POLIS Contents ¹ 2 - 2013



PRESENTING THIS ISSUE
Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issue + Address of the RAPS Leadershipp.5

THEME OF THE ISSUE. RETHINKING MODERN SOCIAL ORDER
Voskressenski A.D. Type of Socio-Political Access within a Society and the Space of the World Politics (Historical Evolution of the World System)p.6
Neklessa A.I. Ongoing Plebiscite. Genetics of Civil Societyp.24
Zubov A.B. Democracy’s Organic Preferencesp.40
Ratz M.V. Policy, Management, Power: a Conceptual Project of the System of (the State’s) Organizational/Managerial Activitiesp.51
Konyshev V.N., Sergunin A.A. International Relations Theory: on the Threshold of New “Great Debates”?p.66

RUSSIA TODAY
Round Table of the ‘Polis’ Journal, Pantin I.K., Fedotova V.G., Aliev M.G., Verjaskina V.P., Khakimov G.A., Vlasova V.B. So Different Russias. Part Ip.79
Round Table of the ‘Polis’ Journal, Smirnov V.V., Popova O.V., Smorgunov L.V., Shashkova Ja.Ju., Baranov N.A., Karabushchenko P.L. Where Will Russia Go? New Opportunities and Restrictions of Modern Development. Part IIp.96
Sungurov A.Yu., Raspopov N.P., Glukhova E.A. Mediator Institutes and Their Development in Contemporary Russia. III. Ombudsman Institutep.110

FROM A POLITICAL SCIENTIST'S VIEWPOINT
Melville A.Yu., Stukal D.K., Mironyuk M.G. “King of the Hill”, or Why Bad Institutions in Post-Communist Autocraciesp.127
Kostyrev A.G. The Intelligent Power, Public Diplomacy, and Social Networks as a factors of International Politicsp.143
Nysanbayev A.N., Dunayev V.Yu. Worldview Bases and General Scientific Paradigms of Social-Political Risk Managementp.150

ACADEMIC LIFE
Yanitzky O.N. V.I. Vernadsky. Politician, Historian, Public Figurep.165

REFLECTING ON MATTERS IN PRINT
Sergeyev V.M. The Terrorism and the Problems of the Basque Country p.173
Bolshakov A.G. Our Political Transformation: the Completion or a Pause?p.177
Zhukova O.A. Subculture of Power and Russian Social Order: M.M. Speransky’s Reform Experiencep.179