub-Saharan Africa in the post-colonial era
R/evolutions: global trends & regional issues. 2014. Vol. 2. No. 1. P. 342–353.
The article examines the history of relations between France and its former colonies in Western and Central Africa after independence, and the Françafrique as a neo-colonial phenomenon and a specific Gaullist instrument of great power politics. The author studies the main trends in France’s African policy, its objectives, postures and bottlenecks, and he tries to answer why these lost its efficacy in the post-Cold War era. The article shows how France’s political and economic role in Africa gradually diminished in the 1990s - 2000s, and proposes a possible scenario for the future development of relationships between France and African countries for the near and medium term.
Research target:
History and Archeology
Political Science, International Relations, and Public Administration
Priority areas:
humanitarian
Language:
English
Keywords: Франциявнешняя торговляforeign tradeFranceкооперацияФрансафрикаcooperationCold War«холодная война»African policyFrançafriquemutual defense pactsdevelopment aidmilitary interventionRwandan genocideIvory CoastАфриканская политикапакты о совместной оборонепомощь развитиювоенная интервенцияРуандийский геноцидКот д'Ивуар
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 ...
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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 ...
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Веретёнов В. А., Технологос 2023 № 2 С. 115–123
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Верняев И. И., Уральский исторический вестник 2026 Т. 92 № 3 С. 24–33
This article explores the factors driving the regional differentiation of judicial activity in the post-reform Russian Empire. The historiography is currently divided between two poles: the paradigm of legal dualism, which postulates the alienation of rural and non-Russian (inorodtsy) populations from the Crown courts, and the opposing thesis of mass grassroots legalism, large- ly verified ...
Added: September 26, 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
Chronopoulos D., Вестник Омского университета. Серия: Исторические науки 2027 № 1
В 1863 г. в России отметили тысячелетие славянской письменности. Имперские власти и церковные деятели осознавали общеславянский характер праздника и его важность для «славянского вопроса». В общественной дискуссии фигуры Кирилла и Мефодия были мобилизованы для осмысления ключевых вопросов — от народного просвещения до обострившегося в связи с восстанием «Польского вопроса». Парадоксальным образом обращение к «общеславянскому» прошлому ...
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Pochekaev R. Y., Тутаев И. В., Христианское чтение 2026 № 3 С. 254–269
The article presents an attempt to clarify the general trends and analyze some specific examples of how the form and content of canon law documents in the 13th-15th centuries were affected by the fact that Russian lands were under the rule of the Golden Horde khans. The discussion covers such aspects as the types of ...
Added: September 24, 2026
Stoyanov R., Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 2026 Vol. 32 No. 1 P. 1–13
This study examines the fragment of an architectural block adorned with vegetal ornamentation which was discovered at the ancient settlement of Kepoi, situated in the Asiatic Bosporus on the northern coast of the Black Sea (fig. 1). The block’s façade features a spiraling vegetal motif rendered in high relief with exceptional detail (fig. 2). The ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Ivantchik A., Зайцев А. В., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2026 Vol. 86 No. 1 P. 141–152
This article publishes the inscriptions preserved on the funerary stele from Parion, discussed in the preceding article. The stele was used twice, and the Greek inscription, carved at the same time as the stele was created in the late second – early first century BC, was partly erased when it was re-used. It was reconstructed ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Istanbul: Ege Yayınları, 2025.
This volume presents the results of the first season of a Turkish–Russian–French research project at Parion, one of the most important Greek poleis on the southern shore of the Propontis, in the northern Troad. Archaeological excavations were carried out in July and August 2021 as part of an international project devoted to the multidisciplinary study ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Данилочкина К. С., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2026 Т. 1 № 30 С. 537–546
The article examines the issue of naming the wooden writing tablets from the Roman fort Vindolanda (late 1st - first quarter of the 2nd century AD), which represent a unique corpus of epistolary and documentary sources for the history of Roman Britain. Since their discovery in the 1970s, over a thousand specimens have been found, ...
Added: September 23, 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
Poddiakov A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026. No. 7437658.
Clarity of knowledge and reasoning is necessary in many cases. Yet vagueness in scientific thinking related to surprise, curiosity, "ability to engage with not-knowing" (de Freitas) and abductive reasoning is also a crucially important source of scientific creativity which supplements combinatorial logic when dealing with the already known. Starting from studies by C. S. Peirce ...
Added: September 15, 2026
Губский А. Д., Россия и Америка в XXI веке 2025 № 12
The article is devoted to the current state of security cooperation between the USA and Guyana. The study examines the strategic interests of the parties and the main directions of bilateral military-political cooperation, which has noticeably intensified after the discovery of oil fields on the shelf of the Cooperative Republic. The results obtained indicate the ...
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Chunikhin K., Искусствознание 2026 № 2 С. 250–275
The article explores the unique role of American visual art in Soviet culture. ...
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Tatiana B. Riabova, Liudmila L. Kleshchenko, Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4: История. Регионоведение. Международные отношения 2026 Vol. 31 No. 2 P. 165–177
Introduction. For the first time, the article examines the contemporary Russians’ and Americans’ social views on how the Soviet and US Cold War mass culture represented “us” and “them”. Materials and methods. The article is based on an analysis of data from an in-depth interview conducted in the USA and Russia (n = 27, autumn ...
Added: August 24, 2026
Клещенко Л. Л., Общественные науки и современность 2026 № 3 С. 100–111
The issues of unequal access to nuclear resources and unequal distribution of the burden from the exploitation of the atom today are of interest not only to researchers but also to cinematographers. The purpose of this study is to identify the features of visual representations of the nuclear threat in the cinema in the new ...
Added: August 24, 2026
Абрамова Е. А., Degterev D. A., Россия и современный мир 2025 № 1 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 ...
Added: July 15, 2026
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 ...
Added: July 15, 2026