POLIS Contents № 6 - 2008

PRESENTING THIS ISSUE

Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issue

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THEME OF THE ISSUE: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE DISCOURSE IN THE POLIS’S PAGES

Hunt M. Between the Empire and the Hegemony: Turmoil in the USA Politics

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Shimotomai N. Cold War in East Asia and the Problem of “Northern Territories”

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Pakulski J., Wasilewski J. Political Elites’ Circulation: from Foxes to Lions

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Benonisen I.K. Methodology of the Study of Inter-Party Struggle (With Austria of the 1920s to the 1930s as Example)

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Tinguy de A. Out of Empire: the Burden of Inheritance

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SUBDISCIPLINE: POLITICAL ELITOLOGY

Gaman-Golutvina O.V. Processes of Modern Elitogenesis: the World and National Experience. Part I.

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Ponedelkov A.V., Starostin A.M. Russia’s Regional Administrative-Political Elites: the Past, the Present, the Future

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Chirikova A.Ye. The Power Vertical in the Estimation of Regional Elites: Dynamics of Changes

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PROBLEMS AND JUDGMENTS

Lipkin A.I. To the Question of the Concept of “National Community” and Its Applicability to Russia

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Lyublinsky V.V. Social Policy under Globalization: Experience of Developed Countries

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Kulpin-Gubaydullin E.S. Russia and China: Problems of Security and of Cooperation in the Context of Global Struggle for Resources

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HISTORY REMOTE AND CLOSE

Kholodkovsky K.G. The Sociological and the Historical in the Societal Process

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REFLECTING ON MATTERS IN PRINT

Streltzova Ya.R. European View of Russia’s Foreign Policy

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Duka A.V. Evolution of a Constant: Russian Elites in Historical Context

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