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Kuliyeva N., , in: International Relations Dynamics in the 21st Century: Security, Conflicts, and Wars.: IGI Global, 2025. Ch. 16 P. 319–330.
After more than ten years passed since the “Arab Spring”, it can be mentioned as a tipping point both for particular MENA countries and for the regional system of international relations as a whole. As a result, several trends that characterize the development of the regional system after 2010 can be identified. Firstly, a change ...
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Chernomorchenko I., Ilya Medvedev, Korotayev A., Cross-Cultural Research 2026 Vol. 60 No. 4 P. 375–423
This study investigates which structural factors most strongly predict armed and unarmed revolutionary destabilization across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), as well as Asia using country–year data for 1950–2022 and a set of economic, demographic, political, and climatic indicators. It employs an interpretable machine learning framework (CatBoost with SHAP values ...
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Galygin R., Сошникова И. В., Современное право 2024 № 9 С. 44–48
This article examines the issue of determining the limits of the constitutional right of representatives of subcultures to associate. Subcultures as public associations are an institution of civil society and provide the definition of a person’s social identity. The authors examine the essence of subcultures, analyze their key features, and give their definition. Subcultures are ...
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Shishkina A., Korotayev A., Вестник РГГУ. Серия «Политология. История. Международные отношения» 2024 No. 5 P. 12–34
Recently, West Africa is represented in the research literature as the epicenter of socio-political instability. That is most relevant for such countries asMali, Nigeria or Burkina Faso. However, it is worth saying that, despite a number of factors that could lead to potential destabilization in Ghana, the country has been characterized in recent years by a ...
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Andrey V. Korotayev, Alina A. Khokhlova, Comparative Sociology 2025 Vol. 24 No. 3 P. 327–350
During the Arab Spring, it has already been well-observed that the Arab monarchies possess stabilization capacity. This article identifies it as not only a regional, but also a confessional factor that all Islamic monarchies have a stabilizing effect on the socio-political dynamics. Moreover, in Islamic monarchies, the share of the young comes out more as ...
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Degterev D. A., Russia in Global Affairs 2025 Vol. 23 No. 1 P. 104–122
The Sahel Belt’s contradictions have brought about a multidimensional and lasting security crisis. The conflicts were triggered partly by climate change’s disruption of seasonal pastoral migration in the western Sahel, and partly by the disruption of nomads’ natural symbiosis with sedentary farmers in the south. This has led to the politicization of ethnic and religious ...
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Asatryan G., Contemporary South Asia 2021 Vol. 29 No. 4 P. 595–596
This book is a valuable resource for researchers and authors because it contains numerous interviews with Afghan political and social figures, including warlords. Malejacq includes photographs, and the extensive literature review shows the book’s deep level of academic engagement. The book argues that Afghanistan’s warlords are going to be a permanent feature of the country’s ...
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Asatryan G., Kalpakian J., Critical Studies on Terrorism 2021 Vol. 14 No. 3 P. 390–392
This edited volume is useful for scholars interested in critical approaches to terrorism and security. Written in accessible language, it addresses political and social processes in Asia through four parts and sixteen chapters, which explore the problem of terrorism and insurgency in certain Asian countries. The work relies on empirical research and is well referenced ...
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Asatryan G., Asian Studies Review 2022 Vol. 46 No. 3 P. 551–552
The authors state thatIslamic State: history, modernity is an attempt to fill omissions in the Russian scientific literature on the Islamic State (10), commonly known as IS. The monograph contains three chapters, focussing on structure and tactics, external factors, and problems in countering the ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW 551 IS. There is also a supplement in ...
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Melnik S., Юридическая наука и практика: Вестник Нижегородской академии МВД России 2024 № 1 С. 187–192
The article is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of cyberterrorism and cyberextremism as the most dangerous social phenomena that have become widespread due to the development of information technologies, especially in the field of the Internet information and telecommunications network. The author investigates the theoretical concepts of understanding cyberterrorism as a legal definition, examines the ...
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Korotayev A., Julia Zinkina, Journal of North African Studies 2024 Vol. 29 No. 5 P. 841–860
The increased proportion of youth aged 15–24 or 15–29 in total or adult population has long been shown to influence the intensity of sociopolitical destabilisation in general and political violence in particular. Youth bulges played an important role in the destabilising processes of the Arab Spring. We show that the influence of youth bulges in ...
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Чернов Д. Н., Несмашный А. Д., Текин О. et al., Comparative Politics (Russia) 2023 Vol. 14 No. 1 P. 149–163
The Arab Spring that began in Tunisia in 2010 quickly spread throughout the Middle East, fueling protests in many countries of the region, including Libya and Syria. While in Libya the UN Security Council supported NATO’s military intervention against the Gaddafi regime, the Syrian case caused disparity in views, with Russia and China vetoing the ...
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Илья Сумерников, Андрей Уфимцев, Slav M. et al., Социологическое обозрение 2024 Т. 23 № 1 С. 302–356
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the number of empirical studies devoted to the analysis of factors influencing the risks of terrorist activity has increased significantly. At the same time, estimates of the impact of individual factors may differ in different studies, which is why there is a need for a generalizing work in ...
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Trenin D., Russia Today 2024
This latest atrocity will certainly have a major impact on the Russian people’s consciousness and the nation’s public security. It could also lead to serious changes in Moscow’s foreign policy, depending on the results of the investigation into the source of the attack and its masterminds. Considering the enormously high stakes involved in its findings and conclusions, ...
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Khayrullin T., Andrey V. Korotayev, South African Journal of International Affairs 2023 Vol. 30 No. 4 P. 619–640
The article considers the formation of the Turkish-Qatari-Ikhwani alliance, which attained international prominence and strengthened its leadership position in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) during the events of the Arab Spring. While some researchers posit the formation of this alliance just before the Arab Spring, this study argues that cooperation between Türkiye, Qatar ...
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Галицкая Н. В., Административное и муниципальное право 2022 № 3 С. 34–46
Effective provision of anti-terrorist security of modern Russian society is impossible without knowledge of the legal basis for ensuring such security in other states, especially neighboring "friendly" ones - this hinders the effectiveness of interaction within the framework of international cooperation. It should be noted that this issue is especially relevant in modern conditions caused ...
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Галицкая Н. В., Вестник Нижегородского университета им. Н.И. Лобачевского 2023 № 1 С. 73–78
The purpose of the article is to form scientifically sound proposals for countering terrorism, made on the basis of an analysis of international anti-terrorism legislation. The author identifies gaps in international anti-terrorist legislation. The problems of the extended use of the term «terrorism» are investigated. The results of the work were conclusions about the impossibility ...
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