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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (Living Edition)
Oxford University Press, 2020.
Oxford University Press is a proud publisher of insightful and informative books in political science. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics complements and reinforces our commitment to the community of scholars and students in this field, as it provides hundreds of incisive articles on both fundamental and innovative topics. And uniquely, it is designed to present various perspectives on important approaches, issues, and topics, reflective of the tensions and debates that make political science such an exciting field.
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Arbatli E., , in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (Living Edition).: Oxford University Press, 2020. P. 1–20.
Military coups happen for various political, economic, and historical reasons. A vast literature investigates the external factors that affect coup vulnerability, including interstate wars, security threats, regional spillovers, and foreign economic linkages. An even more impressive number of studies, going back almost seven decades, focuses on the domestic causes of military coups. These causes of ...
Added: December 3, 2020
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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
Коломина А. М., Псковский регионологический журнал 2025 Т. 21 № 3 С. 3–16
The article examines the multidirectional impact of climate change on the transformation of international relations in Central Asia. It focuses on its role as both a catalyst for regional cooperation and a source of conflict. The relevance of the study is due to the growing vulnerability of the region, where dependence on agriculture, water scarcity and ...
Added: May 6, 2025
L.: Routledge, 2024.
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations explores China’s relations with the Eurasian continent’s regions and countries in a multipolar era, providing an equal and balanced platform for scholars and practitioners from East, West, North, and South. This diversity enriches the contribution, giving it a dynamic ability to examine sources in different languages and cover ...
Added: August 6, 2024
Araujo Esteves A. L., ISTORIYA (“History”). The Journal of Education and Science 2022 Vol. 13 No. 10 Article 120
Relations between Brazil and Russia decelerated significantly during the tenure of Brazilian
Minister of Foreign Affairs Ernesto Araujo, from January 2019 until March 2021. This article
maintains that the former chancellor’s ideas had a direct impact in the relative stagnation of
Russian-Brazilian ties. Araujo’s interpretation of the international reality is heavily influenced by
the ideas of Brazilian right-wing ideologue ...
Added: May 28, 2024
Natalia B. Pomozova, Russia in Global Affairs 2020 Vol. 18 No. 1(69) P. 180–196
The liberal values lying at the core of the European continent’s integration into the European Union (EU) are being put to the test by new factors, particularly the consistent and all-around strengthening of China. Europe’s attitude towards this new global “center of power” and, in particular, its Belt and Road Initiative, increasingly demonstrates the fragility ...
Added: April 15, 2024
Андреева Т. А., Баринов А. К., Воронина Н. А. et al., Азия и Африка сегодня 2023 № 9 С. 5–18
The paper discusses the main outcomes of the Second Russia-Africa summit, the geoplolitical role that it played for Russian and the main political agreements achieved, the authors show in waht way the Second summit differed from the first Russia-Africa Summit held in 2019. ...
Added: February 19, 2024
Борзова А. Ю., Degterev D. A., Еремин А. А., Латинская Америка 2021 № 6 С. 97–105
We present main results of the final scientific seminar of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations of RUDN University on non-Western theories of international relations titled "Latin American concepts of international relations" ...
Added: September 7, 2023
Igor Gurkov, Dahms S., International Journal of Organizational Analysis 2024 Vol. 32 No. 6 P. 1127–1140
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this research is to understand communication strategies formed by multinational subsidiaries in a transition economy during disruptive events. We develop and test a framework based on political realism and situational crisis communication theory (SCCT).
Design/methodology/approach
We collect and analyze communication statements from multinational subsidiaries located in Russia and made in the first two months ...
Added: June 25, 2023
Kazantsev A., Soloviev A., Корееведение 2022 № 1 С. 90–116
The article presents an annotated translation of the 19th century Korean political thinker Yu Kilchun's work "Treatise on Neutrality (中立論)", and also studies the synthesis of traditional and modernist ideas about international politics in this work. "Treatise on neutrality" is one of the most important works of Yu Kilchun, but is generally neglected by Russian ...
