POLIS Contents № 2 - 2014

PRESENTING THIS ISSUE

Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issue + Address of the RAPS Leadership

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THEME OF THE ISSUE: PROBLEMS OF MODERN EUROPE

Sakwa R. Axiological vs Dialogical Politics in Contemporary Europe

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Strezhneva M.V. European Union in Political Management of Global Finance

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RUSSIA TODAY

Pivovarov Yu.S. On the “Sovietic” and on the Ways of Its Overcoming(Second Article). What Is to Be Done?

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Shestopal Ye.B. Value Characteristics of the Russian Political Process and Strategy of the Country’s Development

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Sungurov A.Yu. Expert Community, Think Tanks and Power: Experience of Three Regions

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Chirikova A.Ye., Ledyaev V.G., Seltser D.G. Power in a Small Russian Town: Configuration and Interaction of Major Local Actors

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POLITICAL THEORY

Busygina I.M., Okunev I.Yu. Spatial Distribution of Power and Strategies of States or What and How Geopolitics Explains

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Fomin I.V. Representations of State Formations in Political Discourse Analysis

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ORBIS TERRARUM

Pan Dawei Which Country is Easier to Deal with? Identity of the Residents of Shanghai and St. Petersburg

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Kolosov V.A., Sebentzov A.B. Northern Caucasus in the Russian Geopolitical Discourse

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Kargina I.G. Religion as an Adaptation Factor for Immigrants: Peculiarities of the U.S. Case

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REFLECTING ON MATTERS IN PRINT

Panov A.N. Dmitriy Streltsov on Japan’s Modernization in the Globalization Epoch

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Polyakov L.V. Decline of Plebiscitary Democracy?

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