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Introductory Remarks on the Meanings of the Centre-Periphery Distinction in General and in the Post-Soviet Space in Particular
Ch. 1. P. 13–42.
In book
Centres and Peripheries in the Post-Soviet Space: Relevance and Meanings of a Classical Distinction.
Bern: Peter Lang, 2020.
Zhu Z., Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy 2025 Vol. 19 No. 4 P. 914–932
Purpose
This paper aims to offer a systematic examination of the core challenges and opportunities associated with the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven automation via autonomous vehicles (AVs) in urban governance (UG), and to explore their implications for ethical AI governance.
Design/methodology/approach
This conceptual analytical framework is grounded in a socio-technical structure for ethical AI governance, complemented by ...
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Dmitriev T., Russian Sociological Review 2025 Vol. 24 No. 4 P. 227–241
The article offers a critical examination of the latest work by one of Germany's foremost political theorists and historians of political thought, Herfried Münkler, World in Turmoil: the Order of Powers in the 21st Century (2024). The review pays particular attention to the conceptual apparatus and theoretical framework developed by Münkler, who draws on two centuries ...
Added: February 1, 2026
Filippov A. F., Новое литературное обозрение 2025 № 3 С. 97–112
The article examines approaches to the concept
“empire” in theoretical sociology. The specificity of
any empire is the size of the space it occupies, but
this space is not enclosed within firm, established
boundaries, as is the territory of the neighboring sta tes. Even if empires are included in systems of interstate
relations, the ideologies of their ruling groups
entail limitless ...
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Kaspe S. I., Russia in Global Affairs 2025 Vol. 23 No. 3 P. 10–35
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Maria А. Bultseva, Berberyan A., Sonia A. Berrios Callejas, RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics 2024 Vol. 21 No. 2 P. 408–426
Russians are one of the largest ethnocultural minorities in the post-Soviet and the issue of their inclusion in the societies of host countries remains relevant. Therefore, this study was focused on the relationship between perceived security and social identities (civic, ethnic or European) and the perceived permeability of social boundaries for Russians in Armenia, Kazakhstan, ...
Added: June 11, 2025
Туренко К. А., Политическая наука 2025 № 2 С. 227–247
Sovereignty remains today a key political and legal principle of modern states. This article examines the development and features of the concept of sovereignty in the post-colonial Mexican state (1820–1830s). The work applies the methods of the British historian Quentin Skinner. The author analyzes the forms of the word “sovereignty” and its synonyms. The main ...
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Grigoryev L. M., Вестник Московского университета. Серия 6: Экономика 2024 Т. 59 № 6 С. 125–160
In the world of different tribes, languages and slightly cultivated landscapes, empires through crude violence extended rent concentration scale, with the focus on infrastructure (roads, dumbs, canals), fortifications, cult centers and palaces. Investment concentration of a leading nation was achieved through robbery of other nations or through levying taxes on the periphery of the empire. ...
Added: May 16, 2025
Kantor V., Философические письма. Русско-европейский диалог 2025 Т. 8 № 1 С. 11–36
In the article, the author shows how Peter the Great, wanting to overcome the Russian “age of rebellion” and save the country as a state, realized the need to create a Russian Empire instead of the Muscovite state — a powerful structure, in some ways equal to the Roman Empire. Internal rebellions, supported by the ...
Added: May 14, 2025
Dekalchuk A., Grigoriev I., Starodubtsev A., East European Politics 2024 Vol. 40 No. 2 P. 299–321
The paper explains how states and international organisations interact in policy making by focusing on five countries of the post-Soviet space. Based on in-depth interviews conducted in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, we explore different patterns of state-IO interactions and explain the determinants of these patterns’ formation. We demonstrate that these patterns arise from ...
Added: March 31, 2025
Lebedeva N., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Психология и педагогика 2024 Т. 21 № 2 С. 353–359
In the thematic section of the journal "Bulletin of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. Series: Psychology and Pedagogy" presents articles reflecting the results of research carried out by a team of researchers from four countries and eight universities with the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation (RSF)
in the framework of scientific project No. ...
