POLIS Contents ¹ 3 - 2009



PRESENTING THIS ISSUE
Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issuep.7

THEME OF THE ISSUE: CRISES AND DEVELOPMENT MEGATRENDS
A Round Table, Volodin A.G., Kol'ba A.I., Kudryashova I.V., Lapkin V.V., Lebedeva M.M., Makarenko S.A., Pantin V.I., Plyays Ya.A., Rozov N.S., Sergeyev V.M., Chikharyov I.A. “Mr. Crisis, How Are You to Be Addressed Now?”p.9
Rozov N.S. Global Crisis in the Context of World Development Megatrends and Prospects of the Russian Policyp.34

THEME OF THE ISSUE: CRISES AND DEVELOPMENT MEGATRENDS
Sergeyev V.M. On the Deeper Roots of the Modern Financial Crisisp.47

THEME OF THE ISSUE: CRISES AND DEVELOPMENT MEGATRENDS
Chikharyov I.A. The Scales and Rhythms of Democratizationp.54
Svetlov V.A. The Georgian-South-Ossetian Conflict. Reflections of a Conflictologistp.65

INTERVIEW
Akayev A.A. “A Mathematical Model Should Be Good Help for Politicians…”p.74

SUBDISCIPLINE: THE MODELLING OF POLITICAL PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS
Musikhin G.I. Models of Modern Capitalism in New Political Economy: between Science and Ideology p.84
Melville A.Yu., Ilyin M.V., Meleshkina Ye.Yu., Mironyuk M.G., Polunin Yu.A., Sergeyev V.M., Timofeyev I.N. Political Atlas-2: World Crisis Megatrendsp.98
Akhremenko A.S. Dynamics Aproach to Mathematical Modelling of Political Stabilityp.105
Bezvikonnaya Ye.V. Systemico-Synergetic Model of a Political Systemp.113

IDEAS FOR FURTHER CULTIVATION
Mis'urov D.A. Symbolic Modelling in Russia: Transformations of the Imperial-Soviet-Presidential Modelp.125

THESAURUS
Okunev I.Yu. The Stanford Model of Development Crisisp.136

WE IN THE WORLD, THE WORLD IN US
Peregudov S.P. Political System of Russia After the Elections of 2007 to 2008: Factors of Stabilization and of Destabilization. Part II.p.145
Rutland P. Russia and China: Saga of Two Transitions to Market Economyp.162

REFLECTING ON MATTERS IN PRINT
Zagladin N.V., Kucherenko A.A. Global Crisis: Reasons, Consequences and Russia (Returning to What’s Been Read)p.177
Patrushev S.V. The Modern World’s Arrangement. What We Have Learned and What We Should Like to Learn in the Epoch of Csisis. Listing One Book’s Pagesp.184