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Russia and the Conflict Between China and the United States
For Russia, the question now is not how it will deal with China in the future, but how threatening Beijing’s confrontation with the United States is for its survival right now. If Russia assesses its neighbour’s confrontation with the United States as a systemic one, the task of breaking this Western adversary looks paramount for the survival of the country and its political system. So paramount, that it will be necessary to think about how to arrange relations with China, should it theoretically win a new Cold War.
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Bo S., Christofi M., Battisti E. et al., Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2026 Vol. 2028 P. 1–13
In the face of rising sustainability expectations and limited resources, startups must balance financial objectives with ESG (environmental, social, and governance) goals under uncertainty. This study examines how ESG behavior influences external resource acquisition, financing choices, and strategic outcomes in early-stage enterprises. Drawing on the entrepreneurial learning perspective, we argue that startups refine ESG strategies ...
Added: September 25, 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
Galyapina V. N., Lebedeva N., Социологические исследования 2026 Т. 6 С. 85–99
This article is devoted to individual values and social fears as predictors of the psychological health of Russians. The study included 2056 respondents and was conducted in 2022. The analysis using structural equation modeling while controlling for socio- demographic characteristics showed that the value of Self- Direction generally reduces social fears, while the value of ...
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
Radaev V., Демографическое обозрение 2025 Т. 12 № 4 С. 4–44
В данной работе рассматриваются понятия взрослости и взросления как отдельного этапа в рамках жизненного цикла с опорой на демографическую и социологическую литературу. Обсуждается вопрос о том, как трансформируются в настоящее время модели взросления. А в эмпирической части делается попытка ответить на следующие вопросы: действительно ли молодые поколения (миллениалы и зумеры) откладывают события, связанные с взрослением, ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Xu Y., Tiwari S., Kazemzadeh E. et al., Energy and Buildings 2026 Vol. 351 P. 1–23
The present study investigates impacts of smart cities (SC), urbanization level (URB), innovation level (IL), Green total factor productivity (GTFP), level of financial development (FD) and digital economy (DE) on energy security (ES) and energy transition (ET) in China. Results of quantile on quantile regression (QQR) revealed that smart cities, urbanization level, innovation level, Green ...
Added: September 23, 2026
Кузнецова М. П., Klochko O., Современная мировая экономика 2026 Т. 4 № 2 С. 6–25
The article examines the positions of the world’s largest countries in the industrial robotics sector as one of the key areas for the physical artificial intelligence (AI). The aim of the study is to conduct a comparative assessment of the readiness of leading economies to develop physical AI based on an analysis of production, foreign ...
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
Kantor V., Философические письма. Русско-европейский диалог 2026 Т. 9 № 2 С. 11–37
This article paints a portrait of Maximilian Aleksandrovich Voloshin (1877–1932), one of the greatest creative figures of the Silver Age, equal in power to the geniuses of the Renaissance. A poet, art historian, and author of works on Surikov, Saryan, and Konchalovsky, poems about Russia, Archpriest Avvakum, Cain, and Our Lady of Vladimir, and articles ...
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
Hermida Rivera H., Public Choice 2025 Vol. 203 P. 493–501
This note shows that under the unrestricted domain, there exists a choice liberal and Nash implementable social choice rule if and only if there are at least three players and the outcome set is at least twice as large as the player set. A social choice rule is choice liberal if and only if for ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Hermida Rivera H., Kerman T., Journal of Public Economic Theory 2025 Vol. 27 No. 3 P. 1–7
This paper introduces a novel binary stability property for voting rules—called binary self-selectivity—by which a society considering whether to replace its voting rule using itself in pairwise elections will choose not to do so. In Theorem 1, we show that a neutral voting rule is binary self-selective if and only if it is universally self-selective. ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Hermida Rivera H., Games and Economic Behavior 2025 Vol. 153 P. 541–553
In this paper, I characterize minimal stable voting rules and minimal self-stable constitutions (i.e., pairs of voting rules) for societies in which only power matters. To do so, I first let players' preference profiles over voting rules satisfy four natural axioms commonly used in the analysis of power: non-dominance, anonymity, null player, and swing player. ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Костелянец С. В., Денисова Т. С., Азия и Африка сегодня 2026 № 4 С. 26–38
The M23 armed group’s resurgence in eastern DRC (2021–2026) has destabilized Central Africa and triggered a severe Kinshasa-Kigali crisis. This study explores the causes of M23’s return, its evolution into a quasi-state entity, and the failure of international conflict resolution. Based on UN and NGO reports, and applying the rebel governance framework, the analysis reveals ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Трещенков Е. Ю., Вестник РГГУ. Серия: Евразийские исследования. История. Политология. Международные отношения 2025 № 1 С. 110–134
Понятие «суверенитет» стало одним из ключевых в дискурсе России и Европейского союза. К нему они прибегают, обосновывая свои позиции в отношении друг друга в рамках конфликта по линии Россия-Запад. Особое место в этом конфликте занимают государства постсоветского пространства. В предлагаемом исследовании выявлены особенности присутствия государств региона в дискурсах суверенитета и в связанных с ними политических ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Плакван П., Moiseev D., Patria 2026 Т. 3 № 3 С. 92–104
The article is devoted to the analysis of the influence of Leftist Globalist political and cultural concepts on the transformation of traditional values in contemporary Europe. Using the example of the activities of European analytical centers and the dissemination of the concept of an ‘‘open society’’, the mechanisms of changing ideas about the family, national ...
Added: September 19, 2026
Malekova D. K., Veselitskaya N., Shashnov S. A., Форсайт 2026 Т. 20 № 3 С. 6–24
Technological development dynamics underscore the relevance of a comparative analysis of national priorities in science and innovation. This article identifies and typologizes promising technologies enshrined in the development strategies of 19 countries: the technological leaders—the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Canada, Australia, Spain, and Italy—and the countries of the Global South—Brazil, ...
Added: September 18, 2026
Zhukova O., Вопросы философии (Российская Федерация) 2026 № 8 С. 51–64
The article is a critical and philosophical analysis of a new book by the Russian philosopher and political scientist Aleksei A. Kara-Murza. His fundamental work “Selected Works on Russian Philosophy, Politics and Culture” (2024) contains articles in the field of philosophy of Russian history, completed by the author over the course of ten years. Essays, ...
Added: September 17, 2026
Шамшура К. А., Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии 2026 Т. 29 № 2 С. 170–204
The article examines the conditions that influence the outcomes of civic participation in the protection of historical sites in Russian cities. It is based on the political opportunity structure theory, which suggests that structural conditions that shape the political opportunity structure have the greatest impact on the outcome of collective action. Drawing on the literature ...
Added: September 17, 2026
Gipsman M., Ivanov D., Rosenberg D., Third World Quarterly 2026 P. 1–23
Moldova has been prone to socio-political polarisation due to historical, ethno-linguistic, and geopolitical factors. However, portraying modern Moldova as being torn between the West and the East oversimplifies the case. In Moldova, socio-political polarisation is indeed on the rise, but for the most part it is moderate rather than extreme, and the major fault lines ...
Added: September 15, 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
А.И. Жданов, А.В. Коротаев, Социологические исследования 2026 № 8 С. 3–14
The article is devoted to an analysis of the influence of digital technologies and the Internet on the emergence and development of revolutionary activity in the 21st century. The authors consider the Internet to be a new significant factor in political destabilization, noting its role in coordinating protests, overcoming state censorship, and shaping new behavioral ...
Added: September 15, 2026