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Capital Cities: Varieties and Patterns of Development and Relocation
Rossman V.
The issue of capital city relocation is a topic of debate for more than forty countries around the world. In this first book to discuss the issue, Vadim Rossman offers an in-depth analysis of the subject, highlighting the global trends and the key factors that motivate different countries to consider such projects, analyzing the outcomes and drawing lessons from recent capital city transfers worldwide for governments and policy-makers.
Research target:
Art History
Economics and Management
Sociology (including Demography and Anthropology
Political Science, International Relations, and Public Administration
Priority areas:
state and public administration
Language:
English
Keywords: федерализмгеополитикаурбанистикапространственная экономикаspatial economicsgeopoliticscapital citypolitical geographyполитическая географияfederalismисторическая географияnation-buildingurban historystrategy of urban developmenttransformation of urban spaceиконографияiconographymodernismистория национализмаградостроительство и урбанистиканациестроительствоhistorical geographytransfer of capital cityперенос столицыurban planningurban geographystate-building social mobilityимперия и национализмurban identitytheories of nationalismethnicity and nationalismComparative Historical Studies of Empire and Nationalismтеория и практика федерализма urban developmenturban politicshypercentralizationстоличные города
Lukin A., Telos 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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Katchanov Y. L., Социологический журнал 2026 Т. 32 № 2 С. 59–77
The concept of the “scientific elite” as a heuristic principle and a framework for sociological analysis carries the implicit assumption of the inherent superiority of a small number of 'outstanding scientists.' This paper introduces the space of science as a multidimensional distribution of agents of knowledge production across relative positions. The space of science is ...
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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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Михайлов И. А., М.: ФГБУ "Издательство "Наука", 2023.
Предложены основные направления совершенствования планирования, организации и оплаты медицинской помощи, лекарственного обеспечения, информатизации и оценки технологий здравоохранения. Рекомендованы такие мероприятия, как конкретизация программы государственных гарантий бесплатного оказания гражданам медицинской помощи, создание системы общедоступного лекарственного обеспечения, использование клинико-статистических групп для оплаты медицинской помощи при ряде хронических неинфекционных заболеваний в амбулаторных условиях, формирование механизма привлечения соплатежей при ...
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Emelyanova O., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2024 No. 1 P. 153–164
Food security in Japan has been under observation of analytics in both Japan and abroad as it is one of the key national security issues. Leading academic researchers of this issue in Japan include Suzuki N., Takeya T.,Yamamoto R. and Oguchi H. However, the main focus of their analysis is the social aspect. The English ...
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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 – ...
Added: July 15, 2026
Букина А. А., Eritsyan K., Antonova N. et al., Frontiers in Psychology 2026
Background:
Numerous studies have shown that indigenous populations experience poorer health outcomes compared to people with other backgrounds. However, the interpretation of these disparities remains challenging due to differences in living conditions and social environments, as well as by potential measurement-related biases. Little is known about whether the underlying mechanisms of mental health outcomes differ between ...
Added: July 15, 2026
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 ...
Added: July 15, 2026
Chukcheeva M., Искусствознание 2026 № 2 С. 182–215
The article deals with the process of the domestication of the national past in Russian art using the example of V. I. Jacobie’s “Morning at the Court of Anna Ioannovna” (1872-1873). The painting was restricted to displaying at the 1873 Academy exhibition because it depicted aristocrats playing leapfrog in front of the sick Anna Ioannovna. ...
Added: July 15, 2026
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Added: July 15, 2026
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, ...
Added: July 15, 2026
Mazaev V. D., В кн.: Развитие федеративных основ конституционного права России.: М.: НОРМА, ИНФРА-М, 2026. Гл. 8 С. 146–171.
The issues of the principles of federalism and economics, the policy of Russian federalism and the economic foundations of the subjects of the Russian Federation, the principle of economic sovereignty of the Federation and the economic independence of the subjects of the Federation of the Russian Federation, public property as the economic foundations of the ...
Added: July 8, 2026
Mazaev V. D., М.: НОРМА, ИНФРА-М, 2026.
The modern Russian legal system is characterized by a close interaction between federalism and constitutionalism. Given that federalism is a dynamic system of relations between the center and the regions, requiring constant improvement and adaptation to the challenges of the times, legislation
must ensure its development based on constitutional principles. This
task became urgent in connection with ...
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Saltykova V., Визуальная теология 2026 Т. 8 № 1 С. 53–77
The article is devoted to a critical analysis of a little-known article by the French art historian Louis Réau (1881–1961), who was a recognized expert on the art of France and the author of a fundamental handbook on Christian iconography. He was also the first director of the French Institute in Saint Petersburg, Russia (1911–1913). ...
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Moiseev D., В кн.: Многополярность: мир после либерализма.: СПб.: Владимир Даль, 2026. С. 5–33.
В предисловии Д.С.Моисеева к первому русскому изданию работы Константина фон Хоффмайстера "Многополярность: мир после либерализма" рассматриваются философские основания политического видения автора книги (философия Мартина Хайдеггера, идеализм Георга Гегеля, геополитические размышления Александра Дугина и его дочери Дарьи, археофутуризм Гийома Фая) и вопросы о будущем России в многополярном мире. Отдельное внимание уделяется Африке и зулусскому традиционализму. ...
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фон Хоффмайстер К., СПб.: Владимир Даль, 2026.
В предлагаемой вниманию читателя книге Константин фон Хоффмайстер провозглашает завершение эпохи однополярного господства США и наступление новой эры, в которой самобытные цивилизации будут отстаивать свой суверенитет в битве против слабеющего универсализма либерального Запада. Автор излагает философские и геополитические основы нового многополярного мира, в котором мировая история творится в динамичном взаимодействии крупных держав, каждая из которых руководствуется собственными уникальными традициями.
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Абейсекера С. Х., Обсерватория культуры 2026 Т. 23 № 2 С. 176–188
This article explores the iconography and artis tic features of the monumental paintings of Sigiriya, a Sri Lankan architectural and landscape monument, mean ing “lion rock” in Sinhalese. On the fl at summit of a rock plateau, rising almost 200 meters above the surround ing plain in the very center of the island, in the ...
Added: June 12, 2026
NY: Routledge, 2026.
This book is a comprehensive study on how the national security sectors of China, India, Japan, Russia, and the United States have engaged the idea of climate change as an existential threat. Climate Change, National Security and Geopolitics examines the respective ways in which the five states have framed the issue of climate change in ...
Added: May 25, 2026
Sizov A., Rodionova M., Sedashov E. et al., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series PS "Political Science". 2026. No. 1.
Rapid development of surveillance technologies is one of the most socially important consequences of the digital age. This paper investigates the factors determining consent to surveillance of various types of personal data and contributes to rapidly growing research on citizens perceptions of surveillance practices. Relying on a comprehensive survey experiment, we study the effects of ...
Added: May 15, 2026
Фандюшин М. В., Вопросы национальных и федеративных отношений 2025 Т. 15 № 8 (125) С. 1701–1710
This article discusses the issue of assessing the coverage areas of cities in the Russian Federation by the availability of urban passenger electric transport for residents. This analysis is necessary to determine the directions of improvement of the state policy in the field of transport. The position of the scientific community regarding the role of ...
Added: May 14, 2026