Issue 2007 No. 4 (13)

In the article paper, military and political situation in the Caspian basin in contemporary conditions is analysed. The author, basing on exact facts, shows how the region turns into a geostrategic cooperation zone between the USA and Russia, as well as position and role of independent states and Ir ... an in this situation. Besides, the alternation of Azerbaijan's geopolitical position in the region has been indicated in the article.
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The author supposes that the concept "democracy" gets the new sense nowadays under pressure of new challenges of the XXI century. Correlation of different types of democracy, correlation of democracy and stability, democracy and economic growth, democracy and human's rights are worthy of n ... otice. Parliamentary democracy must take the leading position in modern society. Democracy must be deeply echeloned in different courses, forms and kinds. The author thinks that detraction of the role of international institutes, practice of the double standards and danger of unification of the modern world are considered to be the reflection of the most serious challenges of democracy.
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The terrorism is the concentrated expression of aggression of the modern world policy, always acts in concrete forms. Trying to remove even negative consequences of the possible reasons, it is possible to hope to develop politics of the world community aimed at reduction of a level of terrorism. Sco ... pe and cruelty of terrorism make shocking influence, but it is not accidentally. The terrorism is quite a natural phenomenon of the modern world politics, it is caused by a life of this politics. However such understanding of terrorism demands radical revision of bases of political analytics in this sphere.
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The analysis of ways and conditions of manipulation by public opinion with use of ecological problematic is resulted. In this connection concepts of steady development and "gold" billion as components idealogy of ecologism are considered. The data about use of business-structures of " ... green" policy in PR-actions and for reception of competitive advantages are cited.
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Growth scale to immigrations in Russia from countries near and distant abroad generates the problems of mutual adaptation of immigrants. The article deals with the perception of migration process by means of mass media. The author analyses the place and the role of central and local mass media in th ... e migrants' image making process. In the article the secondary analysis of results of public opinion of poll of leading Russian organizations, for instance FOM, Levada-Centre and VCIOM, is given.
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The article is devoted to the analysis of youth's vital forces forming in conditions of multicultural space. The author uses the complex approach to the characteristics of social life of a person as a biopsychosocial being, his social relations and interaction of a person, culture and sphere. The au ... thor emphasizes that youth's vital forces, which can influence on his actions and provide his life realization in multicultural space, are considered to be one of the factors of international and interconfessional relations forming.
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In this article dependence between high education and intellectual potential development of modern Russia is discussed. The author supposes that demands of high school change greatly in conditions of transition from industrial society to postindustrial one. High education takes the first place in ma ... king program concerning national security and forming the answer for challenges of the 21 century.
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The problems of perception of international conflict by its participants are examined in the article with the help of the concrete historical material. The discussions in the British Parliament at the beginning of the XX-th century in connections with the conflict between Russia and Great Britain be ... cause of their influence in Persia are analysed. The different evaluations of the conflict, offered ways of its solution, attitude to the opposite side are revealed. The question concerning possibilities of the Parliament to have some influence on British foreign policy is also touched upon in the article.
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Today the Russian President has started a modernization program of the political and administrative structure in our country. As a result of this program we must create the effective system of management in the Russian Federation. The political modernization is especially important in the Southern r ... egion of Russia since it is one of the most difficult areas in Russia to modernize.
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In this article the author studies a "dark hole" in the history of political thought. This is a period of time used to miss by Russian lecturers reading this university's course, but it has however a critical meaning. Actually we don't understand how after epoch, lasting more than thousand ... years, when politics was comprehended only by theocratic framework, suddenly in the intellectual community of Europe old-established republicanism appeared. This article answers this question looking through an actor, who introduces republican discourse in the political thought.
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The article of a claiment to a degree is devoted to the actual problem of modern political life the fundamentals of relations between a state (law) and political parties, discussion and dispute on which are still continued. The claiment to a degree has analysed different points of views of researche ... rs of different historic periods and directions of political thought. The article is based on the complex of theoretical knowledge (analyses) taken from scientific research and publitistic literature.
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