Issue 2008 No. 1 (14)

The article is devoted to the questions of interrelation of intellectual elite and elites of power in the process of geopolitical thought forming. The author examines the dynamics of development of scientific and ideological approaches in development of recent geopolitical thought. The description o ... f some modern geopolitical conceptions which cause most criticism and fears at present is given in this work, and also some ideas which can somehow prevent criminalization of geopolitical thought are expressed.
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The war peril continued after the ending of cold war. The kind of military flareups was changed: local intrastate wars, interethnic and religious conflicts, large-scale terrorist sabotages replaced the military confrontation of two coalitions. Stable trend to militarization of Caspian countries incr ... eased. In the article it comes under review potential military flareups in the region and their influence on military-political situation.
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It's mentioned, that the destabilizing influence of nuclear weapon expansion on the world policy demands huge efforts for saving stability and peace. For this sake, the positions of countries, interested in political regulation of the Korean crisis, are analysed in details, as well as the different ... ways of its progress. It is made the conclusion, that the viewed scenarios, and also the consequences of its realization (which have the regional specifics), may become an example for making correct decisions in other highly explosive parts of the world as well.
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The article presents the deep analysis of religious terms defining different cult places, places of devotions and shrines. The authors elaborated a typology of cult places in Astrakhan region and give their main characteristics. Using sociological methods the researchers clear up the population's at ... titude to cult places in the region and demonstrate multireligious tendencies in mentality of the citizens of Astrakhan region.
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The USSR disintegration led to the communism ideology crash, for hundreds years stimulated development of spiritual life of people, living on the USSR territory. This phenomenon led to reflection of ideology role and place in the spiritual life of society and government. There was no ideology in the ... country, only communist, represented by the different political and government institutions. The ideology played the important role in the political life of society, it began to the further development of polyethnic government on the progress way. The reconstruction of 1985 with its publicity brought society and its spiritual sphere in condition of uncertainly so the character of peoples' world view was destroyed by formed communist ideology in one instant. The results of this progress are identification loss on ethnic, religious, individual and group levels.
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In this article the author analyzes culture as one of the most important sphere of social life. The author stresses on consideration of society's contemporary condition through the prism of culture, which helps to explain many contradictory processes in social and spiritual life of Russia. The autho ... r analyzes the results of all-Russia sociological survey in order to find out special features of spiritual culture's development. There are some conclusions and recommendations in the end of this article concerning the situation of spiritual culture in the XXI century.
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This article is devoted to the information of Ancient Greek and Roman authors about the Caspian Sea and the inhabitants of its coast. These reports are very important, because there were sole information in the written form about the ancient tribes, who inhabited this region in the antiquity. Ancien ... t narrative sourses give us the unique information about the native's ethnonymes, customs and development's standards.
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The theoretical approaches to the policy implementation are analysed in this article. At the approach В«top-downВ» the basic attention is given to the ability of the policymakers to put the precise policy purposes and to supervise a stage of policy implementation. At the approach В«bottom-upВ» stree ... t level bureaucrats are considered as the main actors of policy implementation, thus process of policy implementation represents process of negotiations between them. In the mixed theories attempts to overcome the difference between the two first approaches are done.
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Groups of interests arise on the basis of objectively existing variety of people's interests and enquiries. Active purposeful (reasonable) activity about the comprehension and realization of their interests by men is necessary for their formation and function. Groups of interests are the main canon ... of political participation, of the development of political culture and political activity.
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The article is devoted to the analysis of motivations and confirmities of forming the electoral behavior under the influence of the political-cultural factors. The emperical methods of the electoral behaviour analysis are interpreted in it applying to the motivations of the townspeople's choice, the ... comparative analysis of the motivations of the electoral behavior of townspeople in the Russian regions, the influence of the regional political culture of Kuban is established on the electoral behavior of townspeople, the expert interrogation is conducted according to the formed research programme.
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