POLIS Contents ¹ 1 - 2003



PRESENTING THIS ISSUE
Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issuep.4

INTERPRETATIONS
Semenenko I.S. Globalization and Socio-Cultural Dynamics: Individual, Society, Culturep.5
Turonok S.G. The Informational-Communicative Revolution and the New Scope of Military-Political Conflictsp.24

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: METHODOLOGY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
Zavershinsky K.F. Methodological Complementarity in the Research of Symbolic Moulds of Political Institutions' Dynamicsp.39
Sergeyev K.V. “Peripheral Knowledge” in the Creativity Discourse: Social Nets of the Interestingp.50
Blyakher L.Ye. Power Games in a Crisis-Stricken Socium: Transformation of the Russian Institutional Structurep.63
Kazantzev A.A. On Cognitive-Neoinstitutional Approach to the Study of International Relationsp.74
Zamyatin D.N. The Geopolitics of Images and the Structuring of Meta-Expansep.82

SOCIUM AND POWER
Shankina A.Yu. Middle Class in Russia: Netting for Nessiep.103
Gudina Yu.V. Russian Electors' Activity: Theoretical Models and the Practicep.112

DIXI!
Krasin Yu.A. Russia's Political Self-Determination: Problems of Optionp.124
Pantin I.K. Democracy in Russia: Contradictions and Problemsp.134

CHAIR
Busygina I.M. The Destiny of Geographical Knowledge in Political Science and Educationp.149
Degtyarev A.A. Methodological Approaches and Conceptual Models Involved in the Interpretation of Political Decisions (I)p.159

INTERVIEW
Ilyin M.V. Efficient Variant of Russian Statehood Necessary (An Interview with Sergey M. Mironov)p.171

DOSSIER
Yevgenyev V.A. The Images of the USA and of the USSR in Zbigniew Brzezinski's Concept of World Politicsp.179