Search Results - I. A. Istomin

Strategy of radical Islamist groups devotes increasing attention to the recruitment of supporters in the U.S. Attraction of the American citizens represents essential component in adaptation of these organizations to the mounting external pressure and contributes to the fulfilling of a set of variou...

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The existence of parallel trends in development of current international system, that of growing controversies between the leading states, on the one hand, and increasing global economic interdependence, on the other, raises question about their possible interrelation. The paper examines the impact...

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2000’s and 2010’s witnessed diminishing margin of the United States in science and technology. Meanwhile, the U.S. remains a clear leader in this fi eld. Major driving force of the country’s success in the second half of the ХХ century remained assertive federal science policy. The article seeks to...

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The article draws a comparison between Russian official and expert foreign policy discourses, focusing on representations of the power balance and relations between major states as the defining features of international system. The author attempts to identify actual and potential contribution of aca...

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The article examines the impact of technological changes on the risks of military clashes between states. Currently, experts express increasing concerns about the destabilizing effect of new weapons (including anti-missile and anti-satellite weapons, hypersonic missiles, autonomous lethal systems, a...

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Despite the growing academic attention to the problem of interference in internal affairs, rhetorical techniques the state uses to legitimize interventions in the eyes of foreign counterparties, remain somewhat understudied in the Russian IR studies. In this regard, the case of the Monroe Doctrine,...

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Academic literature is largely skeptical regarding the role of military deterrence in addressing low-level coercion. The stability-instability paradox suggests that increasing destructiveness of the armed forces (especially with the emergence of nuclear weapons) diminishes their utility in response...

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The rise of China constitutes a challenge for the U.S. hegemonic aspirations. However, Washington reacts to it rather belatedly and with restrain. Up until the mid-2020s, the United States did not consider the preventive use of force as a means to deter its competitor. On the contrary, it maintained...

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The U.S. intellectual leadership in many spheres is rarely challenged nowadays. However it is secured not only through the ability to formulate a great amount of new ideas, including fundamental innovations, but perhaps even more due to the effective system for integration of intellectual products i...

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This article examines the intellectual foundations, rationale, and evolution of the systemic approach in Soviet international relations (IR) theory throughout the 1970s and 1980s. This topic has gained increasing relevance in contemporary debates on the theoretical foundations of Russian internation...

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Конференция «Параметры государственной состоятельности: сравнительная социальная политика, общественные блага, государственные институты» (17 ноября 2010 г., г. Москва)Конференция «Великие державы в новом пограничном пространстве России» (23 ноября 2010 г., г. МоскваВторая трехсторонняя конференция ...

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In the aftermath of the Cold War, both scholars and experts frequently questioned the political relevance of security alliances, given the declining intensity of armed conflicts and the decreasing probability of major interstate wars. However, the post-bipolar international reality marked by the bur...

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The international actorness of the European Union is an object of prolonged scholarly and political debates. As an association of states with both complementary and competing interests it faces the problem of collective action. The EU elaborated several mechanisms to mitigate it effect, which, howev...

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The symbolic significance of membership in NATO is widely recognized by Russian and foreign experts. However, attempts to systematically assess its role as a marker of the political status has not been made. This article intends to fill this gap, considering not only positive, but also negative cons...

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