POLIS Contents ¹ 4 - 2009



PRESENTING THIS ISSUE
Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issuep.6

THEME OF THE ISSUE: MODELLING POLITICAL PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS
Timofeyev I.N. Security Dilemma. Risk of Armed Conflict between the Great Powersp.8
Grinin L.Ye., Korotayev A.V. Urbanization and Political Instability: to the Development of Mathematical Models of Political Processesp.34
Oleynov A.G. Political Process as Studied through the Prism of the Economic Science: the Complex Approachp.53

SUBDISCIPLINE: THE MODELLING OF POLITICAL PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS
Lebedeva M.M. The World Politics: Tendencies of the Developmentp.72
Melville A.Yu., Ilyin M.V., Makarenko B.I., Meleshkina Ye.Yu., Mironyuk M.G., Sergeyev V.M., Timofeyev I.N. Russian Foreign Policy as Seen by the Expert Communityp.84
Kharkevich M.V. Rogue States as the Image of “Other” in the World Politicsp.99
Sevastyanov S.V. The “New Regionalism” of East Asia: Theoretical and Practical Aspects p.111

ORBIS TERRARUM
Wainshtein G.I. European Identity: the Desired and the Realp.123
Zheleznyakov A.S. Subjects of Modern World Arrangement: the Nomadic Mongoliap.135
Liu Zaiqi. “Soft Power” in China’s Development Strategyp.149

ACADEMIC LIFE
Plyays Ya.A. Russian Political Science: Years of the Upgrowthp.156

REFLECTING ON MATTERS IN PRINT
Smorgunov L.V. Correlation of Politics and Political Science in the Period of Russian Political Transformationsp.163
Solovey V.D. The “Russia” Brandp.167
Kosorukov A.A. Globalization: the Trend and the Evolutionp.170
Stoletov O.V. Trends of the Transformation of Power Relations in the World Politics: Smart Power?p.173
Tsipko A.S. On the Demand of Reason p.179
Shestopal A.V. The Path to Democracy: Brazilian Experiencep.182
Podvintzev O.B. Seventeen Opinions on Putin’s Stabilizationp.187