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Wavering Sudan as Key to Resolving the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Conflict
Journal of Asian and African Studies. 2023. Vol. 58. No. 7. P. 1222–1236.
Dmitry Otinov
This article analyzes the role of Sudan in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute settlement process. The role of the Nile and water resources in the domestic policy of Sudan in connection with its foreign policy is researched mindfully. In different historical periods, political elites have formed a water discourse to expand their power and obtain resources, while using the rhetoric of modernization and consolidation of the nation. In order to track the change in discourse of the GERD project in connection with the political regime change in 2019, an analysis of the statements of officials was carried out using materials from the Sudanese media. The analysis revealed a gradual change in position from more pragmatic to more confrontational in relation to Ethiopia. Despite this, Sudan is closest to a pragmatic approach in the negotiation process on the Nile waters and can help to reach a compromise.
Korotayev A., Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution UC Riverside 2026 Vol. 17 No. 2 P. 1–38
This paper examines the striking mathematical correspondence between two independently derived hyperbolic equations describing global evolutionary dynamics: Panov's time series of "biospheric revolutions" spanning 4 billion years of biological and cultural evolution, and von Foerster's famous "Doomsday" equation for world population growth (1960). Both phenomena are governed by equations of the form y = C/(2027 ...
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Shishkina A., Issaev L., Journal of Globalization Studies 2026 Vol. 17 No. 1 P. 145–156
This article is aimed at discussing the global and regional aspects of Islamic modernization. The study discusses the transformation of ideas about the role of women in the public space by the case study on the North Caucasus. The attitudes of traditional society, the influence of Soviet power, the role of Islamization, both early and ...
Added: September 28, 2026
Diskin E., Закон 2026 № 1 С. 92–123
In the January Legal Chronicle our authors comment on several significant legal events that happened at the end of 2025: decisions of the Constitutional Court No. 31-P on the payment of dividends on preferred shares, No. 41-P on VAT, No. 46-P on the fate of seized property in bankruptcy cases; discussion in the EU Council ...
Added: September 28, 2026
Gribkova D. E., Вопросы государственного и муниципального управления 2026 № 3 С. 151–176
Global challenges, economic security risks, sociodemographic and environmental processes, and accelerating technological development are creating a fundamentally new context for Public Administration that demands knowledge-based decision-making. The growing interest in proactive and predictive governance has led to the active use of science and technology foresight. However, the governance of scientific and technological development still faces ...
Added: September 28, 2026
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 ...
Added: September 27, 2026
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 ...
Added: September 27, 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
Sergey V. Kostelyanets, , in: Principles and Forms of Sociocultural Organization: Historical Contexts of Interaction.: L., NY: Anthem Press, 2026. Ch. 10 P. 199–218.
Ethno-social stratification and, to a lesser extent, ethnic mobility are inherent to all African societies without exception. While the former has become a proverbial hallmark of the continent, the latter remains less pronounced, often discernible only through rigorous study and requiring detailed explication. Nonetheless, it is indisputable that both phenomena—contingent on context—exhibit varying degrees of ...
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
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
Ходунов А. С., Хайруллин Т. Р., Korotayev A., Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право 2026 Т. 19 № 1 С. 159–178
The article is devoted to the civil war in Sudan, which has been going on for more than two years and has caused enormous casualties and destruction throughout the country. The vast majority of schools and hospitals have been destroyed or put out of operation, which has had an extremely negative impact on the development ...
Added: September 1, 2026
Orlov I., Вовк А. С., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2026 Т. 17 № 4 Статья 33
Egyptian society during the reign of Muhammad Ali (1805—1848) underwent a rapid transformation that determined the future of the country. Modernization was necessary for Muhammad Ali to create a powerful modern army and strengthen his independence. However, the launched social transformation was curtailed by the Wali when he was able to transfer power in Egypt ...
Added: July 1, 2026
Гацковская В. А., Курбатов Д. М., Международная аналитика 2025 Т. 16 № 4 С. 158–170
The article analyzes the political discourse (including expert and media discourse) in post-socialist
Central and Eastern European countries regarding the 2024 Russian presidential election.
The authors consider the discourse on Russian electoral processes as a tool for constructing
European identity based on the “friend-foe” divide. The study aims to identify the influence of
domestic political processes in Russia on ...
Added: April 30, 2026
Гаевская М. А., Политическая лингвистика 2026 № 3 С. 48–55
The article explores conflict communicative interaction in political discourse. The topic of the article focuses on specific features of a linguistic personality’s conflict behaviour in contemporary British parliamentary debates, drawing Keir Starmer’s speeches as empirical material. The aim of the study is identifying speech conflict cognitive scenarios of a particular linguistic personality, determining the factors ...
Added: April 29, 2026
Бинштейн М. М., Вестник Томского государственного университета. Филология 2026 № 99 С. 5–27
The article explores the argumentative nature of political discourse, which, according to the authors, becomes the key to the analysis of the communicativestrategy of persuasion. The aim of the research is a comparative analysis of speeches by Russian and Chinese politicians, identifying similarities and differences in the use of rhetorical devices when implementing the persuasion ...
Added: March 19, 2026
Bocharov Y., Моисеенко Л. В., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Язык и литература 2026 Т. 23 № 2 С. 258–274
This study examines how ideologemes and axiologemes in contemporary political discourse shape the structure and boundaries of a shared discursive worldview. Political speeches are conceptualized as institutional sites of meaning construction where the ideological and value-laden orientations of political actors are discursively manifested. The empirical basis of the research is a corpus of speeches delivered ...
Added: March 15, 2026
Zelenev E., Iliushina M., Iran and the Caucasus 2025 Vol. 4-5 No. 29 P. 435–450
Sultan al-Ashraf Qanisawh al-Ghawri cannot be classified as an outstanding Mamluk ruler, but rather the opposite: his accession to power was a forced measure when all the more worthy claimants to the throne were unable to compete for power, so that the principle of negative selection came into play. The reign of al-Ashraf Qanisawh al-Ghawri ...
Added: February 16, 2026