No 1 (2013)

The new system of global governance is built in accordance with network principle. The article contains analyzes of the “controlled chaos” phenomenon and its impact on the struggle for power in the world nowadays. The author believes that the processes of interdependence are forcing the world's elite to have supranational obligations.

The article deals with the role of the United States in forming military doctrine of Japan from 1945 to 2010. The article also examined the influence of Samurai military tradition on military and ideological training of Japanese army and Navy since the late 19th to mid 20th century, the history of development of strategic relations between the United States and Japan after the Second World War in military, economic and political fields. Documents on political and economic development of Japan from 1945 to the present day have been explored; factors which have had a huge impact on the formation of a new military doctrine have been examined.

On the basis of analysis of speeches and articles by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other official Iranian representatives the article studies the ideological motives and explanations of Iran’s realization of its own nuclear program.

The article examines the role and the mediation efforts of Russian Federation, aimed at the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, as well as the activity of the OSCE Minsk group (today that is Russia, the United States and France), engaged in the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in 1992. In the conditions of intransigence of positions between conflicting parties, international mediation acquires particular significance in the settlement of the conflict. In opinion of both Armenian and Russian sides, the format of OSCE Minsk group is mostly responsible for the further settlement of the Karabakh conflict.

The article is focused on the research of the policy of Japan and China in Southeast Asia at the present stage. The paper analyses the process of establishment and subsequent development of the “ASEAN Plus Three” (APT) framework, which includes ten countries of ASEAN and the three Northeast Asian states of China, Japan and South Korea. “ASEAN Plus Three” might serve as catalyst for the processes of economic and political integration in East Asia. The rivalry of China and Japan is a major constraint to the development of integration structures. Our analysis suggests that China is the regional leader in East and Southeast Asia at the moment.

The article addresses current scientific and technical cooperation between China and France. The time period covered is the early 2000s until the present day.

Under the conditions of tough competition and complicated economic situation, transition of the economy to the innovative social oriented model of development is of the ways to achieve the goal of different strategies of the economy development. In spite of a lot of various opinions, BRICS can determine the «face» of the world in future and in some degree it depends on innovative type of development. India announced current decade as the decade of innovation, which is oriented to stimulation of economic growth.

Strengthening of general integration, interdependence at all levels: world, regional and individual shows new public requirements and, as a result, problems, contradictions in which permission the defining role is allocated for the sphere of production of the public benefits. It should be noted that still there is no uniform, officially approved classification of the public benefits which most fully would meet requirements of researches in this sector of economy.