Added: January 23, 2025
Ivanov I., Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 2026 Vol. 56 No. 1 P. 69–86
This study examines the institutional transformation of extracurricular education systems across the 15 former Soviet republics using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Drawing on national statistics, policy documents, and expert interviews, the research identifies three distinct transformation scenarios: reproduction, modernisation, and degeneration. The analysis reveals varying degrees of change, from low-level transformation in countries maintaining significant ...
Added: January 16, 2025
Julia Z., Butovskaya M., Sergey S. et al., Social Evolution & History 2024 Vol. 23 No. 1 P. 76–105
Recent studies show that the global increase in gender equality does not reduce gender differences in values. These findings somewhat undermine the social role theory and increase the need for additional explanations. These findings also imply that gender differences in values may stem from some underlying universalities that persist even through changes associated with socio-economic ...
Added: June 3, 2024
Chesnokova N., Диалог со временем 2024 № 86 С. 107–123
The article focuses on the descriptions of Yi Seong-gye (Taejo, 1392-1398), the founder of the Korean Kingdom of Joseon (1392-1897),’s enthronement in various Korean source written in the 15th century by Korean intellectuals. The main goal of the study is to describe ways of legitimating royal power in medieval Korea. To achieve this task, I ...
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Kramarenko A., Алетейя, 2018.
The monograph is an attempt to comprehensively study the state policy of the integration of immigrants from the countries of the post-Soviet space into modern Russian society. The author addresses both the theoretical-conceptual and practical aspects of integration policy, responding to the question: What is the essence of immigrant integration policy? What conditions and factors ...
Added: January 13, 2024
Davydov S. G., Вестник КазНУ. Серия Журналистики 2023 Т. 68 № 2 С. 16–20
Читателю впервые предлагается перевод на русский язык программной статьи Сары Оатс «Неосоветская модель медиа», опубликованной в 2007 году (Sarah Oates, 2007). В предисловии научного редактора перевода обосновывается актуальность публикации. Дана характеристика теоретического контекста появления статьи, включая научную дискуссию о нормативных теориях медиа середины 2000-х годов. Цель научного осмысления – предложить критический взгляд на методику исследования Сары Оатс, а также ...
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Agissova F., Ivanova A., Sautkina E., Psyecology 2023 Vol. 14 No. 2 P. 244–296
This study is the first in Russia to examine how political values, institutional trust and patriotism, as well as connectedness to nature, environmental concern and environmental knowledge, predict five types of pro-environmental behaviour. The data of 462 Russians (56.7% female, mean age 36.73) was analysed using multiple regression and structural equation modelling. The model explained ...
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Korneev O., Geddes A., , in: Handbook of the International Political Economy of Migration.: Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015. P. 54–73.
The chapter develops an approach that has two key elements. The first is a focus on states as the key locations for the regulation of migration. However, rather than seeing international migration as a challenge to these states (as some kind of external threat or challenge), this chapter explores the ways in which states, relationships ...
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L.: Routledge, 2022.
This book investigates how borders in former Soviet Union territories have evolved and shifted in the thirty years since the end of the Cold War.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to fifteen independent states and numerous de facto states; but this process of rebordering is not finished, and social, economic, infrastructural, cultural ...
Added: May 16, 2023
Колосов В. А., Zotova M., Международные процессы 2022 Т. 20 № 2(69) С. 6–24
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Pegg S. Twenty Years of de facto State Studies: Progress, Problems, and Prospects. Oxford Research
Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 350 p.
Shesterinina A. Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia. Ithaka (NY): Cornell
University Press, 2021. 258 p.
Statistical publication Regions of Ukraine 2019. Part І, Kyiv, 2020. 270 p.
Statistical yearbook 2019. ...
Added: January 30, 2023