Added: December 12, 2022
Bordachev T., 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 ...
Added: October 31, 2022
Bordachev T., Россия в глобальной политике 2022 Vol. 20 No. 1 P. 112–116
At the end of 2021, military-political relations between Russia and the West crossed the point of no return to any of the forms of interaction that had developed in the first fifteen years after the Cold War. As a result of the actions undertaken by the United States and its allies on the Ukrainian issue, Moscow ...
Added: October 30, 2022
Krukov V. A., Yenikeyeff S., , in: Plundered Natons? Successes and Failures in Natural Resource Extraction.: NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
This book consists of eight case studies investigating the political economy of the decision chain involved in natural resource extraction in resource-rich countries, where plunder rather than prosperity has become the norm. Some case studies reveal successes, while others show the decision chain to have failed disastrously. ...
Added: October 13, 2022
Zhu J., Mukhin N., Communist and Post-Communist Studies 2021 Vol. 54 No. 1-2 P. 24–44
Extant literature has shown the importance of routinized leadership succession for authoritarian resilience. However, the factors leading to orderly power transitions in autocracies are unclear. This article argues that an orderly succession requires relatively peaceful exit of the incumbent. Through a comparison of the power transition trajectories of the post-Stalin USSR and China in the ...
Added: August 2, 2022
Sedashov E., Moral M., SİYASAL: Journal of Political Sciences 2022 Vol. 31 No. 1 P. 91–114
COVID-19 pandemic necessitates taking measures that may be very costly from an economic standpoint and likely to make the mass public discontent. If an anti-pandemic regimen does not accomplish its goals, its costs become even harder to justify. We argue that, under such circumstances, cancellation of an anti-pandemic regimen would decrease the reliability of health ...
Added: April 20, 2022
Pizzolo P., Italian Political Science Review 2021
As manifest challenger of the United States (US)-led international order, the People’s Republic of China
(PRC) has inaugurated a revisionist strategy that encompasses a multifaceted spectrum of initiatives,
including an ambitious naval military build-up. History has shown that revisionist and challenging
powers tend to defy the established order through arm races. US Admiral Mahan and German
Admiral Tirpitz theorized ...
Added: October 6, 2021
Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2021.
The »global« is permanently made and remade by how it is envisioned in political projects, in language, and in literature. Through a range of case studies, this book shows how practices of referring to the world actually constitute the global in its many facets. It aims to provide a sense in readers of how the ...
Added: October 5, 2021
Korotayev A., Vaskin I., Daniil Romanov, Comparative Sociology 2021 Vol. 20 No. 3 P. 344–379
This article proposes a new explanation of the positive correlation between democracy and terrorism detected in many previous studies. It is shown that this might be accounted for by the fact that factional democracies are subjected to more terrorist attacks than the other political regimes. A positive relationship between the democratic regime and the level ...
Added: August 24, 2021
Kucherenko S., Полития: Анализ. Хроника. Прогноз 2018 № 3(90) С. 74–86
The article is devoted to the reception of Thucydides in Political Science. On the basis of the comparative analysis of structural and constructive realism — two traditions in the theory of international relations — the author shows that they both treat the Athenian historian to some extent as a “godfather” and appeal to him as ...
Added: July 5, 2021
Stevens M., Shibanova E., European Journal of Higher Education 2021 Vol. 11 No. 3 P. 219–238
We provide a framework for integrating sociological and political-historical approaches to the worldwide expansion of higher education in the twentieth century. Doing so enables scholars and policymakers to better identify variation across place and time in how the provision of higher education has been rendered culturally meaningful and politically feasible. We identify three conceptions of ...
Added: June 29, 2021
Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, 2021.
Historians devote a great deal of attention to the diplomacy that led Russia into the Great War, but have tended to neglect the course of this diplomacy once the fighting erupted. This volume addresses that lacuna with a broad range of essays examining the foreign relations of the empire, as well as its republican and ...
Added: June 12, 